I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

“It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.”

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NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

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Tom Homan to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

I appreciate it! (But understand the reluctance.)

Looks like a great conference. They didn’t stream this one did they? I couldn’t find a link or any results googling some of the papers. Thanks for sharing these.

I’m not confident that “entry” distinguishes between re-entry and entry; I don’t think it does. I believe his previous proclamations had distinct, explicit carve out for existing visa holders. But obviously I’m no lawyer; just very concerned for ppl I work w/ (among many concerns).

Yeah absolutely, but I bet a lot of people didn't think this was going to be that bad. And to make matters worse, H-1B visa holders are REQUIRED to leave the country to renew their visas every few years, so right now there are likely thousands of H-1B visa holders outside the country.

Link to the White House official posting in the thread.

🚨🚨🚨🚨Without explanation, BLS has indefinitely delayed a key data release used to calculate inflation.
Annual Consumer Expenditures data is used to determine the weighting of specific goods and services in the Consumer Price Index for the year ahead. www.axios.com/2025/09/19/b...

Just going to quietly move along from this project now...

Asked ChatGPT to categorize some data it just produced for me, and got this mournful piece of existentialism back. Thanks ChatGPT!

Congratulations Max! 👏👏👏