There seems to be a small-ish but extremely committed subset of people on this site that really want to prevent it from being useful for seriously discussing or even analyzing current events

Trump has surged large federal deployments to LA and Chicago, the 2nd and 3rd largest cities in the nation, but, while there have been arrests and operations here, not to its largest and most heavily immigrant, NYC. For @boltsmag.org, I took stock of local leaders' thinking around how to prepare

Trump's cratering public trust on immigration has some moderate Dems talking about capitalizing by casting themselves as the sane border enforcers. I'm here to say: no. Enough. It won't suddenly work this time. Dems need a cohesive, forceful, alternate vision. Just say it: immigration is good

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

This may not be a popular view here but I tend to think that the private sexual proclivities and conduct of public figures (and especially family of public figures)—provided everyone involved is a consenting adult and not anyone’s employer/abusing their power—is almost never fair game to attack them

NEW: Over the years, New York has fallen behind other blue states for protections for immigrants. Now, some local and state officials are looking and learning from other states and cities as they look ahead to what an ICE surge in NY could look like. @felipedlh.bsky.social reports, read it!

I thought I had a decent grasp on this until I started dating someone raised in this environment and was told that some parents wouldn’t let their kids hang out with them because they were Catholic, like in this century (among many other things that made me do a spit take)

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

Would love to hear from the folks who still insist we don’t have a Russia-style oligarchic system

"Every moment we spend talking about things that aren’t real is a moment that we are not spending talking about all this very real grotesquerie... How much post-9/11 anger and disorientation was wasted on 'jet fuel can’t melt steel beams' conspiracism as opposed to organizing"

Even from the narrow standpoint of naturalization, which is what she's probably thinking about here, it is not discretionary in the way other immigration applications are. If you fulfill the necessary criteria, you are entitled to naturalize

This is crazy and comes after a year of upending the lives of people who were trying to comply with the law. Now it’s “oopsie!” But that won’t bring people back

For @thebaffler.com, I wrote on the fascination with hidden conspiracy, the incentives of the social web, and how this siphons energy and focus away from dealing with real and often well-documented atrocities

Chat is this good

Trump take mail

They are charging the journalist who discovered government espionage *with* espionage. This is the model of authoritarianism that Trumpists promote as the ideal.

Relatively niche question but does anyone know if there's anywhere to find the total historical numbers of immigrants regularize under Registry (8 U.S.C § 1259)?

AWFUL. This upholds the crazy argument that for the last 30 years, no one noticed that Congress mandated detention of anyone who ever entered unlawfully. This will effectively gut most habeas lawsuits coming out of Minnesota. FWIW, the 8th Circuit is as conversative/more conservative than the 5th.

BREAKING: Minnesota officials sue the Trump administration, accusing it of withholding evidence related to three shootings by federal officers.

I have no specific evidence for this, but these pictures suggest to me that the speculation about some of the airport details being the first batch of new recruits is probably correct

Today, the Supreme Court will hear a case on whether the government may nullify the INA’s asylum requirements by stopping asylum-seekers before they cross the border. Joshua Villanueva and Michael Endrias explain the case and arguments both sides are likely to make.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

in an energy crisis we’re using $1 billion of taxpayer money to pay a company to not make local, renewable energy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Lmao you can’t even board a U.S.-bound plane abroad without sometimes multiple checks of travel eligibility, and airlines must give real-time manifests to border authorities

Less than 24 hours left to support the Golden Goal Kickstarter! Magazines will still be available but today is the last day to grab a custom jersey or the prestigious Golden Goal Peace Prize! And if we hit $15k we'll bring hire bloggers for the World Cup www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

The future of protesting in the United States may have been decided in a cramped Depression-era courtroom in downtown Fort Worth on Friday of last week. trib.al/xylmN1A

I think some day, when the story of the Trump administration’s lurch towards autocracy is written from a historical perspective, Abrego García’s case will be a touchstone. Perhaps the clearest example of its sheer vindictiveness

Particularly in the era of ubiquitous performative vice-signaling, we could do with a little more public virtue

ICE has detained another Latino journalist who was reporting on the agency's detention campaign

Stuck for the fourth time this year on a heavily delayed subway because someone somewhere pulled the emergency break. Really have to wonder why we have them on every car; not supposed to pull it for fire, medical, or safety emergencies. Seems like they’re only good for delaying millions of people?

I really hope everyone reads this. The future we are building for ourselves is not for people. It is untenable

This happens so much in tech: People going to big tech and then - after having gotten wealthy off of it - pivoting to being super ethical and moving into the NGO space or something like that. I hate it so much.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

Woke up remembering how a year ago the Trump admin was really trying to establish the precedent that Latino men with tattoos — any tattoos — could be summarily rendered to the worst prison in the world, from which no one had ever emerged

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

For any subsequent presidential candidates to be credible, I think they must commit to holding those engaged in potential war crimes accountable domestically. No one wants to say “I will jail the soldiers and commanders” but you have to

Reminder that DHS secretary is a Senate-confirmed position. What do Mullins' colleagues think of him? He can only lose one vote, after all

Wonder what the last straw was for our plastic puppy-killer

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

To combat a problem you have to understand it (a fundamental principle of journalism) and this is something we have to contend with. In certain circumstances, what’s under the diffuse “AI” umbrella may even be a net good. But the counterarguments can’t be rooted in it not working if it kind of does

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

Student of mine was concerned about the value of a journalism degree and I pointed out that the sure-fire big-earner degree 5 years ago was computer science; now those grads can’t find jobs. Labor market is shifting & complex; I’d say critical thinking degrees are going to get much more marketable

An excellent step in the right direction. Here was my primer on state prosecution of federal agents in @newrepublic.com

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

It’s clear that neither the tech companies nor the regulators are going to do anything substantial on mass surveillance domestically so we’re left to technical rather than legal protections. Turn off your location services, use Signal, get a good VPN, block trackers, don’t hand over biometrics