minali aggarwal

@min0p0ly.bsky.social

phd student thinking about race, data, and politics

This just in, statistical analysis is woke ideology now: “We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police departments based on statistical evidence… The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws — not woke ideology.”

Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts

Civil rights division director Harmeet K. Dhillon has redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.”

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For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is using Mahmoud Khalil to test his mass deportation plan | Heba Gowayed

The Palestinian student’s arrest at Columbia University is a harbinger of what’s to come on college campuses

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I have heard from multiple sources today that lawyers who provide Know Your Rights presentations in ICE detention centers have been kicked out completely. These presentations are sometimes the only way people in detention find out details about the process they’re going through.

"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.

Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.

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