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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm happy to report that I now only need to raise $35,000 😍. Thanks to those who have donated. Thanks to those who will share and donate later: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢 Geography & Environment PhD candidate Michelle Harangody will give a talk Monday (9/14) at noon as part of the Pacific Islands Studies Occasional Seminar Series. 📍 Moore Hall 319 “Rendering Ecological: Federal Conceptualizations of Coral Reefs in the United States”

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We have also won $10,000,000s for the most vulnerable people in our society, pioneered political education and narrative strategies to change the way our society thinks about mass incarceration and family separation, and built innovative solutions to make our communities safer.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It has been the honor of my career to have worked with so many beautiful, relentless, kind, brilliant people to fight against some of the most monstrous and senseless state violence and profiteering. I'm so excited for the next 10 years @civrightscorps.bsky.social.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THREAD. This past week marks the 10-year anniversary of Civil Rights Corps. We have pioneered landmark civil rights litigation that has liberated hundreds of thousands of people from illegal confinement in jail cells.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/06/2026

NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen. If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Very proud of my department's students for the work they have been doing to make this project a reality! Today, it was officially launched: www.ucpalestineactivismhistoryproject.com

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Canada is literally handing over refugees rejected at border to ICE in the US. Haitian refugee Markens Appolon, for eg, sought refuge but Canada handed him to ICE agents. He is still in ICE detention. There is a seamless connection between Canada's new anti-migrant laws, like C12, and ICE terror.

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‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention

As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they are being turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Excited to host social epistemologist Ezgi Sertler today in Hamburg. She does fascinating work on how institutions & administrative systems produce & manage knowledge (& ignorance!) Her new article "Administrative Violence" in Ergo should interest many: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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Administrative Violence
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Accounts of structural violence characterize the institutional and bureaucratic production of systematic population-level harms as violence while also construing these harms as inadvertent and unintentional. We argue that such conceptions are poorly suited to capture the relationship between administrative systems and the production of violence under settler colonialism. We offer an account of administrative violence as an organizing feature of settler colonial institutions that produces population-level harms for some and benefits for others, by design, as a rule rather than an exception. We theorize three epistemic mechanisms of administrative violence: simplification, containment, and epistemic apartheid. We demonstrate how settler administrative systems use such mechanisms to automate the production of harm for targeted populations.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I have an article coming out in 5 mons at a top 3 political science journal. It took me 7 yrs to get that article through edits, reviews, and final acceptance. Seven. Years. Then, they'll put it behind a pay wall so only academics can see it. This is why all of my work is publicly accessible.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We hear their stories of how and why they became involved in #StopCopCity, what transpired during those events and during the trial, and about how ordinary people find themselves transformed into activists of conscience, and how they are working in solidarity with many other groups.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

First group of migrants deported from the US under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.

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First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say

The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according ‌to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact w...

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Tomorrow I get to teach Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's writings on land, space, and place. I've been so excited all through the weekend about reading "Place Against Empire" (GC) and "Land as Pedagogy" (LS) with my students.

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Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A new era at Feminist Studies, the same commitments: unabashedly feminist.

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Salar Mohandesi's article has singularly challenged me to consider questions about anti-imperialist organizing on the issue of US-lead imperialist projects in Palestine and Iran. I really recommend reading the whole essay.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Submissions for this year's Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, for writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, are open! The prize honors my sister, who died tragically in 2020 after many years in & out of incarceration. Please help us spread the word.❤️ truthout.org/articles/kee...

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Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize

The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Cool to have some support for my research from my professional association! :)

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

thanks for the shout out, Caleb! Looking forward to being in community with more likeminded scholars, activists, dreamers <3

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I love teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. My students are really something special!

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Today, @equalityalec.bsky.social reminded us that we need to tell the stories of people's experiences as a way to battle copaganda. Two types of stories Alec emphasized include: 1) the story of reformist reforms and how they don’t work ...

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...

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Civil Rights Lawyering & Propaganda in a Time of Rising Authoritarianism | Critical Carceral Studies Collective

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The first session of "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College was fantastic. We talked about the political value of the land acknowledgement, read and analyzed Menlo College's land acknowledgement, and started the beginnings of analyzing terms like 'colonization' and 'stewardship.'

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tomorrow, I start teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. I'm sharing my syllabus with the hopes of also getting feedback from those who are nurturing the field of Native Studies! Also, check out our amazing course poster 😄

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm very aware that my time in academia may be over when I graduate in June. For now, I'm extremely thrilled to be teaching and writing. My first meetings of the quarter with students were SO beautiful.

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

John Berger had a powerful phrase: “Undefeated despair.” Acknowledge and respect your grief. But don’t give in to it. And help others keep afloat.

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

In today's class we discussed Ruthie Gilmore's 1998 piece, "Globalization and US Prison Growth from Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesianism Militarism." Over the last few weeks, students have explored the following question: "what explains the expansion of prisons between 1980 and 2000?"

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

On Thursday, I'll be teaching Ruthie Gilmore's essay "Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism" (1999). In this class, we are really covering how the US came to be the largest global incarcerator. We read Hinton first, and...

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Tomorrow, I'll be teaching the first chapter of Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. It gives us a chance to revisit Du Bois's discussion of the politics surrounding the Freedmen's Bureau, the Sentencing Project's data visualizations on mass incarceration,...

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tomorrow, I will teach Naomi Murakawa's chapter, "Freedom From Fear" in her book, The First Civil Right. I use the chapter teach the operations of political parties and their significance in American governance in context for an Intro to U.S. politics course. I really like when academic writing has

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Tomorrow, I am teaching chapter 6 of Iris Marion Young's *Justice and the Politics of Difference* in my Intro to American Politics course. Re-reading her political theory, again and again, has been the best teacher for me. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's class.

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Tomorrow, I teach "Counter-Revolution of Property" from Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Du Bois 1935). It's my first time reading this chapter and teaching this book. I hope it goes well!

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others osf.io/preprints/so...

Title: The study of culture, law, and crisis
Author: Matthew Clair, Stanford University
Date: July 2025

Abstract: This paper reviews cultural sociological approaches to the study of law and how they may be applied to future research on law-related social crises. As the world faces myriad social crises, such as rising authoritarianism and police violence, the study of culture and the law has become an even more urgent intellectual and practical endeavor. Over the last decade, five concepts have dominated the cultural study of law: rules, norms, frames, cultural capital, and legal consciousness. While past research has provided generative insight, future research would benefit from more precise considerations of rules and norms in this unsettled moment. Moreover, future research could leverage the five cultural concepts to sharpen understandings of inequality and social control in understudied legal organizations, along understudied axes of social stratification, and with respect to the infusion of new technologies into the legal system.

Acknowledgments: Thank you to Asad L. Asad, Sarah Brayne, and Barbara Kiviat for comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Natasha Patel @tashahpatel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Participating in the Emotion and Society Lab hosted by Myisha Cherry and Francisco Gallegos was one of my favorite graduate student experiences. The cohort, our discussions, & the feedback reminded me how meaningful intellectual life can be. The lab now invites grad students to apply for 2025-26!

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