“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

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If you’re teaching allegory to high schoolers, hard to beat what nature has offered up: The high concentration of aggressive males “actually seems to be causing an extinction vortex.”

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

I am so tired.

I am an alum of UT Austin. The administration there has just totally rolled over for nothing. Absolutely shameful.

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

This is what I call, in Holding It Together, the "myth of the supermom"—the idea that kids are under threat (eg, of not getting into "elite" colleges, and thus not having the "elite" life that goes with that), and that moms are the only ones who can save them, but only by sacrificing themselves.

If you care about Texas politics you should know that @lonestarleft.com is here.

The reason why AI sucks is its not bringing down the rent, it is not bringing back creative jobs, it is not making health care cheaper, it is not solving climate change. Who was seriously thinking the challenges of our time were solved by Large Language Models run by tech bros?

You know things are bad when the WSJ puts it this plainly: "The rewards are going toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic, and the market value attached to those profits even more. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains."

By age 2, toddlers understand ingroup loyalty They realize that people have social identities and expert their social identity to take precedence in intergroup contexts even when it conflicts with their personal preferences www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

c.org/jHtVsq8kSm Signatures needed! Petition in support of Women’s and Gender Studies at TexasA&M University.

I've heard directly from hundreds of children at Dilley. One young girl who shared her story with me grew up in the United States and her stepfather is a U.S. citizen. She said that the guards are mean to her, she is afraid, and that she is worried she will die in detention.

“Detention” - a word for sitting in the library on Saturday morning shouldn’t describe stuffing kids and other people into horrifying concentration camps without rights or recourse

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing. “Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

7/ Read the rest of the letters:

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Agree 100%

And while you’re at it, use our warehouse tracker tool to see who owns each facility, and apply the power of public pressure to dissuade them from selling to ICE! tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos as some have said, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/...

Is Maye really this bad or is the Seattle defense just 🔥

Will the Patriots score any points in this game?! When was the last time a Super Bowl was a shut out?

Bad Bunny calling out all of America reminded me of this from Calle 13 m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFJ...

No se muden.

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

Patriots defense is keeping NE in the game but Seattle definitely looks like the better team.

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.

No Tenure for Oklahoma. Instead, faculty will be on "renewable contracts “tied to teaching effectiveness, student completion, job placement, and economic alignment.” #academicsky

Anyone else on here in San Diego for SWS? Looking forward to connecting with some feminist sociologists over the next few days. It’s rough in Texas right now.

Jon Hagler is correct: the BOR is failing.... #BTHOcensorship

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

“Only the deaths of people on our side matter.”

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

Really curious if any lawyers on here have thoughts about Abbott’s order to ban universities from hiring people who need H1-B visas. Is this legal?

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

The Dilley detention center should be shut down immediately. Because of the close-quarter conditions at Dilley, lack of prompt medical response and capacity, and lack of expertise with diseases such as measles, Dilley is not equipped to combat any spread.

From Argentina’s dictatorship to today’s ICE raids, mothers have turned grief into resistance. A political scientist who lived through Argentina’s junta draws urgent parallels. A collaboration with @rewirenewsgroup.com #news #politics #ICE #immigration #Argentina #history #democracy #polisky

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth

Elected representatives advocating for authoritarianism.