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Sociologists for Palestine have asked members to send us the letters they have written to @asanews.bsky.social.

We are sharing them here as evidence of how unpopular this decision is with the ASA membership.

Please amplify this thread & any letters that resonate with your position.

14.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

14.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 2559 πŸ” 587 πŸ’¬ 165 πŸ“Œ 95

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

14.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 1663 πŸ” 482 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 6
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DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

14.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 4918 πŸ” 1882 πŸ’¬ 536 πŸ“Œ 878
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is β€œfilled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

13.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 20114 πŸ” 7999 πŸ’¬ 791 πŸ“Œ 557
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 9308 πŸ” 6067 πŸ’¬ 607 πŸ“Œ 1538
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

07.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 7502 πŸ” 3945 πŸ’¬ 240 πŸ“Œ 229
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The U.S. labor market lost 92,000 jobs in February In February the labor market lost 92,000 jobs, and economists are monitoring for signs that the labor market could be on the rebound.

Breaking news: The U.S. labor market lost 92,000 jobs in February, a striking loss signaling a warning flag for the economy.

06.03.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 514 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 39
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β€˜Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students β€” and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 5576 πŸ” 2686 πŸ’¬ 284 πŸ“Œ 589
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β€˜Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 2712 πŸ” 643 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 62

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17456 πŸ” 5769 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 101

Notably, the union endorsed a scathing declaration of grievances about Bhattacharya’s leadership.

05.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesse Singal: β€œI don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

04.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 8578 πŸ” 1550 πŸ’¬ 151 πŸ“Œ 52

Please, please end your partnership with OpenAI, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org. In addition to everything else, given all that we know, it seems incredibly likely that that company is going to funnel student input straight into government surveillance files.

28.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 358 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of powerβ€”to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformityβ€”is terrifying and it will not stop here.

26.02.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 3059 πŸ” 1307 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 58

These are β€œlow enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

26.02.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 2848 πŸ” 920 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 45

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying β€œthis doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to β€œtrans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

26.02.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 3999 πŸ” 1586 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 16

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

26.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 10820 πŸ” 5222 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 336

They want to frame white reconciliation as an inevitable and necessary path forward rather than their preferred ideological ideal.

25.02.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

"bus is turning" whoever that is

24.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

"The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump." www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

24.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

24.02.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 6174 πŸ” 2642 πŸ’¬ 150 πŸ“Œ 212
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

22.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 8098 πŸ” 4400 πŸ’¬ 339 πŸ“Œ 376

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

19.02.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 2950 πŸ” 410 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 9
Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored β€œlaw and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda.

Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants.

Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see β€œpeople in shackles” next door, she said.

Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored β€œlaw and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see β€œpeople in shackles” next door, she said.

β€œmy children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

19.02.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 7842 πŸ” 1870 πŸ’¬ 366 πŸ“Œ 447

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

17.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 4008 πŸ” 2010 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 48
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 12166 πŸ” 6995 πŸ’¬ 324 πŸ“Œ 831
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

17.02.2026 07:27 πŸ‘ 12414 πŸ” 4932 πŸ’¬ 264 πŸ“Œ 308
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No, ICE isn’t β€˜retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

MPLS was a great moral and practical victory for a new Trump-era resistance, but it was only the end of the beginning

15,000 new masked goons. 150 new ICE offices in every state, and a national network of warehouse concentration camps

My column on the battle ahead www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

16.02.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 357 πŸ” 156 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5