jimi adams
@jimiadams.bsky.social
sociologist | social network researcher | still not quite sure which way is up | cyclist/swimmer | https://jimiadams.github.io/ | quick block trigger | no, I will not subscribe to your substack
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"Appears to contradict..." is going to be this era's media's lasting, feckless imprimatur.
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Repeatedly seeing "nothing's really changed in MN" pleas.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Repeatedly seeing "nothing's really changed in MN" pleas.
If you think this is the only one...
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 8:12 PM
If you think this is the only one...
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Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie
“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie
Time and again when at NSF, I heard people emphatically say that per $ spent *nothing* the NSF funds even approaches the returns of GRFPs.
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪
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Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Time and again when at NSF, I heard people emphatically say that per $ spent *nothing* the NSF funds even approaches the returns of GRFPs.
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Interested in using data to tackle health inequalities? Join a 1-day, online hackathon for undergrad & grad students w/ at least 1 coding or stats class. Learn about epidemiology and how quantitative methods can answer urgent public health questions. Feb 28. Info: bit.ly/3MtiJFq #EpiSky #DataSciSky
Hackathon for Health Equity
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February 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Interested in using data to tackle health inequalities? Join a 1-day, online hackathon for undergrad & grad students w/ at least 1 coding or stats class. Learn about epidemiology and how quantitative methods can answer urgent public health questions. Feb 28. Info: bit.ly/3MtiJFq #EpiSky #DataSciSky
Not an inaccurate detail in the lot.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Not an inaccurate detail in the lot.
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
There are times where I come to a realization of just how naive I was previously about certain things. In those moments, I'm often somehow simultaneously disappointed to learn how unaware I was AND thankful to have not known just how awful some things/people are. If that makes any sense.
February 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
There are times where I come to a realization of just how naive I was previously about certain things. In those moments, I'm often somehow simultaneously disappointed to learn how unaware I was AND thankful to have not known just how awful some things/people are. If that makes any sense.
That's not the threat he thinks it is.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 6, 2026 at 12:44 AM
That's not the threat he thinks it is.
On initial skim, sounds consistent with things @linseymarr.bsky.social has been showing.
Our results indicate that extended periods spent in poorly ventilated classrooms may be a stronger driver of within-school transmission than individual contact rates.
February 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
On initial skim, sounds consistent with things @linseymarr.bsky.social has been showing.
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February 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
If it's not about the $$, what else could it *possibly* be about?
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
If it's not about the $$, what else could it *possibly* be about?
So many of these decisions, I can't even begin to fathom what the case is to be made for why it's a course of action that makes sense.
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
So many of these decisions, I can't even begin to fathom what the case is to be made for why it's a course of action that makes sense.
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This is how fascism works. The Party and the Nation are defined as synonymous.
Apparently, likely GOP voters are the only people who count as Americans.
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
This is how fascism works. The Party and the Nation are defined as synonymous.
Does anyone have a "writing log" approach that you like and could share? I'm thinking of a "Strava for writing" (if that parallel makes sense to you) though I don't need it to be "social" in any meaningful sense of the term. Not sure this is something I want/need, but thought I'd give it a whirl.
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Does anyone have a "writing log" approach that you like and could share? I'm thinking of a "Strava for writing" (if that parallel makes sense to you) though I don't need it to be "social" in any meaningful sense of the term. Not sure this is something I want/need, but thought I'd give it a whirl.
"Appears to contradict..." is going to be this era's media's lasting, feckless imprimatur.
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 AM
"Appears to contradict..." is going to be this era's media's lasting, feckless imprimatur.
Not that if these numbers were inverted, would I cede it justifies anti-immigrant bias, but still worth noting.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 4, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Not that if these numbers were inverted, would I cede it justifies anti-immigrant bias, but still worth noting.
Paging Henry McMaster.
Illinois is joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
I refuse to sit by as Donald Trump undermines science and weakens our nation's ability to detect and respond to global health threats.
I refuse to sit by as Donald Trump undermines science and weakens our nation's ability to detect and respond to global health threats.
February 3, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Paging Henry McMaster.
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Believe it or not, not every system that requires a log-in needs to be protected by 2-factor authentication.
February 3, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Believe it or not, not every system that requires a log-in needs to be protected by 2-factor authentication.
Today's soundtrack has become a revisiting of artists from this collection.
CMJ New Music magazine coming with a sampler cd in the early/mid 90s was crucial & I worked at a bookstore where I often got month old issues for free.
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Today's soundtrack has become a revisiting of artists from this collection.
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This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
Feb. 3, 1948 | Black Woman and Her Children Sentenced to Die for Defending Themselves
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.