Black & brown kids do not have a greater propensity toward lawbreaking. Instead, they are targeted for surveillance, arrest, and punishment in ways that white kids are not. The racially disproportionate confinement of children starts with policing, not criminality.

Donald Trump owes American families a refund.

Yes there is an incoming emergency episode

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce on Friday that an 84-unit affordable housing development on an empty, New York City-owned lot in the Bronx. It will be 100% affordable and include 30 units for formerly homeless New Yorkers.

It's an absurd press conference because they have to pretend that the crap pouring out of his mouth has meaning. But the main takeaway is that he is accusing the Supreme Court of disloyalty to the United States and is ignoring their ruling.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the UK’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged, the BBC said. Get the latest: bloom.bg/4rqF1ah

As typical, @pkrugman.bsky.social gets at the crux of the problem with concentrated wealth and rising illiberalism. He lays it out so clearly here. "any project to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

NEW - Adolescent Exposure to Economic Inequality and Belief in the ‘American Dream’ on Entering Adulthood - https://cup.org/4rmfyyE - @sldemora.bsky.social & Benjamin J. Newman #OpenAccess

People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities. We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.

I received over 90% of the votes at the department and college levels, yet the provost denied me tenure. I met and exceeded the promotion and tenure guidelines and expectations as well as my annual and mid-tenure reviews.

A single day in jail can derail someone's life – imagine the horrific consequences of multiple bookings in a single year. As we enter 2026, it's time for the U.S. to embrace housing-first solutions, not increased policing & criminalization.

The party against cancel culture loves canceling everyone. deadline.com/2026/02/step...

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816

JUST IN: A federal judge in Michigan has rejected the administration's attempt to obtain the state's voter rolls. Judge Hala Jarbou, a Trump appointee, said the law does not require the state to turn them over. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow. Time to send this thing back to its grave.

The Roper Center is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Mitofsky Award, which honors excellence in public opinion research Fill out form by April 6 to nominate someone (self-nominations welcome) Call here, including past awardees and 2026 submission form: ropercenter.cornell.edu/events/2026-...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Today seems like a nice day to re-up @leahchristiani.bsky.social 's excellent research on when white people approve of blatantly racist political messages. Not sure what made me think of it today, but anyway. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

An excellent place to work/study for PhD

But they're not racist or violent, right? 1/ Think about what it's like to be Black and hear candidates for office speak so cavalierly about murder. Extra-judicial murder. Of which this country is guilty. Yeah, you feel like an equal citizen. www.rawstory.com/don-lemon-26...

Now officially published in jpeaceresearch.bsky.social. Link to full-text: academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-... #PoliticalScience #PoliticalPsychology

🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I keep coming back to this clip as a symbol of the Democratic Party’s challenges. Murphy correctly says ICE “is not about safety or immigration, but a pretext for Trump to take over.” Given this fact, Democratic leadership’s reform and fund plan makes no sense.

"The chief federal judge in Minnesota excoriated ICE saying it had violated nearly 100 court orders and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Layoffs over the last year: UPS: 48,000 Amazon: 32000 Intel: 27,159 Microsoft: 15,387 Nestle: 16000 Verizon: 15000 Google: 12000 Chevron: 8000 Paramount: 7000 Walmart: 7000 P&G: 7000 Estée Lauder: 7000 Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

We are hiring a Professor! The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

* Please repost and share * Call for Papers (due March 1st) Workshop on "Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy," August 14, Vanderbilt University more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... submit papers: forms.gle/k7BH4so2QJxQ...

People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Here's another Minnesota ruling that just came in last night: A federal judge is threatening DHS with contempt for transfering a petitioner out of the state despite a court order enjoining the administration from doing so. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72182...

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

attn: everyone asking why athletes aren’t speaking out on Minneapolis, please meet two-time MVP, three-time world champion, three-time Olympic gold medalist Breanna Mackenzie Stewart.

There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

The killing happened about 15 hours ago. Since then: - MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (FBI equivalent) got a warrant for the evidence on the scene - Tried to execute it - Were forcibly turned away by feds - Filed for a temporary restraining order - TRO granted by the federal district court

Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday. Ridiculous behavior.

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous Today it was granted ex parte

Do you know how hard this is to do