Alondra Nelson
Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
ias.edu/stsv-lab
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonCan’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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- Reposted by Alondra NelsonIt’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonKudos to Mayor Mamdani. This is what economic justice looks like. And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ma…
- The International AI Safety Report is clear-eyed: threats from AI are growing--to rights, autonomy, health, cybersecurity, and planetary well-being. The evidence is stronger than ever. Commitments from industry and government to the safe, trustworthy, and responsible use of AI are urgently needed.
- Proud to serve as a senior advisor to the International AI Safety Report. The most important takeaway this year: the evidence base on AI risks is stronger, but the gap between what we know and what we are doing about it continues to widen. That gap is the urgent work ahead.
- Over 100 independent experts contributed to the Report, including Nobel laureates and Turing Award winners, along with an advisory panel with nominees from more than 30 countries and international organisations, including the EU, OECD and UN. internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/... (2/19)
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonContext: collecting Skymiles to fly people home who were kidnapped in Minnesota and released in Texas.
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonGood to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson(2/17) What one party does to shrink the space for newsgathering is a loaded gun the next party can use. I’ve always covered this as a bipartisan problem—here I am in 2020 reporting on a DOJ whistleblower and noting that going after reporters' sources was a wider trend:
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonProbably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
- "One thing reporters try to do is to spotlight ideas or news stories, and what you’re trying to do is spotlight her face and its beauty. I do see a real similarity there."
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- Black people's right to vote is the law. It has been under siege for more than 150 years--up to the present with the FBI raid on Georgia election offices. This enraging *and* inspiring #BlackHistoryMonth 🧵 reminds us that the fight for justice is not a footnote in US history but a throughline.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonA lot of carceral workers are nonwhite people. Another example of why we need to deal with the racial politics of how people are recruited and encouraged to become carceral workers, and how the pathologizing of nonwhite communities and their “redemption” through carceral service are part of that.
- 2 of 2 On the nose and Alexander Skarsgard is hilarious
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- Reposted by Alondra NelsonFour days before Trump’s inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to docs & people familiar. The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump entities. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Gift link because this needs to be widely read: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- WSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonWSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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- This is leadership Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. Thank you.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonToday is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonAnother journalist feeding "great man" myth & ignoring role of gvt in Musk's successes. Tesla received a $465M gvt loan at a critical point. It also benefited from tax breaks/subsidies, direct and to EV buyers. In total, Musk cos have had ≈$38B in gvt backing. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonHaiti accepted Jewish refugees during WWII before the US would.
- “ship fast, capture attention, figure out security later.”
- Richly deserved
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonIt should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonHarvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonIsrael bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- The caption accompanying this horrifying photograph: "Three federal agents are seen pointing guns at an ICE observer near Jefferson Park in St. Peter, Minn. on Thursday."
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout - Reposted by Alondra Nelsonwake up babe an italian guy is doing phrenology about norweigans bsky.app/profile/zack...
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonHappening now: Hundreds of students from Urban School of San Francisco walk out in protest of ICE.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonHAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a HUGE CROWD peacefully demonstrating in L.A. to protest the Trump administration and lCE 📍Los Angeles, California #NationalStrike
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonThe anti-ICE/CBP rally in Chicago's Daley Plaza has grown significantly in just the last half hour. The crowd is spilling out into street; I'd say there's over a thousand people here at this point.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonMadison, Wisconsin showed up in solidarity with Minnesota today.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonHoly shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonA new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonPortland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonArresting journalists. Good God.
- Wild. The "witness" is a victim of racial violence. Reyes was riding his bike in Milwaukee in September 2023 when Scott approached him, kicked him off the bike, stabbed him with a box cutter, and then stole his bike. Scott was arrested and wrote letters posing as Reyes threatening to kill Trump.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonMinnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonWhy is @cnn.com presenting this as if it were Don Lemon’s unverified alibi rather than an obvious fact? “Lemon, a former CNN anchor, has said that he was present at the demonstration as a journalist and not as a protester”
- Don Lemon has been taken into custody after anti-ICE confrontation in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. cnn.it/4roAO6t
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonGift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonICE has weapons of war... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... ...and surveillance: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t... ... including face recognition app Clearview AI. In 2024, DHS was only using Clearview for child exploitation investigations. Now use includes investigating "attacks on law enforcement."
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson"For all the sorrow and horror over what is happening in Minneapolis, the people there are an example to the rest of us. They are organizing to defend their city, but more importantly to care for each other...an example of another kind of social organization built on solidarity and community..."
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonJazz OTD: Seventy years ago today - January 30, 1956 - Charles Mingus led the session for his album "Pithecanthropus Erectus." Arguably the first of Mingus's many truly great achievements, the recording featured Jackie McLean (as), J.R. Monterose (ts), Mal Waldron (p), and Willie Jones (d). #jazzsky
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonNO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonA reminder that there are only two days left to see John Akomfrah’s The “Hour of the Dog” at the @artbma.bsky.social. His stunning film installation features many of mugshots of young - very young - activists who were arrested during the Civil Rights Movement. Mugshots can reverse the narrative.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonYes #Clawitback
- cc: Leader @schumer.senate.gov
- Reposted by Alondra Nelson"One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation."
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonClaims that they are doing away with rules regulating AI obscure the power-grab: through tactics of investment, ownership, research funding, immigration controls, and preemption, the administration is trying to set the terms of AI regulation globally. www.science.org/doi/...
- @bradlander.bsky.social already had my support, but this certainly seals the deal. And can I also just say that pull-tabs are among the Blackest of leisure pursuits. Brad can hang!
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonWhoa, the longterm effects of the reporting I did on GM's sale of people's driving information to risk profilers: phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/gm-warns-o...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonI do love the way the #Lutheran tradition of hymn singing keeps showing up in the sounds of protest in #Minneapolis. Those folks do know how to sing.
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonNot just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
- Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonNEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
- Reposted by Alondra NelsonWe are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
