The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

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...

We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount. In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work. Now to get these revisions done.

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

Age verification? I remember when 3.5” floppy disks were new technology.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

It's why I have increasingly used the term "entertainment echo chambers" (or "filter bubbles"), given mounting evidence of political entertainment divides—with conservative/Republican media diets being more restrictive than others.

The current administration wants to do away with 8(a) contracts, which prioritizes minority owned businesses. I have a lot of mixed feelings abt that as an Alaska Native who has shares in an Alaska Native company. However, this kind of bias in contracts is exactly why they exist.

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

This is a banger of a thread of the many things going on in the Bad Bunny halftime show. Definitely going to have to revisit the next time I run #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, and also future work on [rap] music, the PRMM, cognitive elaboration, and political knowledge.

So excited to have launched my latest research on Latino representation alongside this exclusive from @thewrap.com. Interested in reading but don’t have access? DM me! www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

When "the potential boss's habits" are sexual abuse, your job is to tell students to stay the hell away from them (& call the police). And, short of that, if you're sure he will ask about her looks if you don't describe them from the start...you tell the student to stay the hell away from them.

To a racist, the worst thing you could possibly call someone is a racist.

This is why we need to do more than ”go back to pre-9/11.” The problem is not just the current iteration of ICE, BP, CBP, or anything of the sort. We need to fundamentally address all of policing, law enforcement, the military, etc.

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

Nothing this administration says about its armed agents' encounters with the public should be taken at face value. This is also and always has been true of "regular" law enforcement, but news orgs refuse to acknowledge that cops lie and PDs put out unverifiable information all the time.

All bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

“Be cautious of the road to college, taking a detour through Vietnam or the Middle East.” -Lonnie “Pops” Lynn

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis. I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

Kansas bills creating bounties to go after trans people in bathrooms, Texas bills creating bounties to go after people using and transporting abortion pills—the desired outcome is clear: harassment and surveillance curtailing the movement and bodily autonomy of women and LGBTQ people everywhere.

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

“What she told me is that (the grant) was terminated for violating guidelines that don’t exist...She told me she doesn’t even know if anyone’s working on developing the guidelines.” dailyillini.com/news-stories... #governmentefficiency

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Bovino is not enough. Alex Pretti's killers must be named. MN must be allowed to investigate them and Renee Good's murder. Stephen Miller must resign. Kristi Noem must be impeached, removed, and disqualified "to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States".

Digital technologies have been tools of both political control and resistance. US agents and citizens are using digital tech to target Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities—and communities are using them to build collective power. This moment demands we reckon with these longstanding dynamics.

People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.

The best apology is changed behavior. I don’t care about your changed opinions. How are you working to repair what you done did?

This, but unironically. By which I mean: There are two definitions of “freedom” in the US: 1. The right to be free FROM oppression. 2. The right TO oppress. GOPers are generally #2. So using those guns to kill Freedom Riders but not to shoot at ICE is an *internally consistent position.*

Chicago PD murdered a teenager on video and lied about it, and Rahm Emanuel tried to cover it up. I especially don’t want to hear from him in this moment.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

Like fucking clockwork. "What do you want dems to do? They don't have the power!" THEY JUST VOTED IN MORE FUNDING FOR ICE YOU FUCKING GOLDFISH

Remember that the blood of this and any future incidents is also in the hands of Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social for failing

This is apparently on X. I have a few concerns: 1) why is DHS sending photos of (alleged) evidence that should be in a secure chain of custody that is now lying on a car seat??? and 2) being armed does not on its own justify the use of deadly force — there has to be evidence he was trying to use it

Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Ok seriously, this is bad. Very graphic. Don’t watch if you need to protect your mental health, but people need to know this happened. Very clearly in the video, you can see at least two ICE officers continue firing at him while he's already lying still on the ground.

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.