Migration federalism in action

if someone suggests you try the tumeric coffee.... they are not your friend

Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."

41 universities steer low-income families to Parent PLUS loans they cant afford, and provide big tuition discounts to wealthier students. The list includes 23 selective private universities, 18 public flagship/research, nearly half are in the South. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Recall the majority opinion in Plyler the justices pointedly said they wanted to avoid creating and underclass of people who wouldn't have a public education due to a legal status beyond their control. And now HF wants to go back to that. Fog horning racism.

Pancakes and dumplings and samosas oh my www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

Have (scholarly) thoughts about the US? Selwyn College is hiring a 3-year postdoc in American Studies: join me at a friendly college close to town but far from tourists, live in for next to nothing, research anything related to US society, politics or history. www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey...

"Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot by federal agents last fall, was already on the government's radar before an agent opened fire, identified as a threat after a social media post."

Immigration detention is “not punishment” because we say it isn’t punishment is really such a joke.

Scholars of genocide have written so much about this kind of dehumanizing propaganda. Now it's happening here.

Through spite, all things are possible.

Russ Vought is an avowed christian nationalist, whose values apparently means sacrificing the poorest people in the world for an enhanced security detail www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

[Everyone hated that]

ICYMI: our own Stone Center Director @sashakillewald.bsky.social explores the costly ‘motherhood penalty’ and how one country is erasing it. Learn more in her article from [email protected]: myumi.ch/P3Xqe

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

If it wasn’t for bad bunny I wouldn’t have watched the Super Bowl…

New Mexico's legislature just passed a bill that bans local governments from joining ICE's 287(g) program *and* from hosting detention centers. On to the governor. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Idk who is playing in the SuperB owl, but I am rooting for Benito to sing Ojos Lindos

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Not one more penny for ICE.

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Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Breaking news: A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home as he responded to her 911 call reporting a prowler outside.

"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month." www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules. I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

CEOs of Minnesota companies, including Target and Hormel, say they're pushing against ICE's occupation. But their industry trade groups actively lobbied for Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which boosted ICE's budget by $75B. Corporate America will not save us.

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

some advice for bovino...when you get thrown under the bus, your job is to lie there...

Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges: The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion, threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colleges

The Trump administration called for the accelerated disposal of a corridor inside the Social Security building that contains more than 1,800 square feet of art.

Even as ICE receives $170B in new funding, it has stopped paying for medical care for detainees — including life-saving medications, dialysis, and chemotherapy treatments. Remember: Over 70% of detainees have no criminal convictions. Cruelty on steroids.

How come Trump and Noem are not sending ICE to Florida or Texas ? Oh never mind the Governor of Maine told him “See u in court” that time and his little man feelings suffered big hurt.

The pause only applies to immigrant visas. Students, tourists, and others seeking to travel from the 75 countries shouldn’t be affected.

Employment is temporary Calling the president a Pedo to his face is forever.

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

Hello late stage capitalism

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Most people don't know that even if you win your asylum case, ICE can still keep you in detention. For example, a Madison couple that fled Venezuela recently won asylum, but the husband is still detained while ICE appeals. isthmus.com/news/news/ma...