Michael Macher
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US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law
www.phenomenalworld.org
I wrote about the politics of immigration (non)enforcement for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wag...
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Ah yes, the family; famously an institution free of violence and exploitation.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ah yes, the family; famously an institution free of violence and exploitation.
sometimes i think Adore is billy corgan's true masterpiece. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
sometimes i think Adore is billy corgan's true masterpiece. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.
An extremely clarifying conversation about the personal brands, professional grievances, and strange bedfellows fueling the anti-zionist right.
Confronting the Anti-Zionist Right
Jewish Currents discusses Nick Fuentes on Tucker Carlson, Norman Finkelstein on Candace Owens, and the newfound influence of the anti-Israel right.
jewishcurrents.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An extremely clarifying conversation about the personal brands, professional grievances, and strange bedfellows fueling the anti-zionist right.
The conscience of an aristopopulist.
this is shocking and low even for him, a former childhood SNAP recipient thehill.com/homenews/adm...
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The conscience of an aristopopulist.
This made me irreversibly dumber.
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This made me irreversibly dumber.
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mayor-elect mamdani immediately put former ftc chair and SUPERSTAR lina khan on his transition team :)
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
mayor-elect mamdani immediately put former ftc chair and SUPERSTAR lina khan on his transition team :)
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The willingness to use every weapon to block an agreement to reduce emissions, is another point for the theory that part of the economic base of Trumpism is a group of capital-owners who’ve decided that a rational response to climate change would involve an unacceptable loss of prerogatives.
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The willingness to use every weapon to block an agreement to reduce emissions, is another point for the theory that part of the economic base of Trumpism is a group of capital-owners who’ve decided that a rational response to climate change would involve an unacceptable loss of prerogatives.
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Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
interc.pt
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.
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I support proposals 2-4 on the NYC ballot, which would make it moderately easier adjust zoning for higher-density housing development. I have to say, seeing how controversial this is among people I know is giving me some new sympathy for the angry YIMBYs online.
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I support proposals 2-4 on the NYC ballot, which would make it moderately easier adjust zoning for higher-density housing development. I have to say, seeing how controversial this is among people I know is giving me some new sympathy for the angry YIMBYs online.
i've seen enough. curtis sliwa is nyc's next mayor.
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
i've seen enough. curtis sliwa is nyc's next mayor.
"On ‘1000 Deaths’ he mumbles a hard-to-hear line and then says: ‘Y’all know what I’m saying?’ Yes. Maybe? But enunciation only does part of the work of communicating. Transmitting feeling is a different job."
Niela Orr | Come closer
D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with him...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"On ‘1000 Deaths’ he mumbles a hard-to-hear line and then says: ‘Y’all know what I’m saying?’ Yes. Maybe? But enunciation only does part of the work of communicating. Transmitting feeling is a different job."
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
"...unlike his Austrian predecessor, who had a tragic understanding of economic history...Aghion has no theory of capitalism. Despite the sophistication of his models, his empirical data has led him to an intellectual impasse."
Cédric Durand, Neo-Schumpeterian — Sidecar
On Philippe Aghion.
newleftreview.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"...unlike his Austrian predecessor, who had a tragic understanding of economic history...Aghion has no theory of capitalism. Despite the sophistication of his models, his empirical data has led him to an intellectual impasse."
Circa 2022. Still not surpassed.
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Circa 2022. Still not surpassed.
this is how literally half the kids at my (texas) high school talked. it's always been this way - and this is the status quo they are fighting to preserve.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
this is how literally half the kids at my (texas) high school talked. it's always been this way - and this is the status quo they are fighting to preserve.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
"Content marketing" is the editorial mood of fascism par excellence.
October 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Content marketing" is the editorial mood of fascism par excellence.
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these quotes are from the 1880s!
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
these quotes are from the 1880s!
China: we will fund a world-historic energy transition.
United States: our robots will find new ways to get you off.
United States: our robots will find new ways to get you off.
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
China: we will fund a world-historic energy transition.
United States: our robots will find new ways to get you off.
United States: our robots will find new ways to get you off.
Some incredible details in this profile of the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been playing "a game of chicken with the regime" since 2010.
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Some incredible details in this profile of the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been playing "a game of chicken with the regime" since 2010.
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
Business owners have always been the driving force behind pro-immigration policy. But they have also been more than willing to bargain away the rights of noncitizens to secure their labor.
We need a new coalition that sees noncitizens as workers/allies deserving of fair treatment and citizenship.
We need a new coalition that sees noncitizens as workers/allies deserving of fair treatment and citizenship.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."
October 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Business owners have always been the driving force behind pro-immigration policy. But they have also been more than willing to bargain away the rights of noncitizens to secure their labor.
We need a new coalition that sees noncitizens as workers/allies deserving of fair treatment and citizenship.
We need a new coalition that sees noncitizens as workers/allies deserving of fair treatment and citizenship.
Trust the process.
BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Trust the process.
"In other words, people do not join organizations, support them, or adopt their political positions, symbology, and general dispositions en masse because they agree with them. They do so because these organizations exhibit competency and strength of spirit."
Theory of the Party • Ill Will
Phil A. Neel on the invariant features of communist revolutionary organization.
illwill.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"In other words, people do not join organizations, support them, or adopt their political positions, symbology, and general dispositions en masse because they agree with them. They do so because these organizations exhibit competency and strength of spirit."
Trump admin is refusing backpay to furloughed federal workers while insulating DHS from the worst effects of the shutdown.
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Trump admin is refusing backpay to furloughed federal workers while insulating DHS from the worst effects of the shutdown.