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Michael Clemens
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Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CEPR, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively.

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Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist who studies international migration and global economic development.

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Economics 40%
Sociology 24%
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Migration does not have to be what it is now

Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected

In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships

The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

Transmitting from 180,000 miles away, #Apollo8 astronaut Jim Lovell speaks to the world on December 26, 1968: “What I keep imagining is, if I'm some lonely traveler from another planet, what I’d think about the Earth at this altitude, whether I’d think it'd be inhabited or not.”
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Yes, this is a real, official statement by the US government.

x.com/DHSgov/statu...
Homeland Security on X: "Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior. https://t.co/SDYujiojXS" / X
Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior. https://t.co/SDYujiojXS
x.com

Is there any part of the ‘America’ it addresses that does not accept the Dept.’s Savior?

Or are Americans required by definition to accept its Savior?

If they are not, what and who constitute the ‘America’ the Dept. is addressing?

What criteria does the Dept. use in order to determine that it is blessed to share a nation only with those who share its Savior?

Is there anything else about Jewish Americans that makes them—in the Dept.’s view—unworthy of sharing the Dept.’s nation? Or is it simply the fact that they are Jewish?

Is the Dept. certain that no Jewish Americans, who do not share its Savior, work at the Dept. of Homeland Security?

If any do, why does the Dept. use ‘we’ exclusively to describe those who accept its Savior?

Reposted by David R. Miller

I would like some clarification from the people in control of our Dept. of Homeland Security.

Do people who do not share the Dept.’s Savior also share its nation? If not, what nation do they belong to?

Is the Dept. blessed to share its nation with Jewish Americans who do not share its Savior?

By Zach Kanin

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

Outdated laws give presidents sweeping power to use the military at home to suppress protests and make mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval. Congress must repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close the loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN
Outdated and Dangerous
Antiquated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home to quash protests and order mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval.
www.brennancenter.org

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"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼

Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.

Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

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DHS has published its final rule to change the H-1B lottery to favor people in senior positions. By disadvantaging international students in the H-1B selection process, the rule achieves a longtime goal of Stephen Miller. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
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The US Administration has chosen to obliterate huge swathes of our scientific research.

That decision will kill Americans.

Conservative Americans and Liberal Americans.
"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

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"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu

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We have a key election in the United States in 2026.

The richest man on earth is spending his time blasting garbage conspiracy theories about the 2020 election — which have been universally thrown out of court — to tens of millions of the gullible.

Ask yourself what he’s preparing them for.
Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime.

Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.
Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime.

Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

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... Now @worldbank001.bsky.social economists should draw lessons on the prerequisites for effective IP from the East Asian countries' success -- tech education; formal business-govt fora; postal savings equivalent for digital era; a well-paid civil service, more.....
The great @nbirdsall.bsky.social has a new paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social

She asks how the lessons of the monumental 'East Asian Miracle' report hold up 32 years later.

Was it too skeptical of industrial policy, which is now back in fashion? No, for *most* countries—>

doi.org/10.1257/jep....

Looks like the home ‘education’ continues to present.

Moderator: Where do you get your political news from?

“Jeffrey Dahmer had some great points about the importance of a high-protein diet, if you can just stop obsessing about the other stuff and really *listen* to him”

…is a level of critical thinking that these pathetic, brain-cooked kids arrived at after 18+ years of education. Sickening.

Thank you for remembering. Sages have always understood that memory is power, which is why autocrats try to erase the greatest crimes. You make all of humanity better and more powerful simply by remembering.

"strong leadership values" …

"I feel like we should do that in America" …

"I understood where he was coming from" …

Every single moment of their education failed. If education cannot empower you to minimally defend yourself against this unspeakable poison, I struggle to see its value.

I am unspeakably angry at every online antisemitic monster who poisoned these shockingly gullible kids' brains.

Here is a photograph of one relatively small mass grave at Bergen-Belsen, where Anne Frank was murdered.

I would like these American kids to stand at the edge of that pit and smell it.
This is a focus group of Gen Z Republicans in the United States of America. Now.

They get their news only from social media/podcasts, and they express warm sympathy for Adolf Hitler and for (Nazi) Nick Fuentes.

Fascism will destroy their future.

www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

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That is not the name of this institution.

Its name was fixed by our Congress, in law, and that law has not been repealed or struck down.

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Dictatorial contempt for United States law will harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

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The great @nbirdsall.bsky.social has a new paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social

She asks how the lessons of the monumental 'East Asian Miracle' report hold up 32 years later.

Was it too skeptical of industrial policy, which is now back in fashion? No, for *most* countries—>

doi.org/10.1257/jep....
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center: