The Supreme Court has upheld the US Administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans+Haitians—> www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 13 colleagues and I estimated the economic cost: $20bn/year lost to the US economy, and 360,000 US jobs: www.aclunorcal.org/sites/defaul...

The US State Department's data on monthly visa issuances have gone dark. They used to be updated every month, now frozen *9 months ago*. Someone in the Administration does not want the public to know how its policies are affecting immigration. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

“Stephen Miller is implementing an immigration policy designed to lower the labor supply, a prescription for reducing economic growth and raising the federal debt, given the crucial role immigrants play in US labor force growth.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The US government has succeeded in in its stated goal of cutting inflows of international students. Inflows are down 1/3 or more. This slashes a key source of productivity-enhancing high-skill STEM workers for the US economy. In a new Brief at @piie.com, my co-authors and I quantify the impact—>

Golden opportunity. This first-run AI fellowship, built by my brilliant colleagues at the new @jhu.edu School of Government & Policy. Three weeks in DC. Fully funded. Interact directly with AI policy leaders from labs, government, academia. Apply by July 15—> opportunitydesk.org/2026/06/24/j...

The US government has succeeded in in its stated goal of cutting inflows of international students. Inflows are down 1/3 or more. This slashes a key source of productivity-enhancing high-skill STEM workers for the US economy. In a new Brief at @piie.com, my co-authors and I quantify the impact—>

Khanna did not ‘say’ that Musk unleashed mass death. Serious research has documented it. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

When the sacred trust of public power is handed to people who are stupefyingly incompetent, incapable of defending themselves against conspiracy theories by critical thinking, that harms all Conservative and all Liberal Americans. It does not help anyone's "side", it degrades all of us.

An academic journal just directed me to delete the word ‘elderly’ from a manuscript. They consider it ‘dehumanizing’. I wish that people of good heart who care about harm in the world could focus their scarce resources on the vast material harms all around us, instead of bottomless purity-policing.

The "realist restraint" foreign policy I've been hearing so much about does not seem either realistic or restrained.

“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.” ~John Quincy Adams, 1838. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing." (from essay 1)

New findings from our launch of the Public Servant Project are featured alongside work by @ourpublicservice.bsky.social, highlighting how Americans view public servants favorably and support a nonpartisan gov workforce. Read more: www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

The Ford Administration marked the Bicentennial on July 4 with an event at Independence Hall. Attendance was ~100,000. The day opened with Black opera singer Marian Anderson, the daughter of working class parents, reading Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. commerce.veritone.com/search/asset...

I expect the 'Duration of Status' rule to drop very soon, next day or two. It forces international students into an uncertain visa renewal process. Trump officials get total discretion over whether they can finish their degree or work post-completion. Here @aau.edu explains vast damage to come—>

The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, significantly intensifying its effort to revoke citizenship from people naturalized in the United States, according to a senior Justice Department official. https://cnn.it/4ewEBKg

There is no evidence to suggest illegal immigration played a significant role in the rise or fall of insurance premiums. “This claim is pure fiction,” @mclem.org says. “It does not arise from any study by the White House, by the auto insurance industry, or even by anti-immigration pressure groups."

Cool new research from @mclem.org, Nice, & Rigol! Authorising work for asylum seekers is politically contested, often due to perceived 'magnet' effects + fears for local labour markets. New evidence from the US finds work authorisation boosts local wages + GDP, and *doesn't* have a magnet effect.

The White House has moved to ban almost all work authorization for asylum seekers, indefinitely. In my new note with the brilliant Natalia Rigol & Amy Nice, we assess White House claims that work authorization 1) harms US workers and 2) causes frivolous asylum claims. www.hbs.edu/faculty/Page...

The US Administration may have just ended public-use microdata, a central pillar of research that estimates the true effects of social policy and keeps the government accountable. Thread—>

Your periodic reminder that Elon Musk and his DOGE minions are responsible for the ongoing deaths of millions, including children, around the world due to the illegal dismantling of USAID and the collapse of foreign aid. Source: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

My reading of the literature on employment effects of minimum wage is that nobody who works on it will ever be unemployed

Important message from @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

I would like to pause the planet for about a month to catch up on reading

Delivering positions of sacred public trust into the hands of pseudoscientific quacks harms all Americans. It will cause deaths of Conservative Americans' children, and Liberal Americans' children.

New @nberpubs: "Before the Exodus? Young Scientists and the Future of US Science" www.nber.org/papers/w3533... "The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 percentage points" 😔

I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

I've said all this before, but I see his lies affecting people who should know better. His repetition is insidious. 1. Iran was complying with the JCPOA, which allowed for IAEA inspection and kept Iran's nuclear activities limited. 2. The use of a single nuclear weapon would be the end of Iran.

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." TS Eliot, 1948

The rule of law is crucial to every Conservative and every Liberal American, and we will defend it from reckless, radical attacks on our Constitution.

Well said. He frequently emits noises that reveal a person who is “galactically ignorant”. This is why I have zero patience for those who gush about his ‘intelligence’. A central feature of intelligence is the capacity to detect when one has no clue, and thus seal one’s sneering lips.

Trade "deficits" are not national losses. They represent mutually beneficial exchange of goods & services for capital. That is the fundamental reason why taxes on Americans who consume goods with imported ingredients ('tariffs') do little to the trade deficit: By @scottlincicome.bsky.social —>

Highly recommended. Many people have a overly narrow view of knowledge work jobs and thus overstate the disemployment effects that AI is likely to create.

There’s a word for what the richest man on earth is urging here: explicitly, the mass forced removal of “legally resident foreign nationals”. It’s not immigration enforcement. They’re legal residents. It’s ethnic cleansing. Congress should terminate all taxpayer funding for this person now.

This doesn't "resemble" nazism, as is sometimes said of salutes and tattoos. It's full bore death's head fascism, men in skull masks attacking houses door to door. That's what's being celebrated here. That's what's desired here.

How many people even noticed this stomach-churning threshold we just crossed?

On this day 63 years ago-Jun. 11, 1963-President John F. Kennedy addressed the American people on civil rights. It was the same day that Alabama governor George Wallace had symbolically blocked access to the University of Alabama for two Black students trying to register. Video: C-Span.

The man about to become the world's first trillionaire is re-amplifying the calls for preemptive violence he expressed at the Unite the Kingdom rally in 2025.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

"Collapse in European faith in the US. Only 11% of respondents now consider it an ally, down from 16% half a year ago and 22% in November 2024. Meanwhile fully 25% see it as either a rival or an adversary." ecfr.eu/publication/... via @ecfr

I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man

The US Constitution, US law, and centuries of bipartisan precedent bar the president from perverting the office into a source of personal profit.

The richest person in human history is pouring his time, energy, and resources into inciting racist violence in Belfast and beyond. The United States Congress should terminate all US subsidies to, and contracts with, the firms that funnel money to his sickening skinhead project.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

Medical Groups Cheer Court Decision to Halt $100K H-1B Visa Fee www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

this should frighten you

No Liberal, no Conservative, no Democrat, and no Republican with total contempt for our Constitution belongs anywhere near public office. Frank Fukuyama reviews why an independent judiciary, and this rule of law, has been bedrock to Western prosperity —> www.persuasion.community/p/why-we-nee...