David Rosnick

@rosnick.bsky.social

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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)

Most likely to understand you if you refer to me with he/him; feel free to go with they if that helps; won’t be offended but if you pick she/her you’re likely adding noise to the signal .. more

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · Apr 9

New from Francisco Rodríguez, myself, and Giancarlo Bravo:

That recent counter-intuitive @cgdev.org piece by Bahar and Hausmann suffers fatal flaws, starting with a Stata programming error. We fall back on the intuitive conclusion that U.S. economic conditions drive encounters at the border

Do Venezuelan Oil Revenues Drive Migration to the US? A Reappraisal of the Bahar and Hausmann Results

We show that their results are driven by a flawed empirical specification that appears to be the result of a coding error.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 20h

Legally, am I permitted to enter someone else’s home with a note from glam metal band Warrant?

David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno. I devoured it up to anything new but Geez Louise is it ever packed with pro-GOP partisan propaganda

David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 2d

Deduction for not trimming your list but… Hell yes

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

I've finally gotten around to reading Palo Alto which, well, i think it could have used some editing, but it's a really useful cultural history for how we ended up in this moment and what particular threads we have to unknot - whiteness, eugenics, imperialism - to escape it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

We absolutely messed up as a society when our government started blowing enormous amounts of smoke up the asses of tech bros.

Now we’ve got all these weird nerd CEOs ceaselessly bragging about how they’re going to take everybody’s jobs, then acting genuinely confused when people hate them for it.

David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 2d

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers

The Breeders
Concrete Blonde
The Go-Go’s
Liz Phair
Sleater-Kinney

The Puck Hag @thepuckhag.bsky.social · 2d

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers

Siouxsie & the Banshees
Elastica
Belly
Lush
The Last Dinner Party

Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers

Go-Go’s
The Pretenders
Poe
Veruca Salt
Shelia E

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 2d

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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The Puck Hag @thepuckhag.bsky.social · 2d

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers

Siouxsie & the Banshees
Elastica
Belly
Lush
The Last Dinner Party

Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers

Go-Go’s
The Pretenders
Poe
Veruca Salt
Shelia E

Matthew @sosayweall7.bsky.social · 2d

Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers

Sleater-Kinney
Sonic Youth
Laura Marano
B-52's
En Vogue (only one song 😭)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

Q: Why's the Supreme Court reluctant to let Trump fire Lisa Cook from the Fed when it has greenlit so many other illegal firings?

A: The other firings were at agencies charged with protecting workers and consumers. The Fed is charged with protecting the economy
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

John Roberts Does Not Want Trump Messing With His Money

The conservative justices have shown a willingness to let Trump do almost anything he wants. But not when their investment accounts are at stake.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 2d

Congress must put an end to it before Miller gets the “martyr” he wants so badly

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

absolutely

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.

“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

DHS: Today, Border Patrol agents who were in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as part of a targeted enforcement operation were repeatedly harassed and blocked by hostile crowds while simply trying to take bathroom breaks.
At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving, creating unsafe conditions. At one stop, individuals in the crowd threw food at the agents. At their final gas station stop, someone spit on an agent. When an agent moved to detain the person who spit on him, the crowed tackled and attacked the agents while surrounding them.
To safely clear the area agents had to use crowd control measures to disperse the hostile crowd.
4:47PM • 1/21/26 • 1.3K Views

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just a simple country lawyer but this whole "you can only read the memo in front of supervisors and you can't take notes on it and don't tell anyone" doesn't sound like the behavior of an administration that believes it's behaving in the right!

The memo is addressed to all ICE personnel. But it has been shown only to “select DHS officials” who then shared it with some employees who were told to read it and return it, Whistleblower Aid wrote in the disclosure.

One of the two whistleblowers was allowed to view the memo only in the presence of a supervisor and then had to give it back. That person was not allowed to take notes. A whistleblower was able to access the document and lawfully disclose to Congress, Whistleblower Aid said.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.

Ruben Gallego
@RubenGallego
Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money.

It’s no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government.
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BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

absolutely

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 2d

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Horst Wessel - Wikipedia

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

the "americans will be pariahs when they travel!!" discourse is so funny. 1) we deserve it, 2) people in other countries (excluding, say, large parts of Iraq) are in reality pretty chill about americans, great satan or no

David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3d

No funding for Proud Boys!

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Staring at a five-alarm fire, Democrats work up a good mouthful of spit.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Democrats Support Bill That Would Give ICE $10 Billion

The party has few good options for restraining ICE, which is flush with cash thanks to the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

www.huffpost.com

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 3d

"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”

Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 3d

A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...

Minn. man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after ICE arrest

Alberto Castaneda Mondragon, who is in ICE custody while hospitalized at Hennepin County Medical Center, alleges in a lawsuit that federal agents are interfering in his medical care and that he was so...

sahanjournal.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Staring at a five-alarm fire, Democrats work up a good mouthful of spit.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Democrats Support Bill That Would Give ICE $10 Billion

The party has few good options for restraining ICE, which is flush with cash thanks to the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

www.huffpost.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority”

He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

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Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 4d

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools