iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Wonky @wonkysq.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excellent article. I also recommend @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece today, which provides great context for how new, dangerous technology was handled in the past. www.offmessage.net/p/a-i-risk-a...

offmessage.net

We’re Still Not Taking This Seriously Enough

History suggests we must take radical action to reduce A.I. risk; with Donald Trump in office that means steamrolling him. Bernie Sanders has this right.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I want to highlight a memorial not far from my home. 4 days after 9/11, a racist shot and killed Balbir Singh Sodhi, a husband, father of five, and beloved member of his local Sikh community. His murder was the first hate crime in response to the attacks.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not claiming the Farage/Reform donation video story has broken containment, but I did just overhear Brit normies (non-APSA attendees) talking about it on the street in Boston, MA

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

at the airport seeing someone read Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI in hard copy. You love to see it

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our project will be at #APSA2026: Our research is part of the panel "Representation, Candidate Appeals, and Group Messaging" (put together by Div. 32, Race, Ethnicity and Politics). Thursday at 4pm:

Representation, Candidate Appeals, and Group Messaging
Thu, September 3, 4:00 to 5:30pm EDT, TBA

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.

A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”

Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults:

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Word on the street (Lincoln high street) is that someone went to a concert in Manchester recently and based on what they saw the homelessness is bad and Andy Burnham is never going to get rid of it nationally. However the public transport was impressive and he did a great job with that.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If large political parties - the Conservatives, Reform, even some in Labour - argue repeatedly that ILR is no longer a secure or stable status, the logical thing for those with ILR to do is to seek the greater security of citizenship - hence we get a big rise in applications

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excellent analysis as ever from @migobs.bsky.social - the big uptick in citizenship applications seems to me a logical consequence of recent political debates calling into Q the rights of those with Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/press/citize...

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Citizenship applications hit new record while asylum applications fall - Migration Observatory

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the Gulf of America thing polls the close to the worst among the many things he’s done and this will probably fare considerably worse

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Worrying development in UK higher ed, as Lincoln Bishop University (the other one in Lincoln) is effectively privatized. At this stage, UK HE policy is allowing private investors to pick over the corpses of public unis that policies have starved to death www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gus-com...

timeshighereducation.com

GUS completes takeover of Lincoln Bishop University

Public institution to become autonomous company within wider private education group

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Two Years Ago Today: One of the great screencaps of all time

Kari Lake (IIRC) rambling on during the GOP convention, while a GIANT message board in front of her reads "-5:35 please get off stage"

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

‘The only road’ - erm, far less than half of 18 year olds go to University.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes and if you push them they're often quite open they want a kafala system with no route to citizenship. Which is why they're all so obsessed with the "Boriswave".

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is best understood as an extension of the Tories‘ hostile environment from people without status to lawful residents, in order to make their lives so intolerable that they leave. Remigration, in other words, just without the expense and overt violence of expelling people by force

bbc.co.uk

Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens

The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

‘Less demanding institutions’ aside, a relatively small number of universities are increasingly eating the rest of the sector.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Imax projectors are like the Pantheon -- people will wonder in future centuries how they could have been built

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Jen aka Grantifa 🐸 @grantifa9.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

WTF He hasn’t a clue that it was a primary election.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Times report still misses > draft proposals 15 years for most, not wait 10 > but most on 15 years could never settle at all (by accident or design), inc many women. Most who'd lose status are black or brown > Mahmood (reluctantly) + Tapp did concede need signficant change to Rayner,Starmer + Burnham

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Argentina and Spain drew each other in regular time. Cape Verde drew both in regular time. The only solution is to put another goal on the pitch and invite the Cape Verde team back for extra time

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just one para from @jdportes.bsky.social brilliant (and beautifully written) @theguardian.com piece on Burnham and the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We need more immigration, not less.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One day, somebody in government will notice what the net migration level is hesding to. The fiscal forecast (£24 billion) was based on average net 235k to 2026-29 but that is at least 100k too high, costing £13 billion, or double that if want to reduce immigration visas further.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.

Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The government is considering amending the Immigration Act 1971 to deport a grooming gang leader. This would remove a major protection against deportation for "Windrush" immigrants; incredible given the controversy about retrospectively changing settlement rules 🧵 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Mahmood to set out plan to deport grooming gang leader

Calls have grown to deport Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed after his release from prison.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thank you @mcslaven.bsky.social for the invitation to this 2-day @britishacademy.bsky.social funded 'Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective' workshop bringing together humanities and social sciences scholars to interrogate the colonial pasts & post-imperial presents of migration governance.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

When I was looking for a wedding venue, “above Penn Station” did not occur to me

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Two former principals at a crisis-hit university received payments totalling more than £290,000 after leaving their posts, despite a financial and governance crisis plunging the institution into turmoil" news.stv.tv/north/dundee...

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Dundee University principals paid nearly £300,000 after stepping down

The delayed 2023-24 financial statements raised concern about the institution’s future amid the ‘greatest crisis’ it had ever seen

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"It is now de rigueur for federal judges to 'do history' via originialsm or textualism. But the craft of history involves years of reading and immersing oneself in the secondary and primary literature, which a law degree doesn’t train for and the haste of writing an opinion does not allow."

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

For a long time the complaint from people like Goodwin was, 'Migrants and refugees need to integrate properly into British life'. We're now well past that and into the open racism stage.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is a big problem. If the last information people receive is always “numbers went up” because “numbers went down” is never reported we shouldn’t be surprised that perceptions about immigration end up so skewed. Media should take some responsibility here - this is a salient and polarising issue.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This day will be celebrated, but it never should have come to this. President Trump attempted to subvert the clear words of our Constitution and the traditions of our country for hundreds of years by instructing ICE to arrest US-born Americans. It was an attempted crime.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/06/2026

Gov. Mike DeWine on the Mullin v. Doe: "It's not in the U.S. interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, who are buying houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses — and yank them out…That is a huge, huge mistake."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2026

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is a “color-blind” Constitution that the architects of Jim Crow could love. Many of the devices employed during segregation, such as poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests, were superficially race-neutral. In fact, slavery itself could conceivably be race-neutral—after all, one does not need to be a racist to seek cheap labor for a profitable business!

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is absolutely damning.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

At the risk of accelerating the smug American thing, we skipped straight to “Brits don’t have AC” and went right past “Brits don’t have ceiling fans,” a technology that uses a tiny fraction of the energy

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.

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