"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Of course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months. He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.

www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-... 😘

I don’t have voting members in Congress but I’m still calling Schumer to tell him to shut the government down over ICE occupying cities and executing people in the streets

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

This video is itself a historical document that shows the Trump administration's efforts to erase history. There are few more telling symbols of the intentional attempt to silence the past than the raw, empty spaces left behind after this removal of displays about the history of American slavery.

ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

ICE has been busting down doors and seizing people from their homes without signed judicial warrants. But it wasn’t some decision on the fly. It turns out, it was actual agency policy. A shocking memo, and what it means for this practice, in today’s write-up. Link in the replies.

Conference that may be of interest for @oeai.bsky.social

Call for Research Showcase Workshop Proposals: Interested in sharing your research with a wider audience and engaging more deeply with the AAAS SocSci Caucus and broader community? We invite self-nominations for our first Online Research Showcase Workshop in Spring 2026.

Important--this is the most significant Trump revenge prosecution that has been flying under the radar. @replamonica.bsky.social we stand with you! Friends please give a read....

Trump has deported 540,000 people, fewer than in either of Biden's last 2 years. But Biden deportations focused on the border, now mainly shut. Trump has targeted those in the country and has removed 230,000 of them, more than Biden in 4 years. @albertsun.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have posted too much today, but cannot get this photo out of my head. This must stop.

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Melted marbles from Moria, the largest migrant camp in Europe, which burnt down in 2020. The material culture of border crossings is often intentionally erased. Preserving and studying it is essential to understanding this contemporary #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

He laid out the m.o. of modern pseudo-archaeology, i.e., repeat false claims and never correct them: " “Chariots of the Gods” was followed by more than two dozen similar books, spawning a literary niche in which fact and fantasy were mixed together against all historical and scientific evidence."

Pseudo-archaeology, pseudo-history and various strains of UFO belief can get … extremely racist and it’s something that doesn’t get covered competently in the mainstream press. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

For some agencies, the cuts have hollowed out decades-old functions of the federal government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In the days since the Venezuela attack, Donald Trump has explicitly threatened not only Greenland but also Canada, Colombia, Iran, and Mexico. Why? “Because he can,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. Read her new column about a burgeoning international crisis.

We need fresh utopian thinking to boost us out of the nightmare loop of the present. Join us and share! futurecafes.org

As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.

A tenured professor who was briefly fired by Austin Peay State University in Tennessee in September for what the school’s president said was an insensitive social media post about the killing of Charlie Kirk will get a $500,000 settlement and his job back.

Which means Hilton isn’t a welcoming place for the rest of us. Looks like we’ve all found a new place to boycott— globally.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

The rare wild commercial Christmas tree harvest endures on the edge of climate change, wildfire, and shifting immigration policy, revealing how even our most cherished traditions depend on fragile landscapes and unseen labor.

An exciting delivery at solstice time. Very much looking forward to reading this….#SkyscapeArchaeology

In 1952, Toy Len Goon—a Chinese immigrant & widowed—was named U.S. Mother of the Year. Her granddaughter, Dr. Andrea Louie, shares Goon's story in Chinese American Mothering. 📚 spr.ly/63321CEsRd

💫New research out now!💫 Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I started reporting this story after I’d been back at work for a few months and was starting to once again feel overwhelmed by the amount of pain and harm and cruelty at work in the world. Talking to people about how they are finding ways to care for one another helped.

incredible content from my phd granting institution

As 2025 comes to an end, our editors and critics have selected a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry. See the full list: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_3K0Ek

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

Breaking News: The U.S. has paused immigration applications from the 19 nations on its travel ban list, deepening a crackdown on legal pathways.

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

Orville Etoria lived in New York for nearly 50 years. Then he was deported to a country he had never even heard of. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/I9s1Dz

Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

Once again, we have completely lost the thread on how a college education is supposed to work. It’s not major=>job, it’s major=>opportunity to learn critical thinking and expression=>job. Double majors do not produce double opportunities. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...