Elin Waring
@elinwaring.bsky.social
Sociologist, Bronxite, politics, #lehmancollege, data, R
Trying to do too many things.
Trying to do too many things.
February 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
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February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Organizers in Minnesota have transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. Join us on Thursday to hear from MN community leaders and learn from their model of resisting authoritarianism: bit.ly/resistreimagineMN
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Organizers in Minnesota have transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. Join us on Thursday to hear from MN community leaders and learn from their model of resisting authoritarianism: bit.ly/resistreimagineMN
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The Guardian has a rough outline of what the Tulsi whistleblower complaint is about: NSA found someone close to Trump in contact with foreign intelligence, and rather than doing something about that, Tulsi brought the report to Susie Wiles.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:05 PM
The Guardian has a rough outline of what the Tulsi whistleblower complaint is about: NSA found someone close to Trump in contact with foreign intelligence, and rather than doing something about that, Tulsi brought the report to Susie Wiles.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
February 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want."
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want."
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j
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Elections are run by the states and that’s not changing. Don’t give the regime power that it doesn’t have.
February 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Elections are run by the states and that’s not changing. Don’t give the regime power that it doesn’t have.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I want out of this timeline.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I want out of this timeline.
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
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My immediate reaction is: unbelievable! But it’s all too believable.
February 6, 2026 at 12:53 AM
My immediate reaction is: unbelievable! But it’s all too believable.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
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February 5, 2026 at 12:08 AM
📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
secure.actblue.com/donate/wv26h...
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
secure.actblue.com/donate/wv26h...
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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
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NEWS: Today, a federal court dismissed a GOP lawsuit challenging the 2020 Census, part of a broader Republican effort to manipulate population counts.
Elias Law Group was proud to represent Florida retirees and students to defend an accurate Census.
elias.law/press-releas...
Elias Law Group was proud to represent Florida retirees and students to defend an accurate Census.
elias.law/press-releas...
Federal Court Dismisses Republican Challenge to 2020 Census - Elias Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A three-judge federal court today dismissed a lawsuit brought by Florida College Republican organizations and U.S. Representative
elias.law
February 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
NEWS: Today, a federal court dismissed a GOP lawsuit challenging the 2020 Census, part of a broader Republican effort to manipulate population counts.
Elias Law Group was proud to represent Florida retirees and students to defend an accurate Census.
elias.law/press-releas...
Elias Law Group was proud to represent Florida retirees and students to defend an accurate Census.
elias.law/press-releas...
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Earlier today, all 4 of Minnesota's Republican Congressional delegation authored and introduced a bill that would require the state of MN to turn over voter rolls to the DOJ, a key demand made by Trump and Bondi. Shameful. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Minnesota Republicans propose to withhold federal funding unless state hands over voter rolls to Trump
The legislation introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber would withhold federal election funding from Minnesota until the state shares voter data with the DOJ.
bringmethenews.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Earlier today, all 4 of Minnesota's Republican Congressional delegation authored and introduced a bill that would require the state of MN to turn over voter rolls to the DOJ, a key demand made by Trump and Bondi. Shameful. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
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See @lilygeismer.bsky.social’s response:
“In the last decade, Republicans have clearly given up the old strategy of moderation represented by the Bushes and Mitt Romney in favor of Goldwaterian ambition—and they have only been rewarded for it at the polls.”
“In the last decade, Republicans have clearly given up the old strategy of moderation represented by the Bushes and Mitt Romney in favor of Goldwaterian ambition—and they have only been rewarded for it at the polls.”
Moderation was always deeply flawed.
Lily Geismer responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
www.bostonreview.net
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
See @lilygeismer.bsky.social’s response:
“In the last decade, Republicans have clearly given up the old strategy of moderation represented by the Bushes and Mitt Romney in favor of Goldwaterian ambition—and they have only been rewarded for it at the polls.”
“In the last decade, Republicans have clearly given up the old strategy of moderation represented by the Bushes and Mitt Romney in favor of Goldwaterian ambition—and they have only been rewarded for it at the polls.”
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We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
JUST IN: The five-year-old Columbia Heights Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who have been in an ICE detention facility in Texas, are on their way home.
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have landed back in Minnesota following a judge's order
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked national fervor, returned home to Minnesota with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, Sunday morning after a judge ordered their release.
www.mprnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
Love the attention that Dialika Sall is getting here!
www.theafricareport.com/404861/10-af... @lehmancollege.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social
www.theafricareport.com/404861/10-af... @lehmancollege.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social
10 African scholars to watch in 2026
Spanning governance, security, economics, science and artificial intelligence, The Africa Report profiles 10 academics shaping conversations in Africa and far beyond this year.
www.theafricareport.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Love the attention that Dialika Sall is getting here!
www.theafricareport.com/404861/10-af... @lehmancollege.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social
www.theafricareport.com/404861/10-af... @lehmancollege.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social