Will Rodick, PhD
@williamrodick.bsky.social
P-12 Practice Lead at EdTrust
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ICYMI: We @propublica.org set up a tracker for immigration-related habeas cases, which means it tracks the number of suits filed by immigrants claiming they are detained illegally. The number has hit historic highs. We'll update it regularly with new data. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
projects.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 PM
ICYMI: We @propublica.org set up a tracker for immigration-related habeas cases, which means it tracks the number of suits filed by immigrants claiming they are detained illegally. The number has hit historic highs. We'll update it regularly with new data. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
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Join us today at 3:00pm ET for a timely conversation as Augustus Mays, EdTrust’s VP of Partnerships & Engagement joins an education roundtable to discuss what’s at stake for our nation’s students. https://edtru.st/3O0Hb1w
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Join us today at 3:00pm ET for a timely conversation as Augustus Mays, EdTrust’s VP of Partnerships & Engagement joins an education roundtable to discuss what’s at stake for our nation’s students. https://edtru.st/3O0Hb1w
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THE LIBRARIANS is now streaming on @pbs.org’s YouTube channel and app. Watch now and get engaged in the Freedom to Read movement in your community!
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
THE LIBRARIANS is now streaming on @pbs.org’s YouTube channel and app. Watch now and get engaged in the Freedom to Read movement in your community!
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
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in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
"Beers on me"
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
"Beers on me"
And in the face of these threats--stop exercising your rights and you *might* have fewer violators of your rights terrorizing your community--dem leadership wants to suggest "common sense reforms and accountability measures" to justify giving these violators of rights more money.
February 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
And in the face of these threats--stop exercising your rights and you *might* have fewer violators of your rights terrorizing your community--dem leadership wants to suggest "common sense reforms and accountability measures" to justify giving these violators of rights more money.
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Nikki Giovanni’s poems are deceptively accessible; getting it is a master class in close reading. I read
“Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5
“Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5
February 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Nikki Giovanni’s poems are deceptively accessible; getting it is a master class in close reading. I read
“Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5
“Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5
The reward for absolute lawlessness, terror, and murder is legitimacy. Rest assured that by the end, dem leadership will compromise even on these half measures.
in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 5:09 AM
The reward for absolute lawlessness, terror, and murder is legitimacy. Rest assured that by the end, dem leadership will compromise even on these half measures.
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🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
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You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
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““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10
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this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church
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New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Reminder: in the first month of this year ice murdered 9 people in cold blood that we know about.
Renee good
Alex pretti
Keith Porter Jr
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Víctor Manuel Díaz
Parady La
Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz
Heber Sánchez Domínguez
Renee good
Alex pretti
Keith Porter Jr
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Víctor Manuel Díaz
Parady La
Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz
Heber Sánchez Domínguez
February 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Reminder: in the first month of this year ice murdered 9 people in cold blood that we know about.
Renee good
Alex pretti
Keith Porter Jr
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Víctor Manuel Díaz
Parady La
Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz
Heber Sánchez Domínguez
Renee good
Alex pretti
Keith Porter Jr
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Víctor Manuel Díaz
Parady La
Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz
Heber Sánchez Domínguez
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"We're going to pursue [prosecuting journalists] to the ends of the earth" is itself a whole thing before you get to the ", promised the Civil Rights Division leader"
here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
"We're going to pursue [prosecuting journalists] to the ends of the earth" is itself a whole thing before you get to the ", promised the Civil Rights Division leader"
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“The earliest forums offered an invaluable space for people whose innate sense of being trans clashed with the prevailing culture. But there, in cyberspace, they built community and friendships.” From @alysbrooks.bsky.social
Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad:
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
For ‘Love and Knowledge’: On the Frontlines of Trans Cyberspace — Assigned
The moderators of trans forums, many of them volunteers, have demonstrated remarkable resilience and resourcefulness over four decades and multiple digital eras.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:45 PM
“The earliest forums offered an invaluable space for people whose innate sense of being trans clashed with the prevailing culture. But there, in cyberspace, they built community and friendships.” From @alysbrooks.bsky.social
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Thread:
Body cams won't stop this.
We want abolition. They want surveillance.
Share this thread and read these 5 essential abolitionist resources exposing the body cam lie.
PS these other reforms are garbage, too.
bsky.app/profile/greg...
Body cams won't stop this.
We want abolition. They want surveillance.
Share this thread and read these 5 essential abolitionist resources exposing the body cam lie.
PS these other reforms are garbage, too.
bsky.app/profile/greg...
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Thread:
Body cams won't stop this.
We want abolition. They want surveillance.
Share this thread and read these 5 essential abolitionist resources exposing the body cam lie.
PS these other reforms are garbage, too.
bsky.app/profile/greg...
Body cams won't stop this.
We want abolition. They want surveillance.
Share this thread and read these 5 essential abolitionist resources exposing the body cam lie.
PS these other reforms are garbage, too.
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’
I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Nonviolence is a double standard
www.theverge.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 AM
‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’
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A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 3:28 AM
A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
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I think it’s far far more useful to think about how legacies of state terror and ideas about the Black family have shaped US government agencies like the child welfare system and policing, which in turn shape the political and juridical cultures and practices of ICE.
January 23, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I think it’s far far more useful to think about how legacies of state terror and ideas about the Black family have shaped US government agencies like the child welfare system and policing, which in turn shape the political and juridical cultures and practices of ICE.
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See also full write up linked in comments
@newsoneofficial.bsky.social
#KeithPorter #KeithPorterICEmurder #ICE.MURDER.Inc
@newsoneofficial.bsky.social
#KeithPorter #KeithPorterICEmurder #ICE.MURDER.Inc
January 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
See also full write up linked in comments
@newsoneofficial.bsky.social
#KeithPorter #KeithPorterICEmurder #ICE.MURDER.Inc
@newsoneofficial.bsky.social
#KeithPorter #KeithPorterICEmurder #ICE.MURDER.Inc
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Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.