Trade policy is not gender neutral Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration odi.org/en/insights/...

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

“We are really pulling out all the stops to make sure that the impacts are being hidden.” National Park Service workers say a crisis is building behind the scenes, Kylie Mohr reports.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

i love all these presidents going to jail for breaking the law....

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Our five charts show why America’s deportation drive is becoming increasingly unpopular

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore. Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

This fluffy punk is a keystone species... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wEI...

The family of Trey Reed is seeking an independent autopsy following the Delta State University student’s death on Monday, when his body was found hanging in a tree on campus.

Grocery inflation hit a two-year high in August. But Trump seems to have given up on doing anything to make groceries cheaper. Wasn’t that what the entire election was supposedly about? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared

You're invited to learn more about interpretive methods at the 20th annual IMM Methods Cafe at #APSA2025! Sept. 11, 4-5:30 pm, Marriot Point Grey Room.

If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.

Soon you will hear, "the post office doesn't work and it doesn't turn a profit," let's eliminate it.

Get ‘em Jean!!!

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“For the first time since monitoring began, a higher share of respondents indicated Mexico (43%) rather than the United States (14%) as their intended destination.” —1,398 migrants interviewed for UNHCR, WFP and UNICEF in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras. data.unhcr.org/en/documents...

🚨 Trump is the biggest union-buster in US history 🚨 In March, Trump stripped union protections from more than 1M federal workers. Last week, leading up to Labor Day, Trump expanded his order to additional federal agencies. Learn more about Trump's attacks on workers: www.epi.org/blog/trump-i...

"Supreme Court: No Task Is More Urgent Than Giving Big Balls Your Private Data" 🎯 Madiba K. Dennie (Also if y'all are not following the briliiant @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social at @ballsandstrikes.org, go ahead and change that.) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/big-b...

ICE's 287(g) Program Explodes to 900 Agreements Under Trump See the data and support rigorous nonpartisan scholarship that doesn’t take partisan money. open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

CDC director Susan Monarez declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge of the events. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Massive walkout at #CDC. Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr. your time is up. (typo fixed). Spread the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

The ploy to build up ICE/CBP into political enforcers is one of the most clever moves by the Trump administration. It has allowed them to do an end-run around more established and harder to corrupt orgs like the FBI/military. That's why we have to stop them whenever we can.

The @aclu.org's @eunicehcho.bsky.social on state's partnering with ICE to build giant detention centers using 287(g) agreements: “It’s absolutely unprecedented” www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/22/f...

uh no, you're shit's gonna look more like a "christmas yet to come" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

Interesting candidate alert. In Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust Collins www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

We are seeking a new leadership team for WiLS! If you might be interested (or just want to chat and see what's involved), please get in touch with Ellie, Gisela, or Leslie by September 5 (feel free to DM us here if you need contact info). Polisky Gendersky

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Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.

ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...

With the legal right to asylum suspended at the border by an unlawful White House executive order, the number of kids and families entering Border Patrol custody fell to 770 in July. Many—not all, but many—of those coming in the past were arriving with urgent protection needs.

Texas has 17,485,702 total registered voters: 46.52% are Democrats: ~8 mill 37.75% are Republicans: ~6.6 mil 15.73% are Unaffiliated: ~2.7 mil Texas has more Democrats than Republicans registered to vote, but thanks to gerrymandering, the maps make sure it doesn’t look that way at the Capitol.

Hot take: my refrigerator doesn’t need a computer…

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USDA Secretary has announced a dept reorganization, moving 2,600+ DC employees to 5 hubs across the US. Reorganization leads to the loss of thousands of employees & years of institutional knowledge in a dept that provides resources, support for food and nutrition for Americans. #SaveUSDA

WCPS presents “The Hidden Curriculum for Women of Color in Political Science” 📅 Wed Aug 21 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PST 💻 Link DM for Details Panelists: Dr. Marisa A. Abrajano, UCSD Dr. Nadia E. Brown, Georgetown Dr. Christina M. Greer, Fordham Dr. Jane Junn, USC

Re-gerrymandering a state to rig an election & then threatening to arrest and expel the members protesting that election rigging is pure authoritarianism Texas Dems who fled state are fighting for very survival of American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

Ice went from getting 8 billion dollars to 185 billion and they cut school funding by 7 billion dollars. Smh

I wanna note that claiming universities must focus on "practical" degrees is dumb because: 1. It's literally dumb and only people who are profoundly ignorant of what a university actually does will make this argument 2. What's practical for the job market constantly changes