Our newest guest post is from Rachel Dean Divaker, coeditor of the new book The Digitized Campus: Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Higher Education, which will be available in paperback later this year and can be preordered now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Th...

📷: Madrid, June 2018

John Oliver covers police surveillance in his amazing, cutting way and gives a shout out to “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” !!!! youtu.be/wagYax-0yJI?...

The squirrel distribution system has found me @msmith750.bsky.social

SEALS day 1 observation: There seems to be a game of how many times can someone use the phrase "historical analog." Stay tuned for more.

Florida follows a national trend of an increase in deportation orders, which hit an all-time high of 79,000 in June.

Florida’s deportation orders surged in June, new data shows

Florida follows a national trend of an increase in deportation orders, which hit an all-time high of 79,000 in June.

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Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

For my new followers, you know who can investigate the criminal actions of ICE? Congress.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Federal agents have fired on at least 21 people, many in their cars, as part of President Trump’s deportation crackdown. At least five people were killed, including three U.S. citizens.

What We Know About Immigration Officers Shooting at People in Vehicles

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helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Florida is considering rules that could block undocumented students from adult education programs and public state colleges.

Undocumented students may no longer be welcome in Florida colleges, adult education

Florida is considering rules that could block undocumented students from adult education programs and public state colleges.

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Grateful to the Law of the Police Conference for inviting me to present my work on campus police. I’m especially thankful to Rebecca Robichaud and Molly Meoning for organizing such a fantastic event at Wayne State Law in Detroit!

Had a lovely two days at the Law of the Police conference (always a treat to be with @vanessamiller.bsky.social!). Snuck in lunch with @jdmortenson.bsky.social as a bonus. Now I’m smuggling Zingermans pickles back to Kansas. IYKYK.

New book by rockstar law professor @valenabeety.bsky.social, "Pink Crime," will spotlight wrongful convictions affecting women, LGBTQ+ people: news3lv.com/news/local/n...

New book "Pink Crime" spotlights wrongful convictions affecting women, LGBTQ+ people

As Pride Month shines a spotlight on LGBTQ+ issues, a growing debate over wrongful convictions is drawing renewed attention to how the criminal justice system a

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I graduated with my JD & PhD in 2020. Due to the global shutdown, I graduated at home via zoom. I never walked or got hooded by my chair. However, last week, I attended graduation as a faculty member for the first time. Best of all, my family came to celebrate with me. Coolest 6 year delay

Coming to a close on my first year as a law professor back in my hometown of Miami, and my spirits are as high as the humidity

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What could go wrong abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

This semester, a student wrote a paper that touched on the intersections of environmental law and policing. The harms of tear gas are devastating. Thread and article below worth a read.

Lisa Song@lisalsong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

College is not a “stamp of approval” for “select people”; it is, overwhelmingly, public infrastructure whose function is to educate the public and advance inquiry in all areas of study. It should be free to all because learning serves the social good and prepares people to participate in social life

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

ICE just released new detention statistics. First update in about 2 months. As of April 4, 2026, ICE was detaining 60,311 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Tomorrow we’re covering conspiracy, which means introducing the students to The Wire and one of the greatest moments in the series

BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words. Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS. Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.