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Laura I Appleman

@lawandlitprof.bsky.social
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Cats, high school baseball, poetry, and occasionally law. Not your attorney.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 05/10/2026
Acentra Health is finally scheduled to begin accepting third-party providers' claims for care given to people in ICE detention, after failing to do so for more than a year. In that time, ICE obligated $133.7M on the no-bid award. And while Acentra got paid, healthcare providers got stiffed.
Timeline graphic dated Sep 21 titled "Announcing Go-Live Dates and Transition Timeline for IHSC's New Claims Processing Services with Acentra Health." Five milestones: Aug 31st, provider orientation webinar and training registration opened. Sept. 14th, live training began, covering provider revalidation and new provider enrollment. Sept. 28th, provider portal go-live, with network provider revalidation and enrollment, new provider enrollment, and claims processing training. Oct. 5th, EDI submissions accepted with new payor ID DIHSC. Oct 12th, claim processing go-live and direct data entry go-live.
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#RIP Wendell Berry 💔
Image of Wendell Berry's poem, "The Peace of Wild Things": When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Also my teen.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Making America Contagious Again.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's just the tip of the iceberg with immigration enforcement, as I discuss in my latest article, "The Market for Deportation:" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 12/08/2026
Keep in mind that incarcerated people suffer disproportionately from all types of medical conditions. The U.S. has built a legacy of exploiting and neglecting the needs of vulnerable people.
Graph showing rates of various medical conditions in state prisons vs. the overall U.S. population: Asthma (16.7% vs 8%), Hepatitis B (1.2% vs. 0.4%), Hepatitis C (9.5% vs. 1.7%), HIV or AIDs (1.1% vs. 0.4%).
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Truthout @truthout.org · 31/07/2026
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children could lose their lawyers beginning Friday as federally funded contracts supporting them are set to expire, prompting advocates to warn that the move will leave vulnerable minors to face deportation proceedings frightened and alone.
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Thousands of Migrant Kids Are Set to Lose to Legal Representation
Expiration of federally funded contracts will leave some 20,000 children to face deportation proceedings alone.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Delighted that "The Market for Deportation: Private Profits & the Machinery of Removal," will be published by U. Penn. J. Bus. L. in 2027! If you're concerned about the disturbing political economy made by private profiteers in modern immigration removal, read on: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Abstract

Although legal scholarship has extensively examined the profit-driven architecture of the American carceral state, the rapidly expanding for-profit apparatus embedded within immigration enforcement remains comparatively underexamined. This Article addresses that critical gap, contending that the deep enmeshment of private capital and public authority has transformed contemporary immigration removal into a monetized "market for deportation:" a financially oriented enterprise where the extraction of profit has become a structural feature of the state's power to exclude. Drawing on the Anglo-American history of banishment and forced expulsion, the Article situates modern detention and deportation within a long historical lineage of private actors deriving wealth from the machinery of removal. It then traces the modern expansion of this privatized infrastructure, illustrating how the federal government has outsourced core administrative functions, from facility operation and surveillance technologies to transportation networks to a diffuse web of for-profit entities, all underwritten by public funds. By providing a detailed political economy account, the Article demonstrates how lobbying, campaign contributions, and revolving-door employment have recalibrated immigration priorities to serve market imperatives. Ultimately, these public-private entanglements have produced an expansive deportation economy that prioritizes the demands of private equity and corporate accumulation over legal restraint or basic human rights.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ugh.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the 'Eco Chamber.' The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian n...
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fair point--neither am I! However... "An embassy is usually located in a country's capital city, but it may have branches (known as consulates) in other cities." diplomacy.state.gov/what-is-a-u-...
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What is a U.S. Embassy? - The National Museum of American Diplomacy
An embassy is an official headquarters for U.S. diplomats and government representatives serving in a foreign country. Embassies are generally led by an
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Technically wouldn't it be a consulate, not an embassy, given that it's in Cambridge, which isn't a capital city?
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Penelope: home after 20 years on your ship Odysseus: well, a lot of time on the ship for sure Penelope: right? It’s not like you spent several years on a paradise island with a goddess as a lover or anything Odysseus:
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amen!
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trash for cash.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net
TRUMP'S NEW FEDERAL GRANT GUIDELINES COULD KILL
5,000 CRITICAL
HENCAL
STUDIES
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Colorado jails put mentally ill and other vulnerable people in solitary confinement. This didn't happen once, it was a routine practice that happened more than 15 days at a time on at least 315 occasions between July 2023 and March 2025. ✏️ @boltsmag.org
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Colorado Limited Solitary for People with Mental Illness. But Judges Still Routinely Approve It.  - Bolts
Despite a 2021 law meant to curb solitary confinement in local jails, judges almost always grant requests to isolate people with serious mental illness, often because there's nowhere else to send them...
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
FAFO, MAHA-style....
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
At least 17 people in ICE custody died “after medical staff delayed or failed to provide critical care that might have saved their lives, according to multiple doctors who reviewed their cases” I know one of the doctors who did the case review Thx to @sfchronicle.com for this critical reporting
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New SSRN article: "The Market for Deportation: Private Profits & the Machinery of Removal," uncovering the obscene profits now being minted from deportation by private corrections corporations, PE firms, & our future AI overlords. Download it while SSRN is still up! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Winner winner chicken dinner!
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Now that RFK Jr is touting the benefits of nicotine, maybe it's time to bring these back...
A tin of Radium Cigarettes
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Oh my word, that's the best name ever. You are full of win today!
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Market for Deportation at work.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I thought I was the only person who matched their pet to their decor! Well done you.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My brilliant friend & scholar @jaymichaelson.bsky.social recently wrote a fascinating piece on psychedelics, politics & peak experiences—incredibly topical given the daily dose of current chaos, rage, & dysfunction. Read it while it’s hot! jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/does-wonde...
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Does Wonder Make You Wonder?
Do peak experiences (religious, psychedelic, or otherwise) make us question our beliefs and identities? And does that make us better people?
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The price has already been dropped to $875K! You can't afford NOT to buy it!
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Taking names for who will be purchasing this amazing place with me....
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
OK, who's in to buy it with me? Perfect country house, with books! Dream home.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What do you think will it be, in your estimation?
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Do you think that authors will actually be paid the promised $3100 per book, or will their publishers take a cut?
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 15/05/2026
First question: are they running Canvas?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
File under: eugenics plan, part 359.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
‘Covid ‘only’ kills the sick the old and the vulnerable’ presented as a net positive is not restricted to RFK jr. And I’m sure I will be unpopular for pointing that out.
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Sid @siddster.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"The underlying message of Kennedy’s campaign is that measles deaths are expected and admissible, because the people who don’t survive the disease were flawed anyway, says Laura Appleman, a professor of law at Willamette University in Oregon. "
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Death is the policy
RFK Jr.‘s measles response is junk science and social Darwinism.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I wish your excellent questions had more obvious answers! I'm not sure I have any particularly good solutions, to be honest, but I do try. Will post the SSRN link when it's up in a week or two!
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
All excellent questions I am thinking about in my forthcoming article, "The Market for Deportation!"
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Oh boy. Wow. This is ... quite a line to read between. If I'm reading this right, the CEO of GEO is saying one reason they're selling buildings to ICE is to make it harder for state officials to indict them on federal charges when they do horrible things to the people detained therein.
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Sarah DiGregorio @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Yes and www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
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RFK Jr.’s Eugenics-Coded Crusade
Survival of the fittest—a concept that’s been twisted and abused since its birth—could be a Trump administration motto.
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Reading "Darkology," listening to new(ish) Noah Kahan album, bothering the cat, walking in perfect Oregon spring weather (76 degrees), early birthday dinner for spouse. Bliss!
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Professor says U.S. political violence used to be worse, and Oregon played a part www.byteseu.com/1973927 PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Political violence in the United States may feel uniquely alarming right now, but it is not unprecedented, according to Laura Appleman, the Van Winkle …
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Professor says U.S. political violence used to be worse, and Oregon played a part - Bytes Europe
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Political violence in the United States may feel uniquely alarming right now, but it is not unprecedented, according to Laura
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Congrats, Russell, this is amazing and so well deserved!!
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Same. Beginning to think that AI trained itself on my writing!
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 20/04/2026
Citizens Bank says it's committed to fostering strong communities, but keeps financing GEO Group & CoreCivic. Help turn up the pressure on Citizens to stop bankrolling the for-profit prison companies hurting our communities and killing our neighbors before their 4/23 shareholder meeting!
The "distracted boyfriend meme" with Citizens Bank's wandering eye focused on for-profit prison & ICE detention companies — instead of the communities it says it's committed to.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2026
Grijalva to RFK Jr: "You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon"
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Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Block!
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