Dang, you are a real one @rtfanning.bsky.social "it gets clearer and clearer that “Veterans Day” is nothing more than an attempt to bury the oppressive and deadly agenda of the U.S. ruling class by celebrating our “heroes.” 🔥

This would be transformative. To invest in publicly developed and owned learning management systems at CUNY instead of extractive and shitty Brightspace, Blackboard etc.

Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.

How are we already entering November... Amidst it all, it feels a bit weird to do normal things like talks, but here I go: 11/3: Wake Forest sociology department visit 11/13: Baruch College panel on deported vets 11/14: Boston University Law Review Symposium More details in thread

🚨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.

Cool article about public libraries that has some quotes from me. Love to see my work in Spanish (and an unexpected promotion to antropóloga) www.elsaltodiario.com/institucione...

Tomorrow evening! Come to discuss debt struggles, including the debt our public schools are in, abortion debt, and military debt.

✊ALLIES: WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! > Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line: bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee > Donate to our strike fund by purchasing union-made merch from our store or donating directly: sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

The Defense Commissary Agency is pushing its predatory credit card on military workers dealing with food insecurity. Under the debt regime we live in, debt is a solution for every problem, for survival itself. It comes at you seemingly from every side, including from your employer/government.

I went on the American Campus podcast to talk about the other kind of college debt - the debt that our colleges are in. What does the financialization of higher ed mean for the way colleges and universities are governed? americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Join us for this @debtcollective.bsky.social Jubilee School session on Oct. 21. Ill be talking about military labor and debt (even as footage of military workers in food pantry lines is all over the news) debtcollective.org/event/is-a-d...

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

Fresh example of trash research for my research methods class.

Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine

New USCIS policy regarding military naturalization further limits access to naturalization for immigrants in the military by limiting the types of separations eligible for citizenship. Raises questions about what happens to those naturalized before they are discharged. www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Take action! You have just a handful of days left to make your voice be heard on the proposed DHS rule that will eliminate Duration of Status & have a detrimental effect on international students. Use ASA’s Action Center to submit your public comment by 9/29. https://bit.ly/ASAaction

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Much prefer Indi Samarajiva: "Fuck your citizenship. It’s barbed wire around an indigenous graveyard. It’s a moat around a colonial crime scene." indi.ca/abolish-citi...

With the re-implementation of the revised naturalization test first tried out under Trump pt. 1, pondering this quote from USCIS spokesperson: "American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world." www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

We are proud co-sponsors of the "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally on Thursday, 9/25 at 6pm in Foley Square.

Timely and eye opening episode of the excellent @americancampus.bsky.social, especially on TurningPoint's business model. www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

On the difference between cops and the National Guard, @rtfanning.bsky.social reminds us that Guard members "have very little training, and lack much of the discipline that the police have." - they have been moved historically and can be moved now to resist their order.

Great interview by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social with @rtfanning.bsky.social. Helpful for understanding the deployment of National Guard to cities, how to respond, and how to fight ICE recruitment. organizingmythoughts.org/what-do-we-s...

I wrote a piece on tech contracts in higher ed. for Jacobin. The endless outsourcing is troubling for a variety of reasons. Not helping is vendors jumping on the AI hype to offer ever-more-advanced and expensive programs to universities. #CheatGPT

Whatever it’s named and whoever renames it, the Department of Defense, which houses the U.S. military, is the largest employer in the world. Its name is not the issue. And abolition involves dealing with labor and what work is government work.

If you’re a member of the military who is morally conflicted by your service or know someone who is, you’re not alone. bit.ly/MilOptions #dutytodisobey #military #veterans

For a labour movement that understands the power of a strike.. For a labour movement that stands with, not against, Indigenous blockades For a labour movement that stops the flow of weapons & the whole world for Palestine For a labour movement with migrant workers, and against policing & borders

Great episode of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social podcast with @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and Dierdre Conlon discussing their new book, Immigration Detention, Inc. Including subcontractors and the sham oversight/inspections castbox.fm/vb/840657927

I've been bookmarking story after story of veterans and family members of veterans being detained and deported. This piece is my attempt to make sense of the fight against military deportations within the larger migrant justice and antiwar struggles.

"Appeals to deservingness based on proximity to the U.S. military leave the deportation machine intact — and they are not working. More than that, the liberal embrace of these appeals is harmful to the larger social justice project." This piece by @sofaptekar.bsky.social is a must-read.

“Parsing between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ immigrants leaves the deportation system intact in its brutality.” @sofaptekar.bsky.social on how deported vets reveal the cruelty of Trump’s war on all immigrants.

In "Green Card Soldiers," by @sofaptekar.bsky.social, we learn that #citizenship proves harder-than-advertised to achieve through enlistment, but it matters for immigrants’ #military service and the lives they lead afterward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... #sociology #immigration

This is what I most wish Pete Buttigieg had said when asked about trans kids playing sports. It's all JUST LIKE homophobia of the 80s and 90s, being used in just the same ways.

Does this include all the Jewish students and educators who have been sanctioned for defending Palestinian lives Why aren’t you writing op-eds about the importance of Palestinian safety, Randi Too busy partnering with Microsoft on AI?

I have a new article out in South Atlantic Quarterly: "Indebted Heroes: Debt Extraction and Military Labor in the United States". Here's a link to a free pdf and some highlights below read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Harvard, aka Resistance U, is taking advantage of the Trumpist NLRB to crush its grad student union by stripping it of 800 members. Sounds about right. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

On July 9, the CUNY Chancellor along with the leaders of UC Berkeley and Georgetown, will testify to the congressional committee on “antisemitism in higher education.” Orgs from these universities call on leaders to defend their institutions from these cynical and dishonest investigations.

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.

Do you know where your tax dollars are going? Through investments in Israel Bonds and Israel’s sovereign bonds at the county, state, & city different levels, taxpayers essentially loan money to Israel without knowledge & with no transparency in how Israel uses those funds. (1/2)

As Hegseth ends the affirmative action carve out for military academies, reupping my piece about race-based admissions and US empire. jacobin.com/2023/07/us-m...

A colleague sent me this photo of Green Card Soldier in the wild at Barnes and Noble. 😊 And 25% off, too.

I personally endorse the defection of Navy jets to the Orcan Liberation Front. el aire y el mar unido jamás será vencido

Honestly I don’t know how you go back and teach and hold meetings and colloquia on a campus where your president just had the NYPD drag 75 of your students out. Calling Ice on others. It couldn’t be me.

In the mail soon! Our 11th issue! With features by Adam Hanieh, Donna Murch, Enrique Balcazar ( @migrantjustice.bsky.social ), @sofaptekar.bsky.social , Andy Battle, Shannon Gleeson, and Marcel Paret.

Excited to join the board of an org Ive been involved in for over a decade, Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse. With a vintage photo from my second ever Manhattan circumnavigation www.bbpboathouse.org/about-us

Side note: Many early career researchers are afraid someone will steal their ideas if they post a preprint. Time and time again, the idea stealer is in the lab or seminar room. Getting your ideas out of there with your name on them can provide protection.

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

gothamist.com/news/4-year-... This is horrible. The cuts in federal funding to these non-profits have immediate life changing effects. And yet note the continuities: "before the contract was terminated...30% to 40% of children in a given docket (were) without lawyers."

Wow, we are quickly heading towards a future of AI instructors teaching bots. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a...