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Note that she was *legally* overstaying her visa, as far as I understand, because this is allowed while waiting the outcome of a green card application.

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Larry Summers: maybe women in academia aren’t as successful because of genetics.

Also Larry Summers: I think I’ll stop mentoring this female economist unless she has sex with me.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Oh ok, so yes crueller than the pre-Illegal Migration Act. Thanks for clarifying, and for this great thread.

Agree it’s cruel, but can you explain how it’s crueler than what the Conservatives tried? Do you mean it’s crueler than Conservatives’ treatment of resettled refugees (who weren’t require to wait 20 years)? It seems less cruel than Conservatives not allowing refugees arriving via boats any asylum.

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

The weird jewellery policy, first in Denmark, is back! I wonder why these kind if strange policies are proposed. Any ideas? One possibility: they distract people from other unpopular policies, or make other unpopular policies seem relatively more reasonable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You might think that, if you increase the minimum wage, then this won’t affect workers in the informal economy. It might even decrease their wages. This article shows that minimum wages are associated with an increase in informal workers’ wages.

Why it's so hard to find a public toilet : Planet Money Why is it so hard to find a bathroom when you need one? In the U.S., we used to have lots of publicly accessible toilets. But many had locks on the doors and you had to put in a coin to use them. Pay ...

This episode explains why: www.npr.org/2025/05/02/1...

The US actually has a dearth of public toilets precisely because of previous policies banning paid public toilets, as this excellent @planetmoney.bsky.social episode discusses. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/1....

The Home Office initially decides whether an asylum seeker is a child by just having two members of staff “look at the child and decide whether, based on their appearance and demeanour, they think that they could be a child.”

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

“Using administrative student data from New York City, we…find the standard deviation of teacher effects on height is nearly as large as that for math and reading achievement, raising obvious questions about validity.”

www.nber.org/papers/w26480

Pretty democratic, based on what I’ve read - regular elections, pretty free, even if there was and is widespread corruption.

Ten Years After a Fateful Court Decision, the Dominican Republic Still Has a Statelessness Problem - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) The Dominican Republic is at a crossroads in how it handles the situation of stateless Dominicans and Haitian migrants in their country.

Strictly speaking, other governments have done this since Idi Amin. In 2013 the Dominican Republican stripped individuals with Haitian ancestry of their citizenship, effecting over 100,000 people. But this was widely condemned, so just reinforces your point. cmsny.org/dr-stateless...

But it’s ok because everyone clapped for these nurses four years ago.

When I meet someone with ILR who can afford to apply for citizenship but doesn’t, I tell them “apply if you can!” But many people can’t: it’s too the expensive. Those people would be eligible for deportation under the Tories even if they had lived in the country for over a decade.

Well, the BNP wanted to offer people - including citizens! - money to leave voluntarily if they weren’t white, and also to deport a lot of people.

A rule of thumb: if people are willing to assume significant risks to cross the channel, they probably are fleeing significant risks in France, and a non-insignificant number will try to recross the channel again if sent back to France. Any one-in-one-out policy must depend on France being safe.

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How Israeli youth helped usher in the farthest right-wing government ever Young voters are often more liberal than their grandparents. Not in Israel, a new poll finds.

Agree with your general point, but worth noting that in Israel young people are *less* liberal than older people, and dramatically so: in a 2023 poll, 73 percent of Jewish Israelis between ages 18 and 24 identified as right-wing, compared with 46 percent over 65. www.vox.com/world-politi...

It’s also worth noting that, based on what we’ve found, even people who oppose migrants crossing over mostly do not moderately or strongly support deporting those migrants to unsafe life-threatening conditions.

Opposition to ICE violence is consistent with studies conducted over the years: people opposing immigration still oppose very violent enforcement. They oppose violent enforcement even when it’s necessary to force migrants to leave. See our studies here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

In this article, we asked a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Lebanon whether they wished to repatriate, remain, or resettle. Most did not went to resettle. We then asked them to imagine that resettlement was actually possible, and the number preferring resettlement dramatically increased.

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I wish I had a kangaroo that ate my roses.

The article states “The Conservatives say they would task officials with removing 750,000 illegal immigrants.” This is inaccurate: the plan would include migrants *legally* in the country, because it is legal for refugees to enter to claim asylum without first getting a visa.

A thought: perhaps far right anti-semitism in the UK is less common partly because many Jews are represented by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which is sort of centrist/right. In the US there is no org like BofD, Jews are viewed as left, and far right anti-semitism is *extremely* common.

I hope @theguardian.com includes a follow up or a clarification: that’s an extremely misleading headline and bad journalism to not mention that most soy is grown for meat.

Am I missing something, or does Reform’s plan sound more pro-immigrant than Labour? Though Reform says immigrants won’t get ILR and need to reapply for a new visa after 5 years, they’ll still be eligible for citizenship after 5 years AND won’t need to volunteer to get it - unlike with Labour.

Prisoners held over alleged Palestine Action offences face crackdown since group ban People charged before protest group was proscribed describe restrictions on wearing keffiyehs and holding certain prison jobs

Prisoners (including those not arrested under terrorism charges) now have their keffiyas confiscated because keffiyas are considered “branding associated with the Palestine Action Group.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...