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Beth Williford

@williford.bsky.social
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Sociologist - Qualitative Researcher

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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And how in the world did it turn out so dry that I am reaching for a glass of water just looking at this?
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/04/2026
A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...
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'We don't know what will happen to us': U.S. deportees in limbo in DRC
15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s never ending.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Yes. Long overdue!
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters
ALT: a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 31/01/2026
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
404media.co
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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Opinion | ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is beautiful.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I totally get it. 💜
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It’s a lovely thought, but items like that are not allowed in prisons (aka detention centers).
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
😆
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three older women are sitting on a couch laughing and dancing .
Alt: Blanch, Sofia, and Dorothy from Golden Girls are sitting on a couch laughing and clapping
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is heartwarming. I bet the reunion and sharing your book with her felt so special.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Same
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
What a delight!
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Thank you for sharing this info.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Is DHS seeking to pretermit ALL asylum cases or have they devised any rationale for selecting which to export abroad? I’d love to read any investigations or long form reporting on this, if you come across anything.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Yes, I have been reading and learning more about the ACA - Asylum Cooperative Agreement (Dec 2025) too. My understanding is the Uganda ACA applies to those originally from Africa, whereas applicants from other places are assignrd to Guatemala, Ecuador, or Honduras. It’s absolutely outrageous!!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’m in the middle of this one right now.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Just added it to my hold list on Libby. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Ouch! That’s one you don’t forget, whew.
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Ana Ley @la-ley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
NEW: Yuanxin Zheng, the 6-year-old boy from Queens whose separation from his father drew outrage in New York City, has been deported to China with his dad. With @haleaziz.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
nytimes.com
Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Is this the 30L?
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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Instacart got caught running real-time price experiments on shoppers — same groceries, different prices. Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
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Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Spotted in Memphis
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Yep. Layaway was the way. Had to go in person to make the weekly payments, too.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 28/11/2025
ICE arrested military spouses at green-card interviews. Think about that: people married to U.S. service members, following the legal process, pulled into detention. If even military families aren’t safe, then no one is. Read: www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...
hindustantimes.com
ICE arrests military spouses during Green Card interviews; families shocked
Several foreign-born spouses of US citizens were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while attending green-card interviews in San Diego.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Oil oil oil, don’t forget that part.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/11/2025
The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology.
brennancenter.org
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Yes, for those interested check out the films No Más Bebés and Belly of the Beast. PBS aired both for a time, I am not sure if they remain accessible there now.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Yes. I love a good grocery store chat too.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
teenvogue.com
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Another ‘concept of a plan’
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Left voicemails for both of mine a few minutes ago.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Plus the sandwich verdict! 🥪
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Exactly
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three older women are standing next to each other and the word same is on the bottom
Alt: Golden Girls clip - three older women are standing next to each other and the word same is on the bottom
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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I love this.
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Beth Williford @williford.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I love roasted okra. I rinse and cut into bites — usually 3-4 pieces per okra. Throw them on an oiled pan, drizzle olive oil and salt on the okra and roast at 400F or so. Depending upon how crispy you like them, I’d check and toss them at about 15-20 minutes. Potentially go for another 5 min.
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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