With all this reporting, and 3 journalists on the story, you'd think the @nytimes.com could have interviewed at least one or two other undocumented professionals who could offer context on Roberts' trajectory and choices. Or what his high-profile arrest meant for other undocumented people in Iowa.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen... The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Don't miss our next outstanding speaker, Dr. Roderic Crooks, on October 15, 2025, @ 7:00 pm CT. He will speak on his book "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

Next up is Dr. Roderic Crooks on "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." This one is for you #EduSky #literacies @civicsoftech.bsky.social and more! Hope you can make it!

Just want to make some deals, Mr President

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.” We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"The idea reflects an appetite from administration officials to shrink the size of student loan debt on the government’s balance sheet" have you heard of the one simple trick guaranteed to reduce the size of the student loan portfolio? loan forgiveness www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow? www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Would love the “where are they now” update for the 303 Creative website, the two individuals who sued against student debt relief, not to mention MOHELA

sounds like a catch and kill operation for “doing anything about this huge problem"! (I did not know 2/3 of firearms fatalities are suicides.)

ADF has a track record of representing clients with just-so standing claims, like wedding businesses that are incorporated just long enough to challenge nondiscrimination laws protecting queer couples and are never heard from again

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth” I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans? www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here: forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...

from this article I also learned about the emerging Tangping or “lying down flat” movement globalvoices.org/2021/06/13/l...

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.” The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest. Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.  I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival: emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

El Salvador's total abortion ban, which has seen perhaps hundreds of women imprisoned for stillbirths and miscarriages, could become a model for parts of the United States following the end of Roe v. Wade.

Hmm… I wrote a piece about the epistemic erasure of Jews & my institution posted about it in a manner that doesn’t mention Jews—should I be happy they proved my point or upset…? 🤔

I keep thinking about how we never got and will now likely never have improvements to the basic functions for email, spreadsheets, our LMS, etc that would require -understanding your userbase, real use cases, and your UI -real coding not vibe coding

Even before the admin went after higher ed, public colleges faced 50 years of decline—hollowed out by privatization, financialization, and disinvestment. @lookheron.bsky.social’s new report traces that history & shows how we can build a more equitable education system today: https://bit.ly/3WlV9vv

The gender wage gap is widening again, and showing “worrying trends.” Top of the list of reasons, to no one’s surprise: soaring child care costs. Important read from @kedseconomist.com

In his final interview, which was about public sociology, Michael Burawoy said that students “are our primary public as academics.” I appreciate his point cuz critiques about academics being cut off from the public and only in conversation with other academics ignore the crucial work of teaching.

What LLMs are doing, fundamentally, is reaping the benefits of a vast spontaneous, directly social, decommodified decentralized production of use values.

…him being tackled to the ground and arrested by ICE. He was never told why he was detained. He was never charged. He was never allowed to see a lawyer. He was never told if he was being detained by ICE or by the FBI, both of whom were present. He wasn’t even told he was being released...

As a key element of the Trump 2.0 is an attack on “publics” that is a shared public’—broadcast, social and “old media”, universities, and innovation structures, a strategy of resistance is to support counterpublics. Counterpublics are alternative publics develop their own discursive strategies.

Apparently House members and Senators get paid during a government shutdown but their staffers and aides do not. (Learned this little nugget from a relative who works for Senator [redacted]).

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

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paging @nkalamb.bsky.social! Anyone worried that student-athletes being allowed to monetize themselves (vs being compensated fairly) might lead to predatory inclusion, here’s a new chapter in the consolidation of university and personal brands (also see RushTok) creatoreconomy.syracuse.edu

This for instance is one of the bleakest things I’ve come across lately— almost a parody of the current ideology of education. We are witnessing an open attack on knowledge in favor of thin technical skills without even fake gestures toward moral or aesthetic center (“a creator economy”)

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books" Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

There have been many news media failures of late. One of the biggest, however, was the DC/political press’ eagerness to launder Trump’s denials about his support of Project 2025. Shameful behavior.

Meanwhile, thank you to @bostonglobe.com for including this quote from Ted Mitchell, pres of American Council on Education in their article on same (although still not mentioning the illegality).

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

This is their MO with these deals, the terms are vague and contradictory, the goalposts keep shifting, and universities will be put into a permanent purgatory of non compliance where there will always be one more thing they need to do to please Trump

When they can decide anyone is a criminal you really can’t limit your advocacy and concern for the “good” non-criminals who may suffer.

I spoke with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social about Trump and the emerging post-colorblind racial order. Also, it's my Substack debut, so if you are over there, hit me up.

"This is a very race-conscious administration. It just happens to be the case that its policies, its prescriptions, its advocacy, its project is in service of whiteness. ...Whiteness is a race, too. It's also an ideology," says @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/race-and-r...

Wow @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social & @victorerikray.bsky.social on The Perry Bacon Show today newrepublic.substack.com/p/race-and-r...

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

The book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, from the chapter “Surveillance Vigilantes, Property, Porch Pirates and Paranoia on Nextdoor”