Courtney DeRoche

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated, "Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body. 121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation. 122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos. 123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

US universities University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted Tom Perkins Fri 6 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A tweet from the official FBI Twitter account dated June 2, 2025, reads: "Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov." The tweet has 106K views.

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

talked about 9/11 to someone’s grandma in a TSA line, whoops

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

can’t believe I’ve spent 13 years haunting Townshend Hall

Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no

Microsoft has disabled the ICC chief prosecutor’s email account. He has also lost access to his email accounts and is threatened with arrest if he enters the United States

www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...

nothing hits like being called nena by an elder

NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech

www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Statement re Michael Burawoy obit Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.

They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

The crowd won't let him leave, so Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gets out and starts walking with the people for the crowd to finally start clearing.

Alina Habba confirms NEWARK’s Mayor Ras Baraka was just arrested while protesting the ICE raids at a detention facility.

@RobMenendez4NJ: “When they say they’re going after criminals, it’s not true.”

reflecting on how many PhD students are ruthlessly bullied by their classmates/peers, how few receive tangible support to remain in the program, how frequently this derails careers or entire lives

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available.

Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social

(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

took my first post-PhD business trip & realized I’ve been flying solo for 25 years (took my first unaccompanied trip from LAX to ATL at 5)

this was the first time I’ve seen a lightning storm from the air, grateful to find new delights even after all these years

E. B. (William) Dubois

Yeah, consistently equated with communism, even by other sociologists. These moments also have me going back to Du Bois’ FBI file, among other readings, to think about faculty surveillance for their ‘radical’ ideas of equity & justice in an unjust, violent society. vault.fbi.gov/E.%20B.%20%2...

Tech industry tried reducing AI's pervasive bias. Now Trump wants to end its 'woke AI' efforts Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI pr...

Featured in this article about the changing tides in the struggle for responsible AI.

apnews.com/article/arti...

Taking this opportunity to share all the evidence I've compiled that LLMs are decidedly not worth it and not as useful as they are proclaimed to be: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Historian Greg Grandin says disappearances, used by right-wing governments in Latin America against political opponents, is now a key part of President Trump's agenda as he sends immigrants to El Salvador. The difference, he notes, is that Trump has dropped the pretense of denying the practice.

Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez will be held in jail for the next 48 hours because he is under an ICE hold. Again, he is a U.S. citizen born in Georgia.

BREAKING: Active shooter reported at Florida State University

after three years, the city finally replaced the broken street light outside of my apartment and…I wish they would’ve let it be lmao