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Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

Seizures of Cocaine at the U.S.-Mexico Border Component Southwest Border Coastal/Interior Northern Border Total Oct-20 4368 6353 303 11024 Nov-20 2622 5978 1 8601 Dec-20 1411 5053 1 6465 Jan-21 2400 6980 243 9623 Feb-21 2690 4885 22 7597 Mar-21 1545 10067 5 11617 Apr-21 2240 4666 0 6906 May-21 1903 1022 0 2925 Jun-21 1409 2565 0 3974 Jul-21 2412 5158 71 7641 Aug-21 2252 7643 166 10061 Sep-21 1483 9594 119 11196 Oct-21 1825 2183 13 4021 Nov-21 2069 3284 319 5672 Dec-21 1229 6046 5 7280 Jan-22 913 1401 3 2317 Feb-22 2538 1147 552 4237 Mar-22 2086 1684 1 3771 Apr-22 2287 5107 3 7397 May-22 2830 2944 0 5774 Jun-22 1363 7979 1 9343 Jul-22 1357 3697 150 5204 Aug-22 5202 7655 1 12858 Sep-22 1474 942 1 2417 Oct-22 2919 2074 1 4994 Nov-22 1815 2780 1 4596 Dec-22 1822 4255 8 6085 Jan-23 2128 949 0 3077 Feb-23 2270 266 26630 29166 Mar-23 3753 2046 0 5799 Apr-23 2072 1012 0 3084 May-23 1137 2064 0 3201 Jun-23 2633 2808 192 5633 Jul-23 1578 5250 0 6828 Aug-23 2078 2732 0 4810 Sep-23 3364 381 65 3810 Oct-23 4258 330 9 4597 Nov-23 3640 399 0 4039 Dec-23 2330 609 5 2944 Jan-24 2396 2401 319 5116 Feb-24 3586 7825 642 12053 Mar-24 1275 2884 7 4166 Apr-24 1799 5761 5 7565 May-24 1993 5174 1 7168 Jun-24 1534 1528 0 3062 Jul-24 1464 1273 460 3197 Aug-24 2605 3035 898 6538 Sep-24 3503 4263 0 7766 Oct-24 2799 3193 0 5992 Nov-24 2143 557 1 2701 Dec-24 2822 6719 1156 10697 Jan-25 3042 2122 8 5172 Feb-25 3065 741 246 4052 Mar-25 3887 1335 117 5339 Apr-25 4110 288 535 4933 May-25 2713 2595 564 5872 Jun-25 4411 1942 354 6707 Jul-25 4615 673 516 5804 Aug-25 3973 1106 273 5352 Sep-25 3369 3043 1053 7465 Oct-25 3505 2383 0 5888 Nov-25 5283 2636 395 8314 Dec-25 1805 1989 45 3839 Jan-26 2447 3059 0 5506 Feb-26 2902 4736 26 7664 Mar-26 3829 1667 14 5510

Southcom’s illegal boat strikes began on September 2 and have killed 164 people.

We now have data through March about cocaine seized at US borders.

Cocaine seized during 7 months before the strikes: 38,059 pounds

Seized during 7 months since the strikes: 44,186 pounds

Supplies steady. No impact.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Wow, striking findings... (I am also here for the interesting way you conceptualize the meaning of pre-treatment trends in this case!)

Young Mormons Aren’t Blue — They’re Just a Little Less Red Utah is not a purple state.

That's eye catching.

Relatedly, this is worth a read from @ryanburge.bsky.social: www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/young-morm...

I just updated my LGBTI National Policy Dataset through 2025. I’ve also added more policies and sub-national coverage. Here are some interesting trends:

osf.io/wta9p/overvi...

Congratulations and thank you!

templates, models, narratives, ideas, notions, views, thoughts, actions, practices, I'm sure I am missing a dozen more

Thank you for sharing this. It is remarkably well done and humanizing.

Don’t Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America

"The Illegality is Not a Bug, It's a Feature."

Here's the video version (con títulos en español) of last week's podcast episode on illegal lethal boat strikes, featuring WOLA's drug policy program director, John Walsh.

Line graph that shows a blue line of # protests since Trump's 2nd inauguration surpassed, showing these to have exceeded 42k by the end of Jan 2026. A green line counts # of protests during the same time period in Trump's first term and just exceeds 10k.

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

Can't make this up...

This looks fantastic. Thank you!

Thank you

Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...

A challenging but ultimately very rewarding essay. Amia Srinivasan on developing a political imagination creative enough to resist oppression and patient enough to explore the psychological development of the oppressed and the oppressors. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

I reached out to AVP and David Grusky was enthusiastic about sharing transcripts for PhD students to work on. But there did appear to be hurdles before they could share the data, at least for now. I ran out of time this fall, but I hope to try this.

I love their work. Some of the bravest folks around.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible.

Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.

Thank you for sharing this link to provide monthly support to @elfaro.net / @elfaroenglish.bsky.social. I just joined the cause.

I had not seen their 2026 conference announcement. Thanks for posting this. In case you are interested, here is version 1 of our dataset (w/ @kvelasco.bsky.social) of speakers at World congress of Families events since they started in 1997: osf.io/tj68h/files/...

BREAKING NEWS: Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law & society, wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize —
the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u

Spotlight in OS 26 not indexing all files Since upgrading (??) to OS26 Spotlight is not finding files on the disk, only web locations. According to Perplexity this is a known problem: ”The issue with Spotlight in macOS 26 (Tahoe) not finding...

This might help... talk.tidbits.com/t/spotlight-...

I was lucky to overlap with Brian at the University of Michigan through a mutual friend when he was a law student. It was clear then he was really devoted to making the country a better place for all. He needs our support! I am not surprised in the least to see him leading the way in Chicago.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South

Full details here:
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

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