Wow. This is so gross. I will be calling.

My fellow Worcesterites, Holy Cross University has allowed an ICE agent, Ryan Vasquez, to attend their upcoming career day in a recruiting capacity. Tell their president what you think of this. Holy Cross President: Vincent Rougeau [email protected] [email protected] 508 793 2525

@billshaner.bsky.social @masspolwatch.bsky.social @telemundo52.com @wgbh.org

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Amazing AP image from Ariana Cubillos of Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician sent to CECOT, walking off the plane. (Identified to me by a relative.) “We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”

Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

3 additional eye-witnesses from the scene describe Israeli military fire in this AP article and 1 additional witness from Nasser hospital describes tens of patients with gunshot wounds and many more being treated: apnews.com/article/isra...

This man, who has human rights lawyer in his Twitter biog!, is hoping that Israel attacks the flotilla & hurts (kills?) my Zeteo colleague, & legendary activist, Greta Thunberg. To call this tweet disgusting & violent would be an understatement. But they keep telling on themselves:

Apparently when you are Brown even a Real ID is not enough to convince ICE that you are a citizen

Me: I’m ill and will be taking some time to recover. Academia: So Sorry you’re sick. You’re health is most important. BUT could you please take care of these 7 unpaid tasks before you rest or die? #academicsky

🚨🚨🚨 RED ALERT for Texas: SB 37, a bill that guts shared governance in the state’s public higher education system by giving politicians all authority in decision making, is heading for a full House vote THIS WEEK. 🧵

Pilots flying into Denver International Airport on Monday couldn’t communicate with air traffic controllers for about six minutes after multiple radio transmitters failed, according to reporting from Denver7.

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

When you’re the first Muslim elected official to run for mayor, people say some pretty wild things.

Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.   Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.

If you think they’re going to access those records and only collect the info on people with autism then I’ve got a whale head strapped to the roof of a car to sell you.

This is what Worcester police do to a sixteen-year-old for screaming in fear and throwing herself at a car carrying her mother, who has been kidnapped by armed men who refuse to identify themselves.

Destroying the agency that brought us the internet, the SuperCollider and modern telescopes. Heading into the dark ages here

This. Many countries, including my own Canada, are starving academic research. Any brain-gain has to be accompanied by serious public investments…. which typically yield big dividends over the long term.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

On Friday, 2 May 14:00 (London time), I will hold an information session about the new MA I start convening in September 2025. Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgt-webina...

My thoughts from watching right wing media work over the last decade… changing language around diversity, equity, and inclusion is a trap. You end up confirming their allegations that your commitments to DEI were wrong, and you’ll later be accused of covering up programs that you know to be wrong.

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

Ive been wondering for a while now, what kind of people end up working for ICE.

In Oldenburg, Germany, a young Black man was shot by the police as week. It isn't the first shooting nor will it be the last. www.dw.com/en/germany-t...

“The fact that someone like Ben-Gvir … is even being hosted by US institutions is in and of itself deeply disturbing." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

My blood is boiling. This is appalling. Andry, the makeup artist deported to Trump’s foreign prison in El Salvador - without due process and under false pretenses - hasn’t been heard from in weeks. Members of Congress who went to El Salvador asked for proof that he’s alive. This is a crisis.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Gotta keep trying to make things better locally. In that spirit, Worcester DTM is asking folks where we'd like new bike racks: www.worcesterma.gov/mobility/bik... Two off the top of my head.. Stearns Tavern (for Coes, events, voting), and June & Chandler for Cordella's. Where d'you think?

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

They are hitting the UMass system this weekend too

1/ So this Fulbright scholar wasn’t a protest organizer or even participant, got kettled coming back to campus and released, had liked some posts about human rights and signed an open letter, and DHS came to her door three times to arrest and deport her www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

And while politicians are decimating our nation’s public health infrastructure, meanwhile: “The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years… Thirteen people have been hospitalized.”

this thread is the whole thing. however comma Black women have been SHOUTING this for months on end, but a lot of y’all (even the liberals and progressives) somehow struggle to hear a message unless it’s delivered by a white dude, and that’s on y’all.

Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121.