ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's office—which is withdrawing briefs that relied on bad info and has told a judge he will need to revisit past orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg: "There are many members of the faculty at Columbia who would like to see a second Holocaust, apparently." youtu.be/Hpc_7lB4w44?...

if a tree falls in the forest and no atlantic staff writer is around to hear it,

News --> More than 100 Jewish faculty and staff members at Harvard write an open letter saying Trump's attacks on the university, done in the name of fighting "antisemitism," are actually contrary to the interests of Jewish people:

NEW: A Senate report estimates it costs the U.S. $413,000 to send a deportee to Eswatini, a small African country participating in third-country deportations. A detainee released today said they were flown in a private jet to a prison with few resources. apnews.com/article/immi...

The thing that bothers me about people outside of Bluesky complaining about people on Bluesky is that we’re exactly as annoying as they’re saying but for completely different reasons

This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.

Idris Robinson says Texas State violated his constitutional rights over off-campus talk seized on by pro-Israel activists

I received a review copy of this book. It was enraging. (All the institutions you thought were legitimating genocide were and in ways that are even more clear in hindsight.) But the reporting, data, and analysis were excellent. Buy if you can!

San Francisco once led the fight against police surveillance. Now it’s a test case for it (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) sfstandard.com/2026/03/25/s...

Anyway it's probably not great that senior faculty are looking at LLMs and thinking, "Now we don't need to train anyone new to enter the field."

Actually a pretty interesting post

like MK said, Bari Weiss wasn’t put in there for ratings, she was put in there to break whatever didn’t serve the fash, and she’s doing a great job

She wasn't hired for ratings. She was hired as part of an ongoing fascist ideological project. So she is succeeding.

This is generally how things go for us uptown—bargaining goes nowhere for months unless there’s a real strike threat. Also, congrats!

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 My paper “Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era” with Benton Wishart is now out in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity!! A short 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"This unit is a U.S.-soil Guantánamo Bay. People are taken from their nations, tortured brutally, and then dropped in a box for the remainder of their lives." Eric King's firsthand account of secretive supermax federal prison ADX—a preview from PM Press

definitely interesting, though caveat that the data are from 2002. I was interested to see that the urban/rural dichotomous indicator did not affect the estimates. Would be nice to see future analyses take regional heterogeneity as a main object of inquiry

in addition to all the important points below--do people think scientists bat a thousand?

Euegencists collected reams of data, conducted empirical studies, wrote papers, attended conferences, and impacted policy. Galton was a statistician. We can condemn the ideas, ideologies, and validity of eugenics without refusing to acknowledge how eugenicists used empiricism to justify their work.

Been a productive month, got 4 manuscripts out to new journals, revisions just submitted on a 5th. Gotta finish revisions on a 6th and then get drafting done on a 7th for its first submission... Then I will touch grass for the foreseeable future

They just let anyone teach anything now

one of the many downsides of all state capacity being rerouted to violence work is that the workers in question lack core competences for the socially valuable functions they’re ostensibly absorbing

I’m still not clear on how this would be desirable without a very rigid version control architecture, which seems like more work to set up and manage than would be saved by using local agents like this

"As of March 23, 920 law enforcement agencies have signed up for this program, including 500 town, village, and city police departments... (In Florida, four port and airport authority police departments and 16 university police departments signed these agreements.)"

This is also why people should stop RTing the underlying account

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

hadn't thought about the interaction between content moderation mechanisms and ragebait before

scroll up and down from this post lmao

A Harlem man died Sunday waiting to be arraigned on a low-level charge for allegedly stealing incense from CVS. Vincent Thoms “spent his final moments languishing in a jail cell,” Legal Aid said in a statement calling on city leaders to meaningfully address in-custody NYPD deaths.

Many asking what’s on that one officer’s butt. I do not have that information at this time.

As of 11:00AM, I am on strike. Along with my colleagues in the NYU Contract Faculty Union. We've been pretty transparent about issues being negotiated. See docs.google.com/spreadsheets... . Interesting set of documents. I happen to be out of city but will be on a picket line tomorrow. 🪧✊ #Solidarity

A union representing about 950 full-time faculty members who are not on track to earn tenure began their strike at 11 a.m., several minutes after the university’s lawyers responded to the union’s final offer, said Brendan Hogan, a spokesman for the union, the Contract Faculty United-UAW.

NEW YORK JFK (Terminal 7): Two ICE ERO officers spotted.

Sleepy rainy morning

There’s no real enforcement they can do on the entry side of the TSA area (except racial profiling), they’re not masked, and they are being chased around by a growing gaggle of cameras they can’t escape lol

I have now witnessed my second “postdoc” that is actually a temp adjunct position in disguise (3-2 teaching load compensated at $65k). Just be honest about what it is folks come on

The NYPD preliminary expense budget for FY27 is $6.7 billion but really the budget all told will be over $11 billion. We are trying to get them to fund the public libraries at $635 million.

My daughter to her dad “It’s good you weren’t in business class” (we never fly business class)

"An Air Canada flight arriving at LaGuardia Airport crashed into a firetruck on Sunday night — leaving four firefighters critically injured, according to sources."

Me now that Brent crude oil is up 50%

Yeah I mean I still don’t know why markets even recovered after last year.

Welcome to the only form of long distance travel we allow, now stand in this line for 6 hours for your government mandated patdown bu a Proudboy

I’m so ready for New York to start eliminating car transit

Author of this blog post going viral on here today responds to a top comment basically alleging that Trump is a puppet of the Jews: “Thanks for expressing this”

I need a universal filter that blocks mentions of "seed oil" bullshit across social media lmao

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Personally I see some irony in that, with a few exceptions, LOTR antagonists have basically cartoon villain motivations

Imagine selecting this as the theme this year and then doing this