Local News 12-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts boston By Updated on: May 13, 2025 / 8:53 AM EDT / CBS Boston A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with on Felton Street recently. Neighborhood Watch volunteers were able to get the boy home safely.

You can't make this up.

ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with.

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Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

Let me say this again:

If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.

Finally Harvard realizes capitulating will not save it from further demands. Every university needs to do the same.

Columbia political science professor & scholar of post-soviet policy Tim Frye speaking out today as the rain fell at Columbia AAUP’s press conference in response to Columbia’s shocking surrender to the Trump administration’s threats to defund.

#defendhighered #academicsky

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Do you want Democrats in Congress to.... Asked among self-identified Democratic voters. Make compromises with President Trump to gain consensus on legislation Stick to their positions even if this means not getting things done in Washington 59% April 2017 33 March 2025 32 65 Notes: The poll was conducted March 7-11 and surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationally, including 406 self-identified Democrats. The margin of error on this question is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. Source: NBC News polls

In case you missed it, the day before Mahmoud Khalil’s detention by Ice none other than Shai Davidai tweeted at Rubio demanding his deportation.

And once he was apprehended, he felt these were legit “consequences” for him protesting.

A faculty member @columbiauniversity.bsky.social the shameful.

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6.

Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

I don't know if it's a real saying, but I remember one of my aunts always saying "there's no corruption like white people corruption"

As I said to the @nytimes.com:

“Not everyone in the Democratic Party disagrees with the arguments from, quote, the other side, when it comes to these issue. This is the thing about liberalism in this country. It often falls apart when race and identities are implicated.”

We are on our own, y’all.

It's out today! :)

F. Come see me at office hours.

I know folks have said it already, but the most annoying shit is watching the least impressive people whine about “DEI” hires. Like, I’ve met dogs with more intellectual gravitas.

Don’t be fooled by these clowns—most of them came in on an elevator and swear they took the stairs.

Dems confirming Trump nominees

maybe if you’re a member of the opposition party you don’t vote to confirm their nominees during an ongoing autogolpe

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

The struggles of being a political science professor.

NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
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They call it "Know Your Rights" he says. THEY CALL IT. Makes them harder to arrest.

I have no more words.

It's already happening. And it's only a matter of time before a US citizen gets detained.

New 2024 data: Over 50% of GOP fundraising now comes from just 100 mega-donors.

Trump’s embrace of the billionaire class—and their embrace of him—will only supercharge this trend.

This second Trump administration is more emboldened than the first in pursuing a racist, white supremacist & nativist agenda.

This isn’t surprising. What’s disheartening is the sheer cowardice & complacency of so many institutions & elites in the face of this blatant attempt to turn back the clock.

Moderates in Dem Party may say this language loses elections, but my job is to tell the truth: Trump’s immigration policies are part of a racist, white supremacist project.

Fights over who belongs to “We the people” have always been abt race. This time is no different.

Me: “2025 is the year I unleash the tiger in me.”

The tiger:

Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”

The results were hilarious.

Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%

The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
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