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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Migration Movies Database is now available on @letterboxd.social. This list gathers 600+ films about human movement from 1940 to today: refugees, labour migration, diaspora, border crossing, discrimination, return, and irregular migration. letterboxd.com/lorenzo_picc...

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Migration movies

Migration is one of cinema’s oldest stories: journeys, borders, exile, belonging, survival, reinvention. This list is based on the Migration Movies Database, a research project by the Migration Policy...

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Pray tell: what in this life is not political?

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🏳️‍🌈Favorite academic books on LGBTQ politics and history? Looking for global/comparative perspectives. Thank you!🏳️‍🌈

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Politico @politico.com · 29/04/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.

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Supreme Court limits Voting Rights Act

In a 6-3 ruling, the justices narrowed how a key provision of the Voting Rights Act can be enforced.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Scoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

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Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

All four official candidates for the next UN Secretary General will be holding televised three-hour interactive dialogues with the UN diplomats today and tomorrow—Michelle Bachelet, 10-1 today; Rafael Grossi, 3-6 today; Rebeca Grynspan and Macky Sall at those times tomorrow. webtv.un.org/en

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UN Web TV is available 24 hours a day with selected LIVE programming of United Nations meetings and events as well as with pre-recorded video features and documentaries on various global issues.

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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just because the pope is Trump's newest enemy does not mean we need to idealize the Catholic Church and it's role for liberal democracy. It is a central organisation in the global diffusion of anti-LGBT rhetoric and ideology. It thereby provides a key building block for far-right authoritarianism.

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Absolutely horrifying. Conversion therapy is abuse. Period.

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Sadie Dempsey (sadiemdempsey.bsky.social) draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork and 90 in-depth interviews to examine how civic associations facilitate political socialization. Read more at bit.ly/4dou2d6

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

As an anti-fascist, a figure skater, and an Alyssa Liu fan since her early career, ffffffffff Vance. Every time NBC's coverage pans to him it dampens the fun of watching the Olympics.

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I never, ever want to hear again from certain quarters about a free speech crisis on campus. I would accept apologies for being useful idiots.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This is unhinged. ICE will be in Italy participating in US security during the Olympics.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Schools in Saint Paul were closed Tuesday and Wednesday as teachers prepared to do online and in-person teaching simultaneously due to safety concerns about ICE. Kids in my daughter’s school refer to those two days off as Evil Break. As in, “So what did you do over Evil Break?”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

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Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE

MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death.

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”

In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said.

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Apologies for being self-referential but

Abstract of the paper "How Mainstream Politician Erode Norms": "How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggest that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender."

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11/01/2026

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ve put together a starter pack on … 🥁… wait for it … citizenship! 😉 This is a first stab and I have surely overlooked people. Happy to add you to this list and expand while more people are joining bluesky. #migcitsky go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting echoes Franklin Park, Marimar Martinez shootings during Operation Midway Blitz

The deadly Minneapolis shooting by an ICE agent that killed a woman Wednesday morning recalls shootings by federal immigration agents in Chicago during the height of Operation Midway Blitz in the fall...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 07/01/2026

Homeland Security’s description of what happened and the narrative they’re pushing clearly doesn’t match up with the videos we’re all seeing. They’re asking people not to believe what we can all see with our own eyes. I’ve been in contact with DHS demanding more information.

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In 2026, you should follow more of my @brennancenter.org colleagues. Find them all here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

As people are working on reviews of Trump's immigration record one year in, you may want to compare to Biden, so I'm resharing our comprehensive overview here: Biden’s Mixed Immigration Legacy: Border Challenges Overshadowed Modernization Advances www.migrationpolicy.org/article/bide...

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Biden’s Mixed Immigration Legacy: Border Challenges Overshadowed Modernization Advances

The Biden administration took significantly more executive actions on immigration than its predecessors, including during Donald Trump's first term, although it has been unable to escape criticism…

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I'm updating my forced migration syllabus to reflect the hellscape that is the current US. But the scene beside me is helping me through. The two on the right, Sage (tiny puppy) and Dallas (gentle senior giant), are available for adoption in Missouri through People Helping Paws Rescue.

Two large dogs and a puppy asleep together

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The fact that we were taught that mitochondria is the building block of the cell but not that MLK died in Memphis and was there attending a labor strike is INSANE.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

LeMonde said, not on our watch

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Related, the kids are now calling both OU and Texas A&M “clown colleges,“ in case you’re wondering how this anti-intellectual BS is playing with the youths

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The computer skills I see in even my 3rd year college students are frighteningly poor. The fact that systems are moving to the cloud doesn't remove the need for some of the skills that K-12 schools are very clearly no longer teaching. Assuming digital nativity is a huge disservice to these students.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame. If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned. Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My Model UN team is representing Jordan🇯🇴 this year! Recommended readings/authors?

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Fascinating new research in AJPS (flagship poli sci journal) on Christian nationalism & SCOTUS "An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "We find that CN is related to Court attitudes in three ways:"

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This is always the first reading on my migration syllabus and a great way to get students talking about their interest in the course on the first day of class!

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Does anyone have examples of ways their university has HELPED international students navigate the uncertainty of US immigration politics in the past few months?

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Unfit for any kind of public office. ABSOLUTELY unfit for the public office that has our nuclear codes. He is absolutely off the rails.

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