John O'Keefe

Joey Politano's review of In Our Interest 4/5: Immigration has extremely massive economic benefits. It is also one of the most divisive issues in modern democracies. Overcoming the politics of xenophobia is thus one of the most important and ...

How can we make immigration durably popular? Alex Kustov has an answer & a bunch of novel evidence in his new book

The key is not for liberal politicians to stoop to xenophobia, they must instead to make immigration policy *demonstrably* beneficial to the nation
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

How is Trump Weaponizing USCIS for the First Time? USCIS once managed legal immigration. Now, Trump is weaponizing the agency—turning America’s immigration system into a deportation machine.

Employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services oversee lawful immigration applications. They've never been authorized to make arrests, carry firearms, or execute search warrants — until now.

This intimidation tactic is unnecessary and cruel.

"We find paths of wages following the Black Death in the mid-1300s to be highly differentiated by skill, revising our understanding of the impact of this demographic shock on income inequality and the skill premium." New work in #EconomicHistory #MachineLearning. eprints.lse.ac.uk/128852/1/WP-...

probably should add #economichistory and #skystorians to this thread. Also got the book title slightly wrong: Basinger, Jeanine. 2007. The Star Machine. Knopf.

YouTube video by David Bonello Inflation

Followed by a couple on a crazy payday shopping spree with, of course, a fur coat on layaway. Here it is in all its glory www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAv...

First off, an over-to-top Prince of Darkness himself, chatting on the phone with Hitler while his smartly dressed assistant chimes in with advice in a very modern 40s style office in Hell, deciding to visit America with INFLATION.

Getting ready to cover #WWII in my US history survey. I've been reading The Star Machine about Hollywood publicity under the Studio System and there was a mention of a short propaganda film about #inflation starring Esther Williams and it has some major #camp elements.

doomscroll break

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

"I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "...One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

"“Any increase in ICE presence or activity must be scrutinized, given the agency’s long history of abuse, lack of accountability, and disregard for our constitutional rights,” Lyall said.

The First King of England
Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
David Woodman
newbooksnetwork.com/the-first-ki... @davidwoodman45.bsky.social #skystorians

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
Raphael Cormack
newbooksnetwork.com/holy-men-of-...

Feminisms: A Global History
Lucy Delap
newbooksnetwork.com/lucy-delap-f... #feministhistory #skystorians #globalhistories @lucydelap.bsky.social

Medieval Meteorology:
Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac
Anne Lawrence-Mathers
newbooksnetwork.com/medieval-met...

Also very interesting discussion of #secondwave feminism and consciousness-raising groups, including the Combahee River Collective--and the value of the small groups, which made it possible to have discussions about the intensely personal feminist issues

Phillis Wheatley House in Cleveland - great to learn about! Plus some discussions of the class tensions surrounding the house and the services it provided. Also discusses the 1920s Klan as a for-profit MLM (!) organization, which in part explained its rapid growth, in addition to bigotry.

Seven Social Movements That Changed America
Linda Gordon
newbooksnetwork.com/seven-social... #socialmovements a VERY interesting listen including some #ohiohistory

Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
Thomas A. Tweed
newbooksnetwork.com/religion-in-...

I think there may be an unintentional repost or two

I've got a LOT of podcasts that I've listened to since my last megaposting

LGBTQ youth housing program is ending after Ohio Department of Health grant is not renewed • Ohio Capital Journal Kaleidoscope Youth Center’s Housing Program is closing after it was not renewed for a grant from the Ohio Department of Health.

A program that has helped provide housing to more than 50 central Ohio LGBTQ+ youth who were experiencing homelessness is ending.

Demonstrators protest Ohio land ownership measures that target Chinese immigrants • Ohio Capital Journal This past weekend more than a hundred Ohioans demonstrated outside the Statehouse against a pair of bills that could effectively outlaw some immigrants from owning land in the state.

Last weekend more than a hundred Ohioans demonstrated outside the Statehouse against a pair of bills that could effectively outlaw some immigrants from owning land in the state.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

To learn more about the history of ideological deportation in the United States and about some of the cases Judge Young mentions in his decision, including Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972), check out "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69196/w... #academicrefugees

includes THE HUMANITIES!
"Waseda University announced in a message issued by the president on June 20, 2025, that the university would provide support to early-career researchers facing difficulties in continuing their research activities in the United States." #academicjobs #highered #skystorians

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...