Kaija Schilde

How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement - Bolts Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.

"Right now, 90% of people in immigration detention are in a facility operated by a private detention corporation. GEO Group and CoreCivic are the two main corporations, and we’ve heard from their earnings calls that they’re very excited about getting more money & expand detention."

Europe needs a crash program for a mass-producible, low- to medium-cost cruise missile with a range of 500-1,000 km and a payload capacity above 100 kg.

Europe has forgotten that things can move quickly when there is political will and when idiosyncratic industrial interests are set aside.

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@abenewman.bsky.social nails it: human beings, firms, investors and pretty much everyone don’t like uncertainty. The repeal of tariffs (if it happens) won’t undo the fear that’s been created 👇

70% of our MA students

Uh, yeah. Time Bandits....specifically, the coal in the toaster.

We will all be next eventually. No university can assume it will be safe from the whims of the autocrat. An unprecedented authoritarian assault on higher education, but also an unprecedented assault on basic sanctity of contracts & the rule of law in general.

www.proquest.com/docview/1709...

muse.jhu.edu/article/5492...

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Rebecca Thorpe has a research agenda on the economic dependence of rural communities on prison profit journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Map of ICE prisons by size, location, and public/private. Orange signifies public, green signifies private. The largest cluster is in Louisiana and Texas.

Incredible map of private/public ICE prisons by size and location. The cluster of enormous private immigration prisons in Louisiana is really something.

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

How Europe Can Deter Russia Deploying troops to Ukraine is not the answer.

"In their Trump-induced panic, European military leaders and pundits have spent the last few months talking about all the combat power that Europe does not have. But they have failed to evaluate and consolidate the combat power that Europe does have."

www.foreignaffairs.com/north-americ...

EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices

🚨🚨 Major scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: @ec.europa.eu is now issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.🧵
www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Happened to me when I took 5htp. It was scary

Happy Ayo Edebiri day to all! Such an honor to welcome this Dorchester girl home & chat about how BPS & Boston shaped her path 🙌

I've been waiting for this one to come out!

@quinnslobodian.com's previous book, "Crack Up Capitalism," sparked my own work. If you want to understand the origins of our current political crisis, read everything he writes.

Pre-order! Book club!
bookshop.org/p/books/haye...

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

3) Related to #2, pending massive fiscal expansion in Europe needed to finance continental defense will enlarge the pool of euro assets as alternatives to UST (nowhere near enough to rival UST, but the market for euro securities will continue growing, esp. if --> fiscal union)

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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state

in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Join @dschwarzer.bsky.social to discuss the future of #EU enlargement and the prospects for #Ukraine's membership.

🗓️ April 9, 3:30-5:00pm
🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

@bertelsmannfdn.bsky.social @kaijaschilde.bsky.social @cmikulaschek.bsky.social

Musk’s Task Force Begins Shutting Down Foreign Policy Research Center Mark Green, a Republican who once worked under President Trump, stepped down as head of the Wilson Center after employees of Elon Musk’s team visited the think tank.

Yet another renowned #institution being dismantled to the ground. This time the Wilson Center where I had the privilege to work for the past 2y. I couldn’t be prouder of the work me and my team did. #AI will never replace the impactful research and scholarship the Wilson Center is respected for.

Reciprocity and discrimination: When are tariffs useful remedies? The Trump administration has marked April 2 for its next big tariff announcement, one that it says is centered on countering unfair trade practices abroad and imposing reciprocal trade protection. The...

For those listening to this rant, those numbers are not tariffs. The European Union, e.g., has weighted average tariff rates of ~ 3% and arguably lower on US goods. So they are clearly including VATs and who knows what else? This false reciprocity is nonsense. For more:
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

I’m still not on the other side of this…

When do institutions suddenly collapse? Zones of knowledge and the likelihood of political cascades - Quality & Quantity In this paper institutions are treated as stabilized sets of expectations, an approach that encourages investigation of how cultural formations, political regimes, global financial arrangements, and o...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Potentially helpful on micro foundations of this

When do institutions suddenly collapse? Zones of knowledge and the likelihood of political cascades - Quality & Quantity In this paper institutions are treated as stabilized sets of expectations, an approach that encourages investigation of how cultural formations, political regimes, global financial arrangements, and o...

Here’s the eventually published version link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unfortunately, when modeled, Kuran’s theory overpredicts tipping points and cascades, because it overdetermines universal rationality, which is constrained and cluster by local knowledge www.polisci.upenn.edu/ps-i/publica...

Solidarity....

Republican Russophilia: how Trump Putin-ised a party of cold war hawks The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge implications for the global order

Wow, I scrolled responses and didn’t see most basic explanation: Trump campaigns and admins have been openly pro Putin since at least 2016 (anti NATO since 1987), and they have cued their flunkies and base to be pro Russia, as well, then reflexively anti Europe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join the Pardee School of Global Studies @bostonu.bsky.social for the discussion series "Decentering Europe: Europe and Africa" in March and April.

See link for more information and to register. Open to the public.

www.bu.edu/european/202...

same. things improved when I mutter to myself "there's water (eau) in the middle of bureaucracy"