# immigration enforcement (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover immigration enforcement. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Trail Helping Houston Regain Freedom From Roads](https://texassignal.com/the-trail-helping-houston-regain-freedom-from-roads/) _2026-08-13 · Jef Rouner · The Texas Signal_ Transforming the trail into something actually useful started in stages in 2009, but the formation of the Friends of Columbia Tap Trail really got the ball moving ## [Prisoners Sent Out Of State, Left Out Of The Count](https://texassignal.com/prisoners-sent-out-of-state-left-out-of-the-count/) _2026-08-10 · Artem Kolisnichenko · The Texas Signal_ Despite the alarming number of deaths and high cost to send inmates out of state, Harris County keeps sending people anyway ## [Public Hearings On Immigration Enforcement In Texas](https://texassignal.com/public-hearings-on-immigration-enforcement-in-texas/) _2026-08-07 · Jessica Montoya Coggins · The Texas Signal_ Over the span of several hours, The People’s Hearing in Dallas included panels dedicated to the immigration enforcement pipeline, racial profiling, and DACA ## [Tarrant County Postpones Election Site Closures Vote](https://texassignal.com/tarrant-county-postpones-election-site-closures-vote/) _2026-08-05 · Jessica Montoya Coggins · The Texas Signal_ The Commissioners were considering a proposal to reduce the number of Election Day polling sites from 316 to 176, and the number of early voting sites from 50 to 42 ## [The Candidates Running Against Corruption](https://texassignal.com/the-candidates-running-against-corruption/) _2026-08-03 · Jessica Montoya Coggins · The Texas Signal_ For many of the Democratic challengers in Texas, combating corruption is taking center stage in their campaigns. ## [Data Centers Meet Their Skeptics](https://texassignal.com/data-centers-meet-their-skeptics/) _2026-07-30 · James Russell · The Texas Signal_ In nearly every corner of Texas, bipartisan activists are voicing their disapproval of data centers ## [The Texas Artist Changing How We See Landscape](https://texassignal.com/the-texas-artist-changing-how-we-see-landscape/) _2026-07-29 · Jef Rouner · The Texas Signal_ The Texas landscape has inspired artists since time out of mind. Rebecca Pugh, often working with mixed media, is no exception. ## [Continued Calls For ICE Accountability In Texas](https://texassignal.com/continued-calls-for-ice-accountability-in-texas/) _2026-07-27 · Jessica Montoya Coggins · The Texas Signal_ Protesters are demanding not only accountability for what happened to Salgado Araujo, but an end to what they see as systemic violence from a federal immigration enforcement agency ## [Faith Leaders Condemn ICE Violence In Texas](https://texassignal.com/faith-leaders-condemn-ice-violence-in-texas/) _2026-07-22 · Jessica Montoya Coggins · The Texas Signal_ The faith leaders at the Texas Capitol noted that recent violent actions from ICE go against their religious traditions and beliefs while calling for specific reforms ## [Dakari Butler, Immersive Art, And Anthropomorphic Bowling Pins](https://texassignal.com/dakari-butler-immersive-art-and-anthropomorphic-bowling-pins/) _2026-07-20 · Jef Rouner · The Texas Signal_ The Mundane, Uneventful, & Ordinary Life of Miss Jones, running at Art on Main in Dallas though August 1, is Butler’s most narrative work yet, but also fits into her undefinable oeuvre as an artist ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pk3fJPf0u3xe) _2026-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [A year of ChatGPT is a fifth of a beer](https://maxghenis.com/blog/drinking-ai/) _2026-07-05 · Max Ghenis_ I built an interactive that prices drinks in AI queries — and lets you flip every assumption that makes published AI water numbers differ by 100x. ## [MacKenzie Scott's giving, in QALYs](https://maxghenis.com/blog/mackenzie-scott-giving-in-qalys/) _2026-06-28 · Max Ghenis_ An interactive cost-effectiveness model for MacKenzie Scott's $26B in philanthropy — and the AI prompts that built it. ## [The administration is hand-picking who runs which frontier model](https://maxghenis.com/blog/pulled-one-approved-another/) _2026-06-27 · Max Ghenis_ On the same stated cyber rationale, the Commerce Department pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline, the White House cleared OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for a chosen list of companies, and a second Commerce letter reopened Mythos 5 to 100-plus named organizations — three models, three bespoke deals, no published rule. Capability, safeguards, and prior coordination don't explain who got which. ## [The administration is hand-picking who runs which frontier model — social posts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/pulled-one-approved-another-social/) _2026-06-27 · Max Ghenis_ Social media posts for the GPT-5.6 / Fable approval double-standard post ## [The US government is gutting Anthropic's R&D capacity](https://maxghenis.com/blog/us-gutted-anthropic-rd/) _2026-06-15 · Max Ghenis_ A Commerce export control pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Friday. It's cutting roughly a third of Anthropic's own researchers off from the frontier models they build, while every competitor's keep theirs. ## [How to turn money into predictions](https://maxghenis.com/blog/how-to-turn-money-into-predictions/) _2026-05-26 · Max Ghenis_ A menu of mechanisms for organizations that want to fund forecasts on policy, economic, and AI outcomes. ## [Can Talkie-1930 do arithmetic?](https://maxghenis.com/blog/talkie-1930-math-evals/) _2026-04-30 · Max Ghenis_ I tested Talkie-1930 on GSM8K and the easier EleutherAI/OpenAI arithmetic suite, then packaged an lm-eval-harness runner so the runs are reproducible. ## [Talkie-1930 math evals social posts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/talkie-1930-math-evals-social/) _2026-04-30 · Max Ghenis_ Social media posts for the Talkie-1930 arithmetic evaluation post ## [Billionaires aren't 'just as likely' to be nonpayers as top taxpayers](https://maxghenis.com/blog/madoff-billionaire-nonpayers/) _2026-04-20 · Max Ghenis_ Checking Ray Madoff's claim on The Ezra Klein Show against ProPublica and PolicyEngine microdata. ## [I used Bayesian statistics to optimize my bedding](https://maxghenis.com/blog/bayesian-comforter/) _2026-03-04 · Max Ghenis_ How I combined Eight Sleep data, Whoop biometrics, and RCT evidence to pick a comforter and pillow ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CdtCGJqw0F7h) _2026-03-03 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [I built a MyST-to-Quarto converter (and why you might need one)](https://maxghenis.com/blog/mystquarto/) _2026-02-27 · Max Ghenis_ mystquarto converts academic markdown between MyST and Quarto formats — directives, roles, config files, and frontmatter. Now on PyPI. ## [One year of Claude Code](https://maxghenis.com/blog/my-claude-code-config/) _2026-02-25 · Max Ghenis_ A year ago, Anthropic launched Claude Code. I've since consumed 10 billion tokens, mass-tweeted about it, and mass-customized it. Here's my setup and what I've learned. ## [Why you can't make double eye contact](https://maxghenis.com/blog/double-eye-contact/) _2026-02-10 · Max Ghenis_ Your eyes can only converge on a single point. Up close, that means you have to pick one of the other person's eyes to look at. ## [Interactive replication of GiveWell's cost-effectiveness analysis](https://maxghenis.com/blog/givewell-cea/) _2026-02-10 · Max Ghenis_ I re-implemented GiveWell's cost-effectiveness models for all six top charities as an open-source web tool with editable parameters, moral weights, and sensitivity analysis. ## [GiveWell CEA social posts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/givewell-cea/social/) _2026-02-10 · Max Ghenis_ Social media posts for the GiveWell CEA interactive replication ## [Where US immigrants come from, and where ICE focuses enforcement](https://maxghenis.com/blog/bad-bunny-immigration-enforcement/) _2026-02-09 · Max Ghenis_ Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show highlighted the Americas. Here's what the data shows about immigration and enforcement patterns. ## [OpenMessage: How I built a macOS Google Messages client to give Claude my texts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/openmessage/) _2026-02-09 · Max Ghenis_ I had already connected Claude Code to WhatsApp, Signal, Slack, and Gmail. SMS was the last holdout — and no existing tool could solve it. ## [Scrollywood: Smooth scroll video recording for the web](https://maxghenis.com/blog/scrollywood/) _2026-02-06 · Max Ghenis_ A Chrome extension that records smooth-scrolling videos and GIFs of any webpage, built for capturing scrollytelling stories and long-form content. ## [I used Claude Code to recertify for SNAP](https://maxghenis.com/blog/snap-recertification-claude-code/) _2026-02-06 · Max Ghenis_ Browser automation + document reading + form filling: Claude Code completed my SNAP recertification in about an hour of active work, across 373 tool calls. ## [The adolescence of policy simulation: On Amodei and economic disruption](https://maxghenis.com/blog/amodei-adolescence-policyengine/) _2026-01-27 · Max Ghenis_ AI can answer policy questions. It cannot yet model policy impacts. That requires infrastructure we are still building. ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q030YGcAEHJL) _2026-01-26 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [opencollective-py: Manage OpenCollective from your terminal or Claude Code](https://maxghenis.com/blog/opencollective-py/) _2026-01-23 · Max Ghenis_ A Python client, CLI, and MCP server for the OpenCollective API. ## [From IDE to AI orchestration: The end of code-first development](https://maxghenis.com/blog/ide-to-ai-orchestration/) _2026-01-11 · Max Ghenis_ How AI coding tools evolved from autocomplete to autonomous agents, and why I expect to abandon my IDE entirely this month. ## [RAMBar: A macOS menu bar RAM monitor for developers](https://maxghenis.com/blog/rambar/) _2026-01-07 · Max Ghenis_ A native macOS menu bar app for tracking memory usage across Claude Code sessions, VS Code workspaces, Chrome tabs, and Python processes. ## [TerminalGrid: Turn VS Code into a Claude Code superterminal](https://maxghenis.com/blog/terminalgrid/) _2026-01-07 · Max Ghenis_ A VS Code extension for keyboard-driven terminal grid management with project picker and auto-launch for AI coding tools. ## [The definitive QALY analysis of nuts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/_which-nut-is-healthiest-bayesian-qaly-analysis/) _2025-12-19 · Max Ghenis_ A rigorous, evidence-based Monte Carlo simulation estimating the lifetime health impact of different nut types. The most comprehensive quantitative nut health analysis available. ## [How to Use MDX for Interactive Posts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/using-mdx/) _2025-11-25 · Max Ghenis_ This blog supports MDX, allowing you to embed React components, Plotly charts, and interactive elements directly in posts. ## [VAT thresholds, revenues, and the role of counterfactuals](https://maxghenis.com/blog/vat-thresholds/) _2025-08-30 · Max Ghenis_ Debunking claims that raising the UK VAT threshold would increase tax revenues through growth effects. ## [AI models favor Cuomo over Mamdani on NYC housing production](https://maxghenis.com/blog/ai-models-nyc-housing/) _2025-06-23 · Max Ghenis_ An experiment using six AI models to forecast NYC housing production under two mayoral candidates. ## [Bad Bunny immigration enforcement social posts](https://maxghenis.com/blog/bad-bunny-immigration-enforcement/social/) _2025-02-09 · Max Ghenis_ Social media posts for the Bad Bunny immigration enforcement article ## [My 2024 in code: Personal projects and AI tools](https://maxghenis.com/blog/my-2024-in-code/) _2025-01-02 · Max Ghenis_ How AI helped me build useful software while leading PolicyEngine.