Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News ed board, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, NYU lecturer, @flaminghydra.com member, immigration wonk. Work in @slate.com, @thenation.com, @boltsmag.org, etc | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
At @damemagazine.bsky.social, I argue the convoluted, outdated, contradictory immigration framework must be rethought and revamped along two guiding principles: 1) it must be dramatically simplified, and 2) the framework cannot allow for permanent semi-status like TPS or lack of status entirely
America’s Immigration System Was Never Built to Make Sense - Dame MagazineAmerica's immigration laws are outdated, contradictory, and difficult to navigate. Experts argue reform means rebuilding the system from the ground up.www.damemagazine.comI wrote for @thenation.com about how Leo's surprise mass excommunications against the reactionary SSPX sect can teach political pro-democracy and pro-liberalism forces a thing or two
What Pope Leo Can Teach Liberals About PowerThe pontiff just excommunicated a reactionary splinter group committed to undermining the church. Democratic leaders could learn something.www.thenation.comlol most progressive journalists I know are a couple months of bad luck away from destitution
Philip Bump[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:
“These are filthy lies and also illegal leaks of internal information” has become such a hilarious MAGA reflexive response
Aaron RuparWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
I don’t think this is necessarily something WSJ did wrong here but even the framing of this as kind of a quirky thing tech people have started doing à la drinking Soylent instead of an insane perversion of the social contract shows how much the Overton window has moved on surveillance
This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are.People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and even dates—all in the name of productivity.www.wsj.comAs I’ve said before, I fear people will only really notice when they look around and see that even the influencers that get their information from have nowhere left themselves to draw their news from, at which point it’ll be too late
Asher ElbeinI think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over
I mean wasn’t this also kind of Marx himself
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.Being a freeloading piece of shit, but wokely
Among the many horrors unleashed by Clinton’s 1996 laws was the creation of this court, but it’s never been used given very obvious constitutional questions with deporting someone based on secret evidence in a sealed proceeding. Unsurprisingly, Trump is going for it
Trump administration activates never-before-used ‘alien terrorist’ deportation courtThe court has been dormant since it was created in 1996.www.politico.comStates are being told that federal agents are free to commit crimes without even the pretense of accountability in their jurisdictions, against their constituents. Every day the case for anti-authoritarian federalism grows, starting with investigation and prosecution of Fed personnel
Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not ImpossibleTo a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.newrepublic.comKyle GriffinBREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
This guy is often described as a journalist but can anyone point me to any journalism that he's done that isn't just relishing being a contrarian? Like, has this dude ever unearthed something, or really nailed explaining some complex policy issue, or built up credibility in some area of coverage?
Post-Left WatchMichael Tracey claims that journalists tell him privately all the time that they're becoming more and more skeptical of the Jeffrey Epstein accusations, but they can't say so in public because they're afraid of people calling them pedophiles.
Admin will say students whose programs will take longer can just renew their visas, but think about it this way: would you choose to invest huge amounts of capital and four years of your life into a program knowing that some bureaucrat could unreviewably crash your investment midway through?
Ben AllenCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...