Author, Revolution in Development (@UCPress 2021) / Co-director, @HPE_Project / #PellGrant professor / @NACLA siempre / #NoMoreDrugWar(s)
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Breaking: Four Filton activists have become first in UK to be sentenced to prison as terrorists *without* even being convicted of terror offences
Lottie Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie Kamio & Fatema Rajwani entered Elbit factory in 2024 and damaged military arms equipment. Heroes.
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 12
Nearly 90 faculty and staff members at The New School have been laid off over the past week. “It’s a chilling message to all of academia … as universities act more and more like corporations,” says Jeremy Varon, a professor of history at The New School who's been forced to take early retirement.
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 11
You can only use the cartel in reference to FIFA
Jun 11
I implore foreign media outlets, journalists, analysts and basically anyone speaking about the security situation in Mexico in the context of the World Cup to refrain from using the word 'the cartel' - unless you're willing and able to explain what that actually means.
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 11
Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @IliasAlami and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics. Read our essay in @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 11
This is an excellent article on the context of this burst of racist violence
Jun 11
Anti-immigrant violence has erupted in Belfast this week, with racist mobs setting fires and forcing families to flee their homes. In our latest issue, @Oliver_Eagleton links the right-wing grievances of Northern Ireland and the United States.
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 10
In April, Flávio Bolsonaro led among so-called independent voters by 7 percentage points. Now, Lula is up 13 among that same group of voters.
Decisivo, eleitor ‘independente’ passa a dar vantagem confortável a Lula contra Flávio Bolsonaro dlvr.it/TSzDMn
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Soldiarity with striking teachers and CNTE in Mexico City ahead of World Cup.
They have been fighting for better working conditions & return to state-guaranteed pension system for years. Claudia Sheinbaum campaigned on it.
"We are not going anywhere.”
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Christy Thornton retweeted
❗️ Trump intervened to stop Colombian president Gustavo Petro 🇨🇴 from meeting with Zohran
Jun 10
Scoop: Zohran Mamdani was poised to hold his first meeting with a foreign leader this week but the Trump administration effectively nixed it in a behind-the-scenes effort that marks a new flashpoint between the mayor and Trump. W/ @iarnsdorf 🧵
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Christy Thornton retweeted
In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.
Jun 9
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will sign the ICE-and-CBP reconciliation bill tomorrow.
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Who lived and worked in Pedregal before Ciudad Universitaria was built?
In my new article in @HAHR21 I trace the expropriation of four ejidos to build CU using documents from the agrarian archive and letters from the displaced ejidatarios themselves: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/art…
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 5
The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.
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Today I watched Elisa Longo Borghini win the final stage and Demi Vollering win the GC of the @girowomen while standing on the finish line in Saluzzo, after hiking up the Colle delle Finestre yesterday - what an absolute dream Italy has been. Everyone watches women’s sports!
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 4
Escribí para @NACLA sobre las propuestas de seguridad de los candidatos a la presidencia de Colombia. Sí, nos debatimos entre "la paz o la guerra total". 👇
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Received the official notice of tenure at NYU, which means I’ve now been tenured in both sociology and history. I really don’t recommend that anyone else attempt this ridiculous undertaking, but I’m really grateful to my students, colleagues, and mentors who got me here.
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Extra special thanks to Beverly Silver @arrighicenter, Barbara Weinstein @BW_historiadora, & Greg Grandin @GregGrandin, as well as to all the other people who had to write so many damn letters on my behalf. Bc I spend so much time writing letters now, I know how much work it is!
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In addition to everything else here, this thread makes brutally clear what a world-historically shitty president Calderón was
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1 Se acabó la veda electoral y ya podemos hablar de indicadores económicos, sociales y laborales. Creo que muchos de estos, pueden ayudar a algunas personas a entender mejor el resultado de las elecciones del pasado domingo. Empezamos por el salario mínimo:
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Jun 3
There is being a lawyer for right-wing, drug trafficking paramilitaries, and then there is Abelardo de la Espriella:
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Christy Thornton retweeted
“Alfonso Durazo, the governor of Sonora, and Américo Villarreal Anaya, the governor of Tamaulipas, have both been stripped of their U.S. visas amid criminal probes”
latimes.com/world-nation/sto… vía @Stevelfisher @katelinthicum @latimes
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Christy Thornton retweeted
Jun 1
In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen of our colleagues — full-time faculty and staff — in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.
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Christy Thornton retweeted
May 30
what the absolute fuck?????
Public records turned up by The Ellis Collective, a student-led research group, have revealed that the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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