The Migration Movies Database is now available on @letterboxd.social. This list gathers 600+ films about human movement from 1940 to today: refugees, labour migration, diaspora, border crossing, discrimination, return, and irregular migration. letterboxd.com/lorenzo_picc...

Pray tell: what in this life is not political?

🏳️‍🌈Favorite academic books on LGBTQ politics and history? Looking for global/comparative perspectives. Thank you!🏳️‍🌈

BREAKING: The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Scoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

New piece out @euobserver.com today: Last year the far right looked strong in Europe, now the cracks are starting to show. A short take on shifting dynamics and what might come next. 👉 euobserver.com/212812/last-...

All four official candidates for the next UN Secretary General will be holding televised three-hour interactive dialogues with the UN diplomats today and tomorrow—Michelle Bachelet, 10-1 today; Rafael Grossi, 3-6 today; Rebeca Grynspan and Macky Sall at those times tomorrow. webtv.un.org/en

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Just because the pope is Trump's newest enemy does not mean we need to idealize the Catholic Church and it's role for liberal democracy. It is a central organisation in the global diffusion of anti-LGBT rhetoric and ideology. It thereby provides a key building block for far-right authoritarianism.

Absolutely horrifying. Conversion therapy is abuse. Period.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Sadie Dempsey (sadiemdempsey.bsky.social) draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork and 90 in-depth interviews to examine how civic associations facilitate political socialization. Read more at bit.ly/4dou2d6

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

As an anti-fascist, a figure skater, and an Alyssa Liu fan since her early career, ffffffffff Vance. Every time NBC's coverage pans to him it dampens the fun of watching the Olympics.

Trump has ended refugee resettlement pathways for Iranian religious minorities. hias.org/statements/t...

I never, ever want to hear again from certain quarters about a free speech crisis on campus. I would accept apologies for being useful idiots.

This is unhinged. ICE will be in Italy participating in US security during the Olympics.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

Schools in Saint Paul were closed Tuesday and Wednesday as teachers prepared to do online and in-person teaching simultaneously due to safety concerns about ICE. Kids in my daughter’s school refer to those two days off as Evil Break. As in, “So what did you do over Evil Break?”

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Apologies for being self-referential but

BREAKING: A federal officer shot a person in the leg after being attacked with a shovel during a Minneapolis arrest, an AP source says.

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

I’ve put together a starter pack on … 🥁… wait for it … citizenship! 😉 This is a first stab and I have surely overlooked people. Happy to add you to this list and expand while more people are joining bluesky. #migcitsky go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

Homeland Security’s description of what happened and the narrative they’re pushing clearly doesn’t match up with the videos we’re all seeing. They’re asking people not to believe what we can all see with our own eyes. I’ve been in contact with DHS demanding more information.

In 2026, you should follow more of my @brennancenter.org colleagues. Find them all here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Great thread with summary and analysis.

As people are working on reviews of Trump's immigration record one year in, you may want to compare to Biden, so I'm resharing our comprehensive overview here: Biden’s Mixed Immigration Legacy: Border Challenges Overshadowed Modernization Advances www.migrationpolicy.org/article/bide...

I'm updating my forced migration syllabus to reflect the hellscape that is the current US. But the scene beside me is helping me through. The two on the right, Sage (tiny puppy) and Dallas (gentle senior giant), are available for adoption in Missouri through People Helping Paws Rescue.

The fact that we were taught that mitochondria is the building block of the cell but not that MLK died in Memphis and was there attending a labor strike is INSANE.

LeMonde said, not on our watch

I completely agree with this.

Related, the kids are now calling both OU and Texas A&M “clown colleges,“ in case you’re wondering how this anti-intellectual BS is playing with the youths

The computer skills I see in even my 3rd year college students are frighteningly poor. The fact that systems are moving to the cloud doesn't remove the need for some of the skills that K-12 schools are very clearly no longer teaching. Assuming digital nativity is a huge disservice to these students.

If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame. If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned. Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.

My Model UN team is representing Jordan🇯🇴 this year! Recommended readings/authors?

Fascinating new research in AJPS (flagship poli sci journal) on Christian nationalism & SCOTUS "An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "We find that CN is related to Court attitudes in three ways:"

This is always the first reading on my migration syllabus and a great way to get students talking about their interest in the course on the first day of class!

Does anyone have examples of ways their university has HELPED international students navigate the uncertainty of US immigration politics in the past few months?

BREAKING: The Trump administration expands travel ban to include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria.

Unfit for any kind of public office. ABSOLUTELY unfit for the public office that has our nuclear codes. He is absolutely off the rails.