The visa lottery was the only way the vast majority of the world could come to the US legally. The Trump administration is using the pretext of the Brown shooting to suspend it. timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?

In Chile, where non-citizen residents can vote, right wing candidate Kast is heavily favored to win today’s election with a combination of voters who blame an alleged crime wave on Venezuelan migrants, and Venezuelan migrants he’s pledged to deport, who support him because he’s anti-communist.

i will again note the slight of hand here. “respecting” public opinion is defined as being subservient to public opinion. but you can respect where the public lies without making yourself a slave to its whims.

Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism has dropped its final report. They're advocating what seems to be affirmative action for Zionist scholarship (resonant with "viewpoint diversity" push for e.g. pro-racism scholarship from anti-higher ed activists) www.columbia.edu/content/repo...

"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests

Kimuli was a brilliant academic and a wonderful person. As a visiting professor at Yale, she took the time to chat with me despite having little overlap with my work. Her insights and her laughs will be missed. fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Make America Great Again means helping your rich buddies pursue their imperialist White Elephant hobbies by working with one set of drug traffickers while murdering others

I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.

My theory, tested through exposure to Australian higher education administration, is that they are hopelessly captured by the consultants, and that higher education consultants are particularly shallow and uninteresting.

Very good analogy

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

What makes this more frustrating is that Dems were winning. They had public opinion They had base enthusiasm They had Trump making tactical mistakes every day And they lose

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

Dick Cheney was a war criminal who, in a just world, would have died in a Hague prison

Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US. Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight. He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.

Very good thread that’s a critique of the now-common narrative about how universities are left-wing indoctrination factories, which gets far more traction than critiques of fascist ideologies.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.

Yes. There is a near-unanimous bipartisan conventional wisdom about the Democrats becoming 'too woke' even though — again, objectively — they avoided prioritizing social issues in the 2024 campaign.

100% politically-motivated home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

US foreign policy is now premised on the idea that killing random fisherman in the Caribbean is crucial to national security

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

Removing people from this country has never been the only goal for this administration. They want to do that but they also want to do it in the cruelest manner possible. They get joy from inflicting pain during the deportation process.

Also really driving home the gap in what I’m being told/told to teach students—that it is the AI world & everyone must learn to prompt—versus it is an AI world & everyone must learn data forensics & critical thought if they are to understand politics, violence, & the information environment.

Here I argue the Home Secretary's case that Palestine Action is concerned in terrorism is lacking in evidence, and proscribing the group is disproportionate. It will criminalise a significant proportion of civil society and be counterproductive for maintaining safety.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Good. In-group pressure and shame works.

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

This is to me the most baffling aspect. Who would place a bet that the next three years won't feature some terrible horror in the US from the outfit that Badenoch and Jenrick specifically say they want to copy? bsky.app/profile/smka...

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

This is straight-up murder.

I’m glad Murphy is saying what should be obvious to all Democratic politicians: you should not choose to support arms of authoritarian state that will be used to repress you in the future

Drug “cartels” are not cartels at all. They do not collude to set prices. They’re usually barely organizations. More loose networks of collaborators in a complex supply chain. The whole thing is ridiculous, but Trump is basically creating an enemy out of thin air. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

This was excellent

It’s a very dark time

The world desperately needs peasants, but they face an onslaught of challenges and little support. aeon.co/essays/the-p...

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs. This tax will kill us. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Putin, an autocrat, passed a Foreign Agents law in 2012. Orban, an autocrat, uses investigations, tax audits, regulations, and new laws to harass civil organizations in name of sovereignty. Both sought to intimidate civil society, so that no independent or opposing voices remained.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Endorse 💯 What’s wrong with the American university is not some culture of victimhood, it is declining access and increasing costs for students, and consultants pushing AI and other edutech. Also in some universities they are firing faculty for protected speech

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.