This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

We hear a lot about declining religiosity and the rise of the Nones in the United States and Europe. But, what about Latin America? Is secularization happening there, and if so, what form does it take? I explore this in my new open access article in @sociusjournal.bsky.social tinyurl.com/46njwpem

Venezuela aprueba un “tratado de asociación estratégica” con Rusia en plena crisis con EE UU - elpais.com/america/2025...

There is one correct answer: D. Followed (far along) by G.

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose? For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

⛪ Unaffiliated, but not undevoted @matthewblanton.bsky.social's new #Socius study challenges common understandings of #secularization, analyzing trends of increased personal religiosity alongside decreased institutional religiosity from 2004-2023 in #LatinAmerica. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

🚨New Research out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social by @asanews.bsky.social “Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America” 🧵A thread on the puzzle of Latin America’s religious change & what it means for secularization theory👇

Great idea! If you are a sociologist of religion (or just interested in religion analysis), follow these folks!

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

The most important immigration fights right now are about the Constitution. None of it has anything to do with the substance of immigration policy. If you stand with ICE, you stand against the Constitution. Can the govt... 1. racially profile? 2. set up checkpoints wherever they want?

Mote details on the report… news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

🧵New Research: Most studies of migrant health focus on past trauma. My newest asks: What triggers distress and somatic symptoms after arrival? This paper comes from a larger project including 65 interviews and one of the first-ever weekly panel surveys of refugees and asylum seekers in the world.

Deport people who commit serious criminal offenses in the United States. Not people who are contributing to the country. That's the "national interest" perspective on deportation. Nativism isn't pro-America. It sacrifices American interests to its nativist goal.

DHS: remembering fondly the days before any immigration police

Inspired by Pope Leo and moved to defy the Trump immigration crackdown, Detroit’s Archbishop Edward Weisenburger led a procession of 250 clergy and lay faithful to the ICE regional field office. “The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are forced into their situation," Weisenburger said.

A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 We interviewed a diverse group of Latin American asylum-seekers and other migrants in need of international protection (MNP) in Costa Rica. Although we didn't ask about it directly, family separation emerged as a nearly universal theme.

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

As the #WhiteHouse explores new ways to address America’s declining birthrate, @matthewblanton.bsky.social ‬argues that #immigration remains the most effective solution and current policies are undermining it. Learn more in his @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social OpEd‬: thefulcrum.us/inclusion-di...

What do birth rates have to do with immigration, and how is the Trump administration sabotaging our national demographic advantage? My newest column out at @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social. Thanks always to @scholars.org for their support in placing public scholarship! thefulcrum.us/inclusion-di...

Image is from here: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Just incredible

"Marco Rubio is a lost man and a soulless contortionist." Whew what a column. 👏🏻

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you are not following @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social yet, do so now! Just an incredible research to track the ever-changing news on immigration enforcement, litigation, etc.

Bukele & Trump meet today. Here's my quick primer on how folks like Tucker Carlson, Tom Cotton, Matt Gaetz, Sara Carter, Elon Musk, and others helped nurture this relationship: revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bukelismo-a-...

A qualified victory but a victory nonetheless!

This is monstrous.

Fascinating article

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.

America is now a place that sends masked secret police to abduct people off the street and uses prisoners to create government propaganda. And this all happened in 8 weeks. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.