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“They are tying our hands and making us work for the federal government,” Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford said, “but only with this administration’s goals in mind. I am flabbergasted this is even an idea in Conservative Idaho, and I think people forget that immigration law is federal law.”

I find this surprising, given what a pain in the neck it is to donate through Act Blue from a non-US address. Even though I'm a citizen, my donations end up rejected about 1/3 of the time; the system seems aggressively tuned to say "no" rather than "yes." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

The birthright citizenship case offers a depressing window into how the Supreme Court helps drive, ratify, and legitimize extremist arguments. bit.ly/4bI28aP

Follow Rachel Cole, curator and head of Northwestern's Transportation Library, for terrific archival transportation posts! @rmartincole.bsky.social

Starting a new bit: There is no shortage of crimes to prosecute if we have the political will.

Read this. I'm getting stressed by the number of people interpreting Gorsuch's question as "ah-ha, so you'd can't instantly explain how Native folks are citizens!" as opposed to what it actually is, "ah-ha, so you're doing the opposite of originalism by inflicting citizenship on Native folks!"

I wrote last winter about the return of the r-word. I'm so mad. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

I don’t normally paint waterfalls, but this photo taken on a hike out West that’s been sitting in a folder for a decade was calling to me. You shouldn’t be surprised at the title. . 6”x6” oil.

He spent years lying about Obama giving Iran money. Then he makes Iran richer than they ever dreamed.

really horrible extremely bad security on secure apps is bad but also pretty funny like how is it possible you make something this bad www.404media.co/a-secure-cha...

For a time, the virulence of the backlash against the New Deal obscured that it has often been of a piece with the attempt to undo Reconstruction as well.

Coming to a gas station near you?

on a more fundamental level, there is an aspect of psychic terror that comes from acknowledging that something too big to fail (the US presidency) is failing, waking up every morning knowing it is failing

if you’re not willing to do *anything* disruptive about it, you’re going to be inclined to just deny it is happening at all

something like No Kings is essential merely because it gets people in the habit of saying “this is not OK, I don’t have to accept this” instead of just checking out, and i think elite passivity in face of Trump promotes popular apathy

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

Even if Trump loses at the Supreme Court, I promise you that opposition to birthright citizenship is already mandatory for any future Trump judicial nominees. The conservative legal movement never treats a decision it dislikes as "settled." It just waits for another shot.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program . . . Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure." The White House is *creating* more homeless vets than they're housing.

He's had a lot of Ls recently. Firing a Cabinet member will provide attention and a small rush of power

The decision to use an offensive, heavily armed paramilitary unit for street-level immigration sweeps in American cities is a first, and a bellwether of the Trump Administration’s project to militarize domestic law enforcement operations. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/border...

while I think folks generally understand how Trump's birthright citizenship order threatens a ton of newborns now, I don't think it's fully appreciated how it also threatens everyone bc if he can arbitrarily revoke citizenship from them, why not from you? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

When you look at how much Trump's illegal invasion of Iran has profited the oil and gas industry (follow their share price!)... then the decision to go to and stay at war makes a lot more sense.

hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.

I hate that teaching has become policing and surveilling. I hate that learning has become evasion and shortcuts. I hate how AI papers say nothing at all; they have no capacity for originality, contribution, or social change.

In a world full of problems, I hate that this technology boils our engines of hope down to empty non-interaction. My school recently polled to see how the faculty feels about using AI for GRADING. At what point is it just robots talking to each other? Where is the humanity in these humanities?

"One agent is married to a TV news anchor who reports on the Border Patrol. Another, who also engaged in a gun battle with a school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, has posted in an online gun forum with thread titles like 'Whipping Haitians.'" amazing work by @awinston.bsky.social + Maddy Varner

Altman does this thing where he pretends to be introspective and not a key part of the problem but he didn't "miscalibrate," he just likes money

wrote about the idea that "this is not normal" and "this is not who we are", and why that's (a) not really true, and (b) not a great approach to fighting fascism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-is-t...

Trump is dangerous in large part not because he's a huge break with the past, but because he synthesizes and extends a fascist tradition that has a lot of precedent and a strong hold on the US. 2

the idea that trump is just a detour or an aberration is what led Biden to assume that once he was gone things would snap back to normal without a need for drastic change or violation of norms.

re-upping this in light of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling last week that mandatory sentences to life in prison without possibility of parole for felony murder violates their state constitution's prohibition on cruel punishments!

A day after Mike Johnson and John Thune put out a joint statement declaring a "deal" to fund DHS, the Senate voted early today to pass its bill to reopen DHS and House Republicans... chose not to vote on it. DHS shutdown continues! www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Students at my alma mater recently voted 900 to 20 to remove Lutnick's name from the library. Woke 2.0 shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

If he starts going by lowercase jd vance then we'll really know something is up

Helpful reminder that childcare as infrastructure was already piloted once in this country and it was a great success.

Why did Elon Musk, a private citizen who happens to be the richest person in the world, join a phone call with President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the war in Iran?

I swear to god you guys I’m not doing sponcon here but every time someone messages me that they switched from TurboTax to @freetaxusa.bsky.social because they saw me hyping it up I feel SO ALIVE the cheaper version is both the better AND the less evil version, we just get that so rarely in life

every one of these guys would be the hugest loser you've ever met if there wasn't a massive makework program for men willing to act on their most sadistic impulses in this country

This chart, from YouGov, shows non-MAGA Republicans (about half of the party) moving 50 points, from +25 to -23, against Trump’s war in Iran over the last month. I wrote two weeks ago why this was the group to watch: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/forget-the...

may this be the beginning of something

astronauts: they're just like you and me

Pretty much guarantees a stand-off when he inevitably takes docs again.

Lol literally all the MSM news accounts, left right and center, have done nothing but sane wash that speech

A DOGE staffer convened a meeting with Department of Energy officials to discuss the future of nuclear power and downplayed the risk of radiation exposure at nuclear test sites: “They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there.”

This is WILD to do especially in a post-Sinners era.

I hope he's well. His work on Bob's Burgers is a joy

It's crazy that this counts as NYT-negative coverage of trump when even within their house style they could be like "frail trump stumbles through impromptu, falsehood-filled speech, raising fitness questions"