Spent another week with my refugee law course in Copenhagen and Malmö. These students learned about refugee centers and detention, trauma recovery, integration measures and more. I’m so proud of this program and honored by our amazing collaborators-they provide so much light in the darkness.

Quite the closing words from the judge too:

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

There can be no compromise on shutting this entire system down. Remember Ramos’s limp body when you listen to any politician caving (I’m talking about you, Schumer, but also others)

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

There are so many things beyond words at this moment. Pure evil and DEEP stupidity.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

The United States is not an ethnic-nationalist dictatorship. But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country. Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.

A little bit of chaos?? This is a fucking nightmare for this dad and this whole community

This is America, a country where we champion the law and our constitution? This should make any patriot physically sick.

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school. That threat does not come from immigrants. There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

If I stayed at A&M, I would not be able to teach more than half of my courses. A deep loss that experts like Dr Petersen are being silenced.

I am sad for the future of Texas A&M. Some of my most meaningful career experiences were at this institution and my colleagues and their students deserve so much better.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The fact that US law currently permits this is all we need to know about how all nationalisms bend towards fascism. Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.

“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor. Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.

‘Approximately 500,000 foreign-educated nurses work in the U.S. as of 2022, representing about one in six registered nurses.’ www.kff.org/racial-equit...

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Uit de VS National Holocaust Memorial

Attention #americans in #copenhgen: Stand up for American Democracy: Tomorrow (14/6) at Kogens Nytorv at 14:00: www.democratsabroad.org/cph_no_tyran...

I have a big birthday next week and even though my @bsky.app footprint is small, if anyone wants to give me a gift, donate to causes I love, like drc.ngo @drcngo.bsky.social

Reminds me of this American Indian prophecy: When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money

Sick and disgusting

I _think_ this portion of the “restoring history” EO is meant to compel restoration of Confederate monuments. Aside from this being mere guidance, though, I see a snag: how does it “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” to remove shrines to people who rebelled against us?

In Palermo immersing students in the fight for migrant and refugee rights in Italy and across the EU. Today, we met with the Sicilian Parliament

Hell ya, Denver!

Worse than Hungary or Poland or Turkey. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

“You are a traitor.” An absurd and insulting thing to say to anyone who posts what Senator Kelly did. And even more insulting since he served as a U.S. Navy captain and a NASA astronaut. Kelly was a combat pilot and flew 39 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War.

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

💯💯💯 @repjasmine.bsky.social

Criminalizing protest is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.

USAID is an independent agency under US law. Those laws have not been repealed, they have not been struck down in court. Every day that its evisceration stands is a continuing attack on Constitutional order.

Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week 🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!! www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

We accidentally fired the guys who take care of nukes. We also canned the guys who overlook plane safety. And we continue to stop life-saving aid from getting to the most vulnerable people in the world. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪: 🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map. 🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East. 🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%! Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇

Libya is not a safe country. Frontex must stop transmitting the location of migrant boats to the Libyan Coast Guard - that's what our most recent case with @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social and @davidyambio.bsky.social aims at. Full interview: www.eldiario.es/desalambre/j...

Even when it comes to immigration enforcement, especially with Trump, following the money is a useful starting point to understand what's going on. #migration #deportation #Trump nandosigona.info/2025/02/13/t...

🚨 The ANES is on the list, because the award description includes the study of 'racial conflict.' The loss of the ANES would be a huge loss for public opinion, and for science.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

Added this action to r/onethingtodo Dozens of ways to fight back there now. Join us! www.reddit.com/r/onethingto...

I’ve waited to make a post here. I haven’t known what I can contribute given the current news cycle. But I think I have something that offers me some hope: my course on refugee law. My 19 students and I just finished a week meeting with inspirational refugee orgs in Denmark and Sweden