Vic Vaiana
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
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i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker
The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker
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It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.
August 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
You’re kidding.
June 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
You’re kidding.
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Bibi’s strategy is basically to neuter the possibility of a peer adversary ever existing in their neighborhood
June 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Bibi’s strategy is basically to neuter the possibility of a peer adversary ever existing in their neighborhood
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Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims
June 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims
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Reminder that none of this would've been possible if not for the neocons manipulating Trump's hatred of Obama to kill the JCPOA. From there, safeguards became unconstrained enrichment and all the scary things they're trotting out became possible.
Be careful buying what these guys are still selling.
Be careful buying what these guys are still selling.
June 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Reminder that none of this would've been possible if not for the neocons manipulating Trump's hatred of Obama to kill the JCPOA. From there, safeguards became unconstrained enrichment and all the scary things they're trotting out became possible.
Be careful buying what these guys are still selling.
Be careful buying what these guys are still selling.
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Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."
June 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."
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Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
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holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…
guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant
guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…
guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant
guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant
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I know my pet issue is not universal etc but it’s actually insane to me how little of the anti-Cuomo campaigning addresses the years he spent conspiring with Republicans to deprive New Yorkers of the legislature they elected en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indepen...
Independent Democratic Conference - Wikipedia
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June 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I know my pet issue is not universal etc but it’s actually insane to me how little of the anti-Cuomo campaigning addresses the years he spent conspiring with Republicans to deprive New Yorkers of the legislature they elected en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indepen...
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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the republicans hate the crowning achievements of their party: the destruction of chattel slaver and the reconstruction amendments
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
the republicans hate the crowning achievements of their party: the destruction of chattel slaver and the reconstruction amendments
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Had lunch with my parents and they asked why we're going after Iran now, of all times, and I reminded them how last Thursday the media coverage was nothing except crimes by ICE and devastation in Palestine.
June 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Had lunch with my parents and they asked why we're going after Iran now, of all times, and I reminded them how last Thursday the media coverage was nothing except crimes by ICE and devastation in Palestine.
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"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
June 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
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This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”
June 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”
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Lander is on the hustle so hard he canvassed the ICE agents who arrested him
Lander tells supporters gathered in Foley Square that the ICE agents who detained him today are among the 40% of 8+ million NYers who are foreign-born
“One of whom is a Pakistani Muslim who lives in Brighton Beach — and the other, an Indo-Guyanese guy in South Ozone Park”
“One of whom is a Pakistani Muslim who lives in Brighton Beach — and the other, an Indo-Guyanese guy in South Ozone Park”
June 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Lander is on the hustle so hard he canvassed the ICE agents who arrested him
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This is how you actually do it. Create a schism between the cops and ICE. Who's really in charge? The answer is neither of them. The people and the courts are in charge, so let them figure this out with each other. Secret police are no one's allies.
"You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens who are asking to see a judicial warrant."
NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander being arrested *along with a member of his NYPD security team* by ICE.
NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander being arrested *along with a member of his NYPD security team* by ICE.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is how you actually do it. Create a schism between the cops and ICE. Who's really in charge? The answer is neither of them. The people and the courts are in charge, so let them figure this out with each other. Secret police are no one's allies.
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what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court
New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.
apnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
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A week after 75 Dems vote for a resolution expressing gratitude toward ICE in a resolution that pretended to be about antisemitism, ICE goons arrest the Jewish comptroller of NYC without cause.
June 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A week after 75 Dems vote for a resolution expressing gratitude toward ICE in a resolution that pretended to be about antisemitism, ICE goons arrest the Jewish comptroller of NYC without cause.
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John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter.
www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...
www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...
Sen. John Hoffman and his wife say they are “incredibly lucky to be alive”
The two were shot multiple times by a would-be assassin at their Champlin home early Saturday morning.
www.startribune.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter.
www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...
www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...
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Brennan is just wrong here. Lazy journalism based on assumptions, old data, and misinformation. Shows you how much damage certain high-profile pundits can do to the information environment.
It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...
It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...
June 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Brennan is just wrong here. Lazy journalism based on assumptions, old data, and misinformation. Shows you how much damage certain high-profile pundits can do to the information environment.
It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...
It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...
