The extortionate costs of visas, sometimes about ten times the actual processing costs, leave families ripped apart. While feeling waivers exist, they can be far too hard to access for many. We need a system which treats migrants with respect, not as magic money trees. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wrote something with @emile-chabal.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com about how the immigration debate in the UK has gotten so off the rails recently: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Notable that in the UK, where protest is increasingly criminalized, the government also wants to get rid of jury trials for all sorts of lesser offenses. Under those circumstances the DC sandwich guy is found guilty. With a jury trial system, the public can push back against repressive policies.

He beat the wrap.

Wrote something with @emile-chabal.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com about how the immigration debate in the UK has gotten so off the rails recently: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...

Really terrible news from the University of Nottingham. The idea you can have a comprehensive university without language and music is absurd. Higher education serves society and you can't have a society with imagination and purpose if the people in charge decide creativity is worth nothing.

I wrote something with the wonderful @mcslaven.bsky.social about how the immigration debate in the UK has becoming so mind-bogglingly radicalised. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

The sweeping pronouncements drawn from a winning margin of 1.5 percent in the popular vote were always going to be wrong, and this has been fully evident since those pronouncements started. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!

My brother-in-law lives in Brooklyn and is always quick to point this out. The DSA in NYC has been effectively organizing and getting people elected for a decade. Mamdani is a generational talent and the DSA infrastructure positioned him to succeed.

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Generally, when a party is trying to appeal to a new cohort of voters, they don’t send masked men to publicly kidnap and disappear thousands of members of that cohort.

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

Tell me you’re in Arizona, etc. etc.

Mike Johnson laying out some essential parts of the 2028 Democratic platform

Not yet 8:30 and lads on the train already on can four of the Strongbow Dark Fruits. And people say that Britain doesn’t have a culture

Studying both UK and US migration politics, something I'll often say to people is that in some ways, America and Britain are quite different societies. E.g. various rights movements have encountered a much wider range of US than UK society and it shows in studies like this www.ft.com/content/81b8...

i think it's very weird that seemingly the entire elite media has decided that it's going to be a strategy consultant for the democratic party — AND that it's going to base its opinions about politics and the world on what is essentially a PR campaign from a single aggressively ideological super PAC

Though the report contains the facts, this headline and standfirst misreport what happened. The junior whip Katie Lam correctly stated the policy: revoking ILR retrospectively was Tory policy from May 5th to yesterday. The leader has ditched that policy. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

this is evil

the Andrew formerly known as Prince

heckling works

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

22nd amendment: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”. Media please do not do this

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

I’m going to make a prediction here: no one will thank the Labour government for this ‘achievement’. It will be bad for the country and it will never be enough for the racists. It’s lose-lose

This episode raises big questions about how the UK's "hostile environment" is operating in an information-sharing sense. Who exactly is sharing data on flights booked (not flights taken)? The UK doesn't have exit monitoring, so who thought there was reliable data? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

On October 8, the Senate narrowly failed to pass a War Powers Resolution that could have stopped these lawless strikes. Since then, the US Department of Defense has killed 40 more people (out of 61 total).

Neguse: "It is outrageous that the Trump administration can come up with $40 billion to bail out Argentina and refuses to spend the money that Congress has appropriated to feed hungry families in America."

It‘s going to be a wild ride tomorrow when pundits around the globe explain to us what kind of party D66 is and why they did exactly what they have always told us their favorite strategy is And just to emphasize it again: yes, PVV is down by a lot but the other two far-right parties are up by a lot

JFC. #KavanaughStop App that overrules actual US documents

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Trump Administration announces coming remake of "The Trial of the Chicago 7":

“Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the US on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said on Tuesday.”

NEW: ACLU of Louisiana asks a federal judge to order the govt to immediately return Chanthila (Shawn) Souvannarath from Laos, to which it deported him over the weekend in violation of the judge's injunction. @acluoflouisiana.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I don't think it's being too generous to Coach to say that his tone and body language are saying "well that's clearly unconstitutional and I don't see how it could happen", but of course the number one rule of GOP politics today is don't contradict Big Daddy Trump so you end up with nonsense

Mamdani referred to a friend as 'bro' but a Free Press investigation has determined that this man is not his sibling.

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

If Greens start consistently leading Labour in polls, and beating them in local elections then the logic of tactical voting which Labour has been relying on could flip savagely on them. As Caerphilly by-election shows, "Only Labour can beat Reform" doesn't work if voters know it isn't true.

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

My main takeaway on the “moderation” debate is that Democrats would be better served by other debates besides left-right positioning, like how to develop new valence issues (corruption!) as wedge issues, and how to get attention for their policy proposals in the first place

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”