Jean Beaman

Ha!

Nine Ways to Avoid Disclosing That You’re From Chevy Chase, Shaker Heights, Darien, or Scarsdale 1. “I’m from Washington D.C. / Cleveland / Connecticut / New York.” 2. “I’m from the D.C. area / the Cleveland area / the Tri-State Area / Westches...

Nine Ways to Avoid Disclosing That You’re From Chevy Chase, Shaker Heights, Darien, or Scarsdale www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nin...

The Message Is ‘We Can Take Your Children’ More systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

Reinstate the Fired Four at Brooklyn College - PSC CUNY

Send a letter from ‪@psc-cuny.org‬ demanding that ‪@brooklyncollege.bsky.social reinstate four adjuncts dismissed in an apparent ideological purge. No to the New McCarthyism. #BCFired4 psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

https://www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair-multigenerational-trauma/

Today Israelis murdered the author of this article, a Palestinian father who tried hard to protect his son from their sadism: www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

6. Memorial session in honor of Richard Alba, Ali Chaudhary, and Jeffrey G. Reitz, 8:30 to 10:00 pm

Sun, August 10th
1. Joint Reception w Asia and Asian America section, 8:00 to 10:30 pm

2. MENA Global Migration and Identities, 10:00 to 11:30 am Ayse Kirkic & @jean23bean.bsky.social

3. IM section roundtables, 2:00 to 3:00 pm

4. IM section business mtg, 3:00 to 3:30 pm

5. Environment, Climate Change, and Mobility, 4:00 to 5:30 pm, Jake Watson

Please join us for the following @asamigration.bsky.social events at #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social :

Sat, August 9th
1. Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism (co-sponsored w @asapolisoc.bsky.social ) 8:00 am to 9:30 am @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social & @thejesseyeh.bsky.social

When you strip away humanity

Has Mamdani condemned restaurants with QR code menus

😂🤣😂🤣

OMG this is too much. LOLOLOLOLOL

While this is a psychopathic question for Bret Stephens to ask, it is also misleading on two counts: Nature Magazine estimates the death toll to be at least 2x official numbers, and, genocide is not about numbers but the destruction of an entire society, “in whole or in part”

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America As Trump’s deportation gangs continue snatching people after scheduled court hearings, more are opting to stay home. But that comes with its own dangers.

as someone who has witnessed some of this, what is described here only scratches the surface. such a cruel, cruel society we've created:

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America - The American Prospect prospect.org/justice/2025...

Congrats to our newly elected section leaders! @drlizaaranda.bsky.social as chair-elect; @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social as secretary-treasurer; Deisy Del Real and @blancaarramirez.bsky.social as council members; and @melihurtado.bsky.social as student representative!!

Sugar Hill stories: @academicdiary.bsky.social
@uofgsociology.bsky.social on W.E.B. Du Bois and his chess defeats, Ralph Ellison’s reflections on nowhere, and the ”sweet life” past of a New York City neighbourhood seen through a darkening American present.

www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

CUNY’s Repression of Pro-Palestine Students Continues in Front of Congress By placating House Republicans during a hearing on antisemitism, CUNY’s Chancellor left students and faculty to fend for themselves.

The CUNY Chancellor “utterly failed to defend students from false charges of antisemitism” by House Republicans, faculty members said in a statement The Nation. “It was heartbreaking and infuriating to see him do the Trump administration’s bidding.”

Not Inshallah the front page 😩

Okay, I will say this: the famine in Gaza is a deliberate policy decision by Israel to mass murder two million people and they are doing this on the dime of US taxpayers.

The bloodstains from this will never wash off.

If a newspaper is going to write that CBS canceled Late Night because all of late night comedy is unprofitable due to competition with streaming, wouldn't the newspaper be more curious why the first late night comedy show to get the ax was the one with the most viewers?

YEP.

Mamdani Headlines The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate.

The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com

A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe? This open access book explores anti-racist struggles and practices across a range of European contexts, tracing both change and continuity over time

Coming this fall, A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe? co-edited with Ilke Adam and Mariska Jung!!!

link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean. Apps due 10/1 - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

If only there had been a way to know Trump was a sex criminal before he was elected besides reading the 800,000 sex crime lawsuits against him over the last 40 years

So sorry we missed each other this time!

more of this please.