ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

A lot of states have taken steps to chill academic freedom - but they’ve mostly couched their “reforms” as “anti-indoctrination.” TX seems to be taking the next step: simply banning ideas it dislikes.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

hell yeah, go @aaup! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

This book is so incredibly good. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

Join us for class later today with Eve L. Ewing, author of "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black & Native Children and the Construction of American Racism." Can't make it to class? Order the book. Beautifully written & a vital history of U.S. education. www.zinnedproject.org/news/origina...

I hate how accurate this is.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

It is funny all these super modern rational actors have resorted to essentially divine blood lines and augury.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

NEW WRITING: I talk about a new memoir that’s set to debut next week from Gazan physics student Wasim Said, aspiring astrophysicist, who has created a forceful record of the genocide. I also share parts of my conversations with Said. The book is a must read. #BookSky 🧪⚛️🔭

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

The conservative activist behind the Harvard admissions and Abigail Fisher cases is now going after schools set up to educate Native Hawaiian students.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

this lecture from corey robin is real good: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/vie...

late to the party but this issue of law and society review on empirical approaches to critical race is absolutely stacked with gems: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

"correlation is not cognition" -- chef's kiss!!

This is a great piece: “The issue is not what these machines can do, in other words, but what we believe they can do, and how this changes how we act. The problem is primarily ideological, not technological.”

“Did you consider not complying with this request?” Judith Butler spoke to @samtlevin.bsky.social about being reported to the feds by UC Berkeley for supposed antisemitism

Mexican consulate identifies immigrant killed by ICE in Chicago suburb as 38 year old Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, from the state or Michoacán.

📢 Wed, Sept 24 @ 7pm come to Higher Education: Forgotten Pasts & Alternative Futures: Indigenous Nations & Higher Education. Hosted by @sfndhe.bsky.social, the @aaup.org Center for Defense of Academic Freedom & the Critical Legal Collective. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Here we go. “The conference was the Revolutionary Socialism Conference. Alter led the Building Revolutionary Organization Today panel. Karlyn Borysenko, who calls herself an “anti-communist cult leader,” recorded the meeting & uploaded it to social media.” universitystar.com/32736/news/t...

The Education Department just announced the end of discretionary funding for all minority-serving institutions. This will include multiple lawsuits. These are 1890 institutions…

An important listen on the current state of higher ed and how to both defend it & build a better system in the future! TL;DR: Things are really bad, getting worse, & the only way we are going to change that is to unionize & build power together as a sector. Come organize w/ us & join @aaup.org.

chng.it/v648fZ9tKW Solidarity with colleagues at Texas A&M.

This entire article is worth reading. I don’t really know what to say about the story except to be amazed at how many threads of horrible get brought together in one place.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: https://propub.li/3IbPftA

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

The greatest radio station in the world is @wfmu.bsky.social and it’s not even close

In #Rochester, #NewYork, 100 marched to surround a house where roofers were being detained by ICE. While one person was taken, several others were left alone as the crowd "shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents...drove...away on four flat tires." www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

"Every single person who has died during these cycles of actions and reprisals — around 140 people in large protests –– has been killed by the police." - @nanjala.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology." Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"? www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

for posterity, if you need to do record linkage in openrefine using reconcile-csv for a locally stored source, here's a good walkthrough of how to do it github.com/amdevine/ope...

please please someone make this