Sofya Aptekar
@sofaptekar.bsky.social
CUNY prof, proud member of PSC-CUNY, author of Green Card Soldier, Lend & Rule, and The Road to Citizenship, sociologist, urban kayaker @bbpboathouse, "gratuitously politicized"
And likely our pension money and our union reserves are invested in it.
The union-busting industry is massive. Massive and insidious. It’s an industry that thrives in the shadows.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And likely our pension money and our union reserves are invested in it.
Well this is very bad.
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Well this is very bad.
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VERIFIED: Fundraiser for the Queens family that had their door busted down & a gun pointed in their face by ICE.
The children are all traumatized, unable to sleep.
Fundraiser seeks to secure them emergency housing and get therapy for the kids. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
The children are all traumatized, unable to sleep.
Fundraiser seeks to secure them emergency housing and get therapy for the kids. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Donate to Help a Traumatized Family Find Safety and Stability, organized by Katherine Gomez
A family in our community is living through every parent’s worst n… Katherine Gomez needs your support for Help a Traumatized Family Find Safety and Stability
www.gofundme.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
VERIFIED: Fundraiser for the Queens family that had their door busted down & a gun pointed in their face by ICE.
The children are all traumatized, unable to sleep.
Fundraiser seeks to secure them emergency housing and get therapy for the kids. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
The children are all traumatized, unable to sleep.
Fundraiser seeks to secure them emergency housing and get therapy for the kids. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
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*Nov 19 — The migrant worker Joe Hill was executed — Around the world, wherever working people struggle, he lives on beside them. #1u
*Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️⚧️
An injury to one, is an injury to all.
*Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️⚧️
An injury to one, is an injury to all.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
*Nov 19 — The migrant worker Joe Hill was executed — Around the world, wherever working people struggle, he lives on beside them. #1u
*Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️⚧️
An injury to one, is an injury to all.
*Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️⚧️
An injury to one, is an injury to all.
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people “embracing” AI in their classroom…you are ushering in the thing that is supposed to replace you not just as instructor but as source of knowledge, after it fed off your blood and guts
“embracing the bubonic plague-infested rats in the classroom"
“embracing the bubonic plague-infested rats in the classroom"
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
people “embracing” AI in their classroom…you are ushering in the thing that is supposed to replace you not just as instructor but as source of knowledge, after it fed off your blood and guts
“embracing the bubonic plague-infested rats in the classroom"
“embracing the bubonic plague-infested rats in the classroom"
Dang, you are a real one @rtfanning.bsky.social "it gets clearer and clearer that “Veterans Day” is nothing more than an attempt to bury the oppressive and deadly agenda of the U.S. ruling class by celebrating our “heroes.” 🔥
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Dang, you are a real one @rtfanning.bsky.social "it gets clearer and clearer that “Veterans Day” is nothing more than an attempt to bury the oppressive and deadly agenda of the U.S. ruling class by celebrating our “heroes.” 🔥
This would be transformative. To invest in publicly developed and owned learning management systems at CUNY instead of extractive and shitty Brightspace, Blackboard etc.
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This would be transformative. To invest in publicly developed and owned learning management systems at CUNY instead of extractive and shitty Brightspace, Blackboard etc.
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Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.
How are we already entering November... Amidst it all, it feels a bit weird to do normal things like talks, but here I go:
11/3: Wake Forest sociology department visit
11/13: Baruch College panel on deported vets
11/14: Boston University Law Review Symposium
More details in thread
11/3: Wake Forest sociology department visit
11/13: Baruch College panel on deported vets
11/14: Boston University Law Review Symposium
More details in thread
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
How are we already entering November... Amidst it all, it feels a bit weird to do normal things like talks, but here I go:
11/3: Wake Forest sociology department visit
11/13: Baruch College panel on deported vets
11/14: Boston University Law Review Symposium
More details in thread
11/3: Wake Forest sociology department visit
11/13: Baruch College panel on deported vets
11/14: Boston University Law Review Symposium
More details in thread
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Cool article about public libraries that has some quotes from me. Love to see my work in Spanish (and an unexpected promotion to antropóloga) www.elsaltodiario.com/institucione...
Bibliotecas públicas: un tercer lugar donde ensayar la utopía
Las bibliotecas han sido históricamente objetivo de ataques que no siempre han tomado la forma de incendio o metralla: el desinterés o la censura también son una amenaza para su supervivencia.
www.elsaltodiario.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Cool article about public libraries that has some quotes from me. Love to see my work in Spanish (and an unexpected promotion to antropóloga) www.elsaltodiario.com/institucione...
Tomorrow evening! Come to discuss debt struggles, including the debt our public schools are in, abortion debt, and military debt.
Join us for this @debtcollective.bsky.social Jubilee School session on Oct. 21. Ill be talking about military labor and debt (even as footage of military workers in food pantry lines is all over the news) debtcollective.org/event/is-a-d...
Is a Debtors’ Revolution the Way?
Presented by South Atlantic Quarterly Special Debt Issue Authors Jason Wozniak, Eleni Schirmer, Braxton Brewington, Sofya Aptekar
debtcollective.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Tomorrow evening! Come to discuss debt struggles, including the debt our public schools are in, abortion debt, and military debt.
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✊ALLIES: WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
> Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line: bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
> Donate to our strike fund by purchasing union-made merch from our store or donating directly: sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/
> Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line: bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
> Donate to our strike fund by purchasing union-made merch from our store or donating directly: sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/
No Contract, No Coffee Pledge
Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, a...
bit.ly
October 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
✊ALLIES: WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
> Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line: bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
> Donate to our strike fund by purchasing union-made merch from our store or donating directly: sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/
> Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line: bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
> Donate to our strike fund by purchasing union-made merch from our store or donating directly: sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/
The Defense Commissary Agency is pushing its predatory credit card on military workers dealing with food insecurity. Under the debt regime we live in, debt is a solution for every problem, for survival itself. It comes at you seemingly from every side, including from your employer/government.
Just throwing this out for anyone who doesn't know: the military star card is a predatory credit card aimed directly at service members so it is not in fact a great option for soldiers across the force as CJ is saying in the screenshot here
If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Defense Commissary Agency is pushing its predatory credit card on military workers dealing with food insecurity. Under the debt regime we live in, debt is a solution for every problem, for survival itself. It comes at you seemingly from every side, including from your employer/government.
I went on the American Campus podcast to talk about the other kind of college debt - the debt that our colleges are in. What does the financialization of higher ed mean for the way colleges and universities are governed? americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
The university’s creditors with Sofya Aptekar - American Campus Podcast
On hedge funds, private equity, and the financialization of public colleges.References and suggested readings:The Coalition Against Campus Debt. 2024. Lend and Rule: Fighting the Financialization of P...
americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I went on the American Campus podcast to talk about the other kind of college debt - the debt that our colleges are in. What does the financialization of higher ed mean for the way colleges and universities are governed? americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
Join us for this @debtcollective.bsky.social Jubilee School session on Oct. 21. Ill be talking about military labor and debt (even as footage of military workers in food pantry lines is all over the news) debtcollective.org/event/is-a-d...
Is a Debtors’ Revolution the Way?
Presented by South Atlantic Quarterly Special Debt Issue Authors Jason Wozniak, Eleni Schirmer, Braxton Brewington, Sofya Aptekar
debtcollective.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Join us for this @debtcollective.bsky.social Jubilee School session on Oct. 21. Ill be talking about military labor and debt (even as footage of military workers in food pantry lines is all over the news) debtcollective.org/event/is-a-d...
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This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Fresh example of trash research for my research methods class.
Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Fresh example of trash research for my research methods class.
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Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine
September 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine
New USCIS policy regarding military naturalization further limits access to naturalization for immigrants in the military by limiting the types of separations eligible for citizenship. Raises questions about what happens to those naturalized before they are discharged.
www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
www.uscis.gov
September 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
New USCIS policy regarding military naturalization further limits access to naturalization for immigrants in the military by limiting the types of separations eligible for citizenship. Raises questions about what happens to those naturalized before they are discharged.
www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
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Take action! You have just a handful of days left to make your voice be heard on the proposed DHS rule that will eliminate Duration of Status & have a detrimental effect on international students. Use ASA’s Action Center to submit your public comment by 9/29. https://bit.ly/ASAaction
September 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Take action! You have just a handful of days left to make your voice be heard on the proposed DHS rule that will eliminate Duration of Status & have a detrimental effect on international students. Use ASA’s Action Center to submit your public comment by 9/29. https://bit.ly/ASAaction
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
Much prefer Indi Samarajiva: "Fuck your citizenship. It’s barbed wire around an indigenous graveyard. It’s a moat around a colonial crime scene." indi.ca/abolish-citi...
With the re-implementation of the revised naturalization test first tried out under Trump pt. 1, pondering this quote from USCIS spokesperson: "American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world." www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Notice of Implementation of 2025 Naturalization Civics Test
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or the Department), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reimplementing the 2020 Naturalization Civics Test, which was originally announced on ...
www.federalregister.gov
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Much prefer Indi Samarajiva: "Fuck your citizenship. It’s barbed wire around an indigenous graveyard. It’s a moat around a colonial crime scene." indi.ca/abolish-citi...
With the re-implementation of the revised naturalization test first tried out under Trump pt. 1, pondering this quote from USCIS spokesperson: "American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world." www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Notice of Implementation of 2025 Naturalization Civics Test
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or the Department), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reimplementing the 2020 Naturalization Civics Test, which was originally announced on ...
www.federalregister.gov
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
With the re-implementation of the revised naturalization test first tried out under Trump pt. 1, pondering this quote from USCIS spokesperson: "American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world." www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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We are proud co-sponsors of the "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally on Thursday, 9/25 at 6pm in Foley Square.
September 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We are proud co-sponsors of the "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally on Thursday, 9/25 at 6pm in Foley Square.