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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I teach at a school with a large nursing program and my intro to sociology classes are often filled with nursing students. Out of 35 of them only 2 knew about the cuts and grant cancellations in HHS and NIH, they were very upset when we discussed it - TALK TO YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...

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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations

In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...

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sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share!

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

speaking up and pushing back works. keep it up.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/01/2025

The State Department suspended all applications for passport gender changes in response to President Trump's executive order restricting transgender rights. We know this has caused confusion. We're monitoring the situation closely — here are 2 important things to know.

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Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The #DATALab in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office is requesting proposals for research that meets the moment to support in 2025. Please read more via link below and consider applying or sharing in your networks: mailchi.mp/phila/resear... Defer no time... Email me with any Qs.

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DATA Lab: Request for Research Proposals that Meet the Moment

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

For those in Michigan who may want to better understand the legislative process, how it works, and how to affect it, the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) @micemi.bsky.social has a great list of resources in their latest update email 🧵:

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Donnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We can’t wait another decade while thousands of families remain without stable homes. What good is a pro-housing majority when thousands are left without places to live? 6,980 families are waiting for us to permit more housing and to build it here. LFG! #a2council

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7,000 Applications for 20 Affordable Units: A Wake-Up Call for Ann Arbor’s Housing Policy

An affordable housing developer got 7,000 applications for 20 units, exposing Ann Arbor’s housing crisis while the UDC remains unchanged.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Battle Between Carnival and Lent, by Jan Molenaer (flipped), 1633-34, 📸 by @julianfinney

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Brendan P. O'Malley @bomalley500.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

@unlawfulentries.bsky.social tells why birthright citizenship ensconced in the 14th Amendment is "black-letter law"--so well established that it is beyond any reasonable debate--through four excellent books.

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is an actual fucking photo of a band that was (and still is) very important to me

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Laura J Hilton @ljhilton2.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I am using this book for my Twentieth Century Europe class again this semester. And as I am prepping it and my assignments, its breadth and depth of primary sources documents showing how fascism grew in many different European countries is amazing. Thanks to all the chapter authors!

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ann Arbor has too many geese… and deer #A2Council

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Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23/12/2024

We often hear from people looking for basic info about the criminal legal system. Unfortunately, we too often find ourselves unable to help because of data gaps in the system So this year, we started keeping track & put them into a Data Wishlist: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Check out thia zine outlining the rights of formerly incarcerated individuals when seeking housing stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/research/com...

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You Deserve a Home! Applicant Screening Reports and Rights

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Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What a fantastic resource from @theappeal.org! A national database of prison commissary lists. #LegalPlunder

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Economic Anthropology - Journal @economicanthro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hello everyone! Economic Anthropology is now on Bluesky. We'll be cross-posting between here and Twitter for as long as it continues to exist, but we're excited to break new ground here with you. Keep an eye out for our next edition!

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A List of Things People Blamed on the Tango 🧵

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🎄🎅 From tomorrow until Christmas we'll post a sovereignty-themed advent calendar. After all Levia-clause is sovereign! He makes law determining who is naughty or nice and dispenses justice, giving gifts to some and punishing the others (taking away bad kids to the forest, in some traditions).

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Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 06/12/2024

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services. The article, in Criminology, is free, and I summarize it below. doi.org/10.1111/1745...

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Do austerity cuts spare police budgets? Welfare‐to‐carceral realignment during fiscal crises

Did governments shift funding from their social welfare functions to their criminal justice functions after the 1980s? Studies investigating this possible “punitive turn” have been inconclusive and h...

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

👇🎯 Periodic reminder that the right-wing career/salary talking points about the liberal arts are belied by huge piles of data (e.g., news.wisc.edu/new-data-on-...), & the complicity of Democrats & university administrators in repeating those right-wing talking points is a major part of then problem.

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Every year around this time @prisonpolicy.bsky.social publishes a list of achievable criminal justice reforms. It's good to take a look at them and think about what you can do in your city/county/state to move particular ones forward www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/winn...

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Winnable criminal justice reforms in 2025

34 high-impact policy ideas for state legislators and advocates looking to reform their criminal legal system without making it bigger.

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Jessica Neptune @jessicaneptune.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

BPI’s series of endowed faculty chairs is a total game changer for college in prison. For the first time, a CIP has its own dedicated full time faculty, centering the learning of incarcerated students and easing some of the semesterly faculty recruiting burden.

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

MICHIGAN PEOPLE! I want to point your attention to a couple of things: 1) Anyone interested in Michigan’s criminal-legal system should know about the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) & subscribe to their Legislative Bill Tracker www.billtrack50.com/public/stake...

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

New Zoom/Meetings affect just dropped: employees & consultants on federal grants trying to maintain a stoic poker face while also emoting secret despair every time budget details after January are mentioned

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here’s a visualization of all the curse words in real time, which is oddly satisfying: swearsky.bagpuss.org

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Bluesky profanity, as it happens

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

…Especially those in a certain Police/Worlds series

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Reading the article "Examining perspectives on fatal use of force: A comparative analysis of police and social sciences students’ views" from The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. <#rant>

Screen capture of the webpage for the article "Examining perspectives on fatal use of force: A comparative analysis of police and social sciences students’ views" from The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. Abstract reads: "Citizen views are, at times, in opposition to professional expertise. When it comes to policing, discussions surrounding the use of force often indicate a lack of understanding from the general population. In this study, police (n = 1609) and social sciences (n = 688) students were shown a video vignette of a fatal police shooting. Findings show that police students’ attitudes towards the use of force face a significant shift during training, leading to stronger support for lethal force and greater discrepancy in opinions compared to the other students. Our results also show that non-expert adults want police officers to be sanctioned severely."

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lb @lbhungalia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today the US vetoed a UNSC res calling for a ceasefire in Gaza marking the 49th time it has wielded its veto power against Israel-related UNSC draft resolutions & the 4th time in the past year The UNSC voted 14-1 in favor, the US being the only opposed www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-time...

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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My first post: if you have access, attend my panel “Racial Vernaculars in the Civilian Oversight of Police” tomorrow afternoon connect.americananthro.org/event/aaatam...

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