damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

New to @ssrn.bsky.social, I just posted the Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement, 119 Nw. U. L. Rev. 811 (2025). In this, I argue that free movement -- intrastate, interstate, and international -- is a fundamental constitutional right. 1/7 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Quelle catastrophe! Au moins "name and shame" les avocats qui hallucinent avec #IA

A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.

"I am indeed going to apply" for French citizenship, "it's in progress," says Jim Jarmusch. "I would like to have another place where I can escape from the United States ," he explains.

Le réalisateur américain Jim Jarmusch va faire une demande pour obtenir la nationalité française share.google/qRNjsQrAgODV...

Clear evidence that employers rate workers with foreign-sounding accents as having lower verbal and math skills. This gap persists even when employers are provided with explicit performance signals.

Le programme TV pendant le communisme était juste incroyable. Aujourd'hui, 22 décembre, on fête 36 ans de la chute du #communisme en #Roumanie. #Europe #Liberté

The #TV schedule planned for 22 December 1989, had a revolution not changed the regime, was simply #incredible. #Romania #communism #Europe #freedom

It's like they read the Christmas story and thought Herod was the good guy.

Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy. doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Dehumanization english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-...

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

Separating parents from children, even in the middle of a natural disaster. Shabana Mahmood's Home Office is the same as Suella Braverman's Home Office, is the same as the one that gave us the Windrush scandal

Ce soir, à Strasbourg, l’assemblée constitutive de la "Europa Power Initiative" lancée par @europanova.bsky.social et soutenue par de nombreux acteurs politiques et sociaux a adopté la Déclaration de Strasbourg, appelant l'Europe a assumer pleinement sa puissance. europanova.eu/2025/11/27/d...

The distinction between #mild & #heavy #bias is intuitive Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection. Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Travel rights (which are reasonably robust, if regularly overlooked) can provide a bulwark against these sorts of anti-travel provisions. I wrote about this in Travel Rights in a Culture War, 101 Tex. L. Rev. O. 21 (2022), texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!

"Core protection" is bad news for refugees in the UK - by Cris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social "What will now be tested is whether those core Labour supporters are willing to tolerate policies so openly hostile to their professed values." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

In case you missed it: Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control” | Sonia Lenegan

"Core protection" is bad news for refugees in the UK - by Cris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social "What will now be tested is whether those core Labour supporters are willing to tolerate policies so openly hostile to their professed values." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

For nine months, the formidable @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and I have been investigating if X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. Our findings suggest it does: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner". Oh, wait: there is no such thing as "christian nationalism" 🤔😇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Imagine a country where hundreds of thousands of legal permanent residents find stripped of their status and forced to reapply for their right to remain. Many no longer meet the criteria, plunged into illegality, subject to deportation. @emile-chabal.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...

I strongly opposed framing #women 's migration as #CareDrain & loss to children left behind because 1️⃣it relies on sexist #stereotypes 2️⃣devalues #care work 3️⃣prevents us from understanding #skills in #migration But metaphors are stronger than arguments 🏋️‍♀️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On #immigration, true #cosmopolitans should argue that states violating people’s right to #free movement should either be sentenced, or owe compensations to the people harmed, or that States deserve #amnesty Why has nobody ever considered these positions? academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

30%: #Immigrants are overrepresented amongst #Nobel winners 🏆 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tories really pushing to regain the racist votes back from Reform. Most people become undocumented thorough no fault of their own. Other countries have shown that policies which make it easier for undocumented migrants to regularise their status are better for everyone. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9

Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished - or so I argue in this v short paper shs.cairn.info/revue-france...

Trade policy is not gender neutral Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration odi.org/en/insights/...

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Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'ESR : participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

“According to a thinktank, the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, violence against those in US political life in the four years to 2024 was nearly triple the number of incidents in the previous 25 years combined.” theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkejii...

Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished - or so I argue in this v short paper shs.cairn.info/revue-france...

In October 2023, @bboudou.bsky.social offered me to co-edit a handbook on political theory with him. The publisher wanted it published by September 2025. I thought it was a joke. Benjamin did not. Today, we are very happy to announce the publication of Théorie Politique!

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.

... as a safeguard for the ordre public and/or welfare state. With this in mind, it seems justifiable not to have fully open borders right now. But from a cosmopolitan normative point of view, it is clearly not the opening of borders that requires specific justification, but keeping them closed. ⬇️

I've argued in a little blog post (in German) back in 2013 that, in the long run, there is no good argument to have free movement at a national or European, but not at a global level. But even some national constitutions connect free movement to certain conditions ... ⬇️

A LLM called the #Habermas Machine helped small UK groups find common ground while discussing divisive pol issues as #Brexit #immigration minimum wage climate change & childcare. Compared w humans, AI mediators - wider agreement & left groups less divided. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

Almost half of Britons (47%) think there are more migrants staying in the UK illegally than legally Estimates of illegal migrants range from 120,000 to 1.3 million, with Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf putting the figure at 1.2 million. Foreign-born =10.7 million www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

📚 Call for Book Chapters Handbook of Skilled Migration (Edward Elgar, 2027) Edited by #VerenaWisthaler & #AbdeslamMarfouk 🔍 Focus: Skilled migration & the Global South 🌍 🗓️ Abstracts due: Sept 30, 2025 🔗 More info: www.eurac.edu/en/institute... #MigrationStudies #CFP #SkilledMigration

“Around 50% of funded research remains unpublished”✍️Ritu Dhand Citation bias leaves valuable lab work unseen, fuelling duplicated effort. PWC estimates €26B lost in Europe alone. Time to rethink what we call ‘quality’! #PeerReview

Should You Choose to Live Forever? #philsky ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/shou...

"It was recognized that the right of #emigration, affirmed above, would not be effective without facilities for #immigration into and transit through other countries. The Working Group recommends that (...) members of the United Nations cooperate in providing such facilities" 1947 Comm Hum Rights

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