Michael Jones-Correa
@mjonescorrea.bsky.social
Political scientist at UPenn: immigrants and politics, cities, and other things.
Forty-nine of 50 states do not provide lifetime appointments for their state supreme court justices. No one should hold power for life. We're urging state legislatures to call on Congress to pass Supreme Court term limits. bit.ly/3Tdzl7e
Model State Resolution Urging 18-Year Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
State lawmakers should call on Congress to enact Supreme Court term limits.
bit.ly
“the small desert state has spread investment, influence and military hardware across Africa with dizzying speed in a bid to harness trade and resources for its post-oil future.”
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · yesterdayFT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...
FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...
Great blog post discussing the question if university is still worth your time. As a protection against unemployment a university degree still works like a charm. Source: blog.waldrn.com/p/the-colleg...
The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social is seeking motivated New Yorkers to serve as field interviewers on the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey. recruit.isr.umich.edu/jobs/658306-...
Field Interviewer New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey August 2026 - The University of Michigan
If you have not yet done so please read the full description by clicking on the (v). You are encouraged to apply, regardless of your current work assignment.
recruit.isr.umich.edu
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 16h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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.
dlvr.it
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
This is a great program. We've had AAAS fellows on our staff for several years. Great opportunity for them and great for Congress to have their expertise.
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4d agoThe application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
"Enrollment data posted on archives of Illinois Tech’s website show a loss of approximately 1,200 international graduate students between the fall of 2024 and 2025 — a significant decline for a school that enrolled 7,500 students overall last year."
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d agotoday in demolishing higher ed is economic sabotage, bonus racism 160 workers fired because regime hates international students www.wbez.org/education/20...
"Our traffic fatality rate of 9.04 deaths per 100,000 residents is triple New York’s 2.86 and roughly double Washington’s 4.73. The next closest city, Chicago, came in at 7.15." www.inquirer.com/opinion/adam...
Despite good intentions from the city, Philly’s streets remain deadlier than those in New York and Chicago | Shackamaxon
Plus: The mayor loses two key staffers, smoking on SEPTA is ubiquitous, and the Sixers welcome the King.
inquirer.com
The future of mass deportation is small-town America. Check out little Mount Holly Springs, Pa. - just 2,300 people, 4 cops, and a whopping 32 immigrants handed to ICE in just 4 mos. after a 287(g) deal with the feds:
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 6d agoGoodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
Surveillance powers rarely stay confined to their original purpose. Recent reporting suggests DHS has expanded its surveillance of protesters despite policies intended to protect First Amendment activity. Read and share our latest report from @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social and Matthew Ruppert. 10/
DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools
Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.
brennancenter.org
A map of Earth’s underground fungi network, estimated to be “110 quadrillion kilometers less than 10 centimeters underground.”
Map — A hidden infrastructure
Interactive global map of mycorrhizal fungal hyphal density — the underground networks beneath our feet.
a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth
Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism
It’s all there in a new CNN poll, and it’s heartening to see: Large majorities are sick of Donald Trump’s vanity, venality, and megalomania.
newrepublic.com
Laser focused on reducing the cost of living, from day one.
I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
fortune.com
300k+ Haitian TPS holders face losing status and immigration enforcement actions. Terminating TPS will have massive economic consequences beyond the human impact on families and communities.
Racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter mean that the candidate pipeline of young Black and Latino Americans to run for office in the US is fuller than ever, find @nazita.bsky.social, Moa Mårtensson and Kåre Vernby on @lseusablog.bsky.social.
Racial justice movements mean that the candidate pipeline of young Black and Latino Americans is fuller than ever | LSE United States Politics and Policy
Black and Latino Americans, especially those who are Gen Z, are more likely than white Americans to want to run for office.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars
Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress
The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.
thebulwark.com
There should be no doubt: What we are witnessing in West Bank is a sustained ethnic-cleansing campaign that exploits every incident to escalate, as the world is preoccupied with the threat of economic ruin from another war initiated by Israel and the US. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
Israeli settlers burn, vandalize two mosques in West Bank, reports say
Palestinian reports said heavy damage was caused to a mosque in Qusra, where settlers also vandalized and stole property from residents; footage and reports also showed settlers setting fires to farml...
haaretz.com
at $3500 a month this is 3.5 years of rent
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w agoWow: The National Guard has signed a $292 million contract to house thousands of troops deployed to D.C. in 2,000 apartments in the city, instead of in hotels or other places where they've been put up. www.notus.org/defense/nati...
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
This should be truly shocking, but unfortunately isn't.
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
I eat a lot of blueberries, which happen to be the fruit grown most where I live: Georgia. Every time I reached for berries in my fridge, I struggled with the disconnect between the problems on America’s farms and the limited awareness of those problems in most households.
Millions of people are taking DNA ancestry tests to learn about who they are. However, people actively interpret, accept, or reject what the data says based on lived experience and social meaning. Wendy Roth’s research shows the results don’t determine identity. youtu.be/X4eJ9dC7_EA?...
Race, Identity, and Genetic Testing | Wendy Roth RSF Visiting Scholar
YouTube video by Russell Sage Foundation
youtu.be
