Eli Meyerhoff
@elimeyerhoff.bsky.social
building new worlds in the shell of the old / trusting kids / abolition / decolonization / Free Palestine! / anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness / https://abolition.university / Beyond Education: Radical studying for another world / http://elimeyerhoff.com
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How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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ICE deports asylum seeker to Africa, where abuser who bought her as ‘wife’ is waiting to kill her, lawyers claim
ICE deports woman to Africa, where ‘husband’ who bought her is waiting to kill her
First in The Independent: A Congolese woman’s life is in ‘grave danger’ after ICE secretly flew her to an unknown African nation, according to an emergency motion filed in federal court
trib.al
February 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
ICE deports asylum seeker to Africa, where abuser who bought her as ‘wife’ is waiting to kill her, lawyers claim
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Shame on NYU Langone for bending the knee to the Trump administration and closing the Transgender Youth Health Program 🏳️⚧️✊🏽
February 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Shame on NYU Langone for bending the knee to the Trump administration and closing the Transgender Youth Health Program 🏳️⚧️✊🏽
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Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.
February 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.
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SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com
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wired.com/story/social...
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com
wired.com/story/social...
wired.com/story/social...
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Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan
AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
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Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.
popular.info
February 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan
AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
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ICE deported 2-month-old Juan Nicolás with his mother and father to Mexico, despite the baby suffering from bronchitis while in detention. trib.al/YGS1yQC
Nicolás’s mother said they were left at the border with no phone and only the money they had in their commissary.
Nicolás’s mother said they were left at the border with no phone and only the money they had in their commissary.
February 18, 2026 at 6:43 PM
ICE deported 2-month-old Juan Nicolás with his mother and father to Mexico, despite the baby suffering from bronchitis while in detention. trib.al/YGS1yQC
Nicolás’s mother said they were left at the border with no phone and only the money they had in their commissary.
Nicolás’s mother said they were left at the border with no phone and only the money they had in their commissary.
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I wrote about Hillary Clinton's words on immigration, the proposed ICE reforms put forward by Schumer and Jeffries, and how, when faced with a vast abomination, not looking the problem in the eye can lead to putting bandaids on the bigger harm while institutionalizing it.
Institutionalizing harm
Small fixes can be dangerous if you entrench the thing you hope to stop.
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February 18, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I wrote about Hillary Clinton's words on immigration, the proposed ICE reforms put forward by Schumer and Jeffries, and how, when faced with a vast abomination, not looking the problem in the eye can lead to putting bandaids on the bigger harm while institutionalizing it.
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
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My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem ideal that we're going to have to create a network to smuggle drawings and letters our of our national network of punitive detention camps and keep them anonymous so that the authorities can't retaliate against children.
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem ideal that we're going to have to create a network to smuggle drawings and letters our of our national network of punitive detention camps and keep them anonymous so that the authorities can't retaliate against children.
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ICE has been slammed after staff members have allegedly begun conducting raids on cells to seize and "rip up" letters written by children that expose the dire conditions within an immigration detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
ICE blasted for 'destroying' children's letters begging for freedom in Texas
www.irishstar.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:42 PM
ICE has been slammed after staff members have allegedly begun conducting raids on cells to seize and "rip up" letters written by children that expose the dire conditions within an immigration detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
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I’ve had to spend my entire adult life dealing with people shitting on both critical/cultural theory and radical left politics as being “out of touch” or “unrealistic.” Meanwhile, our society is run by fantasy-based grifter technofascists and purely vibes-based economists. Incredible stuff.
Hassett: "The basic theory of President Trump's tariffs is sure, we're importing stuff from China, but we've got producers in US who make stuff, maybe at alightly higher place. If we bring stuff home, create demand, then that will hurt China & drive up wages & American consumers will be better off."
February 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I’ve had to spend my entire adult life dealing with people shitting on both critical/cultural theory and radical left politics as being “out of touch” or “unrealistic.” Meanwhile, our society is run by fantasy-based grifter technofascists and purely vibes-based economists. Incredible stuff.
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This was how the Jim Crow South functioned in larger American society.
Southern leaders helped the FBI target and destroy the Klan, and the national conversation on racism revolved around "inbred rednecks" and not the governors and lawyers in suits who mainted segregation.
Southern leaders helped the FBI target and destroy the Klan, and the national conversation on racism revolved around "inbred rednecks" and not the governors and lawyers in suits who mainted segregation.
it is obviously true that there's bigotry of various kinds among the unwashed masses but, despite what the decorum demands of class apparently have some of y'all believing, this is very obviously a feature that the rulers and the ruled have in common
February 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This was how the Jim Crow South functioned in larger American society.
Southern leaders helped the FBI target and destroy the Klan, and the national conversation on racism revolved around "inbred rednecks" and not the governors and lawyers in suits who mainted segregation.
Southern leaders helped the FBI target and destroy the Klan, and the national conversation on racism revolved around "inbred rednecks" and not the governors and lawyers in suits who mainted segregation.
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MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
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Public libraries are actually existing examples of the world we want. We should not have to fight for them under a democratic socialist mayor.
@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!
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@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!
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NYC Public Library Action Network
Read our response in our latest newsletter Mar 21 at Make the Road New York (in Queens). Learn how you can advocate for increased public library funding, hear more about the services that libraries…
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February 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Public libraries are actually existing examples of the world we want. We should not have to fight for them under a democratic socialist mayor.
@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!
nycplan.org
@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!
nycplan.org
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Extremely angry that this nyt piece is good
Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)
Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Extremely angry that this nyt piece is good
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If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.
February 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.
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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
What strikes me is that 'the volk' have incredibly incoherent and everywhere ideas, but the people who claim to speak for them in the press are like clerics who think there are two poles for all politics and everything must fit between them. These poles are like, eight inches apart
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
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Sometimes you repost because the horror is so intolerably painful and it is so hard to know what to do and it feels so powerless and reposting feels like nothing that has to be at least the barest trace of something
At the same Texas concentration camp:
“There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“
Extreme child abuse as state policy.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
“There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“
Extreme child abuse as state policy.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
February 18, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Sometimes you repost because the horror is so intolerably painful and it is so hard to know what to do and it feels so powerless and reposting feels like nothing that has to be at least the barest trace of something
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Hell yeah
Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...
Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis | Common Dreams
"Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy."
www.commondreams.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Hell yeah