Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

As predicted on @kqednews.kqed.org a few weeks ago..."Senior executives from at least two US banks in India are in talks ... to consider ways to ramp up their so-called global capability centers in response to the H-1B visa crackdown." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... via @bloomberg.com

I’ve said this before but I couldn’t get insurance when I was pregnant due to my pre existing condition…pregnancy.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

Amidst a sea of cancelled and delayed flights at DCA and two kids are screaming their lungs out at each other and you can't even blame them. Same, kids, same.

Thanks for sharing, Rachel! My testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is available online (along with others) for folks interested in this topic: humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/heari...

I love when I learn something from my students. In a recent memo on NGOs, applying to current events, a great student referenced @sch-ir.bsky.social's recent congressional testimony! Very cool. Can't wait to read the book soon :) www.lclark.edu/live/news/56...

Just learned that the memo I wrote for this can be shared, so voila: quick overview of my research on INGO responses to NGO restrictions stats.andrewheiss.com/2025-11_carn...

Lots of food for thought at our New Voices workshop on responding to closing civic space - really great meeting lots of new folks here

Wonderful to see this excellent piece out! Congrats @jrspringman.bsky.social!

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

Dhoom to wrap up the speech!!!

Assigned Mahmood Mamdani to my students this semester just so I could be like back in my day Zohran was just Mahmood Mamdani & Mira Nair's son, not the other way around 😂

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

The modal SNAP recipient is white, middle-aged, and native-born. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

Thank you to everyone who has reached out with concern. Late last night, I woke up to my car, car port, and home engulfed in flames. I'm grateful for the quick response from Portland firefighters who prevented the fire from spreading even further.

"Given Portland protesters’ well-known penchant for wearing chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes, or nothing at all...observers may be tempted to view the majority’s ruling, which accepts the gov't’s characterization of Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd. But [it] is not merely absurd..."

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

Portland ICE facility now.

Protestors have pushed agents back into the ICE facility after their brief attempt to disperse people. Seemed to be so a few cars could leave. Maybe 40 agents for this. That’s perhaps what the budget is for. People choking in the roads, mace and pepper to their faces. Some say at least one arrested.

So much tear gas & flash grenades tonight at ICE in Portland. US Gestapo came out, pushed people back & held a line as other feds shot down tear gas canisters from the roof. People were dancing before this as an impromptu rave broke out

Check out this crowd shot we got in Portland. What a hellhole, amirite?

Federal police again deployed teargas and pepper balls at a massive crowd of protesters in front of the ICE facility. Several agents chased protesters across the street, then fired off munitions.

Federal officers pepper ball protestors at Portland ICE facility just now.

On the Pursuit of Riberty #Portland #NoKings

Portland No Kings, before the March, from the Morrison Bridge

What a gorgeous day in Portland! Can’t find any fires 😉 Frogs 🐸 for days! #NoKings @wyden.senate.gov

Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon. No kings!

bsky.app/profile/fret... THE MOTHERSHIPS

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

Here at the Portland #NoKings, the costumes are ON POINT.

Like the inflatable animal costumes that started at the ICE facility, a bellwether for allegorical nonviolent resistance, the “Don’t Obey” wheat paste frogs are also proliferating around Portland. The glue is still wet as the marches convene.

In downtown Portland, Unpresidented Brass Band is out in big numbers in their banana suits. Since their clarinet player was arrested at the ICE facility in Portland Sunday the band is “more resolute, actually, at this point, I think, than we were before,” said founder Miles Thompson.

Times Square

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

Times Square

If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

South Korea: #NoKings! Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!

The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

4. Moreover, in 2025 protests have also expanded the movement’s footprint into new areas: the cumulative number of US counties that have ever hosted a protest opposing Trump’s policies surged well above 60 percent by June.

2. Our new analysis suggests that protest events in 2025 have occurred across a wider range of US counties than we observed during Trump's first term. And the current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.