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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thank you for sharing and thanks to Ruth for writing this. I expect so much better from ASA.

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Statement re Michael Burawoy obit

Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent. They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology. We will NOT be intimidated. We will NOT be silenced. We will DEFEND our freedom.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My blood is boiling. This is appalling. Andry, the makeup artist deported to Trump’s foreign prison in El Salvador - without due process and under false pretenses - hasn’t been heard from in weeks. Members of Congress who went to El Salvador asked for proof that he’s alive. This is a crisis.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is horrifying and should be completely unacceptable to absolutely everyone.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid

Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.

“It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.”

The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

Miriam Jordan
By Miriam Jordan
Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent.
April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET
In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful.
The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela.
That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world.
But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Hard to comprehend this level of cruelty.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I see Joe Rogan as a temperature check to see how he and his audience are thinking about and understanding things. So I’m sharing this not to celebrate that we got him to “switch sides”, but because it’s significant that he’s saying this. We should keep yelling about this issue in these terms.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

NSF will no longer fund research on misinformation and is stopping grants, arguing that it could infringe on free speech “in a manner that advances a preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate”. Chilling to see even if it’s not a surprise. 🧪 www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I tend to agree. But if there’s anything that could push her to do something, it’s public pressure. As others have pointed out, we are most likely to see action when it aligns with political ambition. So we have to show her that it’s bad politics to sit on the sidelines 🤷‍♀️

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thank you for making this statement—it’s a good start. As a Michigander, I look forward to seeing the actions you will take to 1) see that all individuals sent to CECOT are returned, and 2) all non-citizens who have been targeted or detained for their political speech are freed.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

University of Wisconsin-Madison made Hillbilly Elegy their “Go Big Read”, meaning that professors were encouraged to incorporate it into every course offered that year. I think every entering freshman was given a copy.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thank you, Senator, for stepping up when few have. This is about defending the rights of Mr. Abrego Garcia and all the men who were sent to CECOT. It matters because they matter. But also because all of our rights are on the line as well. Please keep fighting.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you, Senator. You are demonstrating the leadership we desperately need at this moment.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Please let this be the end of his political (presidential) aspirations. In a context where the federal government is snatching people off the street and sending them abroad to spend their lives in black hole torture centers, tariffs are the distraction.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/04/2025

We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held. We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.

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Van Hollen denied entry to CECOT, notorious El Salvador prison where Abrego Garcia is illegally held

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Repulsive and horrific. Modern-day lynching postcard.

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Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked

A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 16/04/2025

Holy crap this sucks “According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Please bring them all home. Each and every person who was arbitrarily and illegally trafficked to that torture center. They ALL need to come back NOW.

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/04/2025

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is who they want to deport. Someone who embodies the moral clarity and leadership this country so desperately needs. Free Mohsen Mahdawi! Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free every single person this admin has kidnapped and/or trafficked to torture centers!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Chilling. Terrifying. GEO at UMich is holding a rally in support of international students/workers on Thursday. As someone who benefits from the protections of citizenship, I will be there making as much noise as possible. Let’s show up!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

Rubio on X: Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador.

The alliance between @POTUS and President @nayibbukele has become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My husband is a green card holder and a Sociology PhD student. He just cancelled an international trip this summer for ethnographic research (that he won a grant to conduct). The risk is just too high.

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).

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