Michael L. Rosino
sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoCould you have ever imagined the sheer ignorance, disinformation, and hate of this statement came from our own govt? This is some serious brown shirt shit. They’re trying to convince you that immigrants are why housing is too expensive. It’s not. Seek truth. Don’t turn on your neighbors. #Pinks
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThere are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoI’ed love to see @theatlantic.com run someone like @polphilpod.bsky.social‘s article on the people who were *correct* about the dangers of rising fascism but laughed at. Our elite media rewards cautious (and wrong) pundits and shuns us folks who were right. newrepublic.com/article/2042...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoAnd why should we continue to listen to a pundit who was wrong about the most important questions? Give that space to someone who was correct, and shunned or considered “unserious” by the pundit who is again profiting from being wrong.
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosinothere's a distinction between: 1. welcoming the support of someone who was wrong 2. accepting their leadership
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosino📣New! Salary Increase!🎉 The Mississippi Free Press is hiring a full-time Development Director. Read more at www.mississippifreepress.org/listings/ite...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThe Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoAs someone who is literally waiting for one button to be pressed to give me $2.1m of NSF funds six months late: I’d rather shut my lab down than have another person killed by ICE - in the street or in custody, citizen or non-citizen
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosino“Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosinonever leave home without at least two emojis on me
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoMan they’re using ALL of the government bullshit playbook and it’s Just. Not. Working.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThe deadline is on Saturday, quick quick!
- CREST is hiring! ⏰ Only two more weeks until the deadline! ⏰ Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoIt’s good when pundits finally acknowledge a reality that’s been obvious for over a decade. But I‘ed like to see some reflection on why they couldn’t acknowledge reality (anti-left bias, personal security?). And why they were catastrophically wrong on the most important political issue of our era.
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- Reposted by Michael L. Rosino“Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets.” @profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoMy anecdotal sense is that something has broken through to the general public since yesterday. I have noted 5 posts on Fedbook from people I know who NEVER post anything they consider "political." All of them have posted some version of "enough is enough."
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosino60+ CEOs release letter on "recent challenges" creating "tragic loss." Call for "immediate deescalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions." No mention of ICE. Signers include Target, UnitedHealth, Cargill, General Mills, MN sport teams
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoOne thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoFor no reason, I remember: jacobin.com/2024/12/nanc...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoNurses are overworked, underpaid, under appreciated, all over the world. I am always, always thinking of the healthcare workers in Gaza who have been targeted in the most obscene ways, assassinated, and forced to do this sacred work in the dark, in ruins, as the genocide unfolds.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoICE officers began forcibly entering homes without judicial warrants last summer. An internal document — dated May 12, 2025, but just made public by two whistleblowers — told officers they could rely on an administrative warrant to enter homes if there was an order to remove someone from the U.S.
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosinosomething strange in the St Paul church case: despite the government's eagerness to get publicity around the arrests of the three activists, the case itself still appears to be sealed in PACER
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThat moment after a decade of online dudebros shitting on every form of protest other people do for being insufficient and then watching moms in Minnesota pull off a general strike
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoI find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoPolice have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoFeeling enormous, overflowing love for everyone taking part in today’s general strike. Abolish ICE now, solidarity forever.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThese headlines are in prominent, if not top slots on the largest outlets. By this alone, it has already been an incredible success.
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- An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosinoremarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures
- VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoNEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus. From me: prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoCóry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoGood question, from one of my mom's SNCC posters. Photo by Danny Lyon.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoForced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThese are DHS agents not MPD according to their uniforms. What federal crime was the dancing fox reasonably suspected of?
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoSenate passes more spending bills, but Homeland Security dispute looms. Call MOC & let them know that you don't support funding DHS for ICE to continue to harass, shoot & beat Americans & undocumented people who've committed no serious crimes! 1-202-224-3121 #OneV1 apnews.com/article/cong...
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosinocrazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoYeah, I don't know how you write a piece that features Niall Ferguson of all people and then pretend "they wanted a university without cancel culture"
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosino🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoSending another 2,000 armed, masked, armored, federal agents to our community makes us less safe. Makes us unable to live free. Makes death. Makes orphans. www.mpschools.org
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- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoThey have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoFrom San Jose to Santa Clara to Alameda County, local governments are restricting ICE use of county property. This is part of a broader pushback against aggressive federal immigration enforcement tactics. us.headtopics.com/news/alameda...
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosinohi! i would like to reup my request for ANY AND ALL PEOPLE FIGHTING DATA CENTERS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES TO PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME i am now covering data center conflicts for @heatmap.news my email is jael@heatmap.news
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- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoWait a minute. The grandson of the UK’s most notorious fascist works for Palantir? That’s a bit too on the nose.
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoNYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
- Reposted by Michael L. Rosino30% is as low of a number as you’ll ever see on an issue this politicized in the Trump era
- Reposted by Michael L. RosinoSome good background on the white nationalist/neo-nazi crew Pine Tree Riots
- Over the weekend, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared posts with a song, "We'll Have Our Home Again." I dug into the group that performed and popularized it. Its cofounder said his goal was to create "the seed of an eventual government." www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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