Julia Rose Kraut

@juliarosekraut.bsky.social

JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.

‼️ Colleagues: If you're teaching this semester, please let me know if I can assist you. Happy to recommend reading, talk w/ students about immigration, free speech, Cold War/McCarthyism, ideological exclusion/deportation, "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press

“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...

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Surveillance powers rarely stay confined to their original purpose. Recent reporting suggests DHS has expanded its surveillance of protesters despite policies intended to protect First Amendment activity. Read and share our latest report from @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social and Matthew Ruppert. 10/

DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools

Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.

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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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