Petra Molnar
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| petramolnar.com
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- On Canada Day, a reflection on the Strong Borders Act, a draconian new bill that tries to appease the Trump administration, while harkening back to Canada’s historically exclusionary immigration policies The Great White North, indeed www.techpolicy.press/the-great-wh... @techpolicypress.bsky.social
- Surveillance, skin deep www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Petra MolnarThe White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...
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- Reposted by Petra MolnarNew from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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- ICERAID is a new platform that offers crypto rewards for border vigilantism. It is a clear reflection of a broader system – one that criminalises migration, rewards suspicion, and expands enforcement through private tech and public fear. My latest @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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- Reposted by Petra MolnarNEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
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- Reposted by Petra MolnarPres. Trump’s deportation plans are making the U.S.’s biggest private prison companies lots of money, with ICE set to spend billions more on detention. @petramolnar.com says the system “profits off misery” and @rachelbarkow.bsky.social credits a “targeted lobbying machine” for the profits. #Velshi
- Reposted by Petra MolnarYes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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- “Sadly, I think the true cost of these walls will be felt by generations to come...The continent has never seen a barrier of this magnitude in ecological history.” Borders walls hurt not only people but wildlife too! www.sierraclub.org/sierra/new-b... by @aprilreese.bsky.social @sierraclub.org
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- “It’s reading an article about hunger and genocide, only to scroll down to a quiz about: ‘What Pop-Tart are you?” - @rahaf.bsky.social, digital anthropologist on the phenomenon of hypernormalization www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-... Adrienne Matei for @theguardian.com
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- “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.” As someone with a Harvard affiliation, all I can say is that these are dark times indeed. How many students - current and future - will be affected?? on.ft.com/43td0Uw
- Reposted by Petra Molnar🚨This is a HUGE escalation and a deliberate effort to use the government against Trump's enemies. Weaponizing the Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification against Harvard to punish them for pushing back is a new low — and needlessly punishes thousands of innocent students.
- Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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- Reposted by Petra MolnarThe House has passed the GOP's budget bill with the 10-year ban on state AI laws intact. If the provision survives reconciliation in the Senate, the California, Colorado, or any other state that sought to pass laws governing AI would be legally banned from doing so. This is what's behind the bill:
- Make sure to pick up @docmattmoudi.bsky.social’s new book 📕!
- “In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations of a data center city.” Important critique of the intersection between environmental degradation and tech by @jtemple.bsky.social @technologyreview.com
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- Thanks so much for this generous review @kaelynnnarita.bsky.social @refugejournal.bsky.social!
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- Reposted by Petra MolnarBREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
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