Since @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social doesn't get into Birthright Citizenship, here's a draft I have for the updated edition of mine and @profterrig.bsky.social immigration text. Thought I had already posted it but whoops, nope. rachelnavarre.com/2026/02/07/a...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

#BlackHistoryMonth - about the first Black doll I ever owned. I loved Barbie, but Mattel didn't produce a Black Barbie until 1980. Diahann Carroll played a nurse in the show Julia, another first. The doll that was made from that show was an important representation for so many young girls like me.

My generation grew up with a show that helped us see a beautiful image of our country…that’s why our hearts are breaking now. 💔

For #BlackHistoryMonth I will be focusing on people who have had an impact on my life, both those who have passed and those who are still very much with us. To start, I want to honor my parents. Although my dad was the one who enlisted in the Air Force, my mom served, too.

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania.” #GoSeahawks!

I'm skimming through mentions of Trump in the Trump-Epstein Files, and there's one thing that I'm thinking over and over: All we had to do was believe the women. There are dozens of stories in here that make me ill. Do you really believe these are all lies?

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

How did we get here? www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-di...

Yup.

When we talk about people murdered by ICE, we shouldn't forget Keith Porter, a black man who was shot by ICE on new years eve

Minnesota is the best of us.

My interview with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social on Trump’s speech The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn: Trump gives speech at World Economic Forum in Davos www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Go Hawks!

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

California dreamin’

To all those who told me my grad school research would some day be irrelevant... 1986 - First encounter with the radical right as the Front National enters the French Assembly the same month I start my study abroad program.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature? FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.

Taking about how to calm your nervous system…this is a constant in the lives of way too many of us and we have coping mechanisms but we also have high blood pressure, heart disease and trauma that has been passed down from our ancestors who lived through even worse times. Find peace where you can

Just felt like posting this today…no particular reason.

Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.

I was on the CBC this morning. The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn: Anger in Minneapolis after fatal shooting of woman by an ICE officer www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Nothing wrong with showing some empathy ❤️

“We may hold different identities and experiences and are unsure where to start because of these differences. We may feel like we do not have the power or capacity to contribute to change. There is a place to start and that is Radical Empathy.” www.housing.wisc.edu/2024/12/incl...

Today’s moment of zen, hiking above Stinson Beach. #California

Beautiful day of hiking near Stinson Branch #California. Less than an hour from SF!

Who would have thought that the pizza parlor was actually Mar a Lago...

It’s a good week to share some holiday cheer. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season! A few shots from Filoli gardens.

#Empathy is a strategy.

Professor friends…anyone still interested in moving to Canada? The government and UBC want you! research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

Roughly twenty senior business executives, all white males, and four GOP politicians, stand around Trump as he delivers a racist rant that lasts a full ten minutes, all chuckling throughout. Their names should be published and this video footage should be shown at their shareholders' meetings.

Even if these men were trafficking drugs, there's no evidence they were transporting them to the US or were a threat to America at all Further, even if THAT was true, they should've been arrested and given a jury trial-pursuant to the Constitution Not summarily executed

My latest newsletter is out! Check out my latest book, and remember that #Empathy is a great gift for the holidays. My next event is with Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum on December 11th! lnkd.in/e79HD26Z www.linkedin.com/pulse/empath...

“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:

Happy Friday after Thanksgiving!

Reckoning with enslavement in London and Bristol. www.linkedin.com/pulse/reckon...

I thought I was going to miss the sunset…but it turns out I was right on time.

UBC and SFU PIH chapters are partnering with us to host a Global Health Case Competition — built by students, for students. Happening next Sat, Nov 29th. If of interest @ubcpress.bsky.social @ccj-ubc.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca @jwmartens.bsky.social @profterrig.bsky.social @lauraknelson.bsky.social

Folks in #Vancouver! Join me this Friday from 5-7 in Kits! www.fluevog.com/flueblog/rec...

Those of us who study this stuff have been saying it over and over…taking on the policies of the far right further enables them. I was in a discussion yesterday in Bristol and have to agree that Labor is opening the door for Farage. on.ft.com/3K9Dipe Denmark is a flawed model for UK asylum policy

www.momenterik.com @profterrig.bsky.social #blacksky #politics #podcast

#UK folks, support a #London institution! Make your way to New Beacon Books, 76 Stroud Green Road to get a copy of my book, #Reckoning. Let’s create change! @brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social

Divided We Stand? – part of the #FestivalOfEconomics. Exploring growing ideological polarization & paths to a less divided future. Join Terri E. Givens, author of 'Reckoning', for this important discussion. 🗓️ Nov 18 | 12–1:15 PM GMT, Watershed, Bristol: https://ow.ly/2X6250XjUl2

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3ex3... @profterrig.bsky.social #blacksky #politics #podcast

On the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming! @profterrig.bsky.social and Dr. Wylin Wilson #blacksky #politics #podcast

Watch out #London-I’m heading your way next week. Join me for my #Reckoning Book Launch on November 11. Be sure to RSVP here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

Looking forward to my trip to London! See you next week!