Dr. Linda C. Halgunseth
@lindachalgunseth.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Michigan State University. I study cultural and socio-cultural influences on parenting, parent-child interactions, and child development; culturally sensitive measurement development; inclusive practices in family engagement.
Biden wasn’t perfect. Def had issues, some missteps…. Kinda like a normal, thoughtful, fallable human would. But he wasn’t a lying POS crook. I respected him. I voted for him. I stand by him. tRump? Fuck him in his heart. Cock in the aorta. Literally fuck his heart until it explodes. Too much?
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Who would have guessed that sending masked unidentified people out with weapons and a mandate to abuse people would lead to copy-cat wrongdoing? I'm shocked. ttps://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
wired.com
Two federal judges rule at almost the same time. @bloomberg.com #SNAP www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fifteen Democratic New York elected officials were arrested at a federal building in Manhattan while seeking access to an ICE holding facility — the latest clash between Democratic officials and immigration authorities.
Democratic elected officials arrested at ICE facility in New York City
Fifteen New York elected officials were arrested at a federal building in Lower Manhattan in the latest clash between Democratic officials and immigration authorities.
washingtonpost.com
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
washingtonpost.com
Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
adamkinzinger.substack.com
This is why healthcare is too expensive. "Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."
If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.
DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations
If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.
npr.org
Happy to share our new paper by Dr. Deborah Johnson @lindachalgunseth.bsky.social and I on the revolutionary work of Dr. Cynthia García Coll! We ❤️ you Cynthia! Thanks to @fcd-us.bsky.social for supporting this work! Read it here: www.fcd-us.org/wp-content/u...
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
npr.org
They make it sound like there are millions of dead people getting Social Security checks. But it's just not true.
Can anyone recommend a good child development textbook that does a good job considering cultural influences? Thank you in advance!
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
Can't wait for the Pachanga on Fri May 2nd at 7:30pm!
Who is going to the SRCD LC Pre-Conference?!?!?!?
@lobdirectory.bsky.social hopefully we can get our FB members to come over :)
