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You can substitute “US” for “UK” and add “and brutal, illegal shows of militarized force under the guise of immigration enforcement”

The Trump administration has broken faith with the American people, who have welcomed refugees into their communities for decades - and refugees who have been waiting in line for years. A record-low refugee ceiling aligns with this admin’s consistently bad-faith approach to immigrant/refugee issues.

What a shameful chapter of US history we're experiencing. A harrowing middle-of the-night raid on an entire five-story apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

RIP Jane Goodall, who performed an immeasurable service for humanity by helping us get to know and care for our closest relatives in the web of life.

Here’s to the leader of antifa

The President seems intent on cutting both drug prices and free-speech protections by 1000%

Anyone who thinks that throwing trans people under the bus provides an offramp from the Niemöller escalation (i.e., "first they came for . . . " ) needs to think hard about the implications of the utterly dehumanizing rhetoric coming from these and other elected officials.

Ben Shapiro's new book "is a perfect encapsulation of Brandolini’s law that the energy required to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude greater than what it takes to produce it." Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from @mattpolprof.bsky.social: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...

I know this isn’t typically how this works, but we’re in a big mess of Not Usually How This Works and I gotta think it’d at least be fun for a bunch of countries and corporations to insist on Stephen Miller’s firing as a precondition for further business investment.

Hey Florida: infectious disease reads your vaccine libertarianism as a green light.

We can have a functioning CDC or we can have RFK Jr. I'm not sure we can have both.

When authoritarians wish to destroy a people, they first deny their humanity. Trump today stated "Trans people do not exist," thus signaling they are fair game for persecution. Scapegoating and vilifying one group after another, as this administration does, is straight out of the fascist playbook.

American Public Health Association: “Legislators and officials at all levels of government who are interested in protecting their constituents should demand Kennedy’s removal.” That’s what I call leadership 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.apha.org/news-and-med...

In restricting most Americans’ access to Covid vaccines, the FDA and CDC are putting countless lives at risk.

Those camps aren’t just for non-citizens.

The one Spanish word that everyone should learn today is “autogolpe.”

On the solemn occasion of the 80th anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reflecting on the tragedy of war and the imperative of ensuring that nuclear weapons are never used.

Who is he thanking for their attention to this matter?

In 1937, the Soviet Union conducted a census. Stalin didn't like the results (the numbers were lower than expected), so he purged the statistical agencies and ordered a new census to be conducted in 1939. Which produced numbers he liked better.

Hear me out: a weekly live-streamed “TariffBall” lottery drawing. Each Friday evening another six countries get a new tariff rate, based on the numbers on ping-pong balls drawn by the President himself. Ratings Gold! And it would make about as much sense as what’s happening now.

The Trump Administration's war on the academy is leaving the entire nation poorer. Colleges and universities have the right to choose their faculty, determine what is to be taught, and admit students as they please. This independence is what makes institutions of higher education worth having.

This country relies on immigrants, yet we demonize and scapegoat them. It's time to speak out against this hypocrisy and the Trump administration's increasingly unpopular immigration enforcement overreach. My op-ed for the Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

The song is called "Lobachevsky" after a famous Russian mathematician - but it applies even better to the AI industry: "I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics. Plagiarize." RIP Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)

"Fight Fiercely, Harvard" (RIP Tom Lehrer)

Last Friday's firings at the US State Department hollowed out the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE). See @rcusa.bsky.social's open letter of gratitude to these civil servants for their life-saving work: tinyurl.com/3vx2s9zv.

July 4th reflection: one of the things that has truly made this country great is that we have welcomed those facing persecution in their home countries, providing them with safety, freedom, and opportunity, and have in turn been immeasurably enriched by their presence. (1/3)

This can be said about so many realms of human services provision. Anti-NGO mythology notwithstanding, nonprofit social service workers heroically implement goals the gov't sets but won't adequately fund - trained professionals helping those struggling for survival in an often cruel system.

The case decided that birthright citizenship is an "issue," and that newborn American citizens can be legally reclassified as stateless persons on the president's say-so while that issue (which was previously not an issue) is being litigated.

The Trump travel ban reinforces global mobility apartheid against Black, Brown, and Muslim peoples - and now the administration claims the ban applies to vulnerable refugees previously approved to resettle in the US. For shame! See statement from @irap.bsky.social. refugeerights.org/news-resourc...

It is outrageous that the Trump administration now has a green light from the Supreme Court to deport people to countries where could face torture or death. Combined with this admin's disregard for due process, this shameful decision further entrenches a systematic policy of enforced disappearances.

Today, June 20, is World Refugee Day - and in a rally and march to the White House, refugee advocates, service providers, and faith leaders delivered an Ecumenical Declaration for Refuge with nearly 4,000 faith-leader signatories. (1/4)

Thank you @shaheen.senate.gov and @reptedlieu.bsky.social for today's World Refugee Day Resolution. With 23 Senate & 49 House cosponsors, it reaffirms the US commitment to help refugees and forcibly displaced persons fleeing persecution, conflict and violence. www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

Juneteenth is a good day to talk about the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It's an amazing place - highly recommended and frankly a must-visit for all Americans. (1/4)

Thank you @ramirez.house.gov for speaking out against the GOP leadership of House Homeland Security Committee, which is persecuting civil society organizations for their lawful work in support of immigrants. We're facing full-bore 21st century McCarthyism. ramirez.house.gov/media/press-...

God help us. And by “us” I mean humanity.

It bears repeating, because it's not always mentioned by those who oppose Trump on immigration: the anti-immigrant hysteria that's led to these massive and lawless ICE raids is grounded in the pervasive, morally corrosive hypocrisy behind our entire approach to immigrants and immigration. (1/6)

Nancy Mace bullying Gov Walz by asking him if he opposes bullies is some pretty weird mojo.

Thermidoge

Trump’s travel ban is a doubling down on global mobility apartheid. It targets those who already have few options for entering other countries.

With Trump, this country is in thrall to the ugliest, most toxic views possible toward immigrants, who on the whole are a huge net positive for the US. Someday we will awaken from this spell and wonder how otherwise reasonable people let this happen.

In today's news, Stephen Miller spews more vicious lies. In truth, the US Refugee Admissions program has rescued 3 million people from persecution over the past 45 years. And refugees and asylees had a positive net fiscal impact for the US of $124B over a recent 15-year period.

Two dolls is enough. Dress up as Pope. Re-open Alcatraz. Down with foreign films!

Every member of Congress - and I mean EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS - should be pointing out how wildly aggressive, gratuitously insulting, stunningly undiplomatic, and utterly bone-headed it is for President Trump to continue to call for Canada to become the 51st state.

When the U.S. withdrew from WHO, prominent voices in public health reached for the wrong talking point - "Okay, you're right, WHO is flawed / inefficient, so, reform it." My undergrads now repeat this back to me, with no understanding of why they believe that. This can't happen to NIH/NSF. Instead:

Stand up against the inhumanity. Stop the plane. @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocratic.bsky.social

Over many decades, the United States benefitted immeasurably from the contributions of scientists, scholars, artists, and writers fleeing authoritarian regimes in Europe. Now - sadly, and unbelievably - the tables have turned.

The GOP is dancing with Bukele. It’s not a good look, and it’s not going to age well.

RE the Abrego Garcia case: Pam Bondi’s and Stephen Miller’s emphatic statements that Garcia was definitely a member of MS13 do not appear in any court filings. Why? Because even DOJ lawyers know that if they knowingly assert something false in a court document they can lose their license.

The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate the Fulbright program, which has been stunningly successful in promoting international understanding and cooperation. Since 1946, Fulbright has enabled more than 400,000 academic and professional exchanges across 162 countries.