"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth." - Mississippi's declaration of concession, 1861

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

Where are the students? I saw them at the Broadview Detention Center, and on the streets of my neighborhood. You’re looking in the wrong place.

Tuan Van Bui, the son of a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, “is the second person to die at Miami CC this year and continues the morbid pattern of one ICE death every 6.0 days,” writes @austinkocher.com: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...

U.S. officials told Reuters that the movement of thousands of Marines to the Middle East, from San Diego, was continuing for now. www.reuters.com/world/hegset...

Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning on Wednesday afternoon, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

News that Trump has given Netanyahu a green light to continue the invasion of Lebanon is spreading and going over poorly. The narrative is that Trump folded to Israeli pressure and unilaterally walked back part of the deal. An IRGC weather vane account claims air defenses are going up in Tehran.

Chicago’s migrants face scams, sky-high rents and squalor in search for housing www.wbez.org/immigration/... for this story I had the opportunity to work with my amazing colleague and reporter @estheryjkang.bsky.social check it out.

Several regional and local sources say Iran is weighing retaliatory strikes against Israel for ongoing ceasefire violations, including the bombings of residential buildings in Lebanon. Red cross reports mass casualties.

WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.

Great replacement as prophesy, shameful

The "duped voter" narrative is a comforting myth. If only we had better messaging. The reality is tens of millions of voters looked at a platform of mass deportation, ethnic cleansing, state violence, and the dismantling of civil rights, clearly understood it, and said, "Yes, that is what I want."

The UK has evacuated its forces from Iraq, The i Paper reports.

It’s why Elon thought buying Twitter would “end wokeness”, the Ellisons believe buying studios can make Trump love them, and Ackman believes buying Bad Bunny’s record label could end his influence.

Palestinian writer Omar Hamad founded the Phoenix Library—the Gaza Strip’s first public library—built in the wake of Israel’s ongoing genocide. Read his tale of displacement, weighed by worry and book stacks, and support the Library as a place of refuge: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...

Don't let this moment erode your humanity. Don't allow this uncertainty to make you feel siloed and helpless. Defend your own decency and our collective decency, because if those are lost, we won't hold much else.

Its sickening to witness open calls for genocide. Its also crushing that there is no significantly organized mass anti war movement in the imperial core, despite decades of endless war and years of livestreamed genocide. "Everything you do, even if small, matters" is ringing hollow for me tbh.

GHOULS

Iran closes all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the U.S., suspending the exchange of messages, following Trump’s threat to kill Iran's "whole civilization." -Reuters

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

UPDATE: CBP got back to us acknowledged the non-profits we talk about in our story are MWRs, and had "received authorization to conduct limited commercial activities on CBP-occupied property." Unclear if the coins were cleared for sale, but MWR "policy and procedures are being reviewed and updated."

NEW: An immigrant dad waited 5 mts for a fingerprinting appt required to reunite with his daughter. In that time, the toddler was sexually abused in government care. “I just think that if they would have moved faster, nothing like that would have happened,” the dad said. apnews.com/article/immi...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing. (Published Feb.)

True story: James Madison’s final public act was to warn the 1829 Virginia convention that if they allowed white men who didn’t own property to vote, that they’d all vote to tax rich slaveholders until they were forced to free the people they enslaved. Just in case you thought any of this was new.

We first unmasked (or not—Donahue never actually covers his face) two CBP agents in November at great personal risk as two reporters who have been repeatedly targeted by the feds, including with assaults and arrest. Since then, more and more outlets have felt comfortable naming agents:

Two-year-old Kaleth and his mom are home. During his time at the Dilley trailer prison, Kaleth was sick—he could not eat the food from CoreCivic, was vomiting, and ran a fever while detained.

That’s right

How did Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks get away with so much prostitution tourism even with 2 CBP-OPR investigations? They have former Border Patrol agents as their investigators. open.substack.com/pub/jennbudd...

They’re talking like this man died. And I can’t help but remember the grace she extended to all the immigrants (and others) that were actually killed by her DHS.

still crazy that they buried their own postmortem because "listen to the voters, advertise on Hulu and Netflix instead of the Las Vegas Sphere and maybe don't support a genocide" threatened to blow up the whole party

Amazing story ultimately made possible by FOIA data from TRAC

the leaks keep coming from inside targeting Hagueseth. Similar to leaks that kept coming targeting Noem before she was booted out of DHS. the knives are out.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

incredible

The juxtaposition... www.axios.com/2026/03/30/g...

I wrote about this last year. what awaits these people is almost unimaginable www.patreon.com/posts/129696...

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Clearly this *has* gone unaddressed for over a decade now, and I’ve felt for a long time that this trend is a world war indicator.

JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Joabe Barbosa set a world record when he visited every CTA station in under 9 hours. He’s 85% of the way toward running each and every single street in Chicago. Now, he’s being forced to leave the United States: www.instagram.com/reel/DWeUcDq...

A propaganda victory for Russia. They get to portray themselves as humanitarians, giving the Cuban people a respite from blackouts, amid US oil blockade, causing ventilators to fail in Cuban hospitals. Plus, they get to show an apparent "Russia carve-out" to Trump's version of the Monroe Doctrine.

14th death under ICE custody that we know of. We will update this story as soon as we get more details. We reached out to ICE and DHS on Wednesday night and have received no response.

An alleged member of the Jewish Defense League -- a terrorist group -- was arrested on charges related to targeting a pro-Palestine organizer with assassination. Nerdeen Kiswani has long been a target of ultra-Zionist groups, including Canary Mission and Betar USA. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/n...

WOW. Amazon planning one of their largest data center projects in the world in NE Oregon. At full scale would use as much power as the entire Portland metro area. Pacific Power says it can somehow supply it with existing transmission lines? www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...

Iran-linked hackers have published what they say is information stolen from FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account. "A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel's email had been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic." www.reuters.com/world/us/ira...

Lebanon death toll reaches 1,142, including woman expecting twins — the pregnant woman was killed by an Israeli strike Friday on the eastern village of Bazalieh that also wounded seven people, the Health Ministry said. apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

It’s ‘hard to explain’ because he knows it’s inappropriate for him to use the n-word around strangers

Strong echoes of the "Haitian Program" under Reagan, in which Haitians and virtually no one else were held in immigration detention and deported. A fed court found the entire program was illegal and discriminatory, but by the time it finished in the courts the damage was already done.