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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is huge!! Congratulations & gratitude to everyone involved in this case and, of course, @aaup.org!

A screenshot from the AAUP page announcing the court ruling that the Trumpt admin violated the First Amendment by arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students & faculty for their pro-Palestinian advocacy.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A weedy, but potentially important, question about federal pensions: If you're a federal law enforcement officer, at what point 1. Can you retire w the biggest pension? 2. What percent of your pay is it? And this is the KEY question: 3. How is that amount calculated? Here's why (3) matters:

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Beyond vital political stakes, it also looks like admin misread the narrative, too. They tried to pitch “MS-13 illegal” and assumed story would end there. Instead it’s become a daily, episodic, human-interest and court drama about a wrongfully deported loving husband, union-member and caregiver.

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David Rigby @rigbydavid.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

More immigration malevolence: Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons says we should treat detention and deportation "like a business." He envisions putting vans on the street detaining people "like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

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David Rigby @rigbydavid.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Relevant to UM's DEI moves "[if we] preemptively change our language...or demonstrate to both Trump’s agents and the public that we will fold under the slightest pressure, we will find ourselves, perhaps not so long from now, without any dignity left to protect." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility

In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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David Rigby @rigbydavid.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is despicable, chilling, indefensible behavior. Universities are being threatened with funding cuts and surveillance tools are being used to target student activists for retaliation-apparently including deportation-on college campuses. This cruelty must be challenged. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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David Rigby @rigbydavid.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"In the meantime, popular pressure... tells the actors involved what side the people are on. We are the ultimate source of legitimacy. Those in [power may not follow] “the law.” Remind them of their obligation to the people. Verdict: Self coup, in-progress, success still unknown" shorturl.at/3Mysh

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Is It a Coup?

It is bad, it is illegal, and it is a self-coup.

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I took a shot at figuring out how much money each state stands to lose in a single year if the NIH fixes the indirect cost rate at 15%. 🧵

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David Rigby @rigbydavid.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This post is a good explainer about how the recently announced change to federal research funding will limit research innovation, devastate University budgets, and harm local economies.

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I ballparked estimates of a 15% cap on NIH indirects based on awards granted in 2024 (which is different from funded in 2024). My numbers are less than NIH's, but still pretty devastating, including $250 million loss for North Carolina institutions. nih-funding-direct.vercel.app

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Absolutely devastating. 😞

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/02/2025

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Here surely lies sociology's distinctively public purpose: to represent humanity's interest in containing the unbridled tyranny of the market and state." May others go forward in memory of Michael Burawoy. www.asanet.org/michael-bura...

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Michael Burawoy | American Sociological Association

Michael BurawoyPresidential Address - Video, PDF

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David Rigby @rigbydavid.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Clear/frightening writing about Musk's payment system coup from @epopppp.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com "Having a president—or, even more so, an unelected billionaire—hold direct, granular control of nearly seven trillion dollars is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams." Worth a read!

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Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy

If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.

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In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?

If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

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Landscapes of Population Health @landscapeslab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis

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