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Abbie Boggs

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Wrapping up a manuscript on the figure and figuration of the noncitizen student in higher education and immigration law. Continuing collaborative work on https://abolition.university/

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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · Feb 3

Ominous as I submit my long overdue book on the figure of the noncitizen student and how the threat of deportation has long served the interests of the U.S. state and capital with crucial consequences for the politics and practices of universities and the possibilities of students' lives.

UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · Jan 31

Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled.

For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

Academic Freedom and Open Discourse - UNC Press Blog

For over 100 years UNC Press has championed the principles of academic freedom, open discourse, and the free exchange of ideas—values essential to a democratic society and the pursuit of knowledge. R...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 7d

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 8d

1/ Trump's latest "loyalty oath" aimed at nine academic institutions is really scary. The latest phase in the Orbanification of American higher education. For all those out there thinking about how to respond, here are a few resources that might be useful: @aaup.org @aft.org @aftct.bsky.social

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 8d

"If we are not willing to lose things, then we are going to lose everything." @mauraf.bsky.social

youtu.be/A74eAZMgLjw?...

Faculty on the Front Lines teaser with captions

YouTube video by TheAAUP

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d

"Declining international student enrollment is a piece of the larger puzzle undermining the financial health of higher ed. [We see] programs shut down, campuses shut down, smaller public or private institutions closing & a curtailment of opportunities for students."

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

'A perfect storm' — more colleges at risk as enrollment falls and financial pressures mount

In part due to the Trump administration's changes to the student visa policy, there are fewer students on college campuses this fall.

www.cnbc.com

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nataliya braginsky @nataliyabraginsky.bsky.social · 24d

From the 2024 study that was just removed from DOJ’s website: “Militant, nationalistic, violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”
newrepublic.com/post/200537/...

DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists

The Justice Department has taken down a study that proves Republicans’ entire narrative wrong about left-wing violence.

newrepublic.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 1

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 28

I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · Jul 30

Turns out there IS money to forgive student loans

BUT ONLY if you join the Trump Secret Police

DHS' new ICE recruitment strategy: 50K signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness and Trump posters

The agency, suddenly flush with cash, is looking to meet President Donald Trump’s goal of hiring 10,000 new ICE agents and deporting a million people a year.

www.politico.com

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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yeah, someone should get on that... maybe it has something to do with the relationship between American education, US histories of settler colonialism, racial slavery, and questions of land turned property? Someone should probably write that book too.

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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · Jul 25

This incentivizes a perverse affirmative action for white people since the only way to prove the institution isn't selecting against a group is to select for them. It's akin to anti-BDS legislation that effectively requires companies to set a preference for working with Israeli companies.

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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · Jul 22

Wesleyan University's sociology dept is searching for an assistant professor this fall - especially interested in scholars of space with an interest in questions of method. Non-sociology PhDs are encouraged to apply! Feel free to share and reach out with questions!

wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Jul 12

READ: Palestinians screamed for months: Israel is turning U.S.-run “aid” sites into killing fields.

No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...

Palestinian testimonies of deliberate Israeli killings at U.S.-run ‘aid’ sites were ignored until the perpetrators admitted to it

Palestinians have delivered testimony after testimony about the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run “death traps” masquerading as aid sites. But no one listened until Haaretz published direct testimony from…

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jul 12

Not seeing any news in the west yet about Saif Al-Din Muslat, a 23-year old U.S. citizen, being beaten to death in occupied Palestine yesterday by settlers. I think if an Israeli-American were beaten to death by Palestinians, the NYT would be on it
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · Jul 10

Breaking: Trump's birthright citizenship order is blocked nationwide again, after a judge in New Hampshire said he would certify a nationwide class of children who would be deprived of citizenship if the policy took effect.

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · Jul 10

What I'm covering today (and headed to Concord, New Hampshire to attend): Judge to weigh blocking Trump on birthright citizenship despite Supreme Court ruling - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Judge to weigh blocking Trump on birthright citizenship despite Supreme Court ruling

A federal judge will consider on Thursday whether to prevent President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship after the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.

www.reuters.com

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stop cop cities everywhere @micahh.bsky.social · Jul 9

Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty.

Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · Jul 4

This bill was never only about eviscerating social services or enriching oligarchs, bad as that is. It’s also about using state power to build a private police force for the fascists—and spreading fear and destroying solidarity. Being brave and building solidarity is a big part of how we fight back.

Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · Jul 3

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.

Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · Jul 4

The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · Jul 2

During the Red Scare this country denaturalized and deported radicals, especially those advocating racial justice, socialism, and communism. There is a long history behind these repressive tactics. Just look at the case of Claudia Jones, for example.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 2

President Trump made an outlandish claim that the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was “here illegally,” his latest effort to promote false conspiracy theories about political opponents.

Trump Falsely Claims Mamdani Is an Illegal Immigrant and Threatens to Arrest Him

President Trump claimed that the New York mayoral candidate, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was “here illegally,” his latest effort to promote false conspiracy theories about political opponents.

trib.al

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Jun 29

"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor"

hot damn

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 29

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · Jun 29

Others have said this, but I think it bears repeating: the Trump Administration is tearing up our democracy, our health system, our alliances...

And our still free press, our still viable opposition party are focused on *imagined quotations* of a newly nominated mayoral candidate.

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