Meaghan Charlton
@meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social
migration • humanitarian disaster • health & disability justice • bioethics • critical theory • law & society | J.D. Candidate Georgetown Law | Georg Law Journal Articles Editor | Johns Hopkins Political Sci PhD research | she/her | ⚡ complex migraine
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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we spoke to @stopthedata.bsky.social’s amber fellows on why the town of ypsilanti is rallying against a proposed AI data center that will be used by nuclear weapons researchers and the personal trauma of fighting this as a Japanese-American person 80 years after from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
This town has officially decided to fight against the construction of an AI data center that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
we spoke to @stopthedata.bsky.social’s amber fellows on why the town of ypsilanti is rallying against a proposed AI data center that will be used by nuclear weapons researchers and the personal trauma of fighting this as a Japanese-American person 80 years after from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
Great piece highlighting the eugenic (and dysgenic) atrocities overlooked in bioethics scholarship. "Unlike many other research scandals, Willowbrook is discussed . . . usually in summary form, . . . whitewash[ing] its true horrors." @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Great piece highlighting the eugenic (and dysgenic) atrocities overlooked in bioethics scholarship. "Unlike many other research scandals, Willowbrook is discussed . . . usually in summary form, . . . whitewash[ing] its true horrors." @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
Confident Zohran will fully dismantle Eric Adams' unjust and dignity-denying involuntary commitment policy (“The Compassionate Interventions Act”) that vests authority in a web of city actors (NYPD, soc. workers, clinicians, etc.) to target mentally disabled persons + those living w/ substance use.
Zohran, please build for NYC what Brandon Johnson promised for Chicago but then refused to actually build because he let the police continue to control the City budget.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Confident Zohran will fully dismantle Eric Adams' unjust and dignity-denying involuntary commitment policy (“The Compassionate Interventions Act”) that vests authority in a web of city actors (NYPD, soc. workers, clinicians, etc.) to target mentally disabled persons + those living w/ substance use.
"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamaphobia and win an election." -- Zohran Mamdani 👏
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamaphobia and win an election." -- Zohran Mamdani 👏
This is a huge win from today that shouldn't fly under the radar. Talking to folks back home (PA), they were worried voters were overlooking the urgency of keeping the PA SC's 5-2 Dem majority.
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is a huge win from today that shouldn't fly under the radar. Talking to folks back home (PA), they were worried voters were overlooking the urgency of keeping the PA SC's 5-2 Dem majority.
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This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week
This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week
This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week
Evidence neoliberalism undergirds US refugee law. The BIA:"Not all threats of fines, wage reduction, or loss of employment . . . will suffice to indicate that submission to an abortion was 'forced' within the meaning of the [INA]." TLDR: coercive pop. control needs a severe economic cost.
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Evidence neoliberalism undergirds US refugee law. The BIA:"Not all threats of fines, wage reduction, or loss of employment . . . will suffice to indicate that submission to an abortion was 'forced' within the meaning of the [INA]." TLDR: coercive pop. control needs a severe economic cost.
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“Some of them said they’re scared because they don’t want their own family members to be taken away.”
Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.
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October 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Some of them said they’re scared because they don’t want their own family members to be taken away.”
Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).
The Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
There is nothing subtle about this effort: Trump officials are trying to turn the long-celebrated refugee program...into a tool of white nationalism.
There is nothing subtle about this effort: Trump officials are trying to turn the long-celebrated refugee program...into a tool of white nationalism.
Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.
www.motherjones.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).
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For @prismreports.org, I wrote about Adelanto, the notorious ICE processing center where disabled immigrants are being abused and neglected.
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Disabled immigrants detained at Adelanto report abuse and neglect
Disability Rights California found inhumane conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, where a 39-year-old man died last month
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October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For @prismreports.org, I wrote about Adelanto, the notorious ICE processing center where disabled immigrants are being abused and neglected.
prismreports.org/2025/10/21/d...
prismreports.org/2025/10/21/d...
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm
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Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (09/15/25) | The Death Panel
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September 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm
www.patreon.com/posts/138979...
www.patreon.com/posts/138979...
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W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Amazing sign being held by a small child
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Amazing sign being held by a small child
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Alaska Native organizations and other groups are requesting a presidential disaster declaration and the aid that comes with it – via @AlaskaBeacon
Trump Cuts and Climate Change Compound Worry in Alaska After Typhoon Disaster
“Storms are going to get worse, and it’s not going to be livable,” said a tribal leader from the village of Akiak.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Alaska Native organizations and other groups are requesting a presidential disaster declaration and the aid that comes with it – via @AlaskaBeacon
Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. There were signs. "As originally understood, the Constitution does not afford students a right to free speech in public schools." (Thomas, J., concurring separately to dismantle Tinker). Morse v. Frederick (2007).
BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact
The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.
www.insidehighered.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. There were signs. "As originally understood, the Constitution does not afford students a right to free speech in public schools." (Thomas, J., concurring separately to dismantle Tinker). Morse v. Frederick (2007).
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HAPPENING NOW.
Join AAUP's National Teach-In on Trump's Loyalty Oaths!
Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there!
Register at link below👇
#AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd
Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there!
Register at link below👇
#AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented and highly politicized regulations on institutions of higher education, pressured them with coercive funding threats, extorted promises to fall in li...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
HAPPENING NOW.
Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. How far far astray we've come from Tinker (1969) & Papish (1973). "Students in public schools do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." (White, J.).
BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact
The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.
www.insidehighered.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. How far far astray we've come from Tinker (1969) & Papish (1973). "Students in public schools do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." (White, J.).
Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).
The Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
There is nothing subtle about this effort: Trump officials are trying to turn the long-celebrated refugee program...into a tool of white nationalism.
There is nothing subtle about this effort: Trump officials are trying to turn the long-celebrated refugee program...into a tool of white nationalism.
Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.
www.motherjones.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).
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If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.
detentionpregnancytracker.com
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Women's Refugee Commission
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October 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.
detentionpregnancytracker.com
detentionpregnancytracker.com
Technically legal since the Alien Registration Act of 1940 ("Smith Act"), a xenophobic wartime policy targeting Japanese Americans carrying criminal and civil penalties (fines + imprisonment), with multiple instances of enforcement now. The legal basis for immigration raids was already there.
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Technically legal since the Alien Registration Act of 1940 ("Smith Act"), a xenophobic wartime policy targeting Japanese Americans carrying criminal and civil penalties (fines + imprisonment), with multiple instances of enforcement now. The legal basis for immigration raids was already there.
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NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?