Maarten Vink

Congress gave ICE $45 billion last year in a single bill. Here's where that money is going and who is cashing in on the largest expansion of immigrant detention in American history. 🧵

I am listening to this now. Wurman just implied that people who enter the country illegally are, on his understanding of the Constitution, subject to our criminal laws but not entitled to sue or be sued in US courts. This is not the law and he knows it. Nor should it be.

thank you for sharing, @bronwenmanby.bsky.social

@globalcit.bsky.social report summarising recent citizenship law developments in 12 Eastern European EU member & candidate states shows how citizenship policy is increasingly shaped by security concerns, particularly in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hdl.handle.net/1814/94610

The delays and uncertainties citizenship applicants have to face in Denmark is scandalous.

Time is running out ⏰

Make sure to submit your entry 👇

No paper is perfect What happens when AI peer review cuts us no slack?

Provocative new post from Youyou Wu on the @rorinstitute.bsky.social substack. What happens when AI peer review does a surprisingly good job? open.substack.com/pub/research...

There is still time to write your essay on “How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?” 👇

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#CoROL project led by @anttikouvo.bsky.social
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I have a 5-year Senior Research Fellow position open! This is linked to my Academy Professorhip that launched in January.

I am looking for a person with strong methods skills, cv sufficient for an adjunct professor (”dosentti”, a bit similar to habilitation), and supervision experience.

Check out this trail from @Wikiloc! loc.wiki/t/251470312?... (Caldine loop)

La primavera è arrivata! ☀️ 🌼

Wellness boom? I am clearly missing something over here in Florence.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Good

Makes no sense until you read this:

at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Can we extract the Reform nonsense from Labour? These immigration proposals are obscene, but the government can be forced to think again.

This is excellent from @iandunt.bsky.social on the government's proposals on settlement: unsupported by evidence, counterproductive on integration, cohesion and economic growth.

As Ian says not too late for government to think again.

iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Cool project!

thank you, good to hear! 😊

a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground ALT: a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground

we go live to Heard Island:

Still a few gaps to fill but slowly but steadily we’re covering the whole 🌍 @globalcit.bsky.social with detailed country reports on the history and current state of citizenship law. 💪

Forza Slovakia! 🇸🇰 🏒 🥅

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Country Profiles - Globalcit

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Still a few gaps to fill but slowly but steadily we’re covering the whole 🌍 @globalcit.bsky.social with detailed country reports on the history and current state of citizenship law. 💪

💥Another sign that Viktor Orbán fears the April 12 election? They plan a major sell-off of state-owned real estate in Budapest, with contracts set to be signed on April 10, just before polls open. Orbán’s inner circle is rumored to be bidding.

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“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s ‘1984’ now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance Is Strength,’ this court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Judge Rufe wrote. “It does not.”

Ouch. Judicial roast.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s ‘1984’ now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance Is Strength,’ this court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Judge Rufe wrote. “It does not.”

Ouch. Judicial roast.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

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“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject…”

Right.