Deeply concerning part of Columbia's capitulation to Trump: Foreign students arrested at protests can now be detained by ICE regardless of whether university admin's punish them. Significant escalation of efforts to chill speech & protest activity by non-citizen students.

I missed the part where Labour cut the Office for Students by £100 million, targeting courses like nursing, while also cutting visas for NHS nurses timeshighereducation.com/news/some-univ…

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SCOOP: Reform voters prefer Corbyn to Starmer on almost every metric, voting him more principled, brave and trustworthy, polling seen exclusively by Novara Media shows. "He’s spent years chasing Reform voters," said Zarah Sultana MP. "And for what? They still prefer Jeremy Corbyn.”

As Paul Kedrosky has written, as a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. One explanation for the U.S. economy’s ongoing strength is that this spending is so big it’s acting

This is a bad jobs report. 73,000 jobs would have been worrisome to begin with, but deeply negative revisions to the previous two-months wiped out much of the recent gains. 2025 looks a lot worse the further we get into it. There's a lot to cover, let's dig in. /1

🚨 NEW | Labour plunges to historic low in polls The **average** of polls for July shows Starmer's Labour party on just 22%, down 13pts since 2024. This is the lowest that Labour has **EVER** polled.

We spend a lot of time talking about AI's technical capabilities: what it can do now, what it might do tomorrow, what it will never do. 1/

Imagine realizing that you created something that you don’t want to exist anymore & having to make the decision to kill the AI persona of your dead loved one. Do you talk with them before you pull the plug? Do you have a funeral? Or do you just turn off the computer & walk away?

How will the French survive this weeks 40C+ heat? Pierre Charbonnier Lee Harris nature.com/articles/s4159…

This is all the prime minister of the UK’s posts over the past three days

THREAD. Today's orders by Trump federalizing D.C. police and deploying National Guard in D.C. in response to "out of control" crime are authoritarian. But I want to comment on something subtle lurking beneath the surface.

This is not just Chicago. Brown University, too, has drastically reduced the size of its incoming PhD class. Our leading universities are just giving up on humanistic study.

This is, without exaggerating, one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies", Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an