Sofya Aptekar

@sofaptekar.bsky.social

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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"

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

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Free Leqaa Kordia now!!!

Ig post from freeleqaakordia
About her hospitalization

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 16d

Meanwhile 1,500 soldiers in an Army unit based in Alaska and specializing in arctic conditions is readying for deployment to Minnesota. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 16d

Never mind that no, undocumented parents who entered without inspection will not be able to get a green card if their kid enlists in the military. Even the temporary relief from deportation for military families - Parole in Place - is costly and harder to get now. taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...

Recruiter told students that enlisting can lead to Green Cards for parents

The Parole in Place program is not available until after service members enlist, and it often requires a lawyer.

taskandpurpose.com

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine you are a teen in Minnesota, fearing that your immigrant parents will be abducted by ICE. You get an email from a military recruiter, who is also an immigrant, telling you that you can enlist and get a green card for your parents. 1/2 taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...

Recruiter told students that enlisting can lead to Green Cards for parents

The Parole in Place program is not available until after service members enlist, and it often requires a lawyer.

taskandpurpose.com

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 19d

The public trust that runs Hudson River Park is making money renting space to ICE to park its kidnapping vans on Pier 40.

hellgatenyc.com/hudson-river...

Hudson River Park Lets ICE Park Vans at Pier 40

A contract with the Trump administration has been a windfall for the park—plus more stories for your Wednesday.

hellgatenyc.com

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 26d

😞 Unfortunately the limited provisions protecting family members of the military are even more limited now.

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Dec 26

New piece on how veterans can find themselves in debt to the VA, including the involvement of predatory third parties. Something I wrote about in my essay for the South Atlantic Quarterly a few months ago. www.military.com/feature/2025...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Dec 23

We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.

At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.

www.nbcnews.com

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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) @transequality.bsky.social · Dec 15

TWO anti-trans bills are up for a vote this week:
❌ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill that would criminalize providers of gender-affirming care
❌ Rep. Dan Crenshaw's bill that would block Medicaid funds from covering transition-related care (1/2)

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Dec 1

Wait, I thought AI and suicide was in the news for something else recently 🤔

Screenshot of a military.com daily brief for Dec. 1. Photo of a bold, bearded veterans with a backpack and a US flag. Lawmakers to VA: Use AI to help prevent veteran suicide.

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scholarsforsj.bsky.social @scholarsforsj.bsky.social · Dec 1

Join this Wednesday's webinar WHY PALESTINE IS A UNION ISSUE (12/3) at 5:30—7:30pm ET, hosted by our comrades at Coalition for Action in Higher Ed!

Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Nov 30

Bane of our existence as a smaller union (PSC). See also how the Municipal Labor Committee decides our health insurance.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · Nov 29

ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.

NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Nov 29

Wonder how it affects Northwestern's credit rating 🤔

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · Nov 29

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · Nov 29

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Nov 27

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

www.bostonglobe.com

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Nov 26

And likely our pension money and our union reserves are invested in it.

LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · Nov 26

The union-busting industry is massive. Massive and insidious. It’s an industry that thrives in the shadows.

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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · Nov 26

The union-busting industry is massive. Massive and insidious. It’s an industry that thrives in the shadows.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Nov 24

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

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · Nov 22

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-...

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

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Nov 20

*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.

Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · Nov 14

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Nov 11

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.” 🔥

Rory Fanning @rtfanning.bsky.social · Nov 11

My annual 11/11 Occupiers Day article ✊ truthout.org/articles/ice...

ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.

Veteran-led protests against Trump’s National Guard deployments encourage soldiers to resist Trump’s illegal orders.

truthout.org

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Rory Fanning @rtfanning.bsky.social · Nov 11

My annual 11/11 Occupiers Day article ✊ truthout.org/articles/ice...

ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.

Veteran-led protests against Trump’s National Guard deployments encourage soldiers to resist Trump’s illegal orders.

truthout.org

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Nov 6

This would be transformative. To invest in publicly developed and owned learning management systems at CUNY instead of extractive and shitty Brightspace, Blackboard etc.

Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · Nov 6

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...

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · Nov 6

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · Nov 4

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.

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Oct 31

Nov. 14: BU Law Review Symposium on The University and Democracy.
I'll be in PLENARY #2: The Political Economy of the Modern University, speaking about debt financing of public higher ed, credit ratings, and Wall Street governing our universities, building on Lend & Rule www.bu.edu/law/engageme...

Fall 2025 Law Review Symposium | The University and Democracy | School of Law

www.bu.edu

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Oct 31

Nov 13: honored to be invited by the talented and committed @lizbethdsantana.bsky.social to participate in a panel on deported veterans at Baruch College, drawing on my research for Green Card Soldier.

Honoring Our Own. Veterans Day Event Program. November 13, 2025. 12:30-2:30. Baruch College NVC, Multi-purpose Room 107. 12:30-2:30 deported veterans photo exhibit by Dr. Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana. 1pm-1:30pm Bring Them Home (2022) film screening 1:30-2:15 hybrid panel with Juan Garcia (deported veteran), Rob Young (Excuse My Accent), Dr. Sofya Aptekar (CUNY), Margaret Cargioli (Immigrant Defenders Law Center), and James Smith (Black Deported Veterans of America), Background of the flyer is a photograph of the border wall painted with names of deported veterans and crosses.

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · Oct 31

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

Speaker Series: Technologies of the State. Green Card Soldier: Betwen Model Immigrant and Security Threat. Professor Sofya Aptekar. CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. November 3, 2025. 3:30-5:00pm ZSK Room 404.
In the corner, there is a photograph of the speaker, white woman with long gray-brown hair against a black background and image of the book cover in a circle, black outline of the United States against a camo background

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