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Sarah R. Meiners, PhD
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Dickey Center @ Dartmouth College // Historian of US refugee policy and territorial status adjustment // sometimes a historian of childhood
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unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Lawyers furiously writing amicus briefs. May I suggest you read the 3 articles i published in advance of my forthcoming book Migration & the Origins of American Citizenship due out on Oxford U. Press on March 10? 3 articles are out from it including this un-gated one on the Recon Amendments
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
srmeiners.bsky.social
Newly launched and KEY resource about third country deportation agreements. Hugely grateful for the work of @refugeesinternational.org and @humanrightsfirst.org
Third Country Deportation Watch
www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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yaelschacher.bsky.social
Please come to this! Our microsite project launches Friday!

www.refugeesinternational.org/events-and-t...
Launch Event: Banished by Bargain—Third Country Deportation Watch - Refugees International
Join us to discuss the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third-country transfer agreements and the launch of our new tracker.
www.refugeesinternational.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
As Christmas draws near, I can confirm that one very good gift would be my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died, which is much, much funnier than its title makes it sound.

Here's a little taste, featuring the joys of Christmas with ten siblings.

BUY HERE: mammybook.com
There’s a story my family tells around Christmas. As kids, that time of year was obviously pretty manic, but made more so by the fact each of us fancied ourselves as having prom inent careers in showbusiness. We all sang in choirs at one time or another, and some of us in several at the same time. I was less involved than most, yet even I sang in choirs for at least ten years, and the Christmas period was a time of constant shuttling between different masses or meetings or festive per formances. Most of us were then also in school shows, nativities or orchestra recitals, and in the run- up to Christmas, a few of us even did the fully produced commercial pantos in town. I somehow never made the cut for those things, which I found odd because my kind eyes and easy way with people reminded many of a young Marlon Brando. In any case, quite aside from the rigmarole of cooking and presents and the management of infant expectations that Christmas would demand from a single parent of eleven children, my father was rushed off his feet getting us to and from these various functions, and dealing with the preparations for overlapping performances. Walking through our house over Christmas was like a trip through the Warner Bros. lot in late- seventies Hollywood, only instead of showgirls and spacemen there would be assembled children dressed in their Sunday best, or as shepherds, or in the costume of some brutally crowbarred topical character favoured by school plays at the time. Many will remember my delighted turn as Reuben, the inexplicably French brother in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, not least for my having done the entire thing dressed as Eric Cantona. One of those Christmassy mornings, my brother Shane was singing at three Masses in a row. That’s the 10, the 11 and the 12:15. After each, my dad would talk to a few fellow parishioners here and there, and pick up others of us who were at other Masses or concerts nearby. Owing to the comings and goings, headcounts got twisted, and on the drive back Shane turned round, surveyed the contents of the minibus and noticed that Dearbhaile was missing. She had been there in the chapel after the service, but had obviously stayed too long chatting to a friend and Daddy, understand ably frazzled and depleted, had taken off without realising she wasn’t on board. He turned tail and raced back to the church to pick her up. He was furious. ‘How did none of you notice she was missing?’ he fumed, and everyone felt chastened at their lack of aware ness, imagining her now crying on the steps of the church alone, or worse, in the company of scandalised and judgemental parishioners – or clergy – wringing their hands, apt to be tell ing tales very soon about the poor, rudderless O’Reilly clan, demented by grief, incapable even of counting themselves. When the bus finally reached Dearbhaile, however, she was smiling and happy, and neither in the company of some sour- faced scold among the congregation, nor alone. I was standing there, unmissed, beside her.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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New on refugeehistory.org -
Third country involvement in the U.S. federal government’s exclusionary migration policies — Refugee History.
Historical perspective about the ongoing creation of a "global gulag" in which a multi-continent array of countries are willing to receive deported people from the United States.
refugeehistory.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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***Upcoming IEHS Elections***

On 12/15, IEHS members will receive an email from IEHS Secretary providing them with information about this year’s elections. Members will have until 1/15 to vote. This year, the IEHS will choose three new Executive Board members whose terms will run from 2026-2029.
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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asgvisalaw.bsky.social
If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.

Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.

Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
haleaziz.bsky.social Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 4d
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.

More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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sarahmccarry.bsky.social
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
feralstreeep.bsky.social feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · Aug 10
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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courtneymilan.com
*not shopping at Target intensifies*
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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eleanorbpaynter.net
Hello! Emergency in Transit is now a year old! Here's a shameless reminder that it's out in the world, free to download, and eager to appear on your syllabi! 1/

www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... @ucpress.bsky.social
Emergency in Transit by Eleanor Paynter - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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melikhovo.bsky.social
Essential reading.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 5d
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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heidikitrosser.bsky.social
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 8d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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leslieehrlich.bsky.social
Important, sobering writeup on the history of deportation policies and practices

Trump is a matter of degree, not kind

Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing

Thanks @austinkocher.com

open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
Mapping Deportations: What 58 Million Removals Reveal about the History of the U.S. Immigration System
Over two centuries of deportation data and restrictive laws show that immigration enforcement is not a neutral process but a racial boundary-making system built across decades of policy decisions.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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propublica.org
One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft.

Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.

It was the last time she heard from him.

With @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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edburmila.bsky.social
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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yaelschacher.bsky.social
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
bruzzone.bsky.social Mario Bruzzone @bruzzone.bsky.social · 12d
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
Isaac Chotiner: "I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Also — and I'll stop now! — the question he's trying to get at of how you cover monarchies with endless time horizons as a journalist (this is a thing people from most major publications do) is genuinely interesting." Chotiner, with the kill shot: "Come on Ben. I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are."
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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joecarryon.bsky.social
This is a very difficult read.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12d
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.

President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
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November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
normalise serving chocolate milk at parties
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13d
I do not drink because I have almost no tolerance for it anymore (one margarita is too much).

If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking:
-fancy ginger beer
-coconut water
-premium juices like lychee and guava
-apple cider with cinnamon
-Italian sodas
-sparkling water

Lots of options!
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
Dear All Have you seen Prof Biscuit recently? Professor Biscuit is roaming Main Building or more likely, is asleep somewhere cosy. Have you seen him recently? If so, could he be persuaded to be returned to the Bursary, please?
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
uncpress.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM