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Frank Edwards

@frankalready.bsky.social
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I study social control, racism, and the welfare state. Member of Rutgers AAUP-AFT. f-edwards.github.io

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've reviewed 100s of inequality papers in sociology. Some fantastic, some abysmal, most in between. I can recall very few papers as weak as Rubin's report by criteria of logical coherence, objectivity, and evidentiary standards. The irony would be funny, if there wasn't so much at stake.
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This sox team is a ton of fun to watch m.youtube.com/watch?v=x3YW...
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Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox, Performed by Mariachi Herencia de México
YouTube video by Chicago White Sox
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Realizing that I should have said something about, like, what the piece is about It’s about how settler colonialism conditions the aesthetics of power, and the dialectic between the respectable gentleman in a tie in the capital and the rugged, filthy settler on the frontier. Two faces of one system
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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God’s Little Ravioli 🏳️‍⚧️ @zoealicempls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Found out why I haven’t. (Bless you, @wfmu.bsky.social DJs)
a search of the WFMU archive, showing that the song “Choosin’ Texas” had been played never. Good job, WFMU
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, that and "AI is an absolute disaster in the field of education, just a giant screaming comet descending from the heavens making all educational contexts less efficient and more time and labor intensive for a given amount of learning."
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
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UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.
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Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Michael Scott Balch, PhD @uqprofessional.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026
“More than a third of the $2.8bn raised for the current 2025-26 election cycle comes from the 20 biggest mega-donors” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Recommendations for visual predictive checks in Bayesian workflow" published in Journal of Visualization and Interaction doi.org/10.54337/jov..., which is exciting also because this is our first Quarto html journal paper www.journalovi.org/2025-sailyno.... I wish more journals would adopt this!
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Recommendations for visual predictive checks in Bayesian workflow | Journal of Visualization and Interaction
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026
Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...
Documenting the Impact of US DHS Activity in MN

Conference Date: Sept 22, 2026

Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Purpose

In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began a significant, sustained agent surge in Minnesota that affected the daily lives of many residents, but had severe impacts on immigrant communities and communities of color.

This one-day, in-person convening provides researchers from across disciplines and organizations with an opportunity to share and discuss research related to the effects of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 01/09/2026
Over the late 20th cen, policy influence shifted in the US from academia to corporate-funded, mostly conservative think tanks like AEI and the Manhattan Institute; now in the 21st, these think tanks are rapidly reshaping higher education & the humanities in particular in their image.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 02/09/2026
Evergreen
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
here's Dolly's song about burning a juvenile detention center to the ground: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYH...
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Evening Shade
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They’re just really concerned with free speech on campus and academic freedom bsky.app/profile/polp...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
An ADSBx map showing 35 planes flying all over the Americas and Africa, emanating out of Louisiana and TexasAn ADSBx map showing North and Central America, showing roundup flights to northern cities, about a dozen removal flights to central America and the Caribbean.A closeup of Alexandria, La, showing GlobalX's N966AD taking off and then quickly returning to the airport.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NEW: For the second day, the Census Bureau's homepage, census.gov, features an unauthored report with analysis that @npr.org found was conducted not by career civil servants, but a team that included individuals affiliated with a President Trump-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute
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Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting
A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New paper: We look at compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act's foster care provisions across states. Native kids are still going into state foster care at unacceptably high rates, and ICWA's preferences for kin and Native foster homes aren't being adequately met doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
Line plot of rates of foster care for Native kids going into foster care by age, and placement in ICWA preferred settings by age. Younger kids in foster care more often, and in ICWA preferred settings more oftenChoropleth of probability of ICWA preferred placement for Native kids. Rates are lowest in the South, highest in Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana (around 0.6)6 pane choropleth for probability of kin placement by child race. Rates are similar for AIAN, Black, Latino, and White kids in most states. HPI kids have low rates of kin placement
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m not sure folks appreciate how bad AI’s effects are in this new paper The graph that went viral shows AI hurts students on regular class tests But the paper also looks at China‘s high-stakes national HS and college entrance exams — AI use leads students to do up to 18-24% (!) worse on those
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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Follow the dirty ICE money - deep dive by @elizabethweill.bsky.social & @ethanscorey.bsky.social for @theintercept.com with a database you can search to see what companies in your area are contracting with the Trump Administration's Gestapo
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Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.
The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2026
A Guatemalan immigrant who had been taken to a troubled detention center in New Jersey last month experienced a medical emergency and died after having been transferred to a hospital, federal officials said on Wednesday.
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A Third Immigrant Detained at Delaney Hall Dies After Medical Emergency
A Guatemalan migrant was transferred to a hospital when he experienced what appeared to be a seizure, federal officials said.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In keeping with my take below, a good summary and analysis from @adamconner.bsky.social of the Trump administration's continued unilateral and selective regulation--dressed up as "deregulation" and "voluntary" participation. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration Has Created a De Facto Licensing System for Frontier AI Models
The administration’s new framework for frontier AI models is “voluntary” in name only.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/08/2026
One immigrant justice advocate estimated that hundreds of protests have occurred in immigration jails in Trump's second term. He said that most of these protests are sit-ins and hunger strikes — but they only get covered if hundreds of people participate, while smaller ones fly under the radar.
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It’s Not Just Delaney. Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds of Hunger Strikes.
Formerly incarcerated immigrants, solidarity activists, and scholars discuss the underreported resistance in ICE jails.
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
something I've heard a lot about but good to see direct analysis on it: www.investigatewest.org/fired-office...
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Washington tribal police hire fired officers at outsized rates
Tribal police in Washington hire officers fired elsewhere at a rate four times higher than their share of the workforce
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 05/08/2026
A third detainee died after being held at Delaney Hall, according to Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ). www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/04/t...
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A Third Delaney Hall Detainee Has Died, New Jersey Congressman Says
Rep. Rob Menendez said ICE confirmed details of the death, which took place weeks ago, to him during an oversight visit to the facility on Monday.
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Another community member detained by ICE at Delaney hall. Please take a second to sign and demand Iemad’s release. actionnetwork.org/petitions/64...
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Free Iemad Saifo from ICE Detention!
Iemad Saifo was detained by ICE and separated from his family on July 31, 2026 at a routine check-in, despite entering the US lawfully and following the proper legal procedures. Iemad Saifo is an 6...
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Incredibly bad
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Shannon Conder @shannonconder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Staff were also part of this cut (I understand that laying off tenured faculty is bigger news, but we lost a LOT of people) leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
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Illinois Institute of Technology declares “financial exigency” and begins firing faculty, including tenured faculty
Up to one-third of the faculty may be terminated, although in the law school, Chicago-Kent, it appears the number is lower (maybe one-fifth by some accounts). If readers have more details, please e…
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Students relying on [AI tutors] may underperform when access to AI is subsequently removed, indicating reduced skill acquisition. [But] carefully designed safeguards, espec'lly asking the AI tutor to provide teacher-designed hints instead of giving away answers, can mitigate these negative effects"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“NSF has now pulled back $300 million from two of its divisions: mathematics and physical sciences, and computer and information science and engineering. Programme officers…at the NSF, have pulled back 150 proposals that have already passed peer review to free up the money”
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m at the Wisconsin State Capitol, where Rep Sheila Stubbs is holding a press conference with the family of Corey Ruiz and their attorney, Ben Crump.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
‼️ ICE goons kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Passaic, NJ ‼️ Prior to this video being taken, he was confronting ICE for trying to kidnap his neighbors. Video from 8:25am on 7/23/26
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We’ve seen so much cruelty from ICE over the past year. But using kids as “bait” to arrest & detain their relatives is a new level of evil. I witnessed it last week at 201 Varick Street. Per this article in the Texas Tribune, it’s happened over 100X. (1/3)
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ICE arresting relatives trying to take custody of migrant kids
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I can't stress this enough. This was their POLICY and PLAN. I've been saying it for months. I know that you all know this. I hope that the people who are losing their benefits understand too. Brooke Rollins et al have been saying that this is their desire and intention for months.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.
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