This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Eagerly awaiting the first paper titled “F’N-DSA” (on security vulnerabilities arising from incorrect implementation of floating-point arithmetic in FIPS-206)

Time to update the title of this classic paper! dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

This is mathematics erasure, Spelling Bee.

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

and of my research pathway

Must have taken a wrong turn on the way to the “Hate America rally”; all I see are American flags & signs promoting the Constitution, liberty, & democracy.

We’re thrilled to receive a Distinguished Paper Award for this work! www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2025/...

⚡New paper⚡, with Guy Zyskind, Doron Zarchy, and Max Leibovich of Fhenix, presented today at ACM CCS. We give an efficient 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 protocol for FHE/LWE with: no "noise flooding" or parameter loss, simulation (UC) security, and high throughput. web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert/pu...

⚡New paper⚡, with Alexandra Veliche Hostetler! We give a list-decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes, where the error is measured in the Euclidean (ℓ₂) or Lee (ℓ₁) metrics, rather than the Hamming metric (as is more typical). web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert/pu...

This was an hour ago!

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

FrodoKEM: A CCA-Secure Learning With Errors Key Encapsulation Mechanism (Lewis Glabush, Patrick Longa, Michael Naehrig, Chris Peikert, Douglas Stebila, Fernando Virdia) ia.cr/2025/1861

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants. The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

High-Throughput Universally Composable Threshold FHE Decryption (Guy Zyskind, Doron Zarchy, Max Leibovich, Chris Peikert) ia.cr/2025/1781

We will Make this deadline, very strongly, because we are WINNERS—but Europe and the Rest of the world will have to pay up BIGLY with the strongest and Most polished Best Paper awards! That is the least these low IQ individuals can do to Pay back what we Americans so richly deserve!

Other countries in Europe are LAUGHING at us, with their “Midnight Anywhere on Earth” conference submission Deadlines!! They’re finishing their papers and taking off for the Weekend at 2pm Friday, while we Americans have to pull ALL-NIGHTERS! Not on my (your favorite PC chair) watch—MAGTBAARHA!

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Vive Galois! Part 1: Optimal SIMD Packing and Packed Bootstrapping for FHE (Chris Peikert, Zachary Pepin) ia.cr/2025/1760

Thrilled to finally share this ⚡𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧⚡ with my (now-graduated!) student Zachary Pepin, which will appear at TCC 2025. We tackle a frequent inconvenience in BGV/BFV-style homomorphic encryption: getting the desired kind of "SIMD slots" for plaintext packing. 🧵 web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert/pu...

What a gem of a movie. I ran into David Strathairn at Vetri in Philly while he was doing a play at the Wilma and when I shook his hand I said "Sneakers is one of my all time favorites" and he said "most fun I ever had and hardly anyone brings it up" Gonna watch it tonight.

This is Ted Chiang erasure, Spelling Bee.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

This was, hands down, the top highlight among many in Pompeii. Some ancient Roman had this beautiful floor mosaic made for his home entryway. Is the red-eyed dog snarling and bearing its claws, barely held back by the links of a weak chain? Or is it wagging its tail and play-bowing? CAVEAT VIATOR!

CAVE CANEM (beware of dog)

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

They aren't against illegal immigration. They want immigration to be illegal.

1/ Trump’s immigration machine is abducting Oregonians without cause—including four U.S. citizen children in my district—and detaining them in a windowless cell with NO access to counsel. This is not law enforcement. It’s authoritarianism.

apart from its inherent qualities as a comic strip, I really appreciate that Watterson resisted the urge to franchise and merchandise C&H. There's no animated movie, no tv show, no line of toys, no ipad game. it exists in its entirety as a comic strip written and drawn entirely by one man.

This is a great and moving story. Last 4th of July in Seattle I came across a huge naturalization ceremony—hundreds of people from all over the world officially becoming Americans. More of this!

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

For the first time ever, ICE is holding nearly 12,000 people who have no criminal convictions or criminal charges in squalid overcrowded deportation centers.

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Dad of the Year award for this!

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

Just throw it onto the pile of reasons (as detailed by @radleybalko.bsky.social) that Sen. Bill Cassidy should be shamed for the rest of his life for for his craven, tie-breaking vote in support of RFK Jr.

BREAKING: RFK Jr. fires ACIP, the panel responsible for advising on vaccines. This breaks a promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to advance Kennedy as HHS secretary on the condition that he would, among other things, keep ACIP in place. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.