Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.

Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

This is not surprising, but so appalling. About 180 FEMA staff members knew they would be risking their jobs to communicate the degradation of emergency response under Trump tells you how bad things are. We can't say we were not warned, but the people who warned us are being punished for doing so.

Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.

Thanks to all who participated in our wonderful sessions at #ASA2025. See you in NYC for #ASA2026!!

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

I haven't had time to say much about this case, dealing with "third country" deportations. But it's a terrible decision for all the reasons J. Sotomayor outlines in her dissent. She is probably the best justice on immigration issues, though wrong about much else: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Sadly not a new phenomenon. Many veterans have been deported over the years, often because of drug problems they acquired after PTSD from their time in the service.

I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?

Not true that ICE should use masks because of increased attacks against them.

85 cents a day may not sound like a lot for a parent to purchase fruits & veggies for their toddler. Yet the House Ag Approps Chair called this amount “hugely inflated” & wants to eventually cut the already modest $26 monthly #WIC benefit to $10/month. appropriations.house.gov/schedule/mar...

One of the fundamental themes of authoritarianism is that people doing the right thing will be labeled as doing the wrong thing. And often, that label is applied by bystanders who are still failing to recognize that the institutions they once trusted are no longer trustworthy.

Khalil is challenging the other charge of removability (claimed misrepresentation) as First Amendment retaliation, but those claims are ongoing. Until then, the government does still have statutory authority to keep him detained. He does have a right to a bond hearing, though.

BREAKING: "California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said California will sue the Trump administration Monday over its deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids."

Pres. Trump is NOT invoking the Insurrection Act, so the troops will fill a limited role. Posse Comitatus Act still prevents them from engaging in direct law enforcement activities.

📣 Very timely and important work from my colleague @hwaight.bsky.social and her coauthor. Consider reading the summary thread and article 🤓!

My latest in @theguardian.com. It is not the nations on the travel ban that are a threat to US security. It is the US that robbed them of their wealth, destroyed their institutions & environment, & then denied them participation in safety built at their expense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Texas’ understaffed agricultural, restaurant and elder care sectors rely on workers who are undocumented. “If you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages, said a former GOP state lawmaker. With @texastribune.org

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Haitians are the only people referenced as harmful to US communities for intangible and unspecified reason beyond security concerns and which is, as everyone knows, RACISM

ICE detained a FOURTH GRADER during his #immigration hearing

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

📣🚨 NEW ARTICLE: Many #immigrants are aging & remain undocumented. What is their experience of illegality as they age–specifically their fear of deportation? New publication @sfjournal.bsky.social! Please read and share widely. 🔗 here: bit.ly/SF25-LCI (summary below) /1

BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7 TRILLION in wealth. That's a $4.1 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam. Republicans are now pushing a budget to give billionaires more tax breaks, paid for by cuts to healthcare and food assistance. Insanity.

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

Everything is terrible and so is this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for "No Other Land" about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military, witnesses tell NPR.

Universities produce benefts for everyone, even does who do not attend. They are hubs of invention and inovation. Listen or read this good piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

how much more are Palestinians supposed to fucking take, MY GOD

Julio was profiled because of a benign tattoo, shaven, shamed, and paraded as a criminal so that two national leaders could boast. Julio's second daughter was born in the U.S. while he was in detention in the U.S.; here he is meeting her through video call. theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/disap...

The move, which is in line with an executive order from President Trump to slash the federal workforce, raises concerns about staffing at the agency that delivers crucial benefits to Americans.

Happening across government: pushing out general counsels to ensure the internal referees will say that whatever Trump wants to do is perfectly legal.

@sanders.senate.gov and I have a bill to get that done, so that seniors can retire with the dignity they deserve. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

I'm glad the judge is raising these concerns but... this specific issue is not even remotely new. ICE arrests people on pretrial bail all the time.

Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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The White House just issued a new executive order which appears to expand on a Day One executive orders, directing the administration to cut off any federal funding going to so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions and to not issue any federal benefits to undocumented immigrants (already large true).

83 years since EO 9066. Here is my mom with her parents - she was born into imprisonment at Gila River Relocation Center. She spoke kind and firm words of encouragement to me this past week when I told her of my efforts to get immigration lawyers to Guantánamo. www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-b...

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

Saying the Thing Out Loud: Trump’s Latest Refugee Order Embraces White Victimhood While the refugee system is suspended for the rest of the world, a new order from Trump creates a special exception for white South Africans facing “race-based discrimination.” open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

📣 Calling all ASA Latina/o Sociology grad students! The Latina/o Sociology Section’s Cristina Maria Riegos Student Paper Award deadline is March 1, 2025. For more information, see below @asanews.bsky.social