The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

How the Supreme Court Rejected Denaturalization as a Political Weapon Long Ago New threats to strip opponents of citizenship recall a dark history.

The Trump administration and its supporters have made numerous threats to revoke the citizenship of political foes who are naturalized citizens — but if the government tries to follow through, it will have an uphill legal battle. bit.ly/4rh6WJT

I get it

For those wondering, this is the terrible horrible thing he said: “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." 🤦‍♀️

62 years ago, Dr. King led the March on Washington with giants like John Lewis, Mahalia Jackson, A. Philip Randolph, and so many others.

If you’ve ever wondered what you’d be doing during the Civil Rights Movement, this is your test. (1/2)

You reposted this with the same misleading headline?

I had the same thought upon first reading it.

Wait until NYT finds out there are people from India who grew up in the Carribbean / South America

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story.

The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

Breaking news: New York Times learns that Uganda is in Africa.

You are only helping aid Trump's narrative by claiming — falsely — that the protestors are the ones in the wrong + the ones escalating violence.

Oh. I think you may be on the wrong website. We don't support people who do Nazi salutes on Bluesky.

Graph titled: Many people in state prisons grew up facing serious family, housing, economic, and educational challenges.

The US allows children — especially Black children — to grow up in poverty. With demographic data, we can see more clearly how many of those kids grow up to fill state prisons.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Thank you!

The Bureaucratic Challenges of Unified Data: Examining Predictive Policing Technology Design Issues Posed by Federal and State U.S. Criminal Legal System Data Sets | Proceedings of the Extended Abstra...

Publication out! My colleague @christinehead.bsky.social and I outline major flaws with national-level criminal legal system datasets (like the NIBRS) due to differences in state data availability, usability, and comparability.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Columbia Lecturer Creates 'Resistance Summer School' After University Eliminates Her Course On Race Karen Attiah once led a popular course at Columbia University. After it was canceled the course, she created "Resistance Summer School."

WE MOVE!!

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Finally, a university stands up for what is right, regardless of the risk.

UC Regents, I hope you're watching.

On Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to remind you that 1.6 million people in the U.S. identify as transgender, including 300,000 youth (ages 13-17) and 1.3 million adults. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

All Kamala has to do is change her initials on Signal to “DT” and she’ll be presidenting in the group chats by dinner.

How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.