“For context, 2025 was the deadliest year for ICE detention in more than two decades, with 32 deaths. We are four months into 2026 and already halfway there.”

Look at what my amazing sister-in-law Stephanie Denzer made! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

Exactly. And now that my kids are school-aged, teachers.

One year after I published this piece on why sanctuary matters, the MA State House is voting on the PROTECT Act. Good omen? I hope so. MA residents deserve the protections this act enshrines, at a minimum. progressive.org/op-eds/sanct...

Good morning. Today's fun fact is that female incoming assistant professors @umassamherst.bsky.social make, on average, $10,000 less than their male counterparts. In fall 2025. Unacceptable.

Me when I discover I'm out of milk for my coffee and remember the ice cream in the freezer: "I am a true and complete genius." Me when I write a whole book about things I've studied for a decade: "I guess I'm alright."

And for folks in the New England area: www.respondinc.org

Resources. Please share. We often don't know who is struggling, who has been living in silence. doloreshuerta.org/sexual_assau...

She's not on here, but Gabrielle Oliveira is an amazing person and her amazing book about immigrant children and families just won the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Outstanding Book Award!!!!!! This makes my day!!!! www.sup.org/books/anthro...

"We are, if nothing else, a rather contrarian people, and few things would strike a deeper chord than thugs trying to terrorize voters into abstaining."

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

Yes. Yes, it does.

More of this please! Love to see authors promoting other authors. Thank you, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social and @kawulf.bsky.social for sharing about your books. I can't wait to read them both.

Anna and I share the same publicist 😃 (the author herself) and I know how important but also how tough it is to keep momentum going. This is such important history, and such an expert author and great writer-- please do keep sharing, and **recommending to your libraries**!

This beauty – Dr. Nelly Szabo Ullman, my hero, my grandmother – died on Friday morning at age 100. I miss her and I always will. May her memory be a blessing.

A parenting milestone: just called my kid's high school to excuse her absence for participating in the student-organized "ICE OUT Walkout" today in solidarity with Minneapolis. Shoutout to schools like hers where protesting is an allowable absence.

"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay

Exactly. And it's similar to what I write about in my book about sanctuary as a practice enacted by immigrant women, for immigrant women. Which is exactly why the possibilities of sanctuary are so often overlooked – as a society we don't recognize the labor women do with and for each other.

Update! My book, Holding onto Home: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary, was approved (with no further revisions, hallelujah!) by @ucpress.bsky.social. It'll be out in late 2026. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who got me to this moment.

Yes. Not all resistance is visible. A lot of acts of care are hidden, and powerful, ways to push back against human rights abuses and authoritarianism. Excited to read this series. Thanks for doing the work @talkingpointsmemo.com

Just bumping this up...

On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.

This open-access article by @abregoleisy.bsky.social and Lucia León is an incredibly useful overview of how immigration policies shape families' lives. Great reference for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists – everyone, really. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Anyone else wish we could put parenting skills on our CVs/resumes? I am an extraordinary negotiator of tense, high-stakes moments, emotional co-regulator of multiple people simultaneously, and complex systems manager. And that's just what happens before 8:00 am, every day.

Well, the upside of the horrific headline that I will not repost is that everyone's responses to it are making my day. Keep 'em coming, fellow workplace ruiners.

A lot of Americans would love to talk about kitchen table issues, unfortunately the kitchen table is being used to barricade the front door because ICE is trying to illegally enter private property to arrest and detain them.

Need a little hope this morning? Read the profiles of these incredible young people.

"From large cities like Los Angeles to small, rural towns like O’Neill, Neb., communities have come together...to resist the cruelty and chaos of mass deportation," writes William D. Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social), author of "Raiding the Heartland." @TIME. time.com/7319484/immi...

My kids made me a binder and a new cover for my final edits. Keeps the content nice and mysterious...

OMG this gem makes everything worth it. For everyone who remembers 2004...relish this one.

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

I'm so honored and excited to be part of this group! Thank you @scholars.org!

Deportations are happening in a matter of hours through a little known authority called expedited removal In our latest @migrationpolicy.bsky.social article, we looked at this potent tool for speeding deportations & limiting access to asylum bit.ly/expedited-re...

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hi @portersqbooks.bsky.social could you order some copies please? Thank you!

"Mom, guess what?" says my daughter as she got into the car after soccer practice. "ICE arrested someone outside the window of my English class today." I wanted to not believe her. She was right.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

The president is advocating for domestic violence to be permissible, while Roe no longer stands. I have never watched or read the Handmaiden's Tale it has always felt too close to home. Now it most certainly is. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

SCOTUS says racial profiling is constitutional, at least when Trump admin does it during roving, aggressive, astonishing immigration enforcement in LA -- where a district court found fed officers were arresting Brown people for ... speaking Spanish. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

Last year, Idaho passed a strict law that forbids anyone from providing to a minor any service that could be construed as medical or psychological in nature without parental consent. Now, minors calling the state's suicide hotline are being forced to have a parent speak for them or hang up

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.

Scholars of immigration, join us tomorrow!

As a resident of the Boston metro, I find it so interesting that narratives about the whiteness of Boston persist as the dominant national story even though it's a majority minority metro and the actual city is led by a Chinese-American woman. Also, she's more presidential than Gavin Belson

My friend @noragross.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! She wrote an incredible book. It is jarring and beautiful. Here's the link so you can have a copy of your own. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...