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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4h

In the US, pronatalism is only nominally about birth rates. It's actually about anti-feminists finding an issue that could be packaged in a way to build a widespread coalition believing *something* must be done. Eventually, when nothing else works, that *something* is rolling back women's autonomy.

Screenshot from X of a post saying "It breaks my heart to say but in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make women said :(" and Elon Musk responding "True words"

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

You can say it's normal, you can say it's politically expedient, but I don't think you can say it's right.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

Even if they weren't a child when they came - we apparently failed to prevent the crime, and we apparently are powerless to punish it adequately or prevent future bad acts. Why is this another country's responsibility? Should their citizens be the next victims, or pay for the incarceration?

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

If someone comes here as a child, grows up here, and then commits crime - by what ethical standard should they be deported? It's one thing to say, "I wish this person were gone," but why should their ancestral country be involved? Do you want the criminal to do crimes there instead of here?

Madeline T. Morcelle @reprolawyer.bsky.social · 5h

On Friday, I wrote about what SRH care access advocates should know about Heritage's new insidious plan for "saving" (read: breaking) the U.S. Today, @jessicavalenti.bsky.social published a piece that offers a great big picture look at the plan: jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6h

Makes sense. If you were 126 years old I wouldn't expect you to remember your birthday

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6h

It's important information that they are lying, and not really protecting anyone from harm, so thank you. But fighting on this point is like, "They're hurting citizens!" It threatens to make people collaborators or negotiators with these nazis.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6h

Also, don't accept the premise that people who have committed crimes should be deported. We have a criminal justice system that is supposed to punish and protect us from crime. There's no reason it can't work for immigrants. Unless someone has evidence this practice reduces total human crime

Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 7h

The BDN obtained and reviewed more than a thousand pages of federal court documents filed throughout New England, conducted interviews, attended court hearings and more. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/09/m...

ICE said it was arresting ‘the worst of the worst’ in Maine. We only found a few criminals.

The BDN used court records and other sources to identify 67 of roughly 200 people arrested in Maine during last month's surge.

www.bangordailynews.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6h

Cc: Dems
If you can't win against this, go home

ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 7h

Worth remembering this from Pitirim Sorokin who in many ways founded the modern study of social mobility.

A sentimental man who is very sensitive and compassionate toward the sufferings of other men has less chance to climb or to keep his power than an identical man free from such sentimentality. Ruling or money making; conquest or pioneering; building of political empires or empires of business; spreading a religion by bomb, sword, violence; or performing the acts of severe justice; revolutionary propaganda or efficient keeping of social order; these and other functions of the upper strata demand for successful performance a great deal of severity, hardness and insensitiveness toward the sufferings of other men. It is in the nature of these functions. A sincere diplomat would be a failure. An entirely frank captain of industry or strategist is the man who ruins his own business or the whole army. An honest man who makes no brilliant promises is one who rarely can obtain any political success. Hence, insincerity, cynicism, manipulation of ideas and convictions are necessary prerequisites for successful climbing through many channels.

Social and cultural mobility (1927) by Pitirim Sorokin, once head of Harvard University's department of sociology.

Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 7h

The BDN obtained and reviewed more than a thousand pages of federal court documents filed throughout New England, conducted interviews, attended court hearings and more. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/09/m...

ICE said it was arresting ‘the worst of the worst’ in Maine. We only found a few criminals.

The BDN used court records and other sources to identify 67 of roughly 200 people arrested in Maine during last month's surge.

www.bangordailynews.com

ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16h

People of DC, more than two weeks into being totally iced in, now get news of measles spread—brought in by Right to Life marchers.

Looking for people exposed on the Metro, at DCA, at Children's Hospital, on Amtrak.

Gee, thanks, RFKJr et al.

dchealth.dc.gov/release/heal...

Health Officials Investigating Measles Exposures to DC Residents

(Washington, DC) - DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious. DC Health is informing people who were at t...

dchealth.dc.gov

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 20h

Ok everyone please use a superbowl emoji or hashtag so I can mute it. (Good luck, teams!)

Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 21h

Public comments needed!

The admin wants to define grad programs in many "helping" fields (social work, nursing, teaching, etc) to no longer be "professional" degrees. This would mean major student loan restrictions: only $20,500/year. Tuition alone is often more.

Please comment by March 2!

Reclassifying Social Work Degrees Will Harm Students, Communities, and the Profession

www.cswe.org

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23h

We pays for this, obviously. We pay for the complex, bloated infrastructure necessary to deny access to the research we produce. And it sucks. It doesn't work to keep people out (thanks, Sci-hub!), and it doesn't work to let people in.