I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

Palestinian scholar and feminist Eman Abdelhadi arrested today in Chicago. Here she is calling shame on the cops and demanding they question their life choices.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

For grad students in Black Studies www.agatheringtogether.com/undiscipline...

On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

How university administrations handled pro-Palestine protest is what has enabled the large scale attack on the academy that is now impacting scientists and scientists refuse to speak honestly about being wrong and actually yes that is a problem because that’s not how you build trust

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

Resegregation

Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Join us on 4/30 to celebrate 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦! Virtual event with Garrett Felber & Ruth Wilson Gilmore hosted by @haymarketbooks.org. Don't miss it, RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

This is what happens in Iran, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Congrats, MAGA and Republicans. Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs apnews.com/article/mahm...

Imagine trying to deport someone for their "expected beliefs"

Someone in the administration learned about necropolitics and said “exactly.”

Went to go renew my ASA (sociology) membership and it’s almost 500 dollars. Not including registration for the conference. And I’m supposed to be organizing sessions this year?

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Altadena's Black community west of Lake Ave waited hours for evacuation orders during the Eaton Fire—long after flames consumed homes. 17 residents, many elderly or with mobility challenges, died unaware of the inferno. My latest on why they weren't warned: capitalbnews.org/eaton-fire-l...

Extended family. Malikah Nu'Man & Bertha Jackson lost their house, car, and all possessions to fire in Altadena Ms. Bertha recently survived cancer and Dr. Nu'Man is a longtime educator of special needs students in the LAUCD school system Please share

Our friends at Reparations Club, a black owned bookstore here in LA were impacted by the fire. Any help is greatly appreciated.

If you are able, please join me in contributing to this campaign. gofund.me/a24de532

"Anyone could become a refugee. It's a thing that happens to you, it's not who you are." - Trevor Noah.

The way me and accounts payable be tussling over these reimbursements….

Sociologists, please nominate folk for the ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. Jan 1st deadline. www.asanet.org/about/awards...

Workers in some of the world's biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, a report found reut.rs/3D7X6FO

Big thanks to @mekka.mekka-tech.com for spotlighting this article in his thread on what police actually do, and why the NYPD’s slapstick performance after the UHG CEO shooting was not at all surprising. We Minneapolitans have really got to get this evidence into the city’s political conversation.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... New pub, where I explore Black placemaking in nyc through hip hop, bebop, and Black politics vis a vis Fab 5 Freddy, his father, and grandfather. Can send pdf if stuck behind paywall

Powerful work And Please look at how The Intercept and its reporters talked about BLM protesters For YEARS

Allegedly the bullet casings said, ""deny,” “defend” and “depose" Which some have linked to this 2010 book: "Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It."

As always, thank the people laboring in the kitchen today!

All of this backing into parking spaces needs to end.

another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.

Do I need to add #addtoblacksky to my posts? Still figuring this space out 🤔

it’s the Starbucks. This is so sickening.

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

Hey folks, if you know of any Black, Indigenous, or Latinx Sociology postdocs or those finishing Sociology phds Spring/Summer 2025, dm me or email me. For a symposium of early career scholars of color.

RT-ing cuz I’m stuck and I need this exercise

"An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a seven-decade career, he had a hand in every major development in modern jazz." Roy Haynes, a Giant of Jazz Drumming, Is Dead at 99 (gift link):

Any of y’all going to American Studies Assoc in Baltimore?

🗃️ Sociologist here working on a project about Black movement protests in US 1990s & 2000s. (Today specifically Jena Six mobilization n 2007). Hard to find work on this period. Can anyone point me to historians whose work I should check, or specific works? Self-citations extremely welcome.

I find that the staff of academic journals really struggle with oral histories cited as sources. I always have an issue in the proof stage. Never before.

Expected about 30 people at a stop cop city meeting in New York tonight, and more than twice that many came. Folks are eager to plug in, keep sharing ways for them to do so!