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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 21h

Evidence neoliberalism undergirds US refugee law. The BIA:"Not all threats of fines, wage reduction, or loss of employment . . . will suffice to indicate that submission to an abortion was 'forced' within the meaning of the [INA]." TLDR: coercive pop. control needs a severe economic cost.

Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Dividing the page with a thin black line, at the bottom are three logos of the co-sponsoring Georgetown Law organizations, from left to right: Disabled Law Students Association logo containing the disability flag colors in six stripes (red, yellow, white, blue, green, and gray);

Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Below the title are two gray boxes with text that read from left to right: Monday, November 3rd from 2:30pm to 4pm, virtual Zoom event, with a registration QR code that is scannable. Below is a line that reads: "ASL interpretation available" in all capital letters.

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

BEGIN IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An off-white background poster with large black text that reads: "Lived Experiences of Deafness and Disability in Carceral Spaces: A Roundtable Discussion with HEARD."

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 8d

“Some of them said they’re scared because they don’t want their own family members to be taken away.”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 10d

Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16d

The Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.

There is nothing subtle about this effort: Trump officials are trying to turn the long-celebrated refugee program...into a tool of white nationalism.

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism

The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

www.motherjones.com

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Reina Sultan 🇱🇧 @reinasultan.bsky.social · 12d

For @prismreports.org, I wrote about Adelanto, the notorious ICE processing center where disabled immigrants are being abused and neglected.

prismreports.org/2025/10/21/d...

Disabled immigrants detained at Adelanto report abuse and neglect

Disability Rights California found inhumane conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, where a 39-year-old man died last month

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12d

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Sep 15

In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm

www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (09/15/25) | The Death Panel

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13d

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15d

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Child-drawn sign reading DONT MAKE me GO to LAW SCHOOL

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15d

Alaska Native organizations and other groups are requesting a presidential disaster declaration and the aid that comes with it – via @AlaskaBeacon

Trump Cuts and Climate Change Compound Worry in Alaska After Typhoon Disaster

“Storms are going to get worse, and it’s not going to be livable,” said a tribal leader from the village of Akiak.

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 16d

Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. There were signs. "As originally understood, the Constitution does not afford students a right to free speech in public schools." (Thomas, J., concurring separately to dismantle Tinker). Morse v. Frederick (2007).

Sara Custer @saracuster.insidehighered.com · 16d

BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact

The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.

www.insidehighered.com

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 16d

HAPPENING NOW.

AAUP @aaup.org · 18d

Join AAUP's National Teach-In on Trump's Loyalty Oaths!

Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there!

Register at link below👇

#AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented and highly politicized regulations on institutions of higher education, pressured them with coercive funding threats, extorted promises to fall in li...

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 16d

Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. How far far astray we've come from Tinker (1969) & Papish (1973). "Students in public schools do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." (White, J.).

Sara Custer @saracuster.insidehighered.com · 16d

BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact

The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.

www.insidehighered.com

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 16d

Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16d

The Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.

There is nothing subtle about this effort: Trump officials are trying to turn the long-celebrated refugee program...into a tool of white nationalism.

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism

The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

www.motherjones.com

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19d

If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.

detentionpregnancytracker.com

Women's Refugee Commission

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 19d

Technically legal since the Alien Registration Act of 1940 ("Smith Act"), a xenophobic wartime policy targeting Japanese Americans carrying criminal and civil penalties (fines + imprisonment), with multiple instances of enforcement now. The legal basis for immigration raids was already there.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 20d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 20d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22d

The thing is: if you study what I study, this makes complete sense. Many eugenicists of the early 20th C. wanted the “right” people to have more babies! Limit or prohibit contraception to ensure more of the “right” babies, and use targeted sterilizations to ensure fewer of the “wrong” babies.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22d

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 24d

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23d

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Meaghan Charlton @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 24d

You don't believe neoliberalism undergirds US refugee law? The BIA:"Not all threats of fines, wage reduction, or loss of employment . . . will suffice to indicate that submission to an abortion was 'forced' within the meaning of the [INA]." TLDR: coercive pop. control needs a severe economic cost.

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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · Oct 3

Imarah’s case shows how disability, poverty, and race converge under punishment.

Instead of care, the system imposes incarceration, debt, and criminal records—treating unmet needs as crimes rather than addressing root causes.

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