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I do data work at TRAC and teach English language classes on the side. My tweets are about migration, education, and sports. he/him

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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ICE Chicago Now Monitors Most Immigrants on ATD in the Country

This includes immigrants who live in ICE Chicago’s Area of Responsibility: IL, IN, WI, KY, KS, and MO.

TRAC email announcement: trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/ema...

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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As many have said, this feels exceedingly like a coach who has lost the locker room. And those situations can indeed go on for months while everyone knows it is not sustainable.

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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These 4 national elections involve countries with populations that together total ~1.8 billion people.

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Velodus's avatar Velodus @velodus.bsky.social
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When the France election results are good

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Kevin Elliott's avatar Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social
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Yay for a Labour win, but 2024 had the largest disproportionality of votes to seats in modern UK history, with 33% of the vote translating to 63% of the seats. That's bananas, & anti-democratic. The UK has a multiparty system, but it's systematically suppressed & warped by the FPTP electoral system

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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Me looking at these UK exit polls.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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The Israeli Knesset is set to pass a resolution, with support from a significant part of the opposition voting alongside the ruling government coalition, that will oppose a Palestinian state "of any nature— at any time; under any circumstances" as an "existential threat" to the State of Israel.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Soccer interval: USMNT needs to face higher level competition more frequently, replace behalter if you want but the team will remain a potted plant in concacaf without more regular matches against better teams, mexico’s decline is actually bad for them in this respect

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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The US isn't exceptional. One does not even have to look into historical archives for analogies of this kind of democratic decline. There are contemporary examples that are very illustrative.

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Big hat tip to @jbouie.bsky.social for treating uncertainties as uncertain, with both downside and upside potential, rather than what many pundits are doing: imagine a positive scenario and act as if things will smoothly go that way if only people try it.

Doesn't seem like a high bar. And yet...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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bouie is literally the only person on the NYT board who is behaving and responding to the debate like a professional that has followed and covered a presidential election. i mean that seriously, i'm not being snarky.

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Emily Farris's avatar Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social
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You know who thinks they also have the power to interpret the law and the constitution according to their own personal whims and versions of history?

County sheriffs.

We’ve got a book coming out on them but you can read some of it here: www.governing.com/magazine/unc...

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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The US needs Third Reconstruction so desperately.

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Aaron Huertas's avatar Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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The fact that it’s elected officials who think panic texting reporters is their best way to influence other people in the party also points to some deeply problematic structural issues they also don’t seem interested in addressing.

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Felipe De La Hoz's avatar Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social
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I think Trump has already said like three or four outright lies about immigration and no one has pushed back, neither Biden or the moderators

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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USMNT matching the national angst going into the debate tonight. 🫡🇺🇲

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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A little absurd to watch the ADL tepidly condemn a hate crime against Palestinian children in Texas after their president has spent nine months fear mongering by calling the keffiyeh equivalent to a swastika and insinuating that Palestinian Americans protesting the war in the US are Iranian proxies

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Osita Nwanevu's avatar Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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Turning a big dial that says "Racisme" on it

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of

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I think one reason the American right is so insane is that the only actual historical conservative tradition in this country is slavery and Jim Crow, but this can't be admitted

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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There's levels to it because the fight scenes are so exceptionally written that at the end I felt complicit for enjoying them.

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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Just finished Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Best book that I've read in a good while.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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That YouGov poll about deporting people that's currently making the rounds....it's quite depressing no matter how you slice it.

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The cardiac device community salutes that Eriksen goal 🫡🫡🫡

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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Two true things. 1. Many USians feel the effects of inflation on their personal economies. Not a small thing when grocery prices increase as they have. 2. On inflation, USians continue to have it wayyyyyy better off than residents in almost any other economy in the world.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I know this is very disappointing to some of you, but there’s really no “get one free war crime for every one the other side does to you” rule in international humanitarian law. War crimes don’t work like Subway punch cards.

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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Jasprit Bumrah is truly a match winning bowler. What a performance from India. I thought Pakistan had the two points in the bag.

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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That's probably not feasible at this time, so I will accept a compromise with every Saturday between Memorial Day and Labor Day, 10am-6pm.

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Adam Sawyer's avatar Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social
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Baltimore's Charles Street Promenade is a wonderful thing. No cars between Saratoga and North all day. I wish it were permanent, 24-7.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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THEY DID IT BY GOD THEY DID IT USA USA USA

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