Emily Farris
@emayfarris.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Coauthor of 📖 Power of the Badge out now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Coauthor of 📖 Power of the Badge out now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Meanwhile, Trump made a “joke” about sending turkeys to CECOT today.
The Trump administration sent 280+ immigrants to CECOT, a notorious torture prison in El Salvador, with no due process & no notice to their loved ones or attorneys.
Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Meanwhile, Trump made a “joke” about sending turkeys to CECOT today.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Somebody asked me when something happened and I wasn’t really sure so I said “over a year ago but less than pandemic.” Time is a social construct.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Somebody asked me when something happened and I wasn’t really sure so I said “over a year ago but less than pandemic.” Time is a social construct.
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NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
Immigration, early 20th century but he has to talk faster.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Immigration, early 20th century but he has to talk faster.
Rest in peace.
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Rest in peace.
The almost eight year old has requested strawberry cupcakes with pink icing and a flamingo feather in each for her birthday. So… where does one acquire food safe flamingo feathers?
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The almost eight year old has requested strawberry cupcakes with pink icing and a flamingo feather in each for her birthday. So… where does one acquire food safe flamingo feathers?
If I didn’t dislike him so much, I’d have second hand embarrassment for him.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I didn’t dislike him so much, I’d have second hand embarrassment for him.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
On our sixth pharmacy, we finally found a kid’s Covid dose. Thanks RFK!
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On our sixth pharmacy, we finally found a kid’s Covid dose. Thanks RFK!
It wouldn’t be the Christmas season (it starts before Thanksgiving, I’m sorry) without me painting nutcrackers. This silver work in progress and his to be gold version friend will go outside my daughters’ door.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It wouldn’t be the Christmas season (it starts before Thanksgiving, I’m sorry) without me painting nutcrackers. This silver work in progress and his to be gold version friend will go outside my daughters’ door.
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A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Getting a COVID vaccine for a kid under 12 seems to be impossible at any pharmacy.
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Getting a COVID vaccine for a kid under 12 seems to be impossible at any pharmacy.
Our county had a new election for their GOP chair at a mega church with deep ties to Christian nationalism and efforts to take over local politics. fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
Fort Worth’s Mercy Culture Church aims to get more conservative Christians elected through its online Campaign University.
fortworthreport.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our county had a new election for their GOP chair at a mega church with deep ties to Christian nationalism and efforts to take over local politics. fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...
Local politics is the best politics.
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Local politics is the best politics.
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An L.A. man was detained in an immigration raid. No one knows where he is
An L.A. man was detained in an immigration raid. No one knows where he is
A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn't have lawful immigration status, was taken into custody by immigration authorities on Oct. 7 in south-central Los Angeles. DHS said it has no record of him.
www.latimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
An L.A. man was detained in an immigration raid. No one knows where he is
I bet I can figure out why.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I bet I can figure out why.
About $165 a day per person to house this many individuals, most of which have no criminal convictions.
After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
About $165 a day per person to house this many individuals, most of which have no criminal convictions.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
I am teaching our senior thesis research tutorial class for the first time, and it has been a learning curve to figure out but I am reading my students' proposal drafts, and it is so rewarding to see how much they've grown from where they started.
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I am teaching our senior thesis research tutorial class for the first time, and it has been a learning curve to figure out but I am reading my students' proposal drafts, and it is so rewarding to see how much they've grown from where they started.
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The FBI infiltrated an encrypted chat of immigration court watchers in New York. Then it issued intelligence calling them violent extremists—terrorists.
As I told @theguardian.com, this targeting of people who show up for immigrants is straight COINTELPRO:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As I told @theguardian.com, this targeting of people who show up for immigrants is straight COINTELPRO:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The FBI infiltrated an encrypted chat of immigration court watchers in New York. Then it issued intelligence calling them violent extremists—terrorists.
As I told @theguardian.com, this targeting of people who show up for immigrants is straight COINTELPRO:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As I told @theguardian.com, this targeting of people who show up for immigrants is straight COINTELPRO:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Things that the Resident shouldn’t have to say, for $1000.
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Things that the Resident shouldn’t have to say, for $1000.
A colleague asked one of my students why he was looking so depressed and he goes, "the 2002 Newark, NJ mayoral race."
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A colleague asked one of my students why he was looking so depressed and he goes, "the 2002 Newark, NJ mayoral race."