Sarah E. Farr

Thank you for sharing and thanks to Ruth for writing this. I expect so much better from ASA.

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

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent.

They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology.

We will NOT be intimidated.

We will NOT be silenced.

We will DEFEND our freedom.

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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.

This is horrifying and should be completely unacceptable to absolutely everyone.

ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.

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“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.

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Miriam Jordan By Miriam Jordan Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent. April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful. The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela. That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world. But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

Hard to comprehend this level of cruelty.

I see Joe Rogan as a temperature check to see how he and his audience are thinking about and understanding things. So I’m sharing this not to celebrate that we got him to “switch sides”, but because it’s significant that he’s saying this. We should keep yelling about this issue in these terms.

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"

Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

NSF will no longer fund research on misinformation and is stopping grants, arguing that it could infringe on free speech “in a manner that advances a preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate”. Chilling to see even if it’s not a surprise.
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I tend to agree. But if there’s anything that could push her to do something, it’s public pressure. As others have pointed out, we are most likely to see action when it aligns with political ambition. So we have to show her that it’s bad politics to sit on the sidelines 🤷‍♀️

Thank you for making this statement—it’s a good start. As a Michigander, I look forward to seeing the actions you will take to 1) see that all individuals sent to CECOT are returned, and 2) all non-citizens who have been targeted or detained for their political speech are freed.

University of Wisconsin-Madison made Hillbilly Elegy their “Go Big Read”, meaning that professors were encouraged to incorporate it into every course offered that year. I think every entering freshman was given a copy.

Thank you, Senator, for stepping up when few have. This is about defending the rights of Mr. Abrego Garcia and all the men who were sent to CECOT. It matters because they matter. But also because all of our rights are on the line as well. Please keep fighting.

Thank you, Senator. You are demonstrating the leadership we desperately need at this moment.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Please let this be the end of his political (presidential) aspirations. In a context where the federal government is snatching people off the street and sending them abroad to spend their lives in black hole torture centers, tariffs are the distraction.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Van Hollen denied entry to CECOT, notorious El Salvador prison where Abrego Garcia is illegally held

We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.

We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.

Repulsive and horrific. Modern-day lynching postcard.

Absolutely sick.

University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

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Holy crap this sucks

“According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”

Please bring them all home. Each and every person who was arbitrarily and illegally trafficked to that torture center. They ALL need to come back NOW.

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"

Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”

“I’M PISSED!”