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June 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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irrelevantaf.bsky.social
Anecdotal, but my center-right parents who are “very concerned” about the border and consider it a top issue emphatically agreed when I said we need to make it much easier to become a citizen here.

There is a common sense pro-immigration lane there if any of our leaders want to take it!
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Jun 9
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.

Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:

newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
So @garrettshanley.bsky.social, the Univ of Florida student journalist who broke the Ben Sasse scandal wide open, has another banger today about Florida's surgeon general, who has almost nothing to show for his six-figure, second job as a tenured prof at UF

www.alligator.org/article/2025...
Now, more than three years into his tenure, internal records and interviews with more than a dozen professors and administrators raise questions about whether Ladapo is meeting UF’s expectations. Ladapo’s work calendar shows monthslong stretches with little or no activity. Instead of attaining grants and conducting research, he spent his first year revising manuscripts and writing his memoir, “Transcend Fear,” which details his skepticism of vaccines. He also promised to bring hundreds of thousands in research dollars from the University of California at Los Angeles, his previous employer. That never happened. He blamed his former boss, claiming she withheld the funds over disagreements about COVID-19 policies. A review of internal reports and public directories indicate Ladapo hasn't secured any research grants for UF. His classroom contributions are similarly sparse. Ladapo agreed to dedicate 20% of his time to teaching; so far, that’s amounted to a handful of seminars and guest lectures. A proposed course on “critical evaluation of scientific evidence” has yet to materialize.
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
ICE is manually changing (revoking) the immigration *status* of international students without informing either universities or the students themselves.

zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status – an authority typically left to university staff. And some students and universities are not even being made aware of those revocations – setting students up to be taken by immigration agents without even knowing it was coming. Three university officials, who were given anonymity so they could speak freely, across the country report that, in recent days, student residency statuses in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – SEVIS, a database where residency statuses of foreign students are managed – are being changed without their knowledge.
March 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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mc2x.bsky.social
We’re in this mess in large part bc the average American is uninformed about fundamentals of civics, history, basic biology, economics, etc, and media and the internet are not meeting the moment.

Is anyone organizing teach-ins or similar for the general public, whether irl or online?
March 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM