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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention. The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

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6-Year-Old NYC Elementary School Student and Her Mom Deported

The mother's 19-year-old son remains in ICE custody in New Jersey, while her distraught teenage minor is now in the care of her 21-year-old brother.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

NEW in Bolts: The sheriff of Buffalo, a Republican, is overseeing a deadly jail system — despite promises of change of reform, little has changed since he took over. This year, he’s running for re-election. Unopposed. The local Dem chair has said the sheriff is “very successful.”

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There’s a New Sheriff in Town. But Buffalo Area Jails Remain as Dangerous as Ever. - Bolts

Despite federal oversight, elections, and promises of reform from a new sheriff, little has changed for people detained in Erie County jails.

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Cigdem Cidam @cidamc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Very happy to share that my article "Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework" is now out #FirstView from @apsrjournal - Here is the link: Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework - cup.org/452m5EH And here is the abstract:

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New perspectives on Judith Shklar - Contemporary Political Theory

Contemporary Political Theory -

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T24 @t24.com.tr · 15/07/2025

🔴 Boğaziçi Üniversitesi mezuniyetinde “Kayyımlar gidecek biz kalacağız” pankartı açan öğrencinin yüksek lisans kabulü iptal edildi; okula girişi yasaklandı! t24.com.tr/haber/bogazi...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This is monstrous.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

New CFP from the journal Democratic Theory inviting "short and standalone research notes, called ‘dispatches from the field’, of around 3,500 words. We welcome your diagnoses, illuminations, responses, accounts, etc., regarding democracy under challenge...by the authoritarianisms around you"

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Welcoming your ‘dispatch from the field’ on Democracy in a Time of Rising Author

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A hospital in rural Nebraska has announced its closing. The CEO faults the "anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid:" www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Huge win for the Trump administration will remake a lot of things, and a farcical turnaround from how SCOTUS allowed courts to proceed under Biden.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Bloomberg pouring $5 million to help Cuomo, with 10 days to go: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

nytimes.com

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/06/2025

First know your rights, then share your rights. Download our Know Your Rights graphic and use it as your phone screen when going to protests.

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Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article)

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I can’t compete with this

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Political theorists! APT is once again hosting a workshop for first time book authors - draft book proposals will be reviewed by published faculty and by Angela Chnapko, acquisitions editor for Oxford University Press. Applications due July 21! Info: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...

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Emailing - The Association for Political Theory

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Cigdem Cidam @cidamc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I was appalled reading this horrific piece in the New Yorker yesterday. This thread is doing an excellent job exposing the false equivocations and mischaracterizations that shape the whole piece…

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/05/2025

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that will cut billions of dollars from Medicaid. Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of people across the country, including more than 15 million people with disabilities. The Senate must reject this dangerous bill.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2025

BREAKING: The Trump administration just announced it has filed charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was demanding accountability on behalf of the people she was elected to represent. President Trump is trying to bully people into silence. We won’t let him.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s just all so dark, so perverse, so sick.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/05/2025

Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners? TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk has been granted bail by a federal court in Vermont. With this ruling, she will be able to return to her Massachusetts community and continue her studies while the case proceeds. She never should have been locked up for exercising her First Amendment rights.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

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Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest

Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...

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Olga H @olgash.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Twitter (X) account of Ekrem Imamoglu, the imprisoned Istanbul Mayor and presidential candidate, was withheld following last night's major demonstration in Beyazıt.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

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“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Last week the Trump administration fired another 8 immigration judges. One judge was fired in the middle of an asylum hearing and had to walk off the bench before the hearing was over! There are now nearly 50 FEWER immigration judges than when Trump took office!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/04/2025

ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!

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Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/04/2025

Yikes. They're complying with Erdogan's suppression of opposition.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Leon Rengel was briefly held at East Hidalgo Detention Center, a private facility in La Villa, Texas, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Then — nothing. His alien number, a way to track his whereabouts, vanished two days later from ICE’s online system. He disappeared. ICE agents told Gutierrez her boyfriend had been deported to his home country. But the family has searched in Venezuela, and he isn’t there, she said. “I’ve been to the ICE office. I’ve contacted the FBI. The DEA. Everyone told me the same thing: He was deported,” Gutierrez said. “But where to? He never arrived in Venezuela.” It’s possible that the Trump administration deported Leon Rengel to a mega-prison in El Salvador, where hundreds of other Venezuelans were sent last month — but there is no official record to confirm it.

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 19/04/2025

“We're not talking about some petty crimes here. We're talking about speech and beliefs that the U.S. finds so dangerous, so intolerable in this country, the U.S. government's scared of it and therefore has to banish people who hold those beliefs.” — Baher Azmy, Legal Director

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Olga H @olgash.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In Yozgat, one of Turkey’s most conservative cities and considered a stronghold of the ruling party, the opposition is holding a very large rally. Not only MPs but also farmers took the stage. Today feels like a sign of a major change.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The White House just posted this on X.

Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he's NOT coming back.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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BREAKING: The ACLU's Lee Gelernt tells me his group has heard from immigration lawyers that a group of Venezuelan migrants at the Bluebonnet ICE detention facility in Texas have been notified they are at imminent risk of being expelled under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

as we keep getting reports like this, it's still unclear how many Americans are affected because DHS has not provided numbers on citizens detained by immigration authorities and isn't answering Congressional inquiries about them www.propublica.org/article/more...

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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.

Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Law enforcement wearing masks, again, even as one of the Trump administration conditions for universities is that no-one can wear a mask that disrupts their surveillance.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I hope there is a habeas petition already filed in Vermont.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Our black site locations are classified except for our propaganda photo-ops

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“…a comprehensive turn away from US assets…” Gosh, I wonder why? FFS

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I've seen a lot of 'if you wanted to collapse higher education in America, this is how you'd do it," and I don't mean to be rude, but that isn't a distant point: this is them literally, explicitly, and actively working to collapse higher education in this country, and doing it because they want to

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

And graft

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Repeat after me - there is no plan. The entire global economy hangs on the whims of one guy. Also, Howard Lutnick promised me all those millions of jobs screwing tiny screws into iPhones were coming back to the United States.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 11/04/2025

She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.

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