"No one understands anything about immigration policy everyone has opinions on it anyway" loved this from @gabydvj.bsky.social

At NatCon, there were two topics dominating everyone’s discussions: the imminent end of the right’s support of Israel — and the existential threat that technology posed to Western civilization. I wrote about the second discussion. www.theverge.com/politics/773...

"This is why the DHS twitter account now posts deportation ASMR and caked up ICE shawtys. The edgelords are in control, and the opposition is too busy quibbling over zoning reform white papers to do anything about it." This was really good from @gabydvj.bsky.social

oh how i’ve Suffered gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

hey remember when i wrote about the pronatalist right for politico and got accused of “nut-picking” lmao www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*

apropos of nothing

student activists at Columbia have been warning about the harms posed by Canary Mission and other far-right doxing groups for years. Now we know ICE is using Canary Mission’s database to find targets for deportation www.theverge.com/policy/70772...

they’re letting me be mean online again www.theverge.com/policy/70538...

i reviewed jen pan’s selling social justice for the new issue of @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/woke...

25.5 hours left and still waiting on a fair contract betting this auspicious Solidarity Moon will help 😌

when the median voter hears “mass deportations” they think “trump is going to get rid of ms13 and tren de aragua but not my neighbor, who is a good person.” which is why polls show that some people say they want both “mass deportations” AND a path to citizenship

gate agent just said they’re going “biometric boarding” on my flight to spain. yeah ok for sure. here’s my face delta i hope you don’t do anything weird with it

how do you do fellow kids www.theverge.com/tech/657409/...

i’ve been saying! thebaffler.com/salvos/live-...

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

heartwarming! local app that claims to pay bounties for deportation tipoffs probably just pump-and-dump scam

NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement. ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion. Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

networked computers were a mistake

thought i was writing a story about an app that pays crypto bounties for reporting undocumented immigrants. but i was actually writing a story about something worse: a crypto pump-and-dump disguised as an app that pays crypto bounties for reporting immigrants www.theverge.com/tech/650015/...

I wrote about those TikToks from Chinese factories that claim to "cut out the middleman" for Lululemon, Birkenstocks, and more. They're designed to entice US shoppers who are nervous about tariffs and used to low prices. Most claims are also probably bullshit. www.theverge.com/tech/649049/...

I spoke to the person who filmed Mohsen Mahdawi’s arrest: “He knew he was a target,” but remained calm. “He went like a Buddhist: peacefully, calmly, and serenely.” www.theverge.com/policy/64942...

This cop was convicted of real crime and got probation. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was back in law enforcement. Abrego Garcia wasn’t accused of any crime. He was accused by a dirty cop of being in a gang. For that, DOJ unilaterally imposed a life sentence in a horrific prison with no due process.

This shifts the administration's position to not only saying that they are not going to do anything to facilitate Abrego García's actual return, but if _somehow_ he was released from CECOT and found his way back, they would immediately detain him and remove him again

New — The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. The Trump-Vance administration ignored such an order previously, when it moved Rumeysa Ozturk out of Massachusetts to Louisiana.

if you’ve recently traveled into or out of the US and had any unusual interactions with CBP, i’d like to hear about them (regardless of immigration status—citizens, permanent residents, visa holders) email: gaby @ the verge dot com, i’m also on signal ✨

ahem

Scoop: Ekaterina Diestler, one of the "winners" of Elon Musk's $1 million handout in Wisconsin, works for a company founded and headed by Republican mega donors. Bruce Bell, the founder of Belmark, has donated thousands to Brad Schimel's campaign & other GOP causes. www.theverge.com/politics/640...

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

A dispatch from a protest against the disappearance of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville last night. www.welcometohellworld.com/free-rumeysa...

news you can use: www.theverge.com/policy/63426...

“The families and lawyers of dozens of other Venezuelan & Salvadoran men who had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say their relatives and clients have similarly disappeared over the past week” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

he’s learning about the federal immigration bureaucracy. he doesn’t like it :(

vision blurry from too much time looking at computer

Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”

brain oozing out of my ears as i read about different federal circuits’ interpretations of the fourth amendment

In January 2024 I got a one-line email from a woman I didn't know: "Jimmie Duncan an innocent man on death row is looking to get into contact with you." I've been working on the story ever since. Here it is, finally - a @motherjones.com / @bolts.bsky.social feature: boltsmag.org/the-human-co...

DOGE abandoned devices overseas that hold sensitive information on former USAID workers and their partners, a risky situation for pretty much everyone involved From the indomitable @miasato.bsky.social and me www.theverge.com/policy/63209...

Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

“We need to be focused on the billionaires over President Trump’s shoulder at his inauguration,” FTC's @bedoyaftc.bsky.social warns after Trump's attempt to fire him. "Who will win from this attempt to illegally remove us, and frankly, who will lose?” www.theverge.com/news/632944/...

🚨🚨🚨The Trump Admin admits that many of the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador do NOT have criminal records. And yet it doubles down and goes on to say, in court docs, that the lack of evidence against these people probably means they are gang members anyway: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

wrote about the common denominator in all the stories of CBP arresting, deporting, and in one case allegedly torturing legal immigrants at airports: mass surveillance www.theverge.com/policy/63284...

NEW: For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org: I interviewed several attorneys in the Md area whose clients were held in ICE field office processing cells -- meant for less than a 12-hour hold -- for several days without beds, showers, medication. www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2025/03...

“every latin american country is different” “we don’t all have one single culture” and yet every single middle aged colombian venezuelan and puerto rican at my dad’s 60th bday party is absolutely losing it over the mariachi band rn

Listening in on this now. Apparently Chief Judge Boasberg is wearing casual clothes because he went away for the weekend and didn't bring his robes with him.

White House declaring that any Venezuelan man/teenager 14 years or older, who (the government says) is a member of Tren de Aragua, and who isn’t a citizen or green card holder, are “subject to immediate apprehension, detention and removal.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NEW: ICE says there was nothing sinister about their multiple relocations of Mahmoud Khalil: there's a shortage of detention space, Manhattan doesn't have true overnight facilities, and the Elizabeth, NJ, detention center has bedbugs storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i am once again asking whether the campus culture warriors at the free press dot substack dot com have anything to say about student protesters being arrested for speech