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Literally what my book is about. The ultimate cost of borders is the nation itself.

So Italy and Spain are sending war ships to protect its citizens from drones from its “friend” Israel?

There's a persistent impression about the migration debate in the UK that one side - that of migration sceptics - cares a lot more. I've got a nagging feeling that's not only untrue but having a disastrous effect. ⬇️ My latest post on Substack ⬇️ georginasturge.substack.com/p/a-monopoly...

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

Under current law, the president has too much power to use the military for law enforcement at home. Our report details the loopholes and ambiguities in the Posse Comitatus Act and provides a bipartisan path to strengthening the law. bit.ly/3NaSobU

Step back, have a little perspective. This is a better headline: "University turns Judith Butler over to the police for thought crime"

Finally! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Au contraire, @economist.com. Robotaxis don’t make for liveable cities. Carfree zones do.

Whoever is running dude’s messaging deserves a raise.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Alan Kurdi dog för 10 år sedan och Europa blev aldrig bättre. Han blev inte början på någon ny solidaritet utan ett monument över ett iskallt hjärta. Frontex, EU:s gränsbyrå, blev arvet. Ingen livräddare utan en dödspatrull i kostym med drönare, värmekameror och avtal med diktaturer. 1/2

Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.

A welcome, albeit incredibly late statement from the European Sociological Ass. www.europeansociology.org/event/e124ab... Will the ESA suspend the collaboration with the Israeli institutions until the end of the war, as it did with Russia? www.europeansociology.org/statement-so...

If I was a politician looking to protect my city/state from federal political surveillance and policing, one of my FIRST steps would be to start canceling Flock contracts ASAP.

I'm a real live historian of policing, and I ended up writing a thread about this current moment..specifically what it signals that the NYPD are lessening the age and education requirements for police in order to get a big scary recruitment class. 🧵

@bradby.bsky.social tar en modigt ställning mot folkmord för svensk sociologi. Bravo! www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/sluta...

Call for work "that illuminates the various ways policing promotes – or could promote – public safety and social order." Maybe it is normal to have a special issue defined by the conclusions reached rather than questions asked, and it just grates on me when it's reactionary?

Ilan Pappé says that the one boycot that could really help end the genocide in Gaza is if UEFA bans Israel. Might this be one step into that direction? www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/...

“How dare you justify a genocide on the Palestinians?” This is the moment Belgian politician and member of the Flemish Parliament, Jos D'Haese, slammed Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, over the war on Gaza.

Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.

Vår egen moraliska kollaps inför övergreppen, folkmordet, i Gaza. Allt fler skriver om detta - hur kunde det ske? Arvid Jurjaks tar här upp "Bürgerliche Kälte", borgerlig kyla. Påminner om en form av folkmordsförnekelse som Martin Shaw tagit upp, "implicatory denial".

This goes to show, policing as it has existed has always been tyranny's foot in the door. If Democratic mayors could justify unaccountable, undemocratic, secretive state violence in some places, it's a much lower bar to justify it everywhere.

– Att de här personerna tar det steget är otroligt modigt. De tar en stor personlig risk, säger historikern Petter Hellström, en av initiativtagarna till det svenska uppropet.

The true King of the North

Att Refused på Way Out West nyss gick ut och vägrade, efter att först ha skammat Spotify och kallat det en skam att de har ett tält här, och påmint om att Daniel Ek investerar astronomiska summor i vapenindustrin.

In Ep 226, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)," we detail NYT & WSJ's incitement campaign against the UN in Jan 2024 and how it directly assisted Israel's starvation campaign. w/ guest Moureen Kaki who joins us from Khan Yunis, Gaza

The EU will keep warning Israel until the last Palestinian in Gaza is either killed by Israeli’s military or by its starvation policy.

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

Great piece by my friend @alexbirnel.bsky.social

The US border is a transitional zone where war-zone surveillance is normalized for use by police departments in the interior.

“Nu har det gått tio år sedan flyktingkrisen 2015. Det är värt att komma ihåg att EU tog emot mer än dubbelt så många ukrainska flyktingar 2022. Ändå gick det inte till historien som systemkollapsernas år, för att politikerna lät bli att skapa en kris av det.”

It may be totally unrelated, but this statement comes shortly after the @isa-sociology.org suspended the Israeli Sociological Society.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan

En polis kallas "bög" och anmäler detta. Orimlig lag som får orimliga konsekvenser. Precis som vi kritiker befarade. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/poli...

I bring up this chart showing media coverage of shootings during an election year in NYC a lot. The local news is 100% complicit in making it look like crime is out of control to help “tough on crime” politicians like Eric Adams and Trump spread the false narrative that crime is out of control.

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

There is now a German version of the #uppsaladeclaration Here, you can declare your conscientious objection to collaborations with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

Academics (including the journal’s founder) told Wiley to pound sand, started an open access journal, and Wiley just surrendered. I think more academics should tell academic publishers to pound sand. They are vampires.

In light of cases against LA protestors getting thrown out because officers lied, here’s my evergreen piece from 2020 about how often officers lie, and why people still believe them.

“Our Genocide” Powerful report title by B’Tselem 👏

This is so far over the line I don't even know where to begin. Trying to get students -- your own students -- expelled or deported because of political activism? Jesus, I won't even punch down at random college students on *social media*

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months. poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

W/ immigrant detention constantly in the news, I share my portfolio of peer-reviewed research on harms of this system. In @jamanetworkopen.com, we show alarmingly high prevalence of poor health, mental illness & PTSD for all, w/ esp high rates for those detained 6+mo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Accountability theater” is perfect, and I will borrow it with attribution. Unfortunately, I think I’ll be applying it frequently.