Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

This BBC immigration and asylum story is a moral panic. Poorly evidenced, generalised panic about a marginalised social group. Next week, the government will respond with a new 'crackdown'. This will then further exacerbate public anxiety. You know who wins from all of this, Nigel Farage.

Anyone else’s Bluesky broken this morning? Slightly worried that there’s some issue with my account.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

🚨New article🚨 What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy? This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’' 1/ shorturl.at/jptiu

Bingo. “Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: These are countries with no real asylum process and rampant human rights violations…The administration uses these removals [to third countries] to instill fear. They want people to self-deport.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Morales alleges three separate CBP agents said they didn’t believe him when he told them he had a birth certificate, Social Security card and other ways of proving his citizenship. The officers threatened him with a fraud charge & 5 years’ imprisonment if he didn’t sign a voluntary departure order"

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

NEW: USCIS published its data for all of 2025, and even into Jan. 2026. The result: 2025 began w high numbers of citizenship apps submitted & decided (approved/denied). By winter fewer were applying to become citizens — and fewer were given a decision. Latest: www.npr.org/2026/04/13/g...

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's opposition leader Peter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded his election loss in a phone call.

We are going to blockade the blockade in order to unblockade the blockade that was unblockaded before the bombing started. apnews.com/article/iran...

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

The most useful thread to read before tomorrow!

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The European Parliament, led by a conservative far-right alliance, endorses a drastic expansion of deportations. In effect, the far-right has used migration to break into the European political centre.

EU member states have been searching for potential countries be willing to host ‘return hubs’ for rejected asylum seekers. Discussions have reportedly "zoomed in on 12 nations," including Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Uganda and Uzbekistan.

“Jonathan Caravello, 38, faced up to 20 years in prison if he was convicted of the charge. The verdict is the latest blow to the Trump administration, which has thrown baseless assault charges at people who protest its mass deportation operations — but has repeatedly failed to secure convictions.”

Trump has lost the most ground with white women who self-identify as moderate or conservative ideologically. (Lakshya Jain, The Argument) www.theargumentmag.com/p/women-are-...

Our piece at @psrm.bsky.social (w/ @korinlind.bsky.social) is summarised in this @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social post We study why progressive parties may struggle to win immigrant votes focusing on green parties & home country institutions. Full paper: shorturl.at/xI55f blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

San Antonio Current reported in February: “Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids’ letters and drawings detailing conditions inside.” www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.

BBC picked up the story, great to see it getting more visibility - I just hope it leads to action: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts? October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied February-November 2025: 75% denied December 2025: 84% January 2026: 91% February 2026: 95% tracreports.org/phptools/imm...

"JD Vance is historically the least popular vice president at this point in their vice presidency." More unpopular than Dick Cheney. 😬

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

"The Trump administration has systematically pressured the nation’s immigration judges, threatening them with disciplinary action if they do not deport more people & firing those seen as insufficiently supportive of the president’s aggressive enforcement." https://nyti.ms/3PQwSOv

vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware @urbanviewradio.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

Good US immigration data has always been hard to get, and now it is especially hard given increased manipulation and lack of transparency from the admin/ Data like this-- on missing migrants-- is even harder. The loss of data like this is just devastating. www.hcn.org/issues/58-4/...

New Publication Alert! "Asymmetric Vulnerability without Subordination: Reconciling Value-Enabling Vulnerability with Relational Equality" doi.org/10.1017/9781... In a cool volume on relational equality and vulnerability edited by Costanza Porro and Christine Staehle #philsky #poltheory 1/

New Publication Alert! "Asymmetric Vulnerability without Subordination: Reconciling Value-Enabling Vulnerability with Relational Equality" doi.org/10.1017/9781... In a cool volume on relational equality and vulnerability edited by Costanza Porro and Christine Staehle #philsky #poltheory 1/

1/ The 15th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now. This month's bulletin includes a document that is almost laughably horrific. In it, the Council Presidency implores the EU’s main border externalisation committee to *mention* human rights more when dealing with non-EU partner countries.

Flourishing Together, by Jan Kandiyali, now available on Oxford scholarship online: academic.oup.com/book/62523

"The harm to integration, to the social fabric, to children’s futures and to workers’ rights will be immense." @colinyeo.bsky.social on the government's "earned settlement" proposals. freemovement.org.uk/earned-settl...

Awful www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

“Families have reported children in mental distress: a two-year-old who hit himself, potty-trained children who began wetting themselves, and a 13-year-old who was put into isolation after attempting suicide.”

Really good reporting www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

If Congress doesn't impeach this guy they're basically abolishing themselves

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 29, No 3 is now available: A Special Issue on: The Political Thought of Joseph Carens Editors: Kiran Banerjee; Abraham Singer; Melissa S. Williams www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

The world we could have had // the world we have

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Also worth noting: the frequency of a thing does not determine whether it is desireable. Birthright citizenship *should* be the default everywhere.

The Trump administration’s high-profile mass ICE deployments have targeted the Democratically-led cities of Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Leaders in New York have taken notice, and are working to prepare in case of a similar surge.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵