Courtney DeRoche
@derochecourtney.bsky.social
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At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
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“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
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scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera
June 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera
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The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
talked about 9/11 to someone’s grandma in a TSA line, whoops
May 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
talked about 9/11 to someone’s grandma in a TSA line, whoops
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
can’t believe I’ve spent 13 years haunting Townshend Hall
May 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
can’t believe I’ve spent 13 years haunting Townshend Hall
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Microsoft has disabled the ICC chief prosecutor’s email account. He has also lost access to his email accounts and is threatened with arrest if he enters the United States
www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...
www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...
Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost
In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no
www.techzine.eu
May 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Microsoft has disabled the ICC chief prosecutor’s email account. He has also lost access to his email accounts and is threatened with arrest if he enters the United States
www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...
www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...
nothing hits like being called nena by an elder
May 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
nothing hits like being called nena by an elder
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NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
May 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Statement re Michael Burawoy obit
Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
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The crowd won't let him leave, so Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gets out and starts walking with the people for the crowd to finally start clearing.
May 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The crowd won't let him leave, so Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gets out and starts walking with the people for the crowd to finally start clearing.
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Alina Habba confirms NEWARK’s Mayor Ras Baraka was just arrested while protesting the ICE raids at a detention facility.
@RobMenendez4NJ: “When they say they’re going after criminals, it’s not true.”
@RobMenendez4NJ: “When they say they’re going after criminals, it’s not true.”
May 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Alina Habba confirms NEWARK’s Mayor Ras Baraka was just arrested while protesting the ICE raids at a detention facility.
@RobMenendez4NJ: “When they say they’re going after criminals, it’s not true.”
@RobMenendez4NJ: “When they say they’re going after criminals, it’s not true.”
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Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available.
Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social
(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social
(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews
This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...
www.annualreviews.org
May 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available.
Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social
(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social
(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
took my first post-PhD business trip & realized I’ve been flying solo for 25 years (took my first unaccompanied trip from LAX to ATL at 5)
this was the first time I’ve seen a lightning storm from the air, grateful to find new delights even after all these years
this was the first time I’ve seen a lightning storm from the air, grateful to find new delights even after all these years
May 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
took my first post-PhD business trip & realized I’ve been flying solo for 25 years (took my first unaccompanied trip from LAX to ATL at 5)
this was the first time I’ve seen a lightning storm from the air, grateful to find new delights even after all these years
this was the first time I’ve seen a lightning storm from the air, grateful to find new delights even after all these years
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Yeah, consistently equated with communism, even by other sociologists. These moments also have me going back to Du Bois’ FBI file, among other readings, to think about faculty surveillance for their ‘radical’ ideas of equity & justice in an unjust, violent society. vault.fbi.gov/E.%20B.%20%2...
E. B. (William) Dubois
vault.fbi.gov
May 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Yeah, consistently equated with communism, even by other sociologists. These moments also have me going back to Du Bois’ FBI file, among other readings, to think about faculty surveillance for their ‘radical’ ideas of equity & justice in an unjust, violent society. vault.fbi.gov/E.%20B.%20%2...
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Featured in this article about the changing tides in the struggle for responsible AI.
apnews.com/article/arti...
apnews.com/article/arti...
Tech industry tried reducing AI's pervasive bias. Now Trump wants to end its 'woke AI' efforts
Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI pr...
apnews.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Featured in this article about the changing tides in the struggle for responsible AI.
apnews.com/article/arti...
apnews.com/article/arti...
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Taking this opportunity to share all the evidence I've compiled that LLMs are decidedly not worth it and not as useful as they are proclaimed to be: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Taking this opportunity to share all the evidence I've compiled that LLMs are decidedly not worth it and not as useful as they are proclaimed to be: docs.google.com/document/d/1...