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Patrick Wolfe described settler colonialism as "a structure not an event." He meant that the power differential btwn settlers & Natives continue long after the moment of 1st contact. Tracing effects of the Constitution's design on case law, he is right. Advantages compounded for settlers. FIN/
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Full disclosure: I now teach at MCS, after 20 years as a fan & admirer. MCS offers a radical alternative to prevailing US currents: farm & city education for sustainability, activism, critical thinking & creativity rooted in an authentically diverse community. www.manhattancountryschool.org
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I'm supporting Manhattan Country School so my incredible colleagues & I can get paid for our labor, and also because it feels essential in 2025 to have schools that uplift identities and are guided by social justice. manhattancountryschool.org www.gofundme.com/f/save-mcs-p...
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2/ @weissmann.substack.com and I, in our discussion of "remigration," draw from great reporting and analysis by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social in this piece.⬇️
(cc: @davidcorn.bsky.social)
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3/ This 2019 piece by Elaine Ganley provides important background.
"A forthcoming study shared with The Associated Press shows a dramatic rise in recent years of ... 'remigration,' the chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native lands in what amounts to a soft-style ethnic cleansing."
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Fed job applicants must now explain in writing how they'll "advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities."
This will screen out experts. Think EPA scientists who believe in climate data. Labor investigators who pursue wage theft. DOJ lawyers who follow the law over politics.
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For context: The US created the civil service in 1883 after Garfield's assassination by a disgruntled supporter who felt entitled to a consulship job.
The Pendleton Act required merit-based hiring instead of political patronage. For 142 years, fed jobs went to the qualified, not the connected.
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International students do not take away spots from domestic students. They keep colleges open and running FOR domestic students.
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People have actually studied whether international students cross subsidize domestic students. And they do! If 20% of your student body is paying full price, and many of domestic students are not, there is a cross-subsidy, one that allows the university to hire more faculty and open more spots.
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It also fails on nonlinear effects of concentrating talent. Even leaving economic benefits aside, American scientists like me benefit enormously by having brilliant people here from around the world.
The science I’ve done, in the US, as an American, wouldn’t have been possible w/out int’l students.
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{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Mexico says it’s fighting corruption — but letting voters elect judges could be the death knell for its democracy. A reform framed as progress may in fact be the ruling party’s final move to seize total control of the courts. Judicial independence is on life support.