Jeff Mitchell

Sometimes a causal effect is just a causal effect (regardless of how it’s mediated or moderated) TL;DR: Tell your students about the potential outcomes framework. It will have (heterogeneous) causal effects on their understanding of causality (mediated through unknown pathways), I promise. It’...

To talk about something causally affecting something else, it doesn’t matter whether it’s sufficient or necessary. It also doesn’t matter if there are mediating mechanisms — technically, everything in the social sciences needs to be mediated somehow!

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EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ list

I cannot wait to see the hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against this in EUrope's streets.... 🙄

"the bureau's self-imposed role as protector of the existing political and social order blurred the line bettween targeting criminal activity and constitutionally protected acts and advocacy."

50 years ago, an investigation of federal abuses revealed how the government surveilled and sabotaged the Civil Rights movement, and the Anti-war movement, and the international left. It can teach us more about our current moment than we realize.

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Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:

-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

I saw this advertisement yesterday and was blown away by how brazenly and openly they boast about their role in the surveillance state. And then saddened that people will be happy to collaborate in the 24/7 surveillance of society just in the off-chance that a lost puppy might be found one day.

ICYMI: @justsecurity.org created a searchable database of statements from Minnesota residents subjected by DHS agents to suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests without probable cause.

The declarations are from our @aclu.org Hussen v. Noem lawsuit.

www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

The US's enormous amalgam of different policing agencies means that local and state authorities have choices, which have consequences, for how successful this authoritarian moment will be. An excellent figure from
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Omöjliggör ett svensk ICE innan det är för sent DEBATT. I USA jagas nu människor av statliga agenter som agerar närmast likt en lynchmobb. Människor är rädda och amerikanska medborgare har mördats av staten p

De program och datasystem som möjliggjort utvecklingen i USA används flitigt även här i Sverige, men vi vet väldigt lite om hur.

Författaren har fem krav för att förhindra ett svenskt ICE
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Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror.

It's up to us. Just us.

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Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Dearborn police launch first-of-its-kind real-time crime-fighting system with drones and integrated cameras The Dearborn Police Department has become the first in Michigan to deploy FUSUS, a state-of-the-art real-time crime-monitoring system that integrates thousands of cameras with drones to fight crime.

Robocop was not supposed to be aspirational.

Spanish PM defends plans to regularise half a million undocumented migrants Responding to critics of policy, Pedro Sánchez says Spain is choosing path of ‘dignity, community and justice’

Once again the Spanish left gives us some light in these dark times

“But I would like to ask you, when did recognising rights become something radical? When did empathy become something exceptional?”

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DEBATT: Segregationen förvärras när man tar ifrån utrikes födda deras rättigheter Det senaste decenniet har det skett en rad förändringar i svensk migrationspolitik. Som forskare och företrädare för civilsamhället ser vi hur en politik som säger sig vilja åtgärda segregation och ut...

Segregationen förvärras när man tar ifrån utrikes födda deras rättigheter, skriver forskaren Kristoffer Jutvik m.fl.

the money part is so gross. people are super easy to manipulate with money.

“This is a for-profit ethnic cleansing … Pam Bondi, US Attorney General was a lobbyist for GEO group for years before she joined this administration. GEO group’s stocks doubled in the first week of Trump’s administration.

Al Jazeera reporting that Israel has killed 31 Palestinians in Gaza *today*

Think about Alex Pretti being killed 30 more times in one day

Every state in the country, Blue and Red, jails children. They even have special jails for them, how nice of us. We should not be jailing any children ever (or adults for that matter)

“I think it’s a big mistake to look at this as a problem of training… We are seeing the mobilization of a federal police force to carry out a campaign of terror for political purposes.”

Project coordinator @alexvitale.bsky.social on @aljazeera.com discussing recent ICE actions.

Idag på Förintelsens minnesdag slöt ledaren för världens största parti med ett nazistiskt ursprung slutligen fred med de s k ”internationalisterna” precis som SD:s partiprogram önskade under 1990-talets andra hälft när Åkesson själv gick med i SD

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Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion ORIGINAL ARTICLE Full Access What Counts as Discrimination Against Whom? Understanding Perceived Discrimination Against Christians Michele F. Margolis X First published: 18 January 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.70023

New Research JSSR

White evangelicals are especially attuned to slights directed at a fellow Christian but significantly LESS likely to view same behavior as discriminatory with a member of a religious out-group.

This pattern is unique to white evangelicals.

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"return to the border" ☠️
"beef up training" ☠️

Death is always a tragedy; death at the hands of law enforcement is a policy choice single every time.

Abolish ICE. But we need a truth & reconciliation in the aftermath because the level of fucked up this country is to get here is something that needs a reckoning.

I'm reposting with @hebagowayed.bsky.social's correct handle. We're going to be writing here regularly every Friday, and more often as events dictate.

Minnesota On Strike - The American Prospect Minnesota labor unions, faith leaders, community organizations, and businesses of all kinds are calling for what amounts to a statewide general strike tomorrow, in response to the ongoing federal immi...

Minnesota is on the eve of a general strike in rejection of ICE. Hundreds of businesses are closing and 80+ solidarity actions are being held across the country. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to some of the strikers.
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Anmälda brott Statistiken över anmälda brott omfattar alla händelser som anmälts och registrerats som brott hos Polismyndigheten, Åklagarmyndigheten, Tullverket med flera. De anmälda brotten inkluderar även händels...

Preliminary 2025 crime stats for Sweden were released today. Over all a 3% (50k) drop in police reported crimes. This is driven by large drops in theft (-12%, -43k) and vandalism (-13%, -26k). Assaults up 4% (+3k) and fraud up 1% (+3k).

(Link in Swedish)
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P4 Extra - alla avsnitt En mix av de hetaste personerna och nyheter från jordens alla hörn.

For those in Sweden with Swedish language knowledge, I will be in radio P4 this afternoon discussing some of these changes and patterns. Tune in to P4 extra to hear about it.

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