Terri E. Givens

@profterrig.bsky.social

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Bad ass in poli-sci UBC, Vancouver and Menlo Park, CA. Immigration, race, far right politics. Author of Radical Empathy and Reckoning. French🇫🇷, German🇩🇪, Catsky 🐈 https://linktr.ee/terrigivens

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Terri E. Givens is an author and political scientist. Givens is a professor at the University of British Columbia.

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Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

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Empathy is the perfect holiday gift

You may have heard that empathy is under attack. Apparently some folks think that understanding the feelings of others is bad for us.

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Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 1d

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. 💔

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 1d

They are an important part of our country’s history and I’m very proud to be part of their legacy. I have learned so much from their lives and appreciate the work of advocates like @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social who work to educate us all about health disparities.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 1d

Rocelious and Leora lived through difficult times, growing up during the depression and the uncertainties of WW II, often having manage their way through the Jim Crow South and the intolerant North. My father died in 2001 and my mother in 2010, both as a result of cardiovascular disease.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 1d

Over 20 years of service, she raised seven children and moved too many times to count. Leora was part of the Great Migration from Louisiana to Los Angeles in the early 1950s where she went to work as a seamstress and met a handsome young soldier who swept her off her feet.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Terri E. Givens, David Rosnick , and 3 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Terri E. Givens, David Rosnick, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 2d

This is who runs this account

Reposted by Bryan D. Jones, John Foot, Ben Tonra , and 3 more Bryan D. Jones, John Foot, Ben Tonra, Terri E. Givens, James Connelly, David Darmofal

Cheryl T. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦📎 @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Dave Hogg @davehogg.bsky.social · 3d

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?

Reposted by John F. McCarthy, Steve Peers, Brian Kelly , and 5 more John F. McCarthy, Steve Peers, Brian Kelly, Adrian Daub, Pamela K. Gilbert, Terri E. Givens, Laleh Khalili, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

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

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely looking forward to this!

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 7d

How did we get here?

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How did we get here?*

Unearthing the Roots: Why History is the Key to Understanding Modern Racism Although it may feel like we are living in a unique era of crisis, history shows that the current crisis has been building f...

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Kati Knitt - looking for work! @katiknitt.bsky.social · 9d

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

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Margot C. Finn, Terri E. Givens

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10d

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.

‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10d

Minnesota is the best of us.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 13d

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-...

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Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 16d

Go Hawks!

Reposted by Terri E. Givens, Ann Bartow, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17d

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.

“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless

Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.

www.city-journal.org

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 17d

California dreamin’

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 17d

Made up BS

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 19d

Sep 30, 2024 — After strong showings in recent elections, there are far-right parties in government in seven European countries.
www.ibanet.org/The-year-of-...

The year of elections: The rise of Europe’s far right

After strong showings in recent elections, there are far-right parties in government in seven European countries. Global Insight assesses the threat to the rule of law and what can be done to protect ...

https://www.ibanet.org/The-year-of-elections-The-rise-of-Europes-far-right

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 19d

2005 - my first book, Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, is published, more people are paying attention, but the far right is still considered a "flash in the pan"

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 19d

1999 - Far Right Freedom party takes second place in Austrian Parliamentary election - becomes the focal point of concern but many people are telling me that my dissertation will be irrelevent since the far right are just a "flash in the pan"

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 19d

1992 - Read about the rise of the German Republikaner and decide to write about it for my grad school applications - I get admitted to UCLA
1995-1998 Spent time in France, Germany, and Austria learning about immigration issues and rise of radical right

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 19d

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.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve played around with it a bit, mainly Notebook LM, and it definitely takes up my time, particularly since you have to be careful about finding all the errors it makes, I haven’t found a way to use it that is helpful or saves me any time.

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 23d

Yep

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Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 23d

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

Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 23d

Just felt like posting this today…no particular reason.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Richard S.J. Tol, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 8 more Nina Jankowicz, Richard S.J. Tol, Rosemary A. Joyce, Joseph Schafer, David R. Miller, W. Andy Knight, Adrian Daub, James Goodwin, Terri E. Givens, Henry Jones, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

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.

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