There's really only so much whiteness I can take. I recognize how we have to jump on large-scale momentum while also holding the frustration that it takes killing two white people to actually reach such a level. The collective disregard for people of color as the sacrifices of the status quo is loud

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

I say as I am currently working with my first graduate student ever and it is a learning process

New feeling(s) to name and process: having prospective students reach out with interest to be in my lab. Like, you really wanna work with *me*? Like, what? I'm just here LOLz

I'm gonna need the same #HeatedRivalry energy from y'all for the new season of #TheBoyfriend bc I have been *waiting* for season 2 and I'm ready.

White supremacy is when Republican men and women in their 20s & 30s praising Hitler, genocide, and rape are “just kids”—but 18-year-old Michael Brown was no angel, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a thug, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was a criminal, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice should’ve known better.😐

When you've got a summer grant app and sabbatical due on the same week. and it's the first full week of the term. and the world is collapsing. and and and ...

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

No but seriously where are the hundreds people that disappeared from the monstrosity of the so called “Alligator Alcatraz”? Why aren’t people talking about it? I can find very little and it’s from weeks ago!

Are we at the disappearing phase of this horror?!

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I genuinely want to know how we, as educators, protect our trans students when the federal government is classifying them as a terrorist threat.

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES - No. 25A169 - KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [September 8, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25-cv-5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. In early June, the Government launched immigration enforcement raids across Los Angeles and its surrounding counties. During the raids, teams of armed and masked agents pulled up to car washes, tow yards, farms, and parks and began seizing individuals on sight, often before asking a single question. A Federal District Court found that these raids were part of a pattern of conduct by the Government that likely violated the Fourth Amendment. Based on the evidence before it, the court held that the Government was stopping individuals based solely on four factors: (1) their apparent race or ethnicity; (2) whether they spoke Spanish or English with an accent; (3) the type of location at which they were found (such as a car wash or bus stop); and (4) the type of job they appeared to work. Concluding that stops based on these four factors alone, even when taken together, could not satisfy the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonable suspicion, the District Court temporarily enjoined the Government from continuing its pattern of unlawful mass arrests while it considered whether longer-term relief was appropriate.

Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of 2 NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court's order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

* * The Fourth Amendment protects every individual's constitutional right to be "free from arbitrary interference by law officers." Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 878. After to-day, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little. Because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation's constitutional guarantees, I dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

The American Dream is Dead But was it ever the right dream?

One new study says the American Dream now costs $5 million. Another says nearly 70% of the country has lost faith in it. The Dream has died, but maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe now we’ll have a chance to dream about something better than a McMansion in the burbs.

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Like, why would such an important test, that determines which colleges you'll have access to, be so convoluted? What kind of gatekeeping are we seeing here? And don't even get me started on the GRE.

What radicalized me? One example: Learning that SAT prep was more about HOW to take the test, rather than the content of the test.

This screenshot claims that a Reuters investigation revealed Meta allowed its chatbots to engage in “sensual” chats with minors, according to an internal document titled "GenAI: Content Risk Standards." It alleges that the document included examples of permissible chatbot behavior involving romantic engagement with kids, and that CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed for more engaging chatbot interactions after finding cautious designs “boring.”

Meta explicitly enabled its chat bots to engage in sexually explicit chats with young children.

This company is fundamentally evil.

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Really tired of politics playing out like some goddamn reality tv show.

Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest Virginia Commonwealth University is withholding the diploma of a Palestinian American student because of her campus activism. In a hearing Tuesday, officials examined the case of VCU student Sereen Haddad,...

Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.

Universities, legislatures, academic conferences, the Democratic Party: Gaza has exposed how liberal institutions do not care about democracy. At all.

John Armstrong, Senior Bureau Official in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, testified today in #AAUPvRubio that *ANY* criticism of Israel is grounds for visa revocation visa and deportation.

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Reflecting on my academic experiences and realizing that my critical eye was shaped through ethnic studies and media studies. Maybe I need to reconnect with that to feel energized in this domain again.

They need to not with these fictional/imaginary characters. That opened way too many chaotic doors

At this point, I watch #DragRace like a long-suffering but dedicated sports fan.

Not only does this bill strip healthcare from millions of people, steal our money for billionaires, and explode the deficit by trillions.

It also gives $170 billion to the regime’s deportation efforts.

More ICE. More kidnappings. More concentration camps.

Their evil has no limits—this is fascism.

Today is one of those days where the hits just keep coming.

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Not early shopping hours making me actually consider upgrading my Costco membership ...