Frank Edwards
@frankalready.bsky.social
I study social control, racism, and the welfare state. Member of Rutgers AAUP-AFT. https://f-edwards.github.io
something I've heard a lot about but good to see direct analysis on it: www.investigatewest.org/fired-office...
Washington tribal police hire fired officers at outsized rates
Tribal police in Washington hire officers fired elsewhere at a rate four times higher than their share of the workforce
investigatewest.org
A third detainee died after being held at Delaney Hall, according to Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ). www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/04/t...
A Third Delaney Hall Detainee Has Died, New Jersey Congressman Says
Rep. Rob Menendez said ICE confirmed details of the death, which took place weeks ago, to him during an oversight visit to the facility on Monday.
thecityreporter.nyc
Another community member detained by ICE at Delaney hall. Please take a second to sign and demand Iemad’s release. actionnetwork.org/petitions/64...
Free Iemad Saifo from ICE Detention!
Iemad Saifo was detained by ICE and separated from his family on July 31, 2026 at a routine check-in, despite entering the US lawfully and following the proper legal procedures. Iemad Saifo is an 6...
actionnetwork.org
Staff were also part of this cut (I understand that laying off tenured faculty is bigger news, but we lost a LOT of people) leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
Illinois Institute of Technology declares “financial exigency” and begins firing faculty, including tenured faculty
Up to one-third of the faculty may be terminated, although in the law school, Chicago-Kent, it appears the number is lower (maybe one-fifth by some accounts). If readers have more details, please e…
leiterreports.com
"Students relying on [AI tutors] may underperform when access to AI is subsequently removed, indicating reduced skill acquisition. [But] carefully designed safeguards, espec'lly asking the AI tutor to provide teacher-designed hints instead of giving away answers, can mitigate these negative effects"
David Nelson@thedavenelson.bsky.social · last wk.Again, we all had the hunch, but love how this demonstrates that the act of tutoring can mitigate AI harm to cognitive practice. Trick is, how to get the students to use a modified, limited software? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.
“NSF has now pulled back $300 million from two of its divisions: mathematics and physical sciences, and computer and information science and engineering. Programme officers…at the NSF, have pulled back 150 proposals that have already passed peer review to free up the money”
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w agoWhite House science policy captured headlines this week, with the announcement of awards for its flagship AI program, Congressional hearings, and a Vannevar Bush-esque report "Science: A New Golden Age." We fashioned the news into one big story—incl. key updates at NSF. Reported w/ Kaia Glickman:
I’m at the Wisconsin State Capitol, where Rep Sheila Stubbs is holding a press conference with the family of Corey Ruiz and their attorney, Ben Crump.
‼️ ICE goons kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Passaic, NJ ‼️ Prior to this video being taken, he was confronting ICE for trying to kidnap his neighbors. Video from 8:25am on 7/23/26
We’ve seen so much cruelty from ICE over the past year. But using kids as “bait” to arrest & detain their relatives is a new level of evil. I witnessed it last week at 201 Varick Street. Per this article in the Texas Tribune, it’s happened over 100X. (1/3)
ICE arresting relatives trying to take custody of migrant kids
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
texastribune.org
I can't stress this enough. This was their POLICY and PLAN. I've been saying it for months. I know that you all know this. I hope that the people who are losing their benefits understand too. Brooke Rollins et al have been saying that this is their desire and intention for months.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w agoPage One. @nytimes.com
Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.
“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.
Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is crucial and often unmentioned. Almost every single diagnosis of declining faith in universities fails to mention that it is runs in parallel to declining faith in almost all American institutions. Any failure to recognize this means it is really flawed or not a serious effort.
The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.
ICE’s Camp East Montana is a hellhole. It’s been open less than a year and three people have died there, including the first-ever homicide in ICE detention (allegedly at the hands of guards). Both DHS and Congressional watchdogs have documented extensive problems. Shut it down!
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w agoNinety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.
"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."
America’s Death Squads Are Real
Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.
lnk.thebulwark.com
BREAKING: The Town Council of Montclair, NJ votes unanimously to take its money - $92 Million - out of Citizens Bank because of Citizens' immoral financing of GEO Group & Core Civic, the main private prison companies operating ICE detention camps! @de-icecitizensbank.org.
Excellent post from @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social on NYC’s new PIT Crews—and on what becomes possible when technology serves inclusive, democratic policy aims like affordability, rather than becoming the aim itself. Rooting for the PIT Crews!
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w agoNew w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
This was the point all along. To insist that everyone fits neatly into a pink or blue box, so that it's easier to justify treating the whole pink box as less deserving of rights and opportunities and dignities than the blue.
James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w agoMy god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoIt took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case
Less than a week after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Portland Press Herald is reporting that ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old man from Colombia today:
Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
pressherald.com
new paper: we update risk estimates for child welfare system outcomes (investigation, confirmed, foster care, termination of rights) by race/ethnicity using 2016-2023 data. Black and AIAN kids still most likely to have system contact, but rates are down across the board compared to mid 2010s
there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition
profchander@profchander.bsky.social · 4w agoi quit.
new paper: we update risk estimates for child welfare system outcomes (investigation, confirmed, foster care, termination of rights) by race/ethnicity using 2016-2023 data. Black and AIAN kids still most likely to have system contact, but rates are down across the board compared to mid 2010s
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Join @jwashing.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, and @danieldenvir.bsky.social for this virtual conversation hosted with @detentionwatchnetwork.org and @thedigradio.bsky.social RSVP to attend:
Register Now – How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention – YouTube
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention – YouTube, Tue Jul 21, 2026 - Join John Washington, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Dan Denvir as they discuss the struggle to ...
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ICE has killed again. Again, the govt scrambled to claim an officer was threatened by ICE’s victim’s car. And again, that appears to be a lie. Except this time ICE also grabbed 3 witnesses, and is trying to get them out of the country. Immoral, authoritarian, and practically an admission of guilt.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4w agoNEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...
