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.

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @journalrep.bsky.social - Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming - https://cup.org/47ddwt9 - @georgenewth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social#OpenAccess #JREP10

What an absolute sexist 🐽 Obviously, there are many more, less famous, Summers-types in academia, and in every discipline. As long as we don’t shame and exclude them, women will continue to be harnessed, marginalized, and pushed out of academia. 😡

Policing classroom content based on a government proxy's ideology is propaganda, not education. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

1882 to 198! Solidarity, new comrades, and congrats to the Coalition of Graduate Employees.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

At long last, and after untold legal fees, UC has released the DoJ's proposed settlement terms to UCLA. Over $1B in fines, invasive monitoring, ideological vetting of international students, exclusion of trans athletes, etc. This would destroy the university as we know it. ucop.edu/communicatio...

there's an affirmative, joyful case for migration and immigration and if you're a leader you could make it pretty easily if you don't think in zero-sum terms or if you're not a weirdo bigot

FULL STORY: U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who has led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs, to appear in her courtroom in person at 10 a.m. Tuesday. @wttw.bsky.social

24 states have filed a brief at the Supreme Court in support of the Trump administration's effort to curb birthright citizenship, suggesting that it is not correct to say the issue is "settled and beyond debate." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

This #OpenAccess week, we’re delighted to share that all articles accepted for publication from Volume 25 (2026) onwards in European Political Science will be #OpenAccess. As part of @ecpr.bsky.social's partnership with @universitypress.cambridge.org

As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says: I do not regret to inform you that we will win.

a lesson from US democratic backsliding: reactionary centrists will be predictively wrong, again & again, & it's important to point this out

Today's official crowd count estimate from #NoKings coalition: 7 million people turned out nationwide That's 2 million more than the #NoKings peaceful protests in June

#NoKings Miami!

WashU should reject the government's offer to trade research ethics and standards for money and maintain a commitment to the democratic principles that rigorous research and innovative education require. Our AAUP executive committee statement: sites.wustl.edu/aaup/

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

“.. Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Shout it from the roof tops: accommodation doesn't work #farright #radicalright

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

"Griffin-Gracy is widely considered a founding mother of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement and a leader in the trans liberation movement. Born in Chicago, she participated in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a protest credited with launching the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights."

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Friday’s SCOTUS decision was issued in a brief, unsigned order that contained virtually no reasoning. It was accompanied by no signed opinions from any of the justices in the majority and over opposition from the three Democratic appointees. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote.