BREAKING: Foreigners with World Cup tickets won't have to pay bonds to enter the U.S., the Trump administration tells the AP.

People were displaced from their homes by conflict record 32.3 million times last year. For the first time on record, conflict was a bigger driver of displacement than disasters www.internal-displacement.org/news/conflic...

Officials are reportedly considering closing Alligator Alcatraz, less than a year after it was opened www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

“Suddenly, we were beachfront" Another great Post story on erosion and relocation in the Outer Banks www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

You may have heard of the “passport affair” in Dutch football. In a new Substack post I explain what it is about, what today’s court ruling means, and why the controversy exposes the Netherlands’ increasingly outdated and inconsistent approach to dual citizenship. substack.com/home/post/p-...

earlier this month @tufts.edu senior Miles Kendrick and I fielded a survey with @today.yougov.com to better understand what acts people think are political violence. there are some points of agreement & some clear differences of opinion. goodauthority.org/news/democra...

It's Independent Bookstore Day today! Local bookstores are the best part of every good neighborhood. But they can only exist if you buy stuff from them Go to your local bookstore!

Breaking News: The Justice Department wants to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of foreign-born Americans, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations, according to a U.S. official.

The DHS is quietly rolling back some of its controversial immigration enforcement policies, according to two senior DHS officials and two immigration attorneys who have seen the changes firsthand.

"The picture that emerged is of a situation very much still in flux: Some people have returned home, others have run out of resources ending up stranded in various countries, while many are still searching for a place where they can find stability."

well *that* is a lede www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I wrote for my hometown newspaper, the Arizona Daily Sun: "Climate change is driving migration in the US and around the world" azdailysun.com/opinion/colu...

youre not gonna believe it, but this is the 50th EPISODE of this podcast we made! What a cool milestone

Ive been waiting for someone to write this deep dive of the changes at the US immigration court system (which is actually part of DOJ) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Happy pub day to @jiyounghan.bsky.social! Buy Honey In The Wound from your local bookstore, read it, and be moved and astonished

Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen have just broken the record for the furthest that any human beings have ever traveled from the Earth as Artemis II passes beyond the distance that Apollo 13 traveled in 1970.

of course there is now a millennial indie rock cruise headlined by Modest Mouse of course the writeup mentions "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" stereogum.com/2493841/we-a...

Baltimore/DMV folks! Come down to @redemmas.org today for END PAPERS: A Mini Book Fest on Capitalism & the Climate Crisis 🔥 The lineup is incredible, the conversations will be electric! I will be on stage speaking w/ the great @jmhattem.bsky.social about climate change & mass displacement/migration

Today! @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @nikifabs2024.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social + local climate organizers coming through 4 a bookfest on capitalism & the climate crisis!

space is so cool i love space

I'm super stoked to be speaking at this event at @redemmas.org mas.org in Baltimore on Saturday, alongside @triofrancos.bsky.social y.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social C'mon by! It's gonna be a great time redemmas.org/events/end-p...

"Thanks to unexplained changes in U.S. policy, many are now mired in immigration limbo, unable to argue their asylum claims in court and unsure if they’ll be shackled and put on a deportation flight to a country they’ve never seen." apnews.com/article/trum...

I learned today that EB White, of Strunk & White fame, is also the author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little happy friday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump to attend Wednesday Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship in unprecedented move for a sitting president.

third-country deportations -- ie those that occur to places other than migrants' homelands -- were a tiny fraction of US deportations last year, adding up to about 15,000 in total. Of those, 13,000 were to Mexico Read @ruizags.bsky.social : www.migrationpolicy.org/news/us-thir...

"From a hilltop on the base, the town of Caimanera on the other side of the bay was enveloped in darkness on a recent night. But Gitmo... was thriving."

Are you in Baltimore this weekend? Come out to Red Emma's on Sat, April 4! I'm taking part in this great daylong event: "End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis." redemmas.org/events/end-p...

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding

SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them. This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.

At least three states have taken steps to restrict undocumented high school students’ access to dual enrollment/career-technical education programs, according to documents reviewed by Chalkbeat. In Virginia, the policy was reversed following Chalkbeat inquiries. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/27/t...

NYT reports on how a small "cursed" island in Gambia has become a major setting-off point for EU-bound migrants www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

The number of immigrants settling in U.S. metropolitan areas declined steeply, census data shows, as the Trump administration restricts arrivals from other nations. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago saw net immigration declines of 62 percent or higher.

Baltimore! Next weekend! Come out if you can!

We spent hours talking to Greg Bovino in his final days as a Border Patrol official. He mocked Tom Homan. Criticized the current CBP chief. Acknowledged clashes with ICE and the National Guard. Lots more here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

By a vote of 54-45, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Markwayne Mullin to be Secretary of Homeland Security.

“As many as 200,000 adoptees are vulnerable to deportation because they lack U.S. citizenship or important proof of it… Many international adoptees first learn they are not citizens when they apply for a drivers license, join the military or, these days, when federal agents stop them on the street.”

"The differences between the fates of detained immigrant parents under the two presidents are stark, our analysis shows. The impact on mothers is particularly pronounced. Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did."

“We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee,” Ms. Rachel told me. “I just never thought those words would go together.” Read my story on Ms. Rachel’s new mission to help shut down Dilley and free kids trapped there — starting with two she met over Zoom last week.

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Scholars of the law of armed conflict say that the militarization of the cloud (or the cloud-ification of the military) mean data centers can be legitimate targets during war theintercept.com/2026/03/20/a...

I wrote a primer on how the legal paradigm for people displaced by climate change is going through a slow-onset change of its own ⤵️

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

41 people have died in ICE detention since the start of the second Trump administration. 12 of those deaths have occurred since January 1, 2026, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I mapped every death. Here's what the data shows. 🧵

In “other wars” news…

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released from an ICE detention facility in Texas after a year in custody. The 33-year-old from the occupied West Bank was the last person connected to the Columbia University pro-Palestine protests still held by US immigration authorities.

Bovino is retiring at the end of the month www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...

Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, has died In my book, I describe his work warning about overpopulation as the bridge that allowed the language of environmentalism to coexist with that of immigration restrictionism in the modern age www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

GENEVA (AP) - UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war. @apnews.com