Polls show Israeli public frustration over a showdown that did not fully defeat Iran.

Markwayne Mullin appears to be scaling back the visibility of ICE agents in enforcement, saying he’d “love to see” ICE spend more time doing “transport” and less on the “front line.” One way to do that is by paying local police to take on more of the investigations and arrests of immigrants.

Spain moves forward with mass migrant regularisation

⚡️Spain, Belgium to allocate over $2 billion in defense support for Ukraine. Spain and Belgium have pledged a combined 2 billion euros ($2.35 billion) in new military aid to Ukraine following recent defense talks, officials said.

Hegseth blocked promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four military branches. None had open investigations against them. None had been accused of misconduct. They simply weren't the right profile.

Viktor Orban's defeat in Hungary's election will likely unlock the EU's 90 billion-euro loan for Ukraine and its EU membership bid, but that does not mean progress will be instantaneous or free of further obstacles.

In small towns where farm and meat packing jobs are the major employers, ICE agents pick people off of the street instead of conducting workplace raids, apparently attempting to continue arrests without slowing down production. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/13/a...

Judge bars Trump administration from nixing protected status for Ethiopians https://aje.news/q2stut

US led ‘historic’ foreign aid decline in 2025 amid Trump cuts: OECD https://aje.news/2o31jf

Israel putting Iran truce 'under severe strain', warns EU foreign affairs chief: 🔗 https://eurac.tv/9Yty

UN human rights chief Volker Turk describes Israel's attacks on Lebanon as 'horrific' coming so soon after ceasefire.

“At al-Aqsa hospital, a colleague of Aslan said the vehicle he was driving was clearly marked w the WHO's logo on all sides, & that it had been at the front of a co-ordinated convoy transporting patients to the Rafah crossing when it came under fire from an Israeli tank.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today I learned there was a synagogue in Iran. Wish I’d known about that before Israel bombed it. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Maine is poised to allow jails to refuse to hold immigration detainees. via @mainemorningstar.com

NEW: Kansas passed an anti-trans law that has retroactively voided the existing IDs of transgender residents. One major implication: this effectively hinders their access to the polls given the requirements in this state. Things are escalating in states. boltsmag.org/kansas-trans...

Russia confirms 16 Cameroonian soldiers killed in Ukraine war https://aje.news/imblak

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate

Rejection at home. Instability in care. Group placements that normalize conditional belonging. Running. Grooming. Exploitation. These are not isolated failures. They are all linked.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

⚡️ Moldova's parliament approves exit from Russia-led CIS. The move is a "natural and inevitable step towards European integration," the Moldovan parliament said.

⚡️Belarusian parliament approves new law targeting LGBTQ+ expression and childfree lifestyles.

Advocates in Uganda described the deportation as an act of 'transnational repression' and pledged to fight the process.

To center efforts for accountability and the plight of civilians following the invasion of the country as well as the ongoing violence waged its people and infrastructure, #Lebanon should join the #ICC. My latest for @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Early-release window could double to 120 days for terminally ill inmates (via @wbrznews2.bsky.social) https://pulse.ly/mii029f273

A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

The birthright citizenship case isn't just an academic exercise. It's about what kind of a country we live in, and the consequences will be felt by everyone. It will make us a sicker, poorer, fundamentally unequal society. Here's just a few of the ways: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

PRISM: Israel is still targeting journalists in Gaza during the ceasefire prismreports.org/2026/03/30/g... @prismreports.org #photojournalism #journalism

NEW: Leading Israeli international law scholars' statement on how new Israeli death penalty law "violates basic rules of international law" www.justsecurity.org/135364/israe...

Crime in the United States continued to fall in 2024, according to two new federal reports from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, with declines in both violent and property offenses even as some states had higher-than-average crime rates. michiganadvance.com/2026/03/31/r... From @stateline.org

Death toll by the Defenseurs Plus rights group significantly exceeds ⁠official estimates of 16.

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

Israel passes law approving the death penalty, by hanging, for Palestinians they have convicted of “deadly attacks.” (www.reuters.com/world/middle...)

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Who deserves justice and who deserves mercy under this administration? My colleague @jeremykohler.bsky.social has a disturbing case study: www.propublica.org/article/jose...

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

NEW: In the birthright citizenship case, Trump cites an 1884 Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to a Native American man. But experts on Native American law tell NBC News that argument is flawed, betraying an ignorance of the subject matter. 👇👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

On #palmsunday, Israeli police has denied the top Catholic clergies in Jerusalem access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where consequently there will be no Palm Sunday celebration for the first time in hundreds of years. Mass attendance had already been forbidden. lpj.org/en/news/join...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar Guardian South Africa’s Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic 800m champion, said new IOC reinstatement of sex verification tests for LA 2028 Olympic shows "a disrespect for women”.

Hello @janeese4dc.bsky.social can you get the pothole filled at North Capitol and Gallatin? A pickup truck snapped its front axel earlier right in front of me 🫠 no danger but scared me shitless lol

Can a $40 smartphone close Africa’s internet gap? Industry groups say cheaper devices could bring millions online, but earlier low-cost phone projects struggled to survive https://restofworld.org/2026/gsma-cheap-smartphone-africa/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

Yesterday New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a trio of bills protecting the state's immigrants. New Jersey is now the 10th state (and 4th in the past year) to pass legislation outlawing local law enforcement partnerships with ICE via the 287(g) program. boltsmag.org/new-jersey-i...

The IOC bans trans women from the Olympics, bowing to Trump's hateful fascism. All decent countries, including Canada, should boycott the Olympics. We won't, because we're led by feckless cowards. www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/s...

“There's no accountability,” one expert tells WIRED of ICE’s ability to lie to the public and impersonate law enforcement. "The consequence of this is that it’s going to be a systemic harm across all law enforcement.” read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Lille wins race to host EU customs authority

Cyber Warfare and the Limits of International Criminal Law: Can Digital Attacks Amount to War Crimes? opiniojuris.org/2026/03/19/c...

Law, Not War: Why Cuba should Join the International Criminal Court in an effort to avert American Aggression opiniojuris.org/2026/03/22/l...

NEW: Like many of you, I found the revelations about César Chávez’s sexual abuse of Dolores Huerta, Ana Murguia, and Debra Rojas absolutely devastating. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about the importance of grappling with Chávez’s true legacy—both as as a civil rights leader and a rapist.

Nick Smith has presided over a crime-riddled sheriff's department in Walker County. The people there might re-elect him anyway. #alpolitics

Settlers set fire to homes and cars near Jenin amid reports of widespread violence across the occupied territory.