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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

• I love how Asian American culture has so thoroughly recreated the idea of the "nebbish" from 100 years ago. Truly, American immigration is just a cycle that repeats.
  Quoting@NoahpinionOMG my girlfriend likes DANG! and she's making me watch it Help

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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

• The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

  I was reading the London Review of Books and came across this article by Jameel Jaffer stating that, in 1952, Congress overrode the presidential veto and passed the McCarran-Walter Act with a two-thirds majority in the…

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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

• [1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug https://civicshout.com/p/keep-ice-away-from-our-polling-places https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug US citizens: call on the Department of Hostile Savagery to keep the deportation thugs away from our polling places. A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine said he would invite deportation thugs to come to Maine's polling places to intimidate and perhaps terrorize voters. Citizens who are

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

• Even a $100k annual tariff would probably mean millions of immigrants per year.
  Quoting@DanielDiMartinoActually yes it would be great to just admit people based on an immigration tariff instead of the current system.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

• We should use this kind of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

• The Externalities of Airports and Immigrants

  Are the externalities of airports positive or negative? If you base your answer on NIMBY complaining, the answer is obviously negative. Above all, there’s the noise. The deafening sounds of take-off and landing bedevil…

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Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.

• Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

• Roundup: Chris Duncan, reader response to suing Stephen Miller, our ongoing immigration nightmare

  Links, reader mail, and a NBC interviews me for a report on a wrongful conviction in Louisiana

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Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.

• Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela)

  A smarter immigration policy from the Right

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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.

• America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are

  America in 1926 was obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar?

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

• How to build a crazy awesome Australian immigration system

  The Australian immigration system must exclude dickheads, bullshitters, and bludgers. This post has been inspired by Joe Walker’s recent set of three exemplary interviews (Martin Parkinson (former Treasury, author of 20…

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

• You can't hide your lying ICE: The shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis

  A Minneapolis prosecutor charges an ICE agent, exposing how DHS shamelessly lied after its officers shot an immigrant, tear gassed two kids, and put a bullet in the wall of a child's bedroom.

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JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.

• deepsec is very cool! I ran it against our main backend repo at @khanacademy and it found some really interesting edge cases. Spun up an agent team in Claude and addressed all the high-impact issues. This likely would've been a multi-week, or month, effort otherwise!
  Quoting@vercel_devIntroducing deepsec, an open source coding security harness. • CLI-first • Sandbox-based scaling • Pluggable coding agents • Designed for large-scale repos • Use AI Gateway or your own subscription After months of successful internal use, we put it to the test on some of the largest open source cod…

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• code.iamcal.com — Random bits of code from the last 20 years

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

• You can't hide your lying ICE: The harassment of Francisco Longoria

  Federal immigration officers racially profiled a man, fired at his truck, raided his home at 4 am, and arrested him. Then they lied about it all -- both in public and in court.

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

• Immigration questions for Markwayne Mullin

  Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem faces the Senate today. Here's what they should ask him.

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Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.

• New podcast with Gary Gensler. Episode One: Immigration

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

• Prefigurement

  Today’s cruel treatment of Muslims and immigrants was originally crafted as an attack on Jews. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th March 2026 Our political memory fails us. We treat government policies as i…

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• Yes, because technology is ultimately people and teams. The U.S. should hold on to talent rather than drive engineers out through immigration raids
  Quoting@tszzlcorrect me if im wrong but it seems like: - the theme of the @danwwang book, and the general elite consensus now is that “industrial process” is a technology that lives in the heads of people and that it was a mistake to let so much “low value” industry be offshored due to the loss of tacit process…

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