This investigation into cold-case convictions in (my childhood hometown of) Kalamazoo was so well done and jaw dropping.

There are too many stories to list of this happening. ICE has probably arrested thousands of spouses of US citizens, including hundreds with pending green card applications that USCIS is not finishing the processing of. 10news.com/news/local-n...

Sadly, not even green cards for family of US citizens are safe, which are 20% below the pre-Trump level and nearly 50% below the level when USCIS Dir. Joe Edlow was confirmed in July. USCIS is working with ICE to arrest our relatives with pending applications, even though they are eligible

NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...

Like the 2022 @theonion.com amicus brief on parody and the First Amendment, further evidence that funny people can make serious points to the Supreme Court. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

Some incredible beaver facts from the latest episode of Radiolab/Terrestrials: * Can hold their breath for 15 minutes * Willingly share their huts with mice, snakes, muskrats * Their dams create "refugia" for plants and animals where they can survive forest fires radiolab.org/podcast/the-...

“You shouldn't transition to post-quantum because you are confident quantum computing will happen; you should only avoid transitioning because you are confident quantum computing will not happen, and none of the experts are confident in that anymore.”

congratulations to the national champs, who trailed Northwestern by 16 points earlier this year

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

A very nice explainer why "if you're so worried about quantum computers, why haven't they factored 21 yet?" isn't a very convincing argument. Look at the labels of the graph, and how extremely close the various lines are for factoring 21 and 2048 bit numbers. Polynomial scaling remains […]

John Calhoun said the U.S. was a "white man's government." John Bingham, one of the authors of the 14th Amendment, said that this was a "horrid blasphemy." The birthright citizenship case is ultimately about which America we are going to be. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

> We demonstrate that Shor’s algorithm...can execute with either ≤ 1200 logical qubits and ≤ 90 million Toffoli gates or ≤ 1450 logical qubits and ≤ 70 million Toffoli gates research.google/blog/safegua... quantumai.google/static/site-...

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

New from me: The first post of a series documenting the brazen lies DHS has told after abuse and violence by ICE and Bordrer Patrol officers. First up: The bumbling, illegal raid on ChongLy Scott Thao and his family.

Last year, I thought we still had time to design PQ auth systems. Now, based on the pace of progress and on statements like Google's, I believe 1. we need to finish rolling out PQ kex yesterday 2. we need to start rolling out PQ auth now 3. it's too late to ship any new non-PQ design or system

We just caught ICE in a bombshell lie. They do NOT have the authorization they've claimed to arrest immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza. Courthouse arrests must end now. There's never been a stronger case for why this rogue, lawless agency should be abolished.

new Joy of Cryptography just dropped (feat. Post-Quantum Crypto)

I want to continue a bit on this subject, which (so far) I see very little concern about. There are vast stores of private data that we’ve built up in various places, including messaging apps. A real “killer app” for Gen AI is to ingest them and turn that data into revenue.

One couple with a baby was held at gunpoint after federal officers slammed into their car while pursuing immigrants fleeing on foot. They then wrongly assumed the couple was part of a related protest, and blew their front door off its hinges in a SWAT raid. Bovino posted the raid on his Instagram.

Missed this when it came out a few months ago, but it's stunning reporting. Vividly captures how Trump and Miller have unleashed violence and chaos on these communities -- and how their lawless goons exact retribution on anyone who gets in their way, even unintentionally. Bovino should be in prison.

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

Absolute insanity - the Trump administration wants to pay nearly $1 billion of taxpayer dollars to a private French company to *not* build wind farms off the East Coast

Great episode of @chrislhayes.bsky.social's podcast with @davidjbier.bsky.social, whose work and testimony on immigration issues I've highlighted here before. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3

The Stephen F. Austin women are the Ladyjacks? Is “Lumber” the masculine part of that word?

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

A statement from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan:

America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered. The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim. From the indispensable @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com —> chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

MERKLEY: So when the VP said 'ICE agents have absolute immunity' in violating people's civil rights, he was effectively correct? BIER: Effectively, yes. Right now as the law stands.

RON JOHNSON: 650k people that are at large in America have committed crimes. Mr Bier, you're shaking your head BIER: They're not at large. They're in prison. They're in prison where they should be JOHNSON: They're not detained! BIER: They're detained by the states. They're not detained by ICE

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

“A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters” www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

“Once the site of an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II…”

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

For anyone with relatives or friends who still claim Trump is targeting only "illegal" migrants, this interview with @davidjbier.bsky.social dispels the myth. It explains how the US govt is blocking legal immigration - even people who followed the process and paid all the fees to become citizens.

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter:

NEW: Here's the story of a woman deported by Kristi Noem. Legally in the United States (as a DACA recipient), she is the mother of a U.S. citizen and was working to help the homeless—but when she went for an appointment to get a green card, she was deported. www.thebulwark.com/p/kristi-noe...

Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.