NEW: State of MN, Minneapolis & St. Paul have filed a federal lawsuit to halt a federal government "invasion" by ICE agents, arguing the deployment amounts to a constitutional violation and a direct threat to public safety.
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.
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A lawsuit alleges that New York is keeping children in solitary confinement cells without toilets for days or weeks at a time: nysfocus.com/2026/01/09/o...
New York Keeps Children in Solitary Without Toilets, Suit Alleges
Office of Children and Family Services facilities are violating state regulations governing the treatment of children in their care, the lawsuit claims.
nysfocus.com
I actually had never experienced Thanksgiving. All I know about it comes from online facts and images. I’m torn about whether I want to participate. I’ve always hated all the family gatherings and holidays in Korea. How would I feel about participating in one of these foreign traditions? 🤔🤔🫤🫤😓
This is all entirely outrageous, just like everything this administration does that flouts the law and mores. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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I mean, i already distrust realtors enough, I don’t need to be primed like this
Very happy to share that my book, A New World of Revolutoins, now has a cover and page with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editorial team for coming up with a great design! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
press.princeton.edu
Every year, tens of thousands of children are taken from their families because their parents can't afford decent housing. Most child welfare agencies do virtually nothing to help them even as the affordable housing crisis worsens. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
thenation.com
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 9mo ago"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Stephan Schmid & Hamid Taieb eds., A Philosophical History of the Concept - @universitypress.cambridge.org, March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
A Philosophical History of the Concept
Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - A Philosophical History of the Concept
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Prenez date ! Le 8 octobre 2025, de 8h30 à 17h, le Centre Jean Bodin organise le colloque des doctorants "Les mutations du droit face à l'écocentrisme". L'évènement se déroulera à la Faculté de droit, éco, gestion d'Angers. Infos et inscription : centrejeanbodin.univ-angers.fr/fr/activites...
Reading this remarkable letter offers more evidence that the Trump administration and its allies are far more interested in taking down elite universities than in supporting higher ed, even in the areas they claim to care about, such as "viewpoint diversity," or even helping UVA enforce the law.
Joe Fore@joefore.bsky.social · 9mo agoFormer UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘operation midway blitz’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids
Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘operation midway blitz’
theguardian.com
