Studying migration @utaustinsoc & @UTPopCenter. Latin Americanist. Se habla espanglés.
Austin, TX
Joined January 2009
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Matthew Blanton retweeted
The number one issue that drove Latinos to vote Democratic this year — apparently a key reason that Texas went blue — was Trump’s mass deportation policies.
Thus, it’s interesting to see the demand on the right for doubling down on this strategy.
Matthew Blanton retweeted
Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator
Matthew Blanton retweeted
NEWS: The last Senate polls of 2026 from NYT/Siena:
From me and @RuthIgielnik
nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/po…
Matthew Blanton retweeted
It is worth explicitly starting more traditions - in your city, neighborhood, school, family. I love this example: a Bond movie had a fake Day of the Dead parade with giant puppets in Mexico City. People liked it so kept doing it. Now it is a popular tradition!
Matthew Blanton retweeted
Powerful moment at my town hall with @AaronDFordNV in Las Vegas when this man spoke up and expressed the sentiment of millions of hardworking Latinos who are being persecuted by the Trump administration 👏💙
You had me at Kennedy impeached, no need to keep convincing!
Steve Bannon, quoted by CBS News, on if Democrats take control of the House.
“I think you’ll see Bobby Kennedy impeached, I’ll think you see Pete Hegseth impeached. I think you’ll see subpoenas flying every day. They will look to destroy President Trump, and we’ll be bogged down for two years.”
cbsnews.com/news/steve-banno…
Matthew Blanton retweeted
JUST IN: Anthropic reveals the Houthis used Claude to vibecode guided-missile software.
Matthew Blanton retweeted
Our government posts memes and videos mocking and laughing at the suffering of immigrants and refugees. This is one more sick sign that something has broken in our souls.
christianitytoday.com/2026/0…
Matthew Blanton retweeted
Video shows Flock walking police through how to monitor a No Kings protest in real time. I do not have to agree with a single sign at that protest to say this plainly: Surveillance aimed at your political opponents today will be aimed at you tomorrow.
Ruh roh. Here is a leaked webinar hosted by Flock demonstrating to police how to track individuals in real time involved in the no kings protests. Maybe you’re thinking “so what?! I don’t go to those and don’t agree with those who did.”
Let me remind you, a digital dragnet built to target your political opponents today will be used against you tomorrow.
Once the surveillance state is turned on, it watches everyone.
Matthew Blanton retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Matthew Blanton retweeted
The abuse the ex wife of the Maine ICE agent details in NPR interview is horrifying, including a 2022 police report of throwing his 13 year old daughter through a coffee table, a voice mail from last year saying her throat should be cut, and pulling a gun on her in the shower. She questions if ICE runs even a basic background check on recruits.
Matthew Blanton retweeted
Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸
