The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
The GOP is consistent. When they said state’s rights they meant “white supremacy“ and when they said “tyranny” they were mad about federal interference with white supremacy.
ICE is white supremacist, so they support it. They aren’t hypocritical on this.
There is a video from across the street of half a dozen or so masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground, punching him. Then there is a shot, then several others, until he is lying completely still.
You may want to be cautious if you don't want to see the video.
This is the neighborhood next door. I’ve been up and down this street so many times; Eat Street where this happened is home to a lot of immigrant-owned restaurants and businesses. I can hear the helicopters. The tension and fear in our communities and networks is overflowing
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
This is gruesome. That man is unconscious, needs medical attention, as they carry him off.
Trying to explain what it feels like in the Twin Cities right now to people who aren’t here and haven’t experienced this is genuinely crazy-making.
Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
Not out yet, but my forthcoming book Coverage Denied is available for preorder! www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...
Laura Garbes examines how public radio’s early decisions shaped whose voices were heard.
In Listeners Like Who? published on @princetonupress.bsky.social, she traces how those structures still shape the media and how journalists of color are working to make the industry more inclusive.
ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
Please check out @dacuetovilla.bsky.social’s new article examining the impact of org resources on faith community responses to crises!!!
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
He ticks off a list of violence against right wing figures, and the rhetoric he says that fueled them, but ignores the murder or a leading Minnesota politician, the planned kidnapping of the Governor of Michigan, shooting of the CDC, or the assault of Nancy Pelosi's husband.
A dedication that reads “To the squeaky wheels of public radio”
A book cover of a book entitled “Listeners like Who?” On a wooden table
It’s publication day for Listeners Like Who? @princetonupress.bsky.social.
I’m grateful to the journalists that shared their stories with me, the colleagues and friends that read copious drafts, and the early readers of the book. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes
How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves.
Laura Garbes' Listeners Like Who? is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
📢 TODAY'S ASA PRESENTERS (AM)
List of SOC faculty and PhD candidates who are presenting this morning!
#ASA2025: @umnsociology.bsky.social
📢 TODAY'S ASA PRESENTERS (AM)
List of SOC faculty and PhD candidates who are presenting this morning!
#ASA2025: @umnsociology.bsky.social
A little bit of an update! If you’ve accessed my previous website in the past, please use this new link :) it’s also in my description!
sites.google.com/umn.edu/shan...
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
A complicating factor here is every state administering Medicaid under a unique name. "I'm not on Medicaid, I'm on Medi-Cal / BadgerCare Plus / STAR / etc!" Many people about to discover that they are, in fact, on Medicaid.
Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
