Opinion | The proximity of these plastics-chemical plants to densely populated areas shows the significant health risks of our dependence on plastics. It’s putting us all at risk. cal.news/4v8tq0m 📝 Veronica Herrera 📸 Ethan Swope, AP

"CIA and Ford Administration Used Bicentennial to Justify Covert Intelligence Operations" nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

I went to undergrad with Melat Kiros and I remember at one point attending a political workshop or symposium of some kind with Melat, looking over at her in the school van we were in on our way back to campus, and having a hunch that she'd probably be successful in politics one day. Glad I was right

"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.

So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...

Really useful summary of the problems with ICE and some routes for dismantling it by @felipedlh.bsky.social (with quotes from @silkys13.bsky.social ) www.damemagazine.com/2026/06/03/r...

Representation scholars! Cool data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in Criminology! Punishment as a racialized package of confinement, cash, and surveillance. By @ryanplarson.bsky.social , @robertstewart.io , @veronicalhorowitz.bsky.social, and some old guy. This detailed thread by Ryan show ‘n tells the story.

If you missed Friday's @amcommmedia.bsky.social briefing on uncovering ICE's local partnerships with law enforcement, see the recording and find out what are authorities trying to hide. Featuring FAC's @davidloy.bskly.social and Thad Greenson! americancommunitymedia.org/media-briefi...

Had a blast representing @harborinstituteoc.bsky.social at the @caimmigrant.bsky.social Immigrant Day of Action Conference earlier this week speaking alongside @eri-usc.bsky.social, @buenvecino.bsky.social, @facoalition.bsky.social about accessing and communicating data to advance immigrant justice!

In her Article, @lindsaycnash.bsky.social draws on archival research to recover the lost immigration history of pretrial detention and release during deportation’s founding and formative years. Her findings undermine the historical argument for mandatory immigration detention today.

Can someone #CALeg pls put forward a bill to make it mandatory to provide “spouses” as a default articulated option (beyond “husband and wife” — and some don’t even have “wife and wife” or “husband and husband”) on property vesting / deed paperwork? Thx

House hunting — struck by how my family’s geographic mobility even within SoCal is constrained by the extent to which local govts seem welcoming. We (queer parents) don’t want to raise kids in a school district where we can’t trust that leaders will support our family, which rly reduces our options

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

“Anti-democracy measures do not simply arrive and takeover healthy democracies. They are workshopped first – most often on the most vulnerable communities.”

poets.org/2020-on-lear... a page where the poem will display properly and also not have scum commenting at the bottom

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

We're excited to release version 1.0 of the Dynamic Democracy website. It includes updated data on state policy, public opinion, mass ideology, and representation. The website enables you to see how these measures are changing overtime across states and within states. www.dynamicdemocracy.us

least important part of today but happy 5 year anniversary of my first day (of a very short stint) at a digital fundraising firm at which I watched the boss demand everyone keep churning out more fundraising emails as we all witnessed the capitol attack in real time on our televisions etc

"My sources broke categories: they were monstrous. Studying them meant integrating methods from several disciplines — and being marginalized by the more conservative practitioners in all of them." The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

Anyone assign zines in their classes (as assignments)? Would love to see others’ assignments/plans for teaching the history, theory, practice etc

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

In this episode, @akelalacy.bsky.social spoke to Benjamin Osorio, Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's attorney; @tylermcbrien.com, managing editor at @lawfaremedia.org; and Gauri Bahuguna, deputy director of research at @situ-research.bsky.social, about the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.

Anyone assign zines in their classes (as assignments)? Would love to see others’ assignments/plans for teaching the history, theory, practice etc

NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :) “The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J @maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

Same here! And yes, I do exist in real life. Always glad to meet others in the immigrant rights sphere, especially fellow Southeast Asians :) Will keep in touch!

Thanks @bailproject.org for the interview! Cash bail does not just fuel injustice and compromise public safety. It also enables widespread financial extraction that harms families and communities and intensifies inequality. #LegalPlunder cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social

Looking to advance interdisciplinary research in the social sciences? Palgrave has the book series for you! 📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU #SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5 - Meredith Dost #FirstView

I'm begging everyone making gufaw surface level comments about disability accommodations to read about universal design.

"it is essential [to] build solidarity with people engaged in direct confrontations with state carceral and economic power. To take creative collective action. From this place of solidarity, writing and scholarship may emerge that expands our capacity to understand, confront, and overcome fascism."

“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air” — Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been overreacting by telling people I’m not pursuing a full-time tenure-track academic job in part bc I need a job where people around me are mentally and physically prepared and willing to protect me, but then stuff like the OU debacle happens and… yeah

Because it's not about the rubric. People are splitting hairs over the finer details of rubric instructions when they are missing what this is really about, a blatant attempt to purge trans people out of public life. bsky.app/profile/scgr...

This stunt had nothing to do with the Bible, it was entirely about pushing the envelope to see how easy it would be to get a public university to fire an instructor for not living according to Christian nationalist beliefs. Turns out it was really easy.

Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

It’s hard to overstate how precarious things are for academic workers, especially trans people. This instructor had no option available to them that would have allowed her to keep her job, do it with integrity, and avoid the violence that comes with being fascism’s villain of the week.

My article is out in the world now! I explore what happens when families pass down stories about national belonging and how nostalgia constructs imagined belonging for LGBTQ+ immigrants :) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...

another queer and trans literary landmark. get yourself a copy of this killer print anthology, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is kind of a big deal

If you're wondering why there are so few trans professors, it's because their institutions are throwing the precious few of us that make it into higher ed under the bus.

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.