Conner Martinez

PhD candidate Notre Dame - Political Participation - Immigration Politics - Race and Ethnicity Politics - Grist for the mill. (he/him)

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

Want to learn about what organizers are doing to fight the rapid expansion of detention and attacks by ICE? Check out my story below.

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

laughed at this maybe 3-4 times today

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

George Carlin's standup over footage of Splinter from the live Ninja Turtles show from the '90s 🤣 so good

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

"Yes, college education should help prepare students for the work force. But as many have pointed out, it must also prepare them for the task that can never be outsourced to technology: living."
https://t.co/KJDKXISUjc

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

Everything about this guy reads sicko

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

DID YOU KNOW?

One of Richard Nixon’s 🇺🇸 favorite dishes was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup

NOW YOU KNOW!

#POTUS 😝
@nixonfoundation @kennixonette @picturesofnixon @NixonLibrary

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

No order…
Underworld - DeLillo
Another Country - Baldwin
Sound and Fury/As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Dog of South/ True Grit - Portis
Beloved – Morrison

honorable mention
Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

I'm seeing a lot of people sharing 5 American authors they admire. What about 5 American novels?

My choices would perhaps be:

- Moby-Dick (Melville)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
- The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)

Yes, I can count, but I couldn't leave Faulkner out of the list.

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

The most accurate prediction about where the American right was going to come from came from a leftist critic of neoliberalism: Wendy Brown

In 2014 she predicted a right nationalist politics demanding building a strong wall on the US border while doubling down on oligarchy.

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

I know it's pointless to point this stuff out anymore, but the graft in hiring a GEO Group executive to lead ICE is cartoonishly evil.
https://t.co/OGgK5C2TVp

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

Cheeseburger in paradise (red hot ranch under the blue line)

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

The question now becomes what will be done with the infrastructure for resistance created by the work of organizers and ordinary people alike?

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

I know "building power" means different things to different people but I think we've glossed over what the anti-ICE movement accomplished confronting the Trump admin. We'd be in a very very different situation rn.

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

"Here is the wounded child at the center of the right-wing dreamworld...." What an arrow through the heart of reality this piece is.

[Mitch Therieau @MitchTherieau]

For @thedrift_mag, I went long on the regime of images under Trump 2. In which I try to make sense of the penguin, Cowboy Kristi, the TPUSA halftime show, Sound of Freedom, Steve Lockjaw, and much more https://t.co/TjzTFbMOrV

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

Charles Portis Masters of Atlantis

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

If you’ll be at MPSA tomorrow, plz come through to hear this discussion on how political scientists can better support and do research with our community partners. We will have organizers/ Alderpersons who have been instrumental in defending Chicago against ICE/CBP occupation.

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

Many white leftists who begrudgingly tolerated racial justice politics over the last decade are now eager to reduce it to neoliberal identity politics and drop the pretense of solidarity. This of course has nothing to do with the relative merits of racial capitalism as a theory.

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

Herzog gets it

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

"Werner Herzog on the differences between LA and NYC: "Wherever you look i[n LA there's] an immense depth, a tumult that resonates with me. New York is more concerned with finance than anything else. It doesn't create culture, only consumes it; most of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. Things actually get done in Los Angeles. Look beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and a wild excitement of intense dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. There is a great deal of industry in the city and a real working class; I also appreciate the vibrant presence of the Mexicans."

[Merrin @wowzowee]

I love my remote job in Illinois! The FBI has been paying me $35/hr to like, repost, and tweet divisive opinions about a neighborhood in Chicago called Logan Square

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

I’ve been telling people this for years, many Arizonans know this guy is junk and too many politicos have been eating his stuff up bc they bit on his “anti-woke” schtick / he got a NYT profile.

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

I’m getting the feeling this scandal is going to tangibly affect more people than just Swalwell

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

@akoustov The problem here is you’re recognizing there’s space for conversation, but instead of asking for an open and imaginative conversation on the boundaries of belonging/citizenship in the country (what people live Trump/Vance do), you’re blaming the left and asking to go backwards.

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

In a moment where Americans are putting their bodies on the line and even dying to defend immigrant communities, this piece does a major disservice to the conversation. Notice how there isn’t a single actual voice from the ominous “left” included, nor any organizers whatsoever.

[Alexander Kustov @akoustov]

"I only oppose illegal immigration" was often insincere. But social norms don't have to be sincere to be useful.

My first piece in The Atlantic (not my title) on what we lost when that norm collapsed.

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

@akoustov But, your article makes it sound like you’re asking to return to the something more hard-lined than Obama era, starting to call people illegals to appease a small cohort of conservative libs through what exactly (you don’t specify other than distinguishing btw “illegals” V legal)

[Conner Martinez @MartinezConner]

The overreach of the Trrump administration’s immigration cracked down has opened up space for a major shift in the conversation around immigration and democracy in America, but this article only asks for us to return to the same politics that got us here in the first place.