Spent another week with my refugee law course in Copenhagen and Malmö. These students learned about refugee centers and detention, trauma recovery, integration measures and more.
I’m so proud of this program and honored by our amazing collaborators-they provide so much light in the darkness.
Quite the closing words from the judge too:
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
There can be no compromise on shutting this entire system down.
Remember Ramos’s limp body when you listen to any politician caving (I’m talking about you, Schumer, but also others)
🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
There are so many things beyond words at this moment. Pure evil and DEEP stupidity.
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
The United States is not an ethnic-nationalist dictatorship.
But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country.
Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.
A little bit of chaos?? This is a fucking nightmare for this dad and this whole community
This is America, a country where we champion the law and our constitution? This should make any patriot physically sick.
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school.
That threat does not come from immigrants.
There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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If I stayed at A&M, I would not be able to teach more than half of my courses. A deep loss that experts like Dr Petersen are being silenced.
I am sad for the future of Texas A&M. Some of my most meaningful career experiences were at this institution and my colleagues and their students deserve so much better.
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
The fact that US law currently permits this is all we need to know about how all nationalisms bend towards fascism.
Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.
“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”
Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.
‘Approximately 500,000 foreign-educated nurses work in the U.S. as of 2022, representing about one in six registered nurses.’ www.kff.org/racial-equit...
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
Uit de VS National Holocaust Memorial
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...
Attention #americans in #copenhgen: Stand up for American Democracy: Tomorrow (14/6) at Kogens Nytorv at 14:00: www.democratsabroad.org/cph_no_tyran...
Or mediterranearescue.org
To fund the brave crews in #SAR
I have a big birthday next week and even though my @bsky.app footprint is small, if anyone wants to give me a gift, donate to causes I love, like drc.ngo @drcngo.bsky.social
Reminds me of this American Indian prophecy:
When the last tree is cut,
the last fish is caught,
and the last river is polluted;
when to breathe the air is sickening,
you will realize, too late,
that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money
Sick and disgusting
Sec. 4. Restoring Truth in American History. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall: (i) determine whether, since January 1, 2020, public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior's jurisdiction have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology; (ii) take action to reinstate the pre-existing monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties, as appropriate and consistent with 43 U.S.C. 1451 et seq., 54 U.S.C. 100101 et seq.,and other applicable law; and …
I _think_ this portion of the “restoring history” EO is meant to compel restoration of Confederate monuments. Aside from this being mere guidance, though, I see a snag: how does it “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” to remove shrines to people who rebelled against us?
