Rachel Nusbaum

Professional learner of things. 📚 (she/her)

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

LONG LIVE CABO VERDE

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

Cape Verde!! Let’s go!! ✨🇨🇻 ⚽️

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Fascinating study confirming that when American companies win the lottery for H-2B seasonal agricultural visas, they increase output AND end up hiring more Americans than if they don’t succeed in the lottery and can’t hire any guest workers.

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

“If websites and apps are expected to reliably identify teenagers, adults will be asked to prove they are adults. The result is a less private internet for everyone,” EFF points out re: the KIDS act https://t.co/NiGS0n6PVo

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

Google’s “total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025…. the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever… a reflection of the obscene energy hunger of their ever-expanding bloated generative AI” https://t.co/JU1umpHxwX

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

Joshi points out: “Google’s power consumption isn’t just growing – the rate at which it is growing is growing. We have a word for this: exponential growth.”

[CLINIC @cliniclegal]

According to The New York Times, ICE officials were told that the White House wanted 2,000 arrests a day to be the new standard for enforcement.

https://t.co/T3VY6TqQHm

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

At least 50 people have died in immigration detention since Trump returned to office, the deadliest period in ICE’s history. Yet Congress continues to give immigration enforcement agencies billions of dollars without requiring reform.
https://t.co/Jx2OY38ilh

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Data centers are trying to come to tribal land. But tribes are fighting back. The Seminole Nation banned them. The Cherokee Nation is studying impacts. Osage Nation is weighing Google's Project Spring. As Rev. Chebon Kernell says: "We have a right to say how life can be."

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

Always a good sign when judges are going out of their way to justify ICE agents doing absolutely anything they want to almost anyone they want at their own discretion with no checks whatsoever. Who needs courts or laws anyway? https://t.co/f4ENp0bfIz

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

ICE appears to be buying immigrants' tax ID numbers from a private data broker through a nearly $10 million contract, according to records reviewed by 404 Media. Read the full story at https://t.co/DjwNMrv9qm

[Bill McCarthy @billdmccarthy]

NEW:

Statements from Mustapha Kharbouch, the Brown University student falsely accused online of being the campus shooter, and their legal team.

"The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare," Kharbouch says. "I received non-stop death threats and hate speech."

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

“It is often important to use the language of morality, if only to break through the forms of euphemism and silence with which officials conceal even from themselves the extent and nature of the crimes they are committing”

- Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

“It doesn’t have to be like this. Schools could be safe. They are safe in pretty much every other highly industrialized country. The thing that makes our country exceptionally violent is not some unsolvable problem; it’s the Second Amendment.”

https://t.co/hMSDph0l6f

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them.

https://t.co/mDrHRVIBG7

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

“public approval of the court has collapsed. The question is what it means for liberals to catch up to this new reality of a court that willingly tanks its own legitimacy.” https://t.co/63IotnSCia

[Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaum]

“Three in 10 people now say that Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.” https://t.co/m1DcZWMtS0