Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:

Cop City case could trigger more charges against US protesters, attorney says: Defendant’s lawyer says ‘prosecutors are watching’ after Georgia appealed the dismissal of Rico conspiracy charges www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My latest blog post, “Demystifying Visiting Scholar Positions” jeffreyianross.com/demystifying... #academia #academicaffiliation #academiclife #PhDLife #Professor #Sabbatical #VisitingScholar

Eight people have died in dealings with ICE so far in 2026. These are their stories www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Very happy that “Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus” w/ @jarrettblaustein.bsky.social & @nwpino.bsky.social on the history & evolution of the UN crime program got a Special Mention for the @acuns.bsky.social Book Award. If you’re interested, check your uni library or DM me acuns.org/book-award/

ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota: Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of immigration crackdown: Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Uvalde Trial Raises Question of Whether Police Stop School Shootings www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-trial... - via @TexasObserver

My latest blog post, "Whitewashing a Myth about Graffiti Abatement.” jeffreyianross.com/whitewashing... #graffiti #graffitiabatement #myth #TheTroubles

New York Women’s Prison Forces People to Go Without Showers or Recreation theintercept.com/2026/01/23/n...

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

ICE Memo Claims Agents Can Forcibly Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants: Skewering the 4th Amendment Further www.commondreams.org/news/ice-sea...

In Texas State Jails, a Rising Death Toll and a Broken Promise www.texasobserver.org/state-jails-... - via @TexasObserver

The ICE surge is an authoritarian siege www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Abolish ICE” Is More Popular Than Ever. How Will Democrats Drop the Ball This Time?: Establishment Democrats are rejecting the increasingly popular position and some want to fund ICE more. theintercept.com/2026/01/18/a...

Inside the Somali-Led Resistance to Trump’s Assault on Minneapolis theintercept.com/2026/01/17/s...

ICE Agents Are Even Worse At Being Cops Than You Think: Videos of agents falling down and dropping their guns feel beyond parody. But under-trained law enforcement officers are a real danger to the public. theintercept.com/2026/01/16/i...

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court  www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut... - via @TexasObserver

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate www.texasobserver.org/texas-vouche... - via @TexasObserver

Four Businesses with Ties to Patriot Front: The neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent economic ecosystem. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-fou... - via @TexasObserver

Excited Delirium Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease www.dukeupress.edu/excited-deli...

Number of people shot by Trump's secret police so far: 43. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

US immigration agents linked to spike in shootings under Trump administration crackdown: At least 14 people have been shot by immigration agents since the start of Trump’s second term www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE by @sambiddle.com. Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter. theintercept.com/2026/01/03/b...

ICE Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates. by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/01/02/i...

The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and Losing theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t...

One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew. Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault. In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them. With @invisible.institute

Smoked ribs for xmas dinner on father’s run down all-wood smoker

My latest blog post, “How AI Has Negatively Affected Asynchronous Learning” jeffreyianross.com/how-ai-has-n... #asynchronouslearning #pedagogy #teaching #teachingmodality

FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group: BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-dr...

Police Officer Domestic Violence Is A Crisis. It’s Time for States to Take Action. Elevated rates of intimate partner violence in police families, paired with weak oversight and harmful policies, make officer-abusers a uniquely urgent public safety threat. msmagazine.com/2025/12/11/p...

A sex worker-led organization is calling on Florida lawmakers to decriminalize sex work, arguing that criminal penalties increase violence and limit access to basic protections. www.wlrn.org/law-justice/...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Reposting my op-ed "Arming Our Campuses Is Not the Answer," that appeared in the October 11, 2015 issue of INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/1... #guns #gunviolence #gunsoncampus

Women jailed in Texas allege rampant sexual abuse www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The top .001% wealthiest people in the world, comprising fewer than 60,000 people, hold three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Break the System Criminalized Black Mothers and the Reproductive Politics of Abolition press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My latest blog post, What Kind of Scaffolding Should University Instructors Provide? jeffreyianross.com?p=7817 #instruction #undergraduate #pedagogy #universityinstruction

From leading abolitionist organizers, How To End Family Policing is a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2609-h...

Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance theintercept.com/2025/11/29/m...

My latest blog post, "Not All Black Longshoremen's Hats Are the Same" jeffreyianross.com/not-all-blac... #clothing #hats #semiotics #style

THREAD. There are almost no instances in corporate media where there is a debate about the role of police, prosecutors, and prisons that includes a person critical of those institutions. One result? Many liberals and Democrats are wildly uninformed and misinformed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZCl...

New Report Highlights the ‘Fatal Flaws’ Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions: The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries were contributing factors in at least 200 death sentences www.texasobserver.org/aclu-report-... - via @TexasObserver

Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War theintercept.com/2025/11/30/l...

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

My latest blog post, “This Month’s Song on Heavy Rotation,” jeffreyianross.com/this-months-... #activism #hophop #jazz #mauricemobettabrown #music #song #standup