Quotas all but ensure that ICE will detain US citizens while groping in the dark for undocumented immigrants. During the election period. This is voter intimidation.

Me on the collapse of the government’s efforts to use laundered torture in the remain (9/11 and USS Cole) military commission trials 👇👇👇

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Not sure knocking $0.20 off a gallon is going to be politically (or economically) meaningful when it's up a $1.60 per gallon since before the Iran War.

Guy watched an RNC rerun and thought, "you know, that Clint Eastwood is on to something."

fighting has erupted in northern Ethiopia again. Reports of a drone strike by the Ethiopian federal government on a CRS relief convoy. Reports of clashes along Tigray-Afar border. Tigrayan forces have taken the Mekelle airport, flight suspended.

Remembering Gore Vidal on his birthday 🎂 📷 Leonard McCombe, 1960 "There is not one human problem that could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

Oh look, yet more of the GWOT comes home. No one could have predicted….

All to say the consequences of this expulsion of international students won’t just weaken this country’s higher ed, or industry, or research & development—it will also deprive and impoverish its own children and diminish their ability to understand the world

I grew up in a small college town in Arkansas that was phenomenally and artificially diverse because of international graduate students. It’s impossible to overstate how formative that early exposure was for me.