carrie freshour

"Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable..."

Always has been 🧑‍🚀

U.S. citizen detained by ICE:

“…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

as gsu partners with google to open the "AI Innovation Lab" to train teachers to "recruit" public HS students to "to participate in a daily curriculum focused on AI/ML literacy, problem-solving, design-thinking and mentorship"...

For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out

In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye Forced expulsion is looming and we know this time we may never see our homes again.

"My beloved city Gaza stands on the brink of a full military occupation by the Israeli army. Their plan is to force us all to leave our homes and move into tents... We do not know what will happen to those who resist. We may be living our last days in Gaza City"

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

excerpt from financial times

"95% of organizations are getting zero return"

www.ft.com/content/3391...

As Ruth Wilson Gilmore noted, "[Karl] Marx observed that tax struggle is the oldest form of class struggle."

Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.

Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.

Family abolition is the actualization of humanity’s universal care-neediness through the radical democratization of lifemaking without the mediations of the wage or the state. It is the politics that asks what we need from the family, and is brave enough to think about *actually making that happen.*

Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence, and he went home.

“Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet” my interview with the Native elder in the New Yorker, fifty years after the shootout at Oglala in the Pine Ridge reservation.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

Congrats to @empowermentave.bsky.social -represented author Phillip Vance Smith II for winning the 2025 Stillwater Award for Best Reported Essay from @prisonjournalism.bsky.social for his Inquest contribution linked below!

My racial wealth gap class this fall is going to be so, so much weirder. My students were already getting stuck on how little progress has been made toward equity, way back in 2023 when that was still a priority. Now I get to try and explain…this

No one deserves detention.

No one deserves deportation.

No one deserves prison.

No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones.

No human is illegal. Free them all.

Rally held at Cornell for Momodou Taal amid lawsuit against Trump Taal claims an unidentified federal officer approached his home.

“We have academic freedom & freedom of speech on this campus!”

Hundreds of Cornell students, staff & supporters held an emergency rally today for Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student suing Donald Trump over the constitutionality of targeting students for protected speech.

www.wbng.com/2025/03/20/r...

oops just seeing the article... noooo.

wait libgen is implicated in this too?? 😢

Martin Sostre, a tall Black man wearing a red-and-navy striped tee tucked into blue jeans, stands looking pensively out a sunny window with one hand on his hip. Behind him are a few potted plants.

"I will never sell out the Black struggle for liberation, nor can the enemy break my revolutionary spirit."

Martin Sostre was born in Harlem 102 years ago today. He became a jailhouse lawyer, bookseller, tenant organizer and youth mentor, and pioneering thinker of Black anarchism. (1/2)

Are you ready for #AAG25?? We are! Add BGSG-sponsored sessions to your conference calendar!

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485...

"The contradictions of the New York guard strike reveal that prisons are not only instruments for controlling those locked inside cages; they also control those guarding the cages..."

Man held in isolation for 274 days and counting after maskless bathroom trip, WA prison report says Advocates say the action points to a large problem within the Washington State Department of Corrections: an atmosphere of violence and unchecked retaliation, especially against people of color.

Recalling the organizing in WA state when COs at stafford creek attacked Jerrell Jackson - using COVID policies as coverup. Incarcerated people held their ground in protest against Jackson's treatment, despite repercussions. www.kuow.org/stories/man-...

The Hidden War Fueling the New York Prison Guard Strike - Inquest The deadly labor action can best be understood in the context of white supremacy and class struggle.

“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.

The disappeared Columbia student is the start of a surveillance nightmare Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident. That didn’t stop ICE.

how did ICE know where to find Mahmoud Khalil, and who will they go after next? I wrote about the vast surveillance network that powers ICE arrests, and the Zionist groups making deportation wishlists for the agency:

www.theverge.com/policy/62718...

sharing this with friends here who were organizing against atlanta's recent school closures (I'm guessing you know abt!!). TY for this work!

Very excited to finally share my article on reparative-advocacy planning in Philadelphia public schools! This article would not have been possible without all the support of organizers, parents, teachers, and staff in Philadelphia including OCOS, WPCNS, and @parentsunitedphl.bsky.social

Haha this is terrifying!
I've been thinking about how the idea of working in higher ed in a state like Louisiana makes me uneasy (esp. if I was at a public school), but it turns out there is no good state to be in higher ed right now.

The Movement Supporting Public Employees Is Rising Thousands of workers across the country hit the streets this week to declare their opposition to Trump and Musk who, under the guise of "efficiency," are slashing and burning public services.

#Labor4HigherEd and @fedworkersunited.bsky.social unite! @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @uaw.org @neatoday.bsky.social @seiu.org @afscme.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/fede...

Flyer: Keep DOGE out of DOL rally, February 5 at 3pm at 200 Constitution Ave NW

🚨ALL OUT FOR WORKERS RIGHTS! Tomorrow in D.C. at the Department of Labor—show Elon Musk and his lackeys that workers are ready and willing to fight back!! 🚨