We the People Action Fund is looking to hire a Detroit Immigrant Justice Organizer. Full time position, starting at $50k recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

I teach at a school with a large nursing program and my intro to sociology classes are often filled with nursing students. Out of 35 of them only 2 knew about the cuts and grant cancellations in HHS and NIH, they were very upset when we discussed it - TALK TO YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING

The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...

This album is so so good youtu.be/I37uBhtQJv0?...

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share!

The UC system now has a dedicated website where faculty, staff, and students can track the Trump admin actions and how they affect university functions.

speaking up and pushing back works. keep it up.

Looking forward to reading this: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The State Department suspended all applications for passport gender changes in response to President Trump's executive order restricting transgender rights. We know this has caused confusion. We're monitoring the situation closely — here are 2 important things to know.

The #DATALab in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office is requesting proposals for research that meets the moment to support in 2025. Please read more via link below and consider applying or sharing in your networks: mailchi.mp/phila/resear... Defer no time... Email me with any Qs.

For those in Michigan who may want to better understand the legislative process, how it works, and how to affect it, the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) @micemi.bsky.social has a great list of resources in their latest update email 🧵:

We can’t wait another decade while thousands of families remain without stable homes. What good is a pro-housing majority when thousands are left without places to live? 6,980 families are waiting for us to permit more housing and to build it here. LFG! #a2council

Battle Between Carnival and Lent, by Jan Molenaer (flipped), 1633-34, 📸 by @julianfinney

@unlawfulentries.bsky.social tells why birthright citizenship ensconced in the 14th Amendment is "black-letter law"--so well established that it is beyond any reasonable debate--through four excellent books.

This is an actual fucking photo of a band that was (and still is) very important to me

I am using this book for my Twentieth Century Europe class again this semester. And as I am prepping it and my assignments, its breadth and depth of primary sources documents showing how fascism grew in many different European countries is amazing. Thanks to all the chapter authors!

Ann Arbor has too many geese… and deer #A2Council

The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We often hear from people looking for basic info about the criminal legal system. Unfortunately, we too often find ourselves unable to help because of data gaps in the system So this year, we started keeping track & put them into a Data Wishlist: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...

Check out thia zine outlining the rights of formerly incarcerated individuals when seeking housing stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/research/com...

Every voter in Michigan needs to listen to this and take notes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

What a fantastic resource from @theappeal.org! A national database of prison commissary lists. #LegalPlunder

Hello everyone! Economic Anthropology is now on Bluesky. We'll be cross-posting between here and Twitter for as long as it continues to exist, but we're excited to break new ground here with you. Keep an eye out for our next edition!

also lots of people use them, even in the winter a2dda.eco-counter.com

Chicago police have pulled over the president of a police accountability commission FIVE times this year, reports @heathercherone.bsky.social

A List of Things People Blamed on the Tango 🧵

🎄🎅 From tomorrow until Christmas we'll post a sovereignty-themed advent calendar. After all Levia-clause is sovereign! He makes law determining who is naughty or nice and dispenses justice, giving gifts to some and punishing the others (taking away bad kids to the forest, in some traditions).

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services. The article, in Criminology, is free, and I summarize it below. doi.org/10.1111/1745...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

👇🎯 Periodic reminder that the right-wing career/salary talking points about the liberal arts are belied by huge piles of data (e.g., news.wisc.edu/new-data-on-...), & the complicity of Democrats & university administrators in repeating those right-wing talking points is a major part of then problem.

Every year around this time @prisonpolicy.bsky.social publishes a list of achievable criminal justice reforms. It's good to take a look at them and think about what you can do in your city/county/state to move particular ones forward www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/winn...

Check out this open access (for now) article from @ratnagiri77.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

BPI’s series of endowed faculty chairs is a total game changer for college in prison. For the first time, a CIP has its own dedicated full time faculty, centering the learning of incarcerated students and easing some of the semesterly faculty recruiting burden.

MICHIGAN PEOPLE! I want to point your attention to a couple of things: 1) Anyone interested in Michigan’s criminal-legal system should know about the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) & subscribe to their Legislative Bill Tracker www.billtrack50.com/public/stake...

New Zoom/Meetings affect just dropped: employees & consultants on federal grants trying to maintain a stoic poker face while also emoting secret despair every time budget details after January are mentioned

Here’s a visualization of all the curse words in real time, which is oddly satisfying: swearsky.bagpuss.org

…Especially those in a certain Police/Worlds series

Reading the article "Examining perspectives on fatal use of force: A comparative analysis of police and social sciences students’ views" from The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. <#rant>

Today the US vetoed a UNSC res calling for a ceasefire in Gaza marking the 49th time it has wielded its veto power against Israel-related UNSC draft resolutions & the 4th time in the past year The UNSC voted 14-1 in favor, the US being the only opposed www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-time...

My first post: if you have access, attend my panel “Racial Vernaculars in the Civilian Oversight of Police” tomorrow afternoon connect.americananthro.org/event/aaatam...