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Mark Regets @markregets.bsky.social · 6d

You are definitely a "The Bulwark" type of person. (Yes, that is a compliment.)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Mark Regets @markregets.bsky.social · 12d

The statistics for different periods have been shown in several NSF pubs

Regets MC. "Research Issues in the International Migration of Highly Skilled Workers: A Perspective with Data from the United States". SRS 07-203, National Science Foundation, 2007
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Pseudonym of a boring policy wonk by day @neveltenjohn.bsky.social · 13d

Since people on both Bluesky and X are posting selected excerpts from the Coates/Klein discussion (and using them to attack either one person or the other), I thought I would post the full unlocked gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Regets @markregets.bsky.social · 13d

NSF/NCSES has matchable longitudinal data on graduate student enrollment for each campus/field combination. Not only is an additional foreign student associated with more US-born students, but the positive effect is strongest for US-born ethnic minorities.

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Mark Regets @markregets.bsky.social · 17d

Over the long-term it might not be in the national interest to favor older scientists and engineers over younger, even if they are initially paid more.

Also, while the option is not currently politically viable, it would make more sense to expand quotas—we are rationing for an artificial scarcity.

National Foundation for American Policy @nfapresearch.bsky.social · 18d

A Trump admin rule to change the H-1B lottery, like other changes, hopes to make it more difficult for international students to stay in the US and work after graduation. Officials are telling employers to hire based on seniority. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Trump Immigration Rule Shifts H-1B Lottery To Favor Older Visa Holders

The Trump administration has proposed a new immigration rule to change the H-1B selection process to favor people in senior positions.

www.forbes.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 20d

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Pseudonym of a boring policy wonk by day @neveltenjohn.bsky.social · 24d

I know it seems bizzare, but Kimmel being removed under FCC pressure is a bigger threat to America's survival as a free country than the troops on DC's streets.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 24d

A good one for this crowd

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Pseudonym of a boring policy wonk by day @neveltenjohn.bsky.social · 25d

Contrary to Trump/Vance rhetoric, illegal drugs are the ONLY thing foreign-made they are NOT trying to keep out of the US.

Prices on cocaine are falling while coffee and vegetable prices surge.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 25d

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been.

Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said.

Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28d

American Constitutional institutions are cracking. Conservatives and Liberals need those institutions, and we must save them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28d

So to paraphrase, “The administration egregiously broke the law and did harm to people, but we judges don’t have the power to punish them. Nor do we have the power to make the victims whole. Also, we can’t stop them from continuing to break the law.”

There are no checks or balances. Not anymore.

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28d

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

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New Dems @newdems.bsky.social · Sep 12

It's no secret our immigration system needs fixing.

That's why New Dems built a framework for securing our borders & reforming our immigration system—and we'll work with anyone to put it into practice.

New Dem chair @repschneider.bsky.social explains ⬇️

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29d

Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Sep 12

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · Sep 11

In a period roughly coinciding with the federal takeover of DC, ICE arrested 943 immigrants in DC, making up about 40% of the overall more than 2,300 arrests. Data from a subset of those cases suggest only a minority (22% in that sample) of the immigrants arrested had any criminal record.

Over 40% of arrests in Trump's DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds

President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as a crime-fighting effort.

apnews.com

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