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Sarah Bruhn

@sarahbruhn.bsky.social

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Studying immigration, families & education. Postdoc @ Penn. Writing two books. Raising three kiddos. sarahbruhn.com

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Mar 25

In this op-ed (my first!) I argue that sanctuary matters, even amidst the anti-immigrant terror.

I hope you'll read and share!

progressive.org/op-eds/sanct...

Sanctuary is Good Public Policy

Sanctuary policies aren't just good for public safety and economics—they also promote justice and human rights.

progressive.org

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 8d

I'm so honored and excited to be part of this group! Thank you @scholars.org!

Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 8d

🌟 We’re excited to welcome the third cohort of SSN Media Fellows!

Over the next year, these scholars will work with SSN mentors to grow their media impact and share research with wider audiences.

📰 Learn more: scholars.org/media-fellow...

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 13d

Deportations are happening in a matter of hours through a little known authority called expedited removal

In our latest @migrationpolicy.bsky.social article, we looked at this potent tool for speeding deportations & limiting access to asylum bit.ly/expedited-re...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16d

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 20d

Awesome, thank you!!!

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 21d

Hi @portersqbooks.bsky.social could you order some copies please? Thank you!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21d

Every day, I find myself wishing that our new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Organizers in Crisis, was already out in the world, because I think it could really help people right now. Preorders really make all the difference in terms of helping a book become widely available.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

Letters to Activists in Crisis

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 26d

Yes. She witnessed it. She knows what I do for work so we talk about this stuff a lot, but this was in a whole different league. I can't help but think it was intentional - during the day, right in front of a school. So awful.

Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 26d

"Mom, guess what?" says my daughter as she got into the car after soccer practice. "ICE arrested someone outside the window of my English class today."

I wanted to not believe her.

She was right.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29d

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material.

Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29d

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 29d

The president is advocating for domestic violence to be permissible, while Roe no longer stands.

I have never watched or read the Handmaiden's Tale it has always felt too close to home. Now it most certainly is.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Trump Says Having ‘a Little Fight With the Wife’ Should Not Count as a Crime

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS says racial profiling is constitutional, at least when Trump admin does it during roving, aggressive, astonishing immigration enforcement in LA -- where a district court found fed officers were arresting Brown people for ... speaking Spanish.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

25A169 Order

www.documentcloud.org

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · Sep 4

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels.

It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration.

This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh this is it, exactly. We had to close in March 2020, urgently AND I remember bursting into tears driving by a bustling bar in February 2021, when my kids hadn't seen an in-person classroom in 11 months.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 2

Last year, Idaho passed a strict law that forbids anyone from providing to a minor any service that could be construed as medical or psychological in nature without parental consent.

Now, minors calling the state's suicide hotline are being forced to have a parent speak for them or hang up

More than 1,500 Idahoans between the ages of 5 and 17 contacted the hotline between when the parental consent law went into effect on July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025, according to data provided by the Idaho Crisis and Suicide Hotline.

Some of those young people can’t move forward in their call without a parent giving permission.

Sometimes, a parent or guardian can get on the phone, according to Idaho 988 Director Lee Flinn, “but in most situations, the minor hangs up because they tell us they feel like they can’t do that.”

“We really do want and hope that minors have a parent or two parents that support them, but one of the things that we hear sometimes is that they don’t have a parent they can talk to,” Flinn said.

She emphasized that the hotline still accepts calls from anyone, and encourages people of any age to call, text or chat online if they are in crisis.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 28

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 28

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.

Michael Rass @mikerass.bsky.social · Aug 28

After purging over 100 immigration judges, the Trump regime has announced that “temporary immigration judges“ will no longer need to have any experience in immigration law (!!)

To replenish their ranks, DOJ loosens requirements for temporary immigration judges

In a shift following the firing and departure of over 100 immigration judges, temporary immigration judges will no longer need to have experience in immigration law.

abcnews.go.com

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · Aug 20

Scholars of immigration, join us tomorrow!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 19

As a resident of the Boston metro, I find it so interesting that narratives about the whiteness of Boston persist as the dominant national story even though it's a majority minority metro and the actual city is led by a Chinese-American woman.

Also, she's more presidential than Gavin Belson

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 19

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Aug 14

My friend @noragross.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! She wrote an incredible book. It is jarring and beautiful.

Here's the link so you can have a copy of your own.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Can I brag about my mom for a minute? She’s been a doctor in our small town for over 40 years and here she is at the podium speaking out to make sure all women have a safe place to give birth on Aquidneck Island.

Plus she swam 1.7 miles across our bay the other week.

Love you, Mom/Dr.Ullman!

Crowd of people holding hand written signs saying things like “Save our birthing center.” Woman wearing straw hat speaking at the podium.

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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets.

If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About

The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

www.huffpost.com

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Jul 25

Shout out to all the peer reviewers out there providing detailed, thoughtful feedback. It's unpaid, time-consuming labor with minimal direct reward or recognition and it matters so much to those of us on the receiving end and THANK YOU.

Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Jul 24

No. Not good at all.

Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Jul 17

Just heard someone on the street describing a woman taking time off from her job when she had a baby. MATERNITY LEAVE IS NOT TIME OFF.

It is time to do one of the hardest, most grueling jobs out there. Calling it time off is an egregious misnomer.

Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you for writing! I loved this piece!