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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2h

Job posting! OU Sociology is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor or an accelerated TT or tenured Associate Professor, teaching criminology, criminal justice, & race/ethnicity courses. OU is OK's flagship R1, PhD program, 2-2 load with TA help. Please share!

Details: apply.interfolio.com/174925

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5h

Local El Paso coverage has much more detail on the package of information presented to Pope Leo, including the video:

"Together, let us be a church that refuses to abandon our people, one that walks in faith, justice, and love"

elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 5h

Meet ‘Porky,’ Lima’s Right-Wing Mayor Embracing the MAGA Movement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

Meet ‘Porky,’ Lima’s Right-Wing Mayor Embracing the MAGA Movement

www.nytimes.com

Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 20h

Tallerin verde is one of our kids faves 🤩 (mine too)

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 23h

Come work with me! My department is hiring an assistant professor in the sociology of gender and sexuality. Please consider applying and spread the word! Thanks. gvsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (Department of Sociology)

Summary: The Sociology Department at Grand Valley State University invites applications for a Sociologist of Gender and Sexuality to begin in Fall 2026. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in Sociology or ...

gvsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.

“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and his family are being forced to move to Europe because of incitement by right-wing operatives because he wrote a book about antifascism.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d

In El Salvador, nearly 200 women have been jailed for obstetric emergencies like miscarriages and stillbirths. Our partners at LatinoUSA traveled there to uncover the human cost of a total abortion ban. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

Podcast: From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban

In El Salvador, home to some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in 26 years after having obstetric emergencies. This investigation paints a…

beta.elfaro.net

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 2d

(Having a kid I’ve now caught up on most of the G rated hits but most other movies or tv shows from those years I’ve never seen).

Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 2d

I lived outside the U.S. from 2006 to 2009, plus most of 2014 so cultural references from those years are a big black hole for me.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3d

It was never about parents' rights. It was never about what is best for children.

It was, and is, about discrimination, hate, fear, conformity, minority rule, and authoritarianism.

#GiftLink #GiftArticle

Texas L.G.B.T.Q. Teenagers and Families Navigate a Public School Clampdown

www.nytimes.com

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 3d

Is that a good Zinfandel? I have yet to really find one I like.

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 4d

“The administration is inviting universities to voluntarily put on a yoke and hand it the keys.“

From @kevincarey1.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence

The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.

www.theatlantic.com

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 4d

This was great, hope they’re paying attention.

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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 4d

This investigation paints a disturbing picture of women who suffer most when a country stretches the definition of abortion beyond its meaning and bans them without exception. Co-published in partnership with LatinoUSA. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

Podcast: From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban

In El Salvador, home to some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in 26 years after having obstetric emergencies. This investigation paints a…

beta.elfaro.net

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t stop thinking about the cruelty and trauma being inflicted on so many people because of the manner of which these ICE raids are being carried out. It’s unconscionable.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 5d

Shooting his partner, then himself: How firearm access fuels domestic violence tragedies 19thnews.org/2025/10/fire...

Shooting his partner, then himself: How firearm access fuels domestic violence tragedies

States with strong gun control laws had three times fewer incidents of domestic violence homicide-suicide, according to a report shared exclusively with The 19th.

19thnews.org

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 6d

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/02/u... shameful that this was not immediately rejected. I’m disgusted with my grad school Alma mater leadership.

UT-Austin considering offer to adopt Trump priorities for funding advantages

The funding deal would reportedly ask the university to adopt a stricter definition of gender and a tuition freeze, among other conditions.

www.texastribune.org

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”