Bob Sacamano

Does immigration matter to the election in Scotland? It is one of the hottest political topics around the world but does immigration matter to Scottish voters?

Well I would agree that it is an interesting question as to why Scotland is different from the rest of the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article... But in the main I think you would agree we see backlash against migrants. Hopefully this will swing back again as the other sides pushes too far.

They're far more typical of the world. I worry these projects in western countries to push for these "positive rights" (In Henry Shue's terminology) are what feeds the right wing nuts. They don't ever pass, but they bring backlash & the median voter gets convinced we don't share their values.

We deal with migrants who are very poor, some from countries that have still have de facto slavery (where girls primarily are sold). They face inflation in their home countries and in the country where they work. In surveys they express mostly satisfaction but higher wages would help.

Do you know what you call migrant workers who demand voting rights in the real world?

People who no longer have a residency permit.

Dear young political scientists- Work on problems that have obtainable solutions, please. They are legion, and your older self will thank you.

Yes. But I’m not sure this is a mistake or a farce given conditions on the ground. al-Sharaa is right about the time needed for an electoral system to develop. Whether it will, or whether he will permit one to, after these partial, indirect elections, are real questions.

How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

In one conversation with Netanyahu, White House officials cited polls showing that more than 50 percent of Israelis now supported a hostage deal rather than continued war.

“Not 50 percent of my voters,” Netanyahu replied.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.

And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.

Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

What happened to the Friday News Roundup?? I turned on 1a this morning, & there’s something about music. The world is on fire & there’s no Friday News Roundup?! And what happened to BBC America? I’ve emailed WAMU, but no response. @steveinskeep.bsky.social

the reason he keeps getting mad at his robot for being insufficiently racist or full of misinformation is that it’s actually quite hard to get LLMs to provide exactly what you want - training is expensive and unpredictable, and direct interference leads to things like the white genocide snafu

honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025.

impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

Social Media really did doom us by driving elites crazy. Marc Andreseen became convinced the social contract had broken down and that there was no point trying to be a socially responsible wealthy person because there was no philanthropy he could do that would make people stop yelling at him online.

Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday after 104 days ...

Mahmoud Khalil has been released.

@wamu.org.web.brid.gy So what happened to the Friday News Roundup this week?

www.kitchencounter.blog/p/on-the-dep...

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Hypnotic sunset hues over the Mediterranean Sea, off the southern coast of Turkey.

Well when you come back will be interested to hear your thoughts on recent domestic terrorism and the Ukrainian use of drones. Take it easy.

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Israel launches major offensive as Gaza rescuers say scores killed IDF says "Operation Gideon's Chariots" aims to defeat Hamas, as Hamas-run health ministry says hundreds of people killed since Thursday.

#BBCNews - Israel launches major offensive to 'seize and control' areas of Gaza
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hamas-run health ministry officials say Israeli attacks have killed around 250 people since Thursday. Israel imposed an aid blockade on the strip in March

Trump's Great Service To Putin Putin’s Floor Under Trump Is Better Than His Ceiling Under Biden

Trump is one of the worst negotiators in foreign policy history (as his deal with the Houthis shows). When it comes to Putin, he has already given away the farm, so that Putin’s negotiating floor now is higher than the ceiling would have been with Biden. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

How to square the circle of "there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans" and "no, I don't protest Republicans, there's no chance they'd listen to me, and I could be putting myself in physical danger if I tried"?

Those seem contradictory.

Shhh...our HHS Secretary might find out and kill the test.

‘Honor killing’ excuse axed from Kuwait law KUWAIT CITY, March 16: The official gazette 'Kuwait Alyoum' published decree-law No. 9/2025, which cancels article 153 of the Penal Code issued by law No. 16/1...

Kuwait abolishes Article 153, which mitigated punishments for honor killings. Huge congratulations to Alanoud Al Sharekh, Abolish 153, and the organizations that have pushed this campaign for over a decade. www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwait-...

FYI: GRU's predecessor, the "Registration Directorate" (Registrupravlenie), was established on November 5, 1918, during the Bolshevik Revolution, and it later became the GRU, the Main Intelligence Directorate, in 1942.

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse

By retracting foreign aid, Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again. And make it the world’s deadliest infectious disease & maybe a top 5 disease again.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

An important corrective to an idiotic @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed.