Imagine what a piece of absolute dog shit human you have to be to do this. Just imagine.

🎯🎯. One of my colleagues turned up in the Epstein files, asking for funding for his “campus rape is just women claiming victimhood, actually.” For more than a decade before Chr sent that email, I begged UT to deal with his vicious harassment of me. They declined.

Sometimes people who are new to working with asylum seekers or resettled refugees are shocked that people are born 1/1– many, many people do not have their birthdates recorded & this is especially true for minoritized groups.

The thing is I don’t think it’s a “big mistake” for these admin who have been destroying our universities from within for decades. These aren’t idiots who don’t know how to deal with bullies. They’re fascists whose interests are aligned with fascists.

Happy that it’s happened at all, but it’s profoundly fucked up that they had to pay to buy back the land that was already theirs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fascist dweeb Jake Lang, who travels around in an ill-fitting ballistic vest trying to incite riots and spewing racist nonsense, has announced plans to do the same outside Gracie Mansion next month, evidently completely unaware of how poorly that’s going to go for him.

Or worse yet students think their authentic writing & thoughts are inferior to that produced by AI

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

so about the relationship between the state and capital

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📣 BLURBS 📣 (that I had to argue with the press to obtain) & won't show up on the back of my book. You can see under "Reviews" what 4 scholars (2 historians, 2 political scientists) whose work I greatly admire said about my book: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... More info also at annaolaw.com

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Big update on our global reporting on USAID, HIV, sex work and LGBTQ health: our feature for @pulitzercenter.org from my month in Uganda will drop at @theintercept.com next week!

Reporting from Uganda, @thrasherxy.bsky.social and @afeefness.bsky.social saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.

Steven Tendo is a pastor and asylum seeker from Uganda who has survived unimaginable harm and persecution back home. He has been fighting his case for years and reporting to ICE regularly. Yesterday, he was taken into custody—days before a scheduled check-in—and moved from Vermont to New Hampshire.

Hello— I need to connect to academics/ advocates in Uganda that you trust. Who can help?

I went to the same dentist for years in my 20s and 30s. I left because he made disparaging comments about women, and I called him on it, told him he was being “sexist.” I remember his assistants freezing as I said the word. Funny story! He’s in the Epstein files!

I do a lot of volunteer interpretation which is taxing because it’s people going through really awful things, but something that always makes me smile is folks speaking “egyptian” to me. Like the reason I can do this work w people from Chad to Mauritania to Palestine is Egyptian cinema.

I’m seeing more and more Minneapolis/Minnesota people naming that they are burned out and I just hope people allow themselves to change their pacing from sprint to marathon or better yet, a relay. Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.

Now that I write student recommendation letters, the idea that some folks in grad school just would not submit them on time is even more bananas. I couldn't imagine having a student lose out on an opportunity because I couldn't get my shit together.

New York for All will end collusion between state and local law enforcement and ICE in our state. Dignity Not Detention will get our state out of the business of caging immigrants. You can also make calls and write emails on your own using these scripts: sites.google.com/view/dignity...

🚨 TODAY, 1-2 pm, on Zoom Join us to tell @governor.ny.gov and New York lawmakers we do not want concentration camps in our state and we want ICE out NOW. ❌🧊 📣 Pass #DignityNotDetention and #NY4All Take 15 minutes to put pressure where it counts! 👉 RSVP here: bit.ly/PassDND26

Children ending up in the ICU. Children trying to end their lives. Children refusing to eat and drink because the food has worms and the water makes them sick. Children held for 8 months or longer. These are the kids ICE holds at Dilley. They’re pleading to be let out.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

2 infants are among at least 53 people reported dead after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya, according to the Internat'l Org. for Migration. The rubber dinghy, carrying 55 people, overturned in the Mediterranean on Feb. 6 north of Zuwara after taking on water about 6 hours into the...

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Friends, that was NOT Liam Ramos at the Super Bowl halftime show. Folks need to stop spreading that false information. That said, the symbolism was clear 🙏🏽

I love Bad Bunny. I love him because he’s talented and that was a FIRE halftime show. I love him because he stands up for himself, his people, & the immigrants in this nation. But most of all I love him because he makes the worst people in America SO MAD & now they have to watch kid rock lol

WHERE IS JONATHAN ROSS? He should be in jail awaiting trial for the murder of Renee Good. Where is he?

Not even that long ago. The US military is KNOWN for stealing children. TODAY. We saw it when the troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. We saw it during Hurricane Katrina. We see it in the prison system as white folks try to buy the children of pregnant incarcerated women. It is ALL the same.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

This is not a sane person. fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

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@grundrza.bsky.social is also great on the chilling effect this censorship in Florida is having on classes. The haphazard and random nature of who gets targeted is designed to make everyone terrified.

@grundrza.bsky.social also reflects on the fact that exploiting existing inequalities between tenure track and adjunct faculty makes it easier to implement censorship. Without workplace protections, adjuncts can't refuse to teach censored books.

@grundrza.bsky.social goes into detail about censors avoiding putting directives in writing, making accountability harder to accomplish.

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

Ireland is being used to deport Palestinians to the state killing Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I agree that concentration camp is the correct term for sites that imprison immigrants. I also find it interesting that the term concentration camp fell into disuse during Biden’s presidency while the camps themselves remained…

Two of my favorites in conversation about something that’s really not my favorite : Florida taking the lead on censoring instruction on race & upholding white supremacy. Please read the newest installation of Group Threat from Victor!!

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

It's never too late to drop your NYT subscription and stop reading this slop. What they want is people to believe they are "centrist" while advancing right-wing messages. That's it. That's long been their entire deal. The commitment to transphobia has been merely a tell ...

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

There are things you must never do for example war” Genuinely cracking up #winterolympics “In the end the formation of a dove” The only commentary we’ve gotten for the last 20 min

The commentators on NBC are not commentating. Like at all. Like even Andrea Bocelli got no intro. Was it always like this? Did they fire everyone too?