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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Different location, same work -- predicting local level job loss impacts of ICE from a coffee shop in New Orleans

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thrilled to be organizing this conference with Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, & @julia-turner.bsky.social, thanks to generous support from Ascendium! Send us any & all work on CCs! Descriptive, mixed methods, & interdisciplinary research encouraged. 🥳

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did a big dive to see if I could literally find any labor market variable that was better for native-born workers now than it was in 2024, and couldn't find anything. And, well, nothing. Here are the ten biggest misses, but there's so many more. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/can-we-fin...

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Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?

Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The vast majority denied SNAP are denied for procedural reasons. Even 4 in 10 of those with NO INCOME in the previous year are denied, with 80% of those denied for *procedural reasons*, or, effectively, missing paperwork. And The One Big Beautiful Bill is making this so much worse.

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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 Responding to some FAQs about our postdoc position🚨 1) The official close date is 1/4/27. Apps submitted until then will receive full consideration (unless filled earlier). 2) We anticipate a spring 2027 start date Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505 cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social

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PostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's particularly concerning that administrative burdens remove eligible people from SNAP in light of several provisions of HR 1 that increase these burdens and reduce funding for assistance to help people navigate these burdens

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apply to work for Caitlin Patler and me on immigration policy research! We are looking for a post-doc and details below! Please share widely!

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@chloeneast.bsky.social and @caitlinpatler.bsky.social are hiring a post-doc at Berkeley. Fantastic opportunity for up-and-coming researchers interested in studying the impact of the anti-immigration agenda and doing impactful research with great mentors. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505

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PostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Implications of this is immigrants are only worth what they can produce in the labor market This is why I hate talking about the “economic/fiscal value” of immigrants separate from inherent value as humans. Working to unlearn this narrative that many economists, including myself, have fallen into

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The professionally coolest part of my vacation was purely by coincidence sitting across from a local French economics professor on the train! We chatted all about the differences (free tuition!) and similarities (budget crunch!) between the state of higher ed in France vs. the US

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The semester starts next week but mentally I'm still on a boat in the south of France and plan to carry these vibes into this academic year as much as possible.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Natalie Newman recorded the 1st day of destruction in Big Bend National Park, an unspoiled bit of paradise along the Texas-Mexico border. A site for a rusting monument to our national xenophobia right through 800,000 acres of vibrant desert ecosystem. Clear the javelinas so we can build a wall.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 05/08/2026

You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...

Instead of spending
$1,760,726,880
or $4,810 per taxpayer on mass deportations, Fulton County taxpayers could fund
6,267
School Teachers
OR
9,244
Firefighters
OR
123,855
People on Medicaid
OR
40,835
Veterans' Medical Care
OR
52,817
Head Start Slots
OR
5,007
Registered Nurses

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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Grateful to @newsweek.com for covering our new research on ICE arrests in @pnas.org (with @chloeneast.bsky.social & Ellie Cox).

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

hope this chart helps more people see where we've been and why we need to fully abolish ICE, not just reform and rebrand it

"Line chart titled 'Total Arrests and Criminal Conviction Status 2015-2025,' showing ICE arrest data from October 2015 to October 2025. Two lines are plotted against dates (Sep 2015 to Sep 2025) on the x-axis: a solid black line for 'Total Arrests' (left y-axis, 0-1200) and a dashed green line for 'Percent of Arrested People with Criminal Convictions' (right y-axis, 0-90%). Three vertical red dashed lines mark inauguration dates: Trump's First Inauguration (around Jan 2017), Biden's Inauguration (around Jan 2021), and Trump's Second Inauguration (around Jan 2025). Total arrests hover around 250-350 from 2015 through 2020, drop sharply to under 100 after Biden's inauguration, rise gradually through 2021-2023, jump substantially in late 2023, dip again in 2024, then spike sharply to around 1000+ after Trump's second inauguration in 2025. The percent convicted of a crime starts near 85% in 2015, declines gradually to around 60% by 2020, drops further to about 20-30% during 2021-2022, rises back to 50-60% by 2023-2024, then falls again to around 30% by late 2025. A note states the data comes from the Deportation Data Project, with criminal conviction data unavailable before October 2015 and arrest data unavailable before October 2011."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Although arrests spiked at the outset of both Trump presidencies, the share of arrested individuals with criminal convictions fell significantly... A shift in ICE tactics partly explains this pattern, but even conditional on tactic, the share with a criminal conviction declined as arrests rose."

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Our results show a fundamental mismatch between the justifications for intensified immigration enforcement & the empirical patterns of that enforcement’s implementation." This valuable study puts so many communities' experiences in context. The data will also be so useful for others. Thank you!

Arrests per 100,000 noncitizens by AOR and method, relative to inauguration. Notes: Uses ICE ERO administrative arrest data from 2016, 2017, 2024, 2025, and 2026. Vertical red lines show inauguration dates. To obtain a rate arrests are divided by the number of noncitizens in the AOR (from the 2015 ACS for Term 1 and the 2023 ACS for Term 2), and multiplied by 100,000. To align the ICE classifications, the San Antonio AOR includes the Houston and San Antonio AORs in 2016–2017 and Harlingen, Houston, and San Antonio AORs in 2024–2026.

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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Out today!! Our new @pnas.org paper (w @chloeneast.bsky.social & @elizabethacox.bsky.social) examines variation in ICE arrests from 2015 to today, exposing just how unprecedented things are today—and how/why.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Buenas tardes from the beautiful UNAM campus where I gave a talk this morning on my ICE research!

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hola from Mexico City! VERY excited to be here for the next week sharing and learning with other immigration scholars from around the Americas. Shoutout to Giovanni Peri and Tatiana Hiller at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Global Migration Center for organizing!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ICE killed another person.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

TFW you are having a pretty normal summer day trying to find motivation to work and then you are pulled into your aging parents caregiving and wish you could just work. I'm tired y'all and can we mandate therapy for everyone please?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”

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Man shot and killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Sen. Angus King says

The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Watching the Atlantic embarrass themselves is good entertainment. The question I have for folks is at what point do I no longer agree to do interviews with outlets whose politics are so transparently harmful? I've been wondering this about the NYT for years now... Any insights?

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

NEW features on Relevant Football. In this update, you can now see a few basic health statistics for each Country. www.relevant-football.com/country/moro...

Health statistics page on Relevant Football.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Also excited to see which local and state media lose their shit over this and reveal their politics in the process

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

WOOOOOOOOO Extremely excited about this and proud of my union, Denver DSA, and other local organizations for helping to turn her campaign into a movement.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/06/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

ICYMI I spoke with @aaronsojourner.org and @ericawilli.bsky.social in an @epi.org webinar last week about the economic and labor impacts of ICE activity in Trump 2.0 Recording with lots of info and references available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVR...

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The Economic Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants

YouTube video by Economic Policy Institute

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Sara @ms-theman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I learned much from this event. Listen to @chloeneast.bsky.social and @aaronsojourner.org discuss their research on the economic costs of what ICE is to our communities.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

JFC I don’t know how many more ways I can say that my decade of research and the research of others find that deportations are bad for the economy and this decision will only harm workers.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/06/2026

The Supreme Court just ruled that the Trump admin can terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, and jeopardized 1.3 MILLION TPS holders across the country. This decision is wrong. It’s bad for our communities, our economy and our country.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tomorrow! A great, if depressing, conversation with me @aaronsojourner.org and @ericawilli.bsky.social about the economic harm the Department of Homeland Security in Trump 2.0 is causing. Register below!

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 22/06/2026

The Trump administration's deployment of DHS agencies has caused irreparable harm with economic costs that are substantial—and mounting. @aaronsojourner.org @chloeneast.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social break it down for you this Thursday at 1p EST. Register now us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Economic Policy Institute invites you to a webinar:
The economic costs of DHS attacks on immigrants

Thursday, June 25
1:00p.m.-2:00p.m.

Speaker
Chloe N. East and Aaron Sojourner
Moderator
Erica Williams

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/06/2026

it is frustrating to see calls for a general strike when people having no understanding that there isn’t a lot of power in that if people don’t belong to some sort of organizing home. you need a way for people to have collective power for more than a day.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org

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