Will Jones
@willpjones.bsky.social
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
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She created more monsters than Dr. Frankenstein!
January 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
She created more monsters than Dr. Frankenstein!
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December 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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This op ed nails it. UNC’s new mandate that syllabi be put online is “to prevent students from learning about topics the current administration deems unacceptable.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Opinion: UNC's syllabi public-posting mandate erodes academic freedom
Publicly posting syllabi is an effort to prevent the teaching of topics that right-wing actors deem “unacceptable.”
www.usatoday.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This op ed nails it. UNC’s new mandate that syllabi be put online is “to prevent students from learning about topics the current administration deems unacceptable.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
If you have brown skin even a birth certificate is not enough to avoid deportation. This is what the 14th amendment was intended to stop.
Md. woman facing deportation is a citizen, lawyer says. ICE disagrees.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, was detained by ICE on Dec. 14 in Baltimore.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you have brown skin even a birth certificate is not enough to avoid deportation. This is what the 14th amendment was intended to stop.
This seems like the most effective approach
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This seems like the most effective approach
“At least three times a week, a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle in the capital city.”
After uptick in pedestrian fatalities, St. Paul urges drivers and walkers to step up, look out
The city plans to bring back its “Stop For Me” safety campaign this spring.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“At least three times a week, a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle in the capital city.”
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A friendly reminder that El Burrito Mercado has awesome stocking stuffers, tamales, and most everything else you need. And they need your business.
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A friendly reminder that El Burrito Mercado has awesome stocking stuffers, tamales, and most everything else you need. And they need your business.
My PhD in US history was enriched immeasurably by the area studies centers at UNC. “The centers are a real core element of the institutional structure of the University. It's like saying, ‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’”
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My PhD in US history was enriched immeasurably by the area studies centers at UNC. “The centers are a real core element of the institutional structure of the University. It's like saying, ‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’”
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Immigrant-owned and operated businesses along E Lake St are struggling under the ICE occupation. Please visit if you can, show support, have a meal or buy some gifts. This page has some good suggestions of places to visit: www.minneapolis.org/neighborhood...
The Best Things You'll Find Along East Lake Street in Minneapolis
Wander down the ever-changing East Lake Street to find small and local businesses representing a variety of ideas and people from all types of backgrounds.
www.minneapolis.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Immigrant-owned and operated businesses along E Lake St are struggling under the ICE occupation. Please visit if you can, show support, have a meal or buy some gifts. This page has some good suggestions of places to visit: www.minneapolis.org/neighborhood...
“When media coverage focuses on the business success of a club owner while disregarding documented labor rights and health and safety violations, it contributes to a longstanding pattern of erasing the workers who made such success possible.“
Opinion | Rosy profile of Minneapolis strip clubs ignores the harms workers face
Missing from the celebration of Peter Hafiz’s success is the labor of the dancers who made it possible. The conditions inside many Minneapolis clubs were not glamorous — they were often dangerous and ...
www.startribune.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“When media coverage focuses on the business success of a club owner while disregarding documented labor rights and health and safety violations, it contributes to a longstanding pattern of erasing the workers who made such success possible.“
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First Amendment Opportunity!!!
ICE OUT OF MN!
MARCH AND RALLY
12/20, 11:30 A.M
LAKE ST AND BLOOMINGTON
MINNEAPOLIS
ICE OUT OF MN!
MARCH AND RALLY
12/20, 11:30 A.M
LAKE ST AND BLOOMINGTON
MINNEAPOLIS
December 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
First Amendment Opportunity!!!
ICE OUT OF MN!
MARCH AND RALLY
12/20, 11:30 A.M
LAKE ST AND BLOOMINGTON
MINNEAPOLIS
ICE OUT OF MN!
MARCH AND RALLY
12/20, 11:30 A.M
LAKE ST AND BLOOMINGTON
MINNEAPOLIS
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Same at Tortilla Campesina on Lake. Knocked and waited a bit until someone came and opened the door. They sell delicious fresh, warm, tortillas 6am-6pm every day except Wednesday. Go get em!
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Same at Tortilla Campesina on Lake. Knocked and waited a bit until someone came and opened the door. They sell delicious fresh, warm, tortillas 6am-6pm every day except Wednesday. Go get em!
Home Builders Institute President Ed Brady: The "severe" labor shortage, due to "an aging workforce, fewer young entrants into the trades and decades of underinvestment in vocational training, ...adds nearly 2 extra months to building timelines, inflating costs and delaying delivery."
December 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Home Builders Institute President Ed Brady: The "severe" labor shortage, due to "an aging workforce, fewer young entrants into the trades and decades of underinvestment in vocational training, ...adds nearly 2 extra months to building timelines, inflating costs and delaying delivery."
Leaders of neither the Senate nor the House (nor, of course, the White House) can bring themselves to condemn a declaration of war, mass expulsion, and revoking citizenship of people based on their religion.
Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims
Comments from Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) reflect a brazen Islamophobic sentiment being voiced by some in the party.
wapo.st
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Leaders of neither the Senate nor the House (nor, of course, the White House) can bring themselves to condemn a declaration of war, mass expulsion, and revoking citizenship of people based on their religion.
"My kids and their neighbors are building a Minnesota that includes all of us, one sled trail at a time. The question is whether elected officials like Demuth and Emmer will have the wisdom, the decency, the courage to follow where Minnesota’s children are already leading." GIFT LINK:
Opinion | Trump’s anti-Somali rhetoric is repugnant. Minnesota leaders’ silence is worse.
Rep. Tom Emmer and House Speaker Lisa Demuth know the truth about their Somali constituents. But in today’s GOP, they are trading courage for political survival, Mukhtar M. Ibrahim writes.
www.startribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"My kids and their neighbors are building a Minnesota that includes all of us, one sled trail at a time. The question is whether elected officials like Demuth and Emmer will have the wisdom, the decency, the courage to follow where Minnesota’s children are already leading." GIFT LINK:
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
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The ACLU of Minnesota said it has heard of “at least a dozen” U.S. citizens of Somali descent being detained during recent ICE operations — a pattern attorney Ian Bratlie described as unlawful racial profiling that fails to meet the legal standard of reasonable suspicion.
As ICE activity intensifies, some Somali students lower their profile
Fear on Twin Cities campuses has grown following recent detentions, leaving students to reconsider their daily activities
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The ACLU of Minnesota said it has heard of “at least a dozen” U.S. citizens of Somali descent being detained during recent ICE operations — a pattern attorney Ian Bratlie described as unlawful racial profiling that fails to meet the legal standard of reasonable suspicion.
This is a Pass Law and we know how they have been used to reinforce racial discrimination:
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is a Pass Law and we know how they have been used to reinforce racial discrimination:
Not the best day for my new bike to arrive, but I'll take it!
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Not the best day for my new bike to arrive, but I'll take it!
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In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors—no matter our income, skin color, or where we were born. As Trump and the ICE machine attack our immigrant neighbors, we’re coming together to say MN ❤️'s our neighbors. March with us: www.facebook.com/share/1JbXD5...
#DeICEMN
#DeICEMN
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors—no matter our income, skin color, or where we were born. As Trump and the ICE machine attack our immigrant neighbors, we’re coming together to say MN ❤️'s our neighbors. March with us: www.facebook.com/share/1JbXD5...
#DeICEMN
#DeICEMN
If this isn't a Jesse Wells song it should be! #JesseWells #JoinIce
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If this isn't a Jesse Wells song it should be! #JesseWells #JoinIce
“Our whole objective is to try to protect the U,” said Kaye Peters, a member of Indivisible’s local chapter. “I don’t think ... they are aware or have dealt with the damage this kind of top-down approach is [having] on the university.”
Frustration grows over resolution limiting what U departments, institutes can say
Local and national groups have weighed in on the measure passed last March by the Board of Regents.
www.startribune.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Our whole objective is to try to protect the U,” said Kaye Peters, a member of Indivisible’s local chapter. “I don’t think ... they are aware or have dealt with the damage this kind of top-down approach is [having] on the university.”
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Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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Thank you @golden.house.gov & Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick for leading the Protect America’s Workforce Act to undo Trump’s union-busting order and restore union rights for 1 million federal workers.
Today’s bipartisan House vote moves us forward.
Today’s bipartisan House vote moves us forward.
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Thank you @golden.house.gov & Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick for leading the Protect America’s Workforce Act to undo Trump’s union-busting order and restore union rights for 1 million federal workers.
Today’s bipartisan House vote moves us forward.
Today’s bipartisan House vote moves us forward.