aspiring to be the anti-stephen miller of my generation he/him
I'm glad Reuters is covering this through the real world harm its already causing for families. But I'd argue it's missing important context: ICE is now outsourcing some of this work to hundreds of police depts. and sheriffs' offices for $22,500 bounties per 'wellness check' they complete.
A $22,500 Per-Child Bounty SystemA look inside the 287(g) slush fund and ICE's multilayered contracts hiding its disturbing cash incentives.open.substack.com"Since January 2025, the data shows, ORR has shared more than 460,000 'leads' with ICE about unaccompanied children, their sponsors -- usually parents or other relatives -- and additional household members, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation."
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agencyMore than 12,000 people have been arrested by U.S. immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during President Donald Trump’s second term.www.reuters.comAndrew ThrasherThis doc, effectively added as a rider to agencies' service agreements, provides more context on how the ICE has baked this completely fabricated docket of up to 450,000 "wellness checks" into its Task Force 287(g) program. wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/documen...
Racial resentment & moral traditionalism are associated with more negativity toward local housing development academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...
Housing for me, but not for thee: values-based motivations of opposition to local housingAbstract. A key barrier to ensuring the growth of the housing supply is local opposition to development, often called NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard). We usacademic.oup.com
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.www.cbsnews.com
What makes talking about crime and surveillance difficult is that the biggest surveillance zealots are those who either believe a) they don't commit crimes or b) their crimes are fundamentally different from the crimes other people commit and shouldn't be prosecuted.
Matthew GuarigliaThat’s the thing about surveillance—we all commit minor statuatory infractions every single day. More surveillance equals more enforcement and that enforcement is almost always done in ways the penalize already marginalized neighborhoods.
One of the biggest challenges to teaching right now is trust, which has been eroded by gen AI — for professors AND students. Copware isn’t the way to get it back.
Eileen Clancy 🧿Universities drop AI detection tools over fears about accuracy Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance By Ima Jackson-Obot
TFW you tried to do a retranslation project from an ancient language but accidentally published a book tie-in to the summer’s hottest movie
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
Fed. judge finds that Trump's DOJ—in particular AAG Harmeet K. Dhillon—was acting in bad faith and with unclean hands when it tried to bully Portland over ICE protests and the arrest of right-wing agitator Nick Sortor. In evidence: Dhillon's tweeting. www.courtlistener.com/docket/43658...
Alexandra Bravo, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assigned to investigate U.S. strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and the 36 survivors’ accounts of torture & kidnapping by US, was shot dead by a hitman. The police detail that had been assigned to protect her was not present. www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in EcuadorNew evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.www.dropsitenews.com
Professors using LLMs to do their work like this do not deserve tenure, nope. But soon enough, our admins and college boards will be asking why bother to have faculty at all, if they can just pay a bunch of AI agents to "do" academia, and I do wish we would think of AI as a labor issue
James Andrew SmithThe natural extension of this: Claude: does Professor X deserve tenure?
“A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
A Peptide Showdown: F.D.A. Scientists May Clash With R.F.K.’s AgendaAgency scientists are advising against allowing widespread use of several peptide injections. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has said people should be free to experiment.www.nytimes.comNoooooooo
paris martineauNew: State health officials say parsley and cilantro appear to be linked to surging cyclospora cases in North Carolina The disclosure comes as the FDA says it’s investigating a new outbreak linked to an unidentified source. Unclear if the two are related www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.www.climatecoloredgoggles.com