Christy Thornton

Author, Revolution in Development (@UCPress 2021) / Co-director, @HPE_Project / #PellGrant professor / @NACLA siempre / #NoMoreDrugWar(s)

[CFU UAW @CfuUaw]

We stand with our siblings in @haworkers, mostly non-tenure track faculty like ourselves, who have walked out today joining @hgsuuaw. NTT academic workers and grad workers at Harvard deserve fair contracts!

[Steve Fisher @Stevelfisher]

Inside the CIA’s armed operations in Mexico:

The CIA enlisted a Chihuahua state prosecutor under investigation by the FBI for his suspected cartel ties. He embedded CIA officers with state police—and got his revoked U.S. visa back.

The CIA sought to build a Mexican special forces unit in Chihuahua state

CIA officers helped plan Mexican police deployments, and provided rifle cover during one raid.

Masked Americans joined a meth-lab raid. Two CIA officers later died in a cliffside crash, exposing the mission.

With @jacknicas
https://t.co/BGgXYGEFoz

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

@madeleineebaker Big solidarity!

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

We're officially on strike.

[Alex Vitale @avitale]

Hanging w @stschrader1 in LA.

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Just left a message too! I have been to approximately 347 protests outside Chuck Schumer's apartment building over the years, and it is PAST time for new leadership

[hot dam historian 🦅 @hotdamhistorian]

just left a message too

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Important thread - and another reminder why our DSA comrades should not abandon the cause of ending this country’s vast over-reliance on police and prisons on the basis of dubious comparisons

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

A few weeks ago, Malcolm Gladwell made the media rounds arguing the U.S. should double its number of police officers. In interviews with Oprah, the New Yorker, Fox News Radio, and elsewhere, he cited a study by two Harvard professors to support his claim.

[Alexander Aviña @Alexander_Avina]

We’re gonna need a bigger Nuremberg

[Michael Galant @michael_galant]

🇨🇺 Another point for Van Hollen for Senate Majority Leader

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Tonight, New York! 10 years since the Colombian peace agreements, the new issue of @NACLA Report highlights the people most affected by the conflict and the attempt to end it. Join us for this discussion at Woodbine, 6pm! RSVP here: https://t.co/041gB35Ipp

[Alex Skopic @alexskopic]

Worth remembering that Hakeem Jeffries currently has a 26 percent approval rating, worse than both Trump and Mike Rogers. The idea that there's any real base of support for him is just not based in anything.

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

SEND OIL TO CUBA @Claudiashein

[World Politics Review @WPReview]

With U.S. President Donald Trump effectively neutered at home after a midterm rout driven by anger over the Iran war, foreign leaders have little incentive to give in to his demands, @ProfPaulPoast writes.
https://t.co/h25dy1zzNk

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

It took one night of rain for entire displacement camps in Gaza to flood. Urgent help needed: https://t.co/YR8kpxmtBQ

This morning, tens of thousands of families are facing another day of rain without shelter. The tents they slept in yesterday are underwater. The streets they would use to reach help are flooded and impassable.

We knew the tents were fragile. Even so, we were unprepared for this much destruction after the first rainfall. Families are still soaking wet, trying to salvage what they can and figure out where they’ll sleep tonight.

Please donate to The Sameer Project’s winter response and help us get emergency shelter to families who lost theirs overnight. Give to our General Fund: https://t.co/YR8kpxmtBQ

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

How many children will die this week while hundreds of thousands of tents, shelters, blankets and mobile homes and construction materials remain blocked by Israel at the border?

[Michael Galant @michael_galant]

Here’s what the head of the IMF said about Paraguay 🇵🇾 in 2024:

“My admiration for the country's successful leadership… which has made Paraguay one of the best economies in the region & a leader in growth in Latin America.”

“Paraguay is a great example to follow in the region”

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

“In 2025 and the first half of this year, more than 60% of the criminal summonses the NYPD issued for loitering were written by officers in just one of the city’s 78 police precincts — the 40th, in the South Bronx”

[Tiffany Cabán @tiffany_caban]

Tisch’s “public safety” strategy: Go to most disinvested areas, ticket people for being poor. When they can’t pay fines, issue warrants. Then say, “Look we’re catching all these dangerous criminals with arrest warrants.” This is broken windows policing.

https://t.co/vo443EIC8m

[Ernesto Semán @ErnestoSeman]

"Los eventos ocupan el campo visual; los procesos, en cambio, entran por los poros."

Algo muy breve sobre la posibilidad de ver a tiempo los cambios que se nos vienen.

https://t.co/2Z4sNRRQoL

[Jia Lynn Yang @jialynnyang]

It's important to remember that Stephen Miller's work is not merely about immigration, per se. It's about redefining who counts as American. This has implications well beyond immigration policy. https://t.co/VWm5waJr0v

[NACLA Report @NACLA]

Check out this week's newsletter for coverage of the U.S. elections, Paraguay's crisis, the U.S. strike in Venezuela, Fujimori's first 100 days in Peru, Colombia's new security law, and more.

https://t.co/R3lCEgr2s1

[NACLA Report @NACLA]

🇨🇴 🕊️ #EnEspañol | De nuestra edición de otoño de 2026: Ante la urgencia de reflexionar sobre qué se esconde tras el lenguaje político de la justicia en Colombia, Laura Langa Martínez busca abrir el debate para preguntarnos sobre las trampas de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz frente a los crímenes cometidos por miembros del Estado.
https://t.co/G7v0awKJyA