Rachel Pitkin

Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.

Thank you, Eileen!

Ted Cruz #@tedcruz•20h I'm the son of a Cuban immigrant — I hate communists. But when I was at Harvard Law School, I went out of my way to take classes from the communists because you can't fight something you don't understand. 1.1K 27 532 5.4K Il 136K

Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.

I can’t get beyond The Chronicle’s paywall. Can anyone help me with access to the article on Montclair?

When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Historians of women and gendered labor can beat you to it: “Nurses, money is great, but working for the virtue and womanly duty of it? A labor of love that money can’t buy.”

This was a 2010ish realization for me—a different time and professional context but I still think about it all the time.

As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants (RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.

At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.

Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom

Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.

They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."

abc7.com/post/ontario...

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

“mass deportation” trauma from this era is going to be a scar that’s with us for a long time

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

They’re just like us

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

Anyway... did we ever figure out whether or not women ruined the workplace?

I take it all back. The Humanities ARE dead (views not representative of my employer).

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

This was a blast. Always grateful for a place to unpack gender and how much I’m ruining my workplace. (Ask me for tips!)

slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them