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Jonathan Kahn

@jkahn01.bsky.social
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Professor of Law and Biology. Northeastern University. Author of “The Uses of Diversity: How Race has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology” cup.columbia.edu/book/the-uses-of-d…

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
There are now more than 2,200 No Kings events on the map for October 17! We hope to see you in the streets again with millions of Americans to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms.
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Northeastern is hiring in health law! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank), School of Law – Health Policy and Law
About the Opportunity Northeastern University School of Law is seeking candidates at all ranks for full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty positions to join our scholarly community and enhance our l...
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Calls for investigation after video shows ICE officers using batons on protesters
Residents in Frederick, Maryland, shaken after clashes as activists decry violence from officers as ‘unconscionable’
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
www.goodtroubleliveson.org
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Good Trouble Lives On • Weekend of Action • July 17-19, 2026 | Teach! Reach! Preach!
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Lisa Gannett @lisagannett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I enjoyed reading and reviewing cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use..., a thoughtful new book by Northeastern Law and Biology Professor Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social -- rdcu.be/ftABc
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Race, biology, and society: what diversity does
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds
Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Well worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is How to Defeat an Autocrat
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Remind you of anything? “It turns out that would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers. . . They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre”. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A propos of the harm being caused by Trump: In The Return of the King Saruman mocks Frodo regarding the damage done to the Shire, saying: "I have already done much that you will find it hard to mend or undo in your lives.” I just hope the Democrats can find a little box with a “G” on it.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
indivisible.org/mayday2026
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May Day Participation Guide | Indivisible
May 1st is May Day and we’re calling on folks to make their economic power known. Learn how you can take action to show Trump and his billionaire buddies that we won’t just continue business as usual ...
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#NoKings Wellesley
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
RFK jr - you can pry my Dunkin’ Donuts from my cold dead hands!
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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
See the banned Talarico interview here: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I am thinking that in 2028 a Democratic Congress could pass a bill withdrawing qualified immunity from state prosecution from ICE agents. And that Democrats should let them all know they might be subject to facilitated state action that no Trump pardon could protect them from.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.threads.com/@aaronparnas...
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Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas) on Threads
This is Minneapolis. H/T MN Reformer
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/01/2026
Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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DHS ICE memo 1-21-26
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I am so tired of hearing Democratic Congresspeople say, “I’ve had #Republicans come up to me in private and criticize Trump, etc.”. Time to start naming names
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Resources for supporting people on the ground in Minnesota www.standwithminnesota.com?fbclid=IwZnR...
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
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Northeastern Law @nusl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In a ROROTOKO cover interview, Professor Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social explores themes from his new book, The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology. @clicatnusl.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social www.rorotoko.com/11/20260113-...
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RORO
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Defunding ICE is not enough, they can still move funds around and there is still no accountability. Instead, no ICE funding unless: 1. All federal agents forbidden from obscuring their identity (masks etc) 2. Waive immunity from State laws and state court prosecutions and tort suits.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Defunding ICE is not enough, they can still move funds around and there is still no accountability. Instead, no ICE funding unless: 1. All federal agents forbidden from obscuring their identity (masks etc) 2. Waive immunity from State laws and state court prosecutions and tort suits.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New interview up: On The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology Interview of January 13, 2026 www.rorotoko.com/11/20260113-...
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Pastor detained by ICE
YouTube video by KARE 11
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune offers an expert, frame-by-frame analysis of the events leading to the death of Renee Nicole Good and immediately thereafter. (1) There is no ambiguity or doubt about what happened. (2) The claims made by Trump, Vance and Noem are categorically false in every detail.
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Breaking down the videos: A close examination of the shooting of Renee Good
In just seconds, an encounter with ICE agents turned deadly. The Star Tribune examined the video evidence frame by frame.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The obvious critique I have not heard explicitly articulated is that the point of making a self defense argument would be saying “but for” his shooting her, she would have killed him. Clearly, had he not shot Good the outcome for HIM would have been just the same - i.e. no threat to his life
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder - The American Prospect
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
law.northeastern.edu/academics/ce...
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Annual Health Law Conference - School of Law
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23
Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
@nytimes.com is hopeless! Puts it story on the No Kings protest on p. 23 of print edition. Online it gives it same weight as a story on Vance speaking at a military base in CA. 7 million protesters with the same weight as a couch f—er!
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings in Wellesley MA
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Robert Post: “I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years . . . this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered” verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...
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Falling Far and Fast
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Massive walkout at #CDC. Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr. your time is up. (typo fixed). Spread the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
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LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Northeastern Law @nusl.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📊 New Research! With support from @changelabsolutions.bsky.social, Public Health Law Watch has released a new report tracking litigation that challenges governmental and health institution efforts to address health equity from January 2024 to May 2025. www.publichealthlawwatch.org/health-equit...
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Health Equity Litigation Report 2025 — Public Health Law Watch
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Jonathan Kahn on The Uses of Diversity - Columbia University Press Blog
Jonathan Kahn discusses the distinction between social understandings of race and biological understandings of genetic variation.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Now available! THE USES OF DIVERSITY offers bracing new perspective on one of today’s most vexed concepts. buff.ly/a2Z8KEE @jkahn01.bsky.social #Genetics #SocialScience #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #Medicine #Bioethics #ReadMore #ReadUP
Now Available: THE USES OF DIVERSITY: HOW RACE HAS BECOME ENTANGLED IN LAW, POLITICS, AND BIOLOGY, by JONATHAN KAHN. Includes the book's cover and a blurb by JOSEPH L. GRAVES JR.. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hey @maddow.msnbc.com youtu.be/5k07EXea0Cw
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Wellesley No Kings Protest
YouTube video by Michael Tobin
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/06/2025
ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY! At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS. There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org
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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Please, Democrats- if you haven’t already, develop a clear and coordinated strategy to refer to the budget exclusively as a “a disgusting abomination “ or the “We are All Going to Die” bill
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
absolutely!! dissent, advocate, resist www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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