In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

At one level, Foresta may appear petty: Insisting that Will Stancil, a Minneapolis resident who has spent all his free time holding ICE/CBP accountable an "influencer" because he posts videos and talks to journalists.

Look forward to reading this impressive study diving deep into school hiring practices.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

I understand that Brendan Gill is a front runner for Mikie Sherrill’s seat, but when I see the descriptor after his name, I think “this guy is toast.” As a thought experiment, strip out the names and tell me which descriptor you’d vote for.

When officers of your law enforcement agency are waving semi-automatic weapons at retired couples in a church parking lot, your agency has truly lost the plot.

People say Bluesky is too political, but there’s over 400 replies to these posts on olive oil as a personal interest some guy listed on his résumé. I feel robbed that he didn’t get an interview.

My favorite part of this story is that Kristi Noem is basically dictating it to Axios word for word, deniability be damned: ""Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios."

It’s terrible how our great czar is betrayed by bad boyars like Kristi Noem. If he knew, czar Trump would cast out Noem and replace her with a D.H.S. Secretary who will go on Fox News and speak only truth to the people.

My last overnight camping trip.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Withholding medical care from detained immigrants is obviously immoral. But also, is it even legal? Need help from folks like @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @nilc.org @immdef.bsky.social here.

Aside from the abusive-boyfriend vibes, it's also weird to insist that Trump has a strategy when 1) Trump told NYT interviewers that he needs Greenland for his own personal mental health; 2) Bessent can't articulate a single goal the admin couldn't accomplish within the existing treaty structure.

Amazing essay. Everyone should read this.

This is notable because Ruben Gallego was one of a handful of Democratic politicians who opposed the “abolish ICE” position as being counterproductive. Now he’s calling for ICE to be “totally torn down.”

Interesting article. Mandery's theory is that UATX was founded by pluralists and then captured by conservative authoritarians. But the authoritarians were present at the creation. No one involved seemed to have viewed government censorship as worse than so-called cancellation by students.

Again, strikingly successful rage clickbait from a guy who apparently dates a Nancy Mace staffer. Minutes after this, he posted another unsourced claim saying the exact opposite.

Beware of people rage-farming you for clicks. This guy posted an unsourced claim that Senate Dems were caving on ICE. Bluesky went wild! Then hours later he posted that Senate Dems were holding the line. Maybe both were accurate, or neither, but there's no way to know w/o sourcing. Don't bite.

For all of us worried about gAI in higher ed, there is an entire journal issue dedicated to critical perspectives on this topic, which Im sure has been shared before but I missed it, so for others like me, here is @criticalai-journal.bsky.social's special Issue: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

One use for this newly available ICE List database is to learn more about the background of ICE/CBP employees, including domestic violence, incidents of racial extremism and police/military misconduct allegations. #ICElist

Loving this. @bakerdphd.bsky.social is an all-star higher ed expert with a lot of (highly informed) opinions to share. Best of all, some of them are NOT EVEN ABOUT HIGHER ED.

How nervous is Trump about his reputation for being out of touch on affordability? He’s calling Elizabeth Warren for help. @warren.senate.gov www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

“This is plantation logic.”

You know some Fox intern's job was to find a picture of a terrifying harridan assaulting an ICE agent while throwing a molotov cocktail into a government office, but all he could produce was a shot of an ordinary woman summoning the courage to confront a masked & armed goon squad.

I think I’m on Mayor Frey’s side here. President Trump could respond to a police-ICE confrontation by invoking the Insurrection Act and put Minneapolis under martial law. If you think he wouldn’t, you haven’t been paying attention.

Also worth asking what prompted Good to say that. My theory is that Ross‘s body language communicated that he was extremely pissed off, and she thought a friendly response might de-escalate. Unfortunately, his only language is escalation.

This NY Times video breaks down the reckless incompetence of ICE, the ICE Agent’s murder of Renee Nicole Good, the cruelty of ICE in the immediate aftermath, and the blatant lies of the Trump Administration. Make sure everyone sees. (split into 2 parts in order to fit on bsky) Part 1:

FYI. Good to know America’s mayor does not rely on X.

New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

“This” being the replacement of a brutal and corrupt dictator by his equally brutal and corrupt but slightly more Trump-friendly deputy.

Did you ever have a family member who really wanted to get you an expensive birthday present, and when you hinted you didn’t want it, they got mad and insisted you SHOW A LITTLE GEATITUDE? This is the life of an oil company CEO right now.

Day three in Zohran Mamdani’s New York. Issuance of Executive Order 1047: Click farming to be re-organized along collective lines for the benefit of all New Yorkers.

Turns out there's a @bsky.app feature that allows you to turn off comments from anyone you don't follow. I discovered it when one person I follow harshly attacked someone else I follow. I couldn't reply to object or ask for clarification. So I replied to another thread, and they got quite annoyed.

If your student is returning to college on probation, you should talk to them *now* about how next term will be different. In this post, I share links to great advice from @collparcentral.bsky.social & others and offer information for families of students with disabilities: https://bit.ly/LDAdSS14

This !@#$% year in review: the wrecking ball that was February 2025 brought the abrupt end to many Institute of Education Sciences contracts for data collection, evaluation and research. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut... 🧵

Remarkable findings on New Jersey's Community College Opportunity Program, which covers tuition and fees for community college students w/a family income of up to $67k. #CCOG students are 32% more likely to graduate in 3 years than non-CCOG students. www.hesaa.org/Pages/HESAAN...

As someone who has closely covered New College of Florida since early 2023, there are at least a dozen problems with this article (I stopped counting at 12). The most significant issue is how the reporter condenses runaway spending to a paragraph. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

Folks in comments are arguing that Chuck Redd was freed from his legal obligation when the Kennedy Center changed its name. Unlikely. If name changes really had that effect, companies could get out of inconvenient contracts by executing one.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Taking care of my daughter’s cat over the holidays. How do cat owners get any work done?

The commenters to this post are frothing with fury at Hakeem Jeffries for his weakness and passivity. And I get it. Jeffries is not exactly Abe Lincoln. But the reality is that Republicans currently hold every lever of federal power, and we should direct our fury at the perpetrators of this outrage.

This is a fascinating story, and it's interesting to see how the Justices lined up for and against an integrated holiday party. Former Klan member Hugo Black supported one, and well-known liberals Robert Jackson & Felix Frankfurter opposed it. So there was no holiday party at all until 1959.

Note that March-April 2026 is the most common deadline to register for reelection to Congress. Lot of variation, however. Arkansas, Illinois and Texas have already closed. Mississippi and North Carolina will close by the end of December. www.ncsl.org/elections-an...

Is it, though? My heart says yes! But none of the other nonsense-peddlers in the Trump administration seems to have Bongino's problem. His crisis seems very weird and personal.

This is obviously dumb. But the clip also shows the premium for messaging on Fox News: the ability to spread obviously false or distorted claims and be validated on-air by your interviewers.

If Ahmed al Ahmed lived in America, JD Vance and Stephen Miller would say he's less American than the descendants of Confederate generals.