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Allison McKim

@allisonmckim.bsky.social

Sociologist of gender, punishment & society, welfare state, law, drugs. Professor at Bard College. Author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration.

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Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Its Response

The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false posit...

bloomberg.com

Kate Jewell@katejewell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4w ago

It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Second wave radicals like Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis knew they had to break off from the anti-war movement and start independent feminist groups when women tried to speak at an anti-Nixon protest, and men in the crowd yelled “Take her off the stage and fuck her.”

Liv Agar@livagar.bsky.social · 4w ago

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 4w ago

In my research, I’ve reviewed cases where perpetrators were offered impunity because: - The victim was polite to the perpetrator the next day - The victim‘s socks were found at the crime scene - There were “too many victims” - The victim withdrew consent “too early” in the evening

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

And the contracts they want you to sign: you've only agreed, by email, to give a talk, but they want copyrights and rights to use your words and likeness and so forth for any purpose, "in all media now existing and yet to be invented," which I call the naked hologram clause.

Hannah BW@hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 4w ago

a huge win for these brave FL faculty members and a good reminder for the rest of us that sometimes putting your head down and hoping things don’t get worse is not the right strategy. sometimes you need to fight in order to win.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges. GRANT, Circuit Judge: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited. When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last mo.

I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · last mo.

Today marks 4 years since the fall of Roe v. Wade Now, for most women on probation and parole, the ability to receive abortion care depends solely on getting *permission* to travel out of state from an officer Access to basic health care should not be in the hands of officers

U.S. map showing that the vast majority of states have some kind of abortion ban as well as standard conditions of both probation and parole that restrict interstate travel. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/06/18/dobbs/
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

June 11, 1926: The police raid a lesbian-friendly cafe in New York City’s Greenwich Village and arrest its owner, Eva Kotchever. Eve’s Hangout is a discreet hole in the wall where avant-garde poetry is read, sexual topics are freely discussed and a sign reads: “Men are admitted but not welcome.” 1/3

KotcheverThe building that contained Eve’s Hangout (129 MacDougal St.) in 1939
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just deeply shocked and saddened to hear about Raúl’s passing. He was an exceptionally generous community builder in the scholarly world. He will be sorely missed.

Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología@smsociologia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...