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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 15h

Register for a joint IEHS-OAH online event on denaturalization!

Join us and @oah.org for an online event on denaturalization featuring IEHS members TODAY, October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: A History of Denaturalization. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for a conversation with OAH-IEHS members on the history of denaturalization in the United States. The Naturalization Act of 1906 introduced denaturalization as a legal mechanism, allowing the ...

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 10h

Indiana University students and faculty should go on strike over this blatant assault on student journalists’ First Amendment freedoms.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

"Ahead of our Oct 16th edition... the Media School directed us to print no news in the paper, an order blatantly in defiance of our editorial independence and Charter... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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benandstevecom.bsky.social @benandstevecom.bsky.social · 10h

Alaska residents displaced by remnants of Typhoon Halong have limited options as winter sets in - High winds & storm surge battered low-lying, isolated Alaska Native communities along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in southwest Alaska. apnews.com/article/alas... @weatherchannel @storms @typhoon

Alaska residents displaced by remnants of Typhoon Halong have limited options as winter sets in

Officials in Alaska are rushing to find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

apnews.com

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 12h

A thing people probably should pay more attention to is that Republicans in the nation’s ninth most populous state are functionally eliminating the opposition party’s ability to win elections to the legislature or Congress.

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Doc Kennedy @dockennedy.bsky.social · 1d

A) NC is already extremely gerrymandered, from 7-7 in 2022 to 11-3 if this goes as they hope
B) This is Phil Berger's attempt to win Big Orange's favor as Berger is in a bitter primary fight against a MAGA challenger

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 1d

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 1d

Trump won NC by 3.2%. Democrat Josh Stein won governor seat by 14.8%. There is no mandate for the state’s congressional delegation to be 78% GOP. This is simply another anti-democratic power grab.

David Nir @davidnir.com · 1d

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 2d

The way Everett, MA cops collaborated w/ federal agents to spirit this child 500 miles south is very much in keeping with the political philosophy of Edward Everett, the MA statesman, ex Harvard prez, & famous doughface for whom the city is named. EE believed fervently in compromise with enslavers.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 3d

Much of the Black Church tradition in America, not to mention many evangelicalisms of the global south, would like a word

Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 3d

Evangelicals don’t have a liberation theology.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

There are few more chilling phrases than “Children’s Detention Center.”

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

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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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 4d

You will never convince me this is anything other than intentional market manipulation to help the regime’s cronies make more cash.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4d

tariff otaku woke up and posted one China tariff threat and we get the worst stock market result in 6 months lol

Blurry TV Headlines @blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 4d

S&P, NASDAQ CLOSE OUT WORST DAY SINCE APRIL

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 4d

The history of Spain has some painful lessons around this.

Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 4d

Two things about fascism I didn't really grasp until it became our reality:

1) it's not all-or-nothing. You can have more or less fascism. (Which means even though that's where we are, we can still push back, resist, make many things less bad for many people.

2) It isn't *everywhere* +

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 4d

When protected First Amendment protest is “assault”…

NPR @npr.org · 4d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 4d

Today is shaping up as Black Friday for the federal workforce. Light a candle, spare a prayer, hug a fed if you know one. And keep making your voice heard!!

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Sara, no H @syntherella.bsky.social · 5d

Vice Provost for AI? UGH this should NOT be a thing

Stanley Ahalt, the current dean of SDSS, will serve as the inaugural dean of the new school. Jeffrey Bardzell, the current dean of SILS, "has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI," according to the campus-wide email.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 6d

Thousands of people I don’t know and will never meet engaged and supported me in a time of profound personal grief.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 6d

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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 6d

Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️

Printed copy of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis held by the author in the background

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