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assoc prof at uic Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-… www.rahimkurwa.com

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 14h
Thanks to Korey Tillman for a generous review of Indefensible Spaces: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In memory of: Liyan Suleiman Nayef Al-Arja / ليان سليمان نايف العرجا Age: 15 We will not forget you.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At Cornell, one person— Christina Liang — handles every disciplinary case, including the Cornell Seven’s and the suspensions of over 40 protestors. Liang wrote in 2025 that “2024 was one of the most challenging years of my career…and it helped me learn that caring less is okay.”
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
vox brain as a less prevalent but more harmful variant of pundit brain
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Brett McGurk, Biden's top advisor and aide on Middle East policy, is out with a new article in the Atlantic today about how Biden avoided a war with Iran. In that piece, he claims that a Gaza ceasefire deal "eluded" the administration he worked in because Biden and Harris were TOO MEAN to Israel.
Biden later told us that he was referring to how Israel should conduct the operation, not whether it was conducted at all. In the same interview, he said he was “never going to leave Israel.” Around the same time, however, Vice President Harris told ABC News that Israel’s operation in Rafah would be a “huge mistake” and refused to rule out “consequences” if it went ahead.
Looking back, it’s no wonder that Hamas never responded to our proposals during this period. We now know that in March 2024, as this political debate was taking place in the U.S., Sinwar was in a tunnel complex underneath Rafah. An avid consumer of news, he would have understood that relations between Biden and Netanyahu were approaching the boiling point.
A year later, Ronen Bar visited Washington, D.C., and met with a group of former Biden aides. One of them asked plaintively what Biden should have done differently in the negotiations with Hamas. Bar pointed to this period in spring 2024, when Biden was said to be blocking Israel’s operation in Rafah. From Bar’s vantage point, that perception had hardened Hamas’s position, making it more difficult to free the hostages and end the war. “That was your biggest mistake,” he said.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 26/09/2026
Attorney Noura Erakat was arrested after refusing to leave a Palm Beach County meeting where attendees were barred from speaking about Israel bonds, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. “The whole scenario was absurd & a glimpse into how protecting Israel requires the sabotage of democratic norms.”
prismreports.org
As Florida residents challenge Israel bonds, public meetings grow contentious
Human rights attorney Noura Erakat was arrested after refusing to leave a Palm Beach County meeting where community members were barred from speaking about Israel bonds
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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In memory of: Abdel Latif Maher Abdel Latif Al-Ho / عبد اللطيف ماهر عبد اللطيف الحو Age: 30 We will not forget you.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In memory of: Hosni Mohammed Mohammed Salha / حسني محمد محمد صالحه Age: 67 We will not forget you.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jabaliya, Gaza Palestinian children play football in Jabaliya refugee camp www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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Philip @necron99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cross the picket line, leave Orchard Park with the L. Same as it ever was.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
straight up Gestapo shit
DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A new book thoroughly documents America's complicity in genocide www.equator.org/articles/bid...
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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Norman Solomon @normansolomon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@fairmediawatch.bsky.social -- FAIR -- entering its fifth decade, continues to be a uniquely fantastic source of media criticism and activism! @columjournreview.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @knightfoundation.org @knightcolumbia.org
fair.org
Reflections on 40 Years of FAIR
"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests."
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 26/09/2026
People who have either implicitly or even outright explicitly praised either the Trump plan on Gaza or the war on Iran: Brett McGurk, Jack Lew, Anthony Blinken, Amos Hochstein, Hillary Clinton People who haven't: Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, etc
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WSJ: Trump tells aids he’s likely going to start bombing Iran again after the election.
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Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After Midterms — The Wall Street Journal
The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 26/09/2026
Has any left-wing member of Congress ever praised Trump's foreign policy so directly and so unequivocally as the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate?
prospect.org
Hillary Clinton and Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza - The American Prospect
Why would the former Democratic presidential nominee endorse one of Trump’s more grotesque ventures?
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Support Ferguson Uprising Political Prisoner Josh Williams Returning Home! givebutter.com/support-ferg...
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Support Ferguson Uprising Political Prisoner Josh Williams Returning Home!
Josh Williams is being released in early November - let's put some funds together to help smooth his transition back to freedom!
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
today in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Frank takes you to the front lines of the energy crush needed to power Trump’s digital slopfest. If we allow this eco-hucksterism to proceed apace, we’ll soon need to riff off that classic line by the Roman historian Tacitus: “They make a desert and call it green.” theintercept.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert
The Bureau of Land Management is pushing to expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert. Advocates say it would decimate vast biodiversity.
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@sethcotlar.bsky.social if you haven't yet read it great treatment of Swift in this new book from @rahimk.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
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Indefensible Spaces by Rahim Kurwa - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Justice Department said on Thursday it had ended its watchdog role in more than 50 cases enforcing racial desegregation in schools, mostly in the Deep South, a significant milestone in the Racist Trump administration’s bid to overhaul civil rights enforcement in America.
nytimes.com
Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases (Gift Article)
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Southern Question Anti-Fascism and the Global Conjuncture www.ucpress.edu/books/the-so...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
theguardian.com
Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After @gillianbrockell.com reported that ICE was violating a court order to stop third-country removals, a lawsuit cited her reporting and a judge, agreeing with the case, demanded that ICE not move a detainee to send them to a third country. We get results. prospect.org/2026/09/24/j...
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Judges Reject ICE’s Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ren Farley, a force of nature, dedicated his life to addressing racial inequality and residential segregation. He left a mark on demography, on the city of Detroit, and on all the people in his orbit. myumi.ch/G7974
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Remembering Reynolds Farley: An Expert on Detroit, the Census, and America’s Racial Divide
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Reynolds (Ren) Farley, a sociologist and demographer who used Census data to illuminate the persistence of racial segregation in American cities, died on September 12, at 88. He was...
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 24/09/2026
yglesias: bad groups create bad incentives for democrats
slide: More Democratic lawmakers visit El Salvador to see Abrego Garcia, Wrongly deported by Trump administration
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the things I learned in writing this piece is that in 1873, a former confederate official asked SCOTUS to weaponize the 14th Amendment against biracial government. The court refused at the time. But in 2026, that's exactly what the Supreme Court did.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International USA Report Uncovers Widespread Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech Across College Campuses www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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New ACLU and Amnesty International USA Report Uncovers Widespread Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech Across College Campuses | American Civil Liberties Union
Findings Show Concerted Efforts to Censor and Retaliate Against Speech in support of Palestinian Rights in Colleges and Universities
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23/09/2026
For the first time ever, a group of Senate Democrats will unveil a bill tomorrow that would impose sanctions on "foreign companies, individuals or other entities" which are involved in the E1 settlement project in the illegally-occupied West Bank. Its authors are Warren, Coons, Gallego and Wyden.
reuters.com
US Senate Democrats seek sanctions over Israeli settlements, bill says
A group of US Senate Democrats will introduce legislation on Wednesday to sanction individuals or ​groups that facilitate Israel's "E1 project," a widely condemned West Bank settlement plan cutting ac...
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FYI @driftglass.bsky.social @bluegal.bsky.social
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when people called her office to ask her to support a ceasefire she disconnected her phone lines chicagoreader.com/news/duckwor...
chicagoreader.com
Why isn’t Senator Tammy Duckworth picking up the phone?
Two Chicago organizers discuss what it means if elected officials make life-and-death decisions without taking their constituents' calls.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. Our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj
Mother Jones magazine cover linking the Roberts Supreme Court to a revival of Jim Crow: a black judicial robe hangs next to a white KKK hooded robe with a hand reaching toward it; headline "The Southern Strategy" and subhead "Jim Crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#RaceClass Pod's been hanging w the disciplines. Edu Scholar @professorjvh.bsky.social dropped into discuss Jason Arday & TAH, German historian @thomaszimmer.bsky.social stitched the AfD-MAGA pipeline, & sociologist @rahimk.bsky.social swinging by to chat racial capitalism www.raceclasspodcast.com
book cover of indefensible spaces by Rahim Kurwa.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Prime Minister Netanyahu's lies about @mayor.nyc.gov don't change the fact that Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal who has blocked justice for Americans killed on his watch. If there's anyone who should be shamed & ashamed, it's him. He's lucky he was even allowed into our country.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is simply damning. a lot of it has been reported previously to some extent, but seeing it all pieced together like this is just horrifying. do not look away
theguardian.com
Democrats’ Gaza reckoning: how failing to give Palestinians a voice came back to bite the party
Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't possibly expect this cohort of Democrats to get us out of fascism when they themselves dabbled in its greatest historical crimes.
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Akbar Shahid Ahmed reports that several members of the Biden administration explored the possibility of ethnically cleansing Gaza.
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Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Even before Metro Surge, Minnesota rental asstance was woefully inadequate. MN Housing estimates that Minnesotans were $350 million short on rent even after accounting for existing rental assistance programs
HOUSING PRECARITY IN MINNESOTA
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Housing is increasingly unaffordable for working class families in Minnesota 70% of extremely low-income renter households are severely cost-burdened, spending >50% income on rent - higher burdens among immigrant households (NLIHC, 2024)
When housing costs consume such a large share of income, families are forced to sacrifice other basic needs like food, medicine, and healthcare.
Annual funding to meet emergency rental assistance needs is $350 million (MN Housing)
Excessive wait times, income verification checks and bureaucratic inefficiencies in existing rent assistance pathways leave relief functionally inaccessible to families who need it most.
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huge finding. ICE activity was NOT correlated with immigrant density. It WAS correlated with Black and brown neighborhoods. Shocked, shocked.
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Jake Schwitzer @jakeschwitzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great thread here to follow along on today’s conference.
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