Canada is literally handing over refugees rejected at border to ICE in the US. Haitian refugee Markens Appolon, for eg, sought refuge but Canada handed him to ICE agents. He is still in ICE detention. There is a seamless connection between Canada's new anti-migrant laws, like C12, and ICE terror.

Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.

Excited to host social epistemologist Ezgi Sertler today in Hamburg. She does fascinating work on how institutions & administrative systems produce & manage knowledge (& ignorance!) Her new article "Administrative Violence" in Ergo should interest many: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Paul Pressler is one of the most influential figures you may have never heard of. The onetime judge remade the Southern Baptist Convention, and helped forge the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. As he did so he also committed decades of alleged abuses. A long look at his legacy:

I have an article coming out in 5 mons at a top 3 political science journal. It took me 7 yrs to get that article through edits, reviews, and final acceptance. Seven. Years. Then, they'll put it behind a pay wall so only academics can see it. This is why all of my work is publicly accessible.

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

This evening, as we gathered in virtual community, I reflected on how important it is to remain committed to freeing people from cages. Each release is a miracle. Decarceration is as urgent as ever, and we need new recruits to this cause. It's been an honor to be part of this sacred work.

We hear their stories of how and why they became involved in #StopCopCity, what transpired during those events and during the trial, and about how ordinary people find themselves transformed into activists of conscience, and how they are working in solidarity with many other groups.

First group of migrants deported from the US ​under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.

I secured some funding last year to revive the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency. I’m excited to announce that applications are open today until May 11 for young artists (ages 16-24) directly impacted by criminalization, policing, or punishment.

Tomorrow I get to teach Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's writings on land, space, and place. I've been so excited all through the weekend about reading "Place Against Empire" (GC) and "Land as Pedagogy" (LS) with my students.

OK comrades, I am doing a last fundraising push to support Sahar in paying for surgery for her son Odai who was injured a couple of years ago in Gaza. They need $4000 for this surgery. Our giving circle will commit $500 towards this goal. chuffed.org/project/1656... - can you help?

A new era at Feminist Studies, the same commitments: unabashedly feminist.

Salar Mohandesi's article has singularly challenged me to consider questions about anti-imperialist organizing on the issue of US-lead imperialist projects in Palestine and Iran. I really recommend reading the whole essay.

Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

Submissions for this year's Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, for writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, are open! The prize honors my sister, who died tragically in 2020 after many years in & out of incarceration. Please help us spread the word.❤️ truthout.org/articles/kee...

We're all sending the same $100 among each other as the rich get unimaginably richer by the hour.

Cool to have some support for my research from my professional association! :)

thanks for the shout out, Caleb! Looking forward to being in community with more likeminded scholars, activists, dreamers <3

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.

I love teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. My students are really something special!

Today, @equalityalec.bsky.social reminded us that we need to tell the stories of people's experiences as a way to battle copaganda. Two types of stories Alec emphasized include: 1) the story of reformist reforms and how they don’t work ...

I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...

The first session of "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College was fantastic. We talked about the political value of the land acknowledgement, read and analyzed Menlo College's land acknowledgement, and started the beginnings of analyzing terms like 'colonization' and 'stewardship.'

Tomorrow, I start teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. I'm sharing my syllabus with the hopes of also getting feedback from those who are nurturing the field of Native Studies! Also, check out our amazing course poster 😄

I'm very aware that my time in academia may be over when I graduate in June. For now, I'm extremely thrilled to be teaching and writing. My first meetings of the quarter with students were SO beautiful.

John Berger had a powerful phrase: “Undefeated despair.” Acknowledge and respect your grief. But don’t give in to it. And help others keep afloat.

‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments  www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

In today's class we discussed Ruthie Gilmore's 1998 piece, "Globalization and US Prison Growth from Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesianism Militarism." Over the last few weeks, students have explored the following question: "what explains the expansion of prisons between 1980 and 2000?"

On Thursday, I'll be teaching Ruthie Gilmore's essay "Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism" (1999). In this class, we are really covering how the US came to be the largest global incarcerator. We read Hinton first, and...

Tomorrow, I'll be teaching the first chapter of Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. It gives us a chance to revisit Du Bois's discussion of the politics surrounding the Freedmen's Bureau, the Sentencing Project's data visualizations on mass incarceration,...

Tomorrow, I will teach Naomi Murakawa's chapter, "Freedom From Fear" in her book, The First Civil Right. I use the chapter teach the operations of political parties and their significance in American governance in context for an Intro to U.S. politics course. I really like when academic writing has

Tomorrow, I am teaching chapter 6 of Iris Marion Young's *Justice and the Politics of Difference* in my Intro to American Politics course. Re-reading her political theory, again and again, has been the best teacher for me. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's class.

Tomorrow, I teach "Counter-Revolution of Property" from Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Du Bois 1935). It's my first time reading this chapter and teaching this book. I hope it goes well!

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others osf.io/preprints/so...

Participating in the Emotion and Society Lab hosted by Myisha Cherry and Francisco Gallegos was one of my favorite graduate student experiences. The cohort, our discussions, & the feedback reminded me how meaningful intellectual life can be. The lab now invites grad students to apply for 2025-26!

This is absolutely fantastic.

It would be really awesome if we could have a small Cedric Robinson conference for people working primarily on theory building with his ideas. Just throwing it out there!

Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”

Friend and colleague, @bodegagyroao.bsky.social made this fantastic poster for Friday's talk. I hope this talk is just the beginning. Feel free to DM me for zoom link or see you in person!

I finally finished reading the entirety of "Leadership: A Mythic Paradigm" -- just in time for this presentation on Friday. Please DM me if you want to access a zoom link otherwise hope to see you in person. New summary of the talk below: 🧵