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Geoffrey Williams

@geoffreyfw.bsky.social

Associate professor of economics at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. NB: Not actually a crested macaque.

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Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 5h ago

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Christianity has ALWAYS been a contested faith. Somehow Dems have let themselves be spooked out of the contest for 40+ years. Happy to see that seems to be changing!

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2w ago

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 3w ago

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 3w ago

the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

Scott Imberman@imbernomics.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t think I’ve ever before seen US military personnel risking their careers like this. This is very different and worrisome.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 4w ago

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're standing there w/our eyes closed getting punched in the face."

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 4w ago

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're standing there w/our eyes closed getting punched in the face."

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4w ago

New photos reveal widespread damage at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East caused by Iranian attacks. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4w ago

This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 4w ago

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

Geoffrey Williams@geoffreyfw.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s strange thinking back to that morning 25 years ago. I was in NYC and when the towers fell I was about 1.5 miles from Ground Zero. At the time I fell in with the popular view that Al Qaeda was some existential threat to the US, which seems ridiculous now. 1/2

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · last mo.

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · last mo.

These are the first three slides I show my crim 1Ls: "In L&O terms, the first half hour, from the iconic chung-chung to the blasé discovery of the body, to the jaded jokes between old and young cop to the aggressive interrogation to arrest? Not this class. That's Crim Pro 1."

Various scenes from the first 30 minutes of L&O.
Orin Kerr@orinkerr.bsky.social · last mo.

1Ls are often disappointed that Criminal Law is about the elements of crimes rather than police investigations, although this could be helped by having more cop shows about the Model Penal Code.