Tom Strand

Event poster for the paperback launch of There Is No Place for Us with Brian Goldstone in conversation with Josie Duffy Rice at Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta, March 3 at 6:30pm, hosted by Charis Books.

Couldn't be more thrilled to share that the paperback launch of There Is No Place for Us will be hosted by Charis Books at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm.

I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @jduffyrice.bsky.social—truly a gift—and I'd love to see you there.

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.

With @texastribune.org

".. Wilkinson has been with CBP for almost 25 years and was promoted in 2021 to a supervisory role, where his duties included overseeing the enforcement of immigration laws .."

The AI Economy Podcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · 02/13/2026 · 49m

New Ones and Tooze on The AI Economy

“the problem with ‘in medias res’ is which res are you in the middle of?”

that’s a good one @adamtooze.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Masked man outside Guthrie mother’s house captured by security camera

New game: Who’s abducting your mother? Professional kidnapper or ICE agent

Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.

Great @mtkonczal.bsky.social post. The political economy of the affordability crisis sees the difficulty of planning if prices are volatile, faster-than-baseline rise in essentials prices, a credit cost shock, and a squeeze on first-time home buyers.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-afford...

Gimme More | Thea Riofrancos The notion of any single “energy transition” masks the more complicated process of accumulation that undergirds capitalism.

a must-read essay by @triofrancos.bsky.social reviewing Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's recent book MORE AND MORE AND MORE

I'm currently midway through both EXTRACTION and Fressoz's book, so this was a treat!

thebaffler.com/latest/gimme...

Trump's Dollar | Steffen Murau Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Look here for the bigger body of work:
steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...

Look, if you are genuinely surprised, you haven’t really interacted deeply and widely within academia, you dont know its strengths and weaknesses, you dont understand its political economy, and you have not paid attention to claims and investigations when ten years ago MeToo made the academy shake.

art

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2)

Recessions have become rarer. But that's not necessarily a good thing:
as.ft.com/r/b1991122-0...

Hope to see everyone at the “Yes Kings” rally.

the guy who made the Snowpiercer train:

<Overheard walking on 42nd St>

Woman (on phone): “Pick up after yourself. You’re a grown man…I don’t want to hear it. It’s disgusting….This is why the city is the way it is. Because of slobs like you.”

60 percent of Americans have basic morality

poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

please watch this

youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Im/migrants and Aging: A Study on Immigrant Labor in the Long-Term Care Industry with Prof. Shefali Milczarek-Desai Podcast Episode · ASU Law Student Radio · 02/14/2025 · 40m

This is a great discussion of migrant labor in the long-term care industry with Professor Shefali Milczarek-Desai

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

Lack of training isn’t the issue!

“Ochoa…joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units.”

www.propublica.org/article/alex...

ICE’s Assault on a Minnesota School District Liam Ramos, whose photo became a symbol of Operation Metro Surge, is one of several students in Columbia Heights who are now in federal custody.

“School administrators have started calling families after raids to make sure that no children are left behind after their caregivers have been abducted.”

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

“a great and unlimited future with ‘TRUMP’”

what does that even mean lol

no notes. most Trumpy reasoning possible for selecting a Fed Chair lol

www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

I keep calling my tomato soup Gazpacho but it doesn’t work. When I try it it’s still just tomato soup.

‘why does everyone hate the Democrats?’
exhibit number 8,947

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained.

Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Breaking up the camps won’t solve nativism, Scott

I have a pitch for The Free Press: Have activists considered that maybe they’re actually causing ICE/CBP agents to be violent by disturbing their sleep at the hotels? They’re just cranky!

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

“private equity for the people”

www.ft.com/content/7b9e...