California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind the numbers, including families navigating Medi-Cal amid immigration raids and looming benefit cuts.

California nearly achieved universal healthcare. Now, millions are losing coverage

California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind…

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26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

None of the Burke Law Group’s lawyers list immigration law as an area of expertise, per the firm’s website.

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A key read from @attackerman.bsky.social on US strikes and their larger context in Somalia. A war that, as I note in the piece, really deserved more public attention and scrutiny. zeteo.com/p/why-is-no-...

Why Is No One Talking About the ‘New War’ Trump Is Waging in Somalia?

While the administration hounds Somali immigrants at home, it’s pummeling Somalia with an ‘unprecedented’ volume of airstrikes, but you might not know it given the silence from our media and Congress.

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Child throws caution on the Santa story but sees promise in Tooth Fairy

Nicaragua's elections have been strictly controlled by the regime for a decade now, but that's clearly not enough for Ortega and Murillo as they seek to further solidify their grip on power amid questions about whether/when Murillo might become the sole president confidencial.digital/en/english/d...

Daniel Ortega: "There Will Never Be Elections Here Again"

Daniel Ortega announces a "wall" of laws in Nicaragua "to ensure that coup plotters and traitors can never return to power"

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Today, July 6, is the submission deadline for ISA-APSA International Security Studies Conference! We welcome paper, panel, roundtable, & author-meets-critics submissions from across security studies www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are delighted to announce that the 2026 ISA/APSA International Security Studies Conference will take place 3-5 October 2026, at the UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles, CA. Proposals are due 6 July 2026. buff.ly/kV51kIW

From me, overnight: A politician who was part of a European Parliament committee tasked with investigating spyware abuses had his own phone hacked with Pegasus spyware. Stelios Kouloglou told me the hacking was "reckless" and likely due to his work. He plans to sue NSO, which develops Pegasus.

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware | TechCrunch

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyw...

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Reminder that submissions for the ISA-APSA International Security Conference in LA are open until July 6! More info here www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are delighted to announce that the 2026 ISA/APSA International Security Studies Conference will take place 3-5 October 2026, at the UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles, CA. Proposals are due 6 July 2026. buff.ly/kV51kIW

From late 2021 to 2025, thousands of migrants from around the world traveled to Nicaragua to head north toward the US. Alena Shalaby & I argue in a new article that this was part of a state strategy to generate new revenues amid economic turmoil & sanctions academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

Transit migration entrepreneurship: Explaining Nicaragua’s state-controlled, profit-seeking transit migration industry

Abstract. How and why do governments develop profit-seeking migration industries around transit migration? Restrictive international migration policies, su

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Today @aeon.co published me an essay I wrote with the main insight of my research: The violence specialists. They are workers workers in a trade, regardless of it’s legality. They can be gangsters or soldiers. And there are aspects that makes this occupation attractive. aeon.co/essays/organ...

📣 The call for proposals is out for the 2026 ISA/APSA International Security Studies Conference! Please share widely and plan to join us at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles, October 3–5, 2026.

International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are delighted to announce that the 2026 ISA/APSA International Security Studies Conference will take place 3-5 October 2026, at the UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles, CA. Proposals are due 6 July 2026. buff.ly/kV51kIW

The call is open for 2026's ISA-APSA International Security Studies Conference in Los Angeles October 3-5 at the excellent UCLA Luskin Center conference center/hotel. Submissions open through July 6, & Bridget Coggins & I welcome proposals across security fields/topics www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

EXLCUSIVE: An analysis by two MIT researchers shows how Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile actually works. And guys, it's not pretty. 🚀☢️🤢🧵 www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...

Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."

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Gotta read this. So good.

Knicks Give Their City Something New: Impossible Joy

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The US recently expanded sanctions on Nicaraguan officials, but I argue in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs that a major US pressure campaign like in Venezuela & Cuba remains unlikely, w/Nicaragua a lower political & economic priority gjia.georgetown.edu/conflict-sec...

Next in Line, or Dodging the Bullet? Regime Survival in Nicaragua amid US Pressure - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Is Nicaragua Next? After the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026 and with the United States under the Trump administration blockading Cuba and demanding new leadership and e...

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This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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Just days after Nicaragua's dictatorial regime finally gave 'proof of life' for a hospitalized, emaciated Brooklyn Rivera, imprisoned since 2023, he's become the latest political prisoner to die in custody confidencial.digital/nacion/dicta...

Dictadura tarda 15 horas en confirmar muerte de Brooklyn Rivera

El líder miskitu y presidente nacional del partido indígena Yatama, Brooklyn Rivera Bryan, falleció el 30 de mayo de 2026 a las 8:30 de la noche, a los 73 años, tras más de 970 días de encierro ilegal

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Nicaragua's dictatorship was constantly asked since 2023 to provide proof of life for Miskito leader & politician Brooklyn Rivera. They finally did, but he appears to be dying, continuing a pattern of political prisoners' health rapidly deteriorating in custody confidencial.digital/en/english/p...

Political Prisoner Brooklyn Rivera: Emaciated and Confined to a Hospital Bed

The Indigenous Miskito leader, Brooklyn Rivera, was arbitrarily detained on September 29, 2023, and the dictatorship had refused to provide any information about his whereabouts

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MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Basic story: 1) Rs drew a +10 Trump seat in South Texas. 2) In the high-turnout primary, a plurality of Dems voted for Galindo, a crank who only raised $10k; Johnny Garcia, who raised $330k, got 2nd runoff spot. 3) Rs saw chance to lock up runoff for Galindo w a now $1 million PAC buy

Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a funny drama on X right now where Republicans are demanding Dems condemn Galindo and they're all like - yes! We have! She's only in the race bc a secretive pop-up GOP PAC ("Lead Left") keeps running ads about how progressive she is!

I wrote an entire 34 page law review article about why the US should limit support for armed groups, and @theonion.com just made the case more clearly in a couple hundred words theonion.com/cia-under-fi...

CIA Under Fire For Arming Group Of Rowdy 7-Year-Olds

LANGLEY, VA—In the wake of an operation condemned by critics as a reckless provocation that fails to heed the lessons of history, the Central Intelligence Agency came under fire Friday for arming a gr...

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Illuminating, depressing, and excellent essay on the exploitative, manipulative world of data annotation gig work for AI training

WIRED@wired.com · 3mo ago

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

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We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/articles/aft...

Very proud of my friend @donforohio.bsky.social for winning the Democratic primary for Ohio's 15th Congressional District! He'll be continuing to fight to make Congress do its job to protect the rights & interests of people in Ohio, the US, & abroad apnews.com/projects/ele...

2026 Ohio U.S. House Primary Election Live Results

Live results for the May 5, 2026 Ohio U.S. House primary. Track election results with real-time vote counts, county-level maps and race calls from AP.

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The United States government has just quietly terminated its program to support international students whose home countries are in crisis such as war. This program rightly had bipartisan support. It was a humane way to protect the best & brightest kids who are investing their future in America.

“The decision to close the program..is a story of administrators trying to navigate Trump administration & its crackdown on immigrants. During the past 3 decades, the program has treated more than 10,000 patients who arrived in the US after having fled persecution” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/n...

They Survived Torture. Why Is the Program That Helped Them Closing?

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New article: Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones meets James Scott’s legibility It’s actually about how states tapped archaeologists for early intelligence capabilities Check it out! “History, archeology, and espionage as improvised legibility” in @ejir.bsky.social coauthored with @asaxton.bsky.social

Adam Saxton@asaxton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to announce the publication of my first peer reviewed academic article at EJIR! Co-authored with @carsonaust.bsky.social and available @ejir.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... See a quick summary below!

BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman — the role Congress created to protect the military paper's editorial independence — after she publicly criticized the DOD's overhaul of the publication. w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon fires ombudsman overseeing military newspaper after calling it ‘woke’

Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith said the Defense Department dismissed her without giving a reason, according to an email reviewed by The Post.

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Ama y No Olvida: El museo que rescata la verdad frente a la impunidad en Nicaragua

Familiares de las víctimas preservan la memoria de abril de 2018, un pilar fundamental para la lucha por justicia en Nicaragua

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