“Mass deportation and draconian limits on legal immigration are two sides of the same coin.” www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...

My latest for @texasobserver.org: Though MAGA believers call James Talarico “blasphemous,” he’s squarely within his Mainline Presbyterian tradition. And that’s a timely reminder of the diversity of Christianity in Texas and beyond www.texasobserver.org/senate-james...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Overnight, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees made it all but impossible to successfully challenge any redistricting map for diluting the votes of or even intentionally discriminating against minority voters. Read all about it at Law Dork:

For more than a year, Trump administration officials have sought to pull every bureaucratic lever possible to cut off immigrants — both documented and undocumented — from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care.

“Yes, look, they gave me a form and I filled it out—here’s my name, look—and there I made it very clear that I wanted to bring my little girl,” said one mom who was deported without her daughter. "But they didn’t listen to me … they didn’t care.”

Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.

Bovino announced his attendance with a post echoing the manifestos of the mass shooters who attacked the mosque in San Diego, the El Paso Walmart shooter, and the Christchurch killer. This is the man who the Trump admin put in charge of immigration enforcement. It’s no wonder people died.

"No country can guarantee safety if it lacks functioning asylum laws, honest courts, impartial officials and the will to protect people from detention, coercion, disappearance or onward removal," write James A. Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester.

Kavanaugh Stops are rampant racial profiling.

Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings

Texas limits eligibility for Medicaid to families living below 15 percent of the poverty level, meaning that a family of three earning more than—get this—$4,098 annually is not eligible for any benefits. trib.al/jDJjwEI

In 1974 I took a history of jazz class from Stanley Crouch that mainly consisted of records he played during class, most of which I subsequently purchased. He assigned Martin Williams' The Jazz Tradition as the text. I no longer have that edition but do have a later one. That was a great class.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"Her ordeal illustrates how ICE’s aggressive new policies and warrant-less arrests have led to what legal experts say are an alarming pattern of rights violations against both immigrants and U.S. citizens."

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

I made a lot of updates to the “Now” sections of the Third-Country Removal Tracker today. If you haven’t read-in for awhile, check it out. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

NEW: as I noted in this thread, there were a lot of open questions about how broadly this policy was going to apply. Now, after initial backlash, USCIS is now suggesting it will narrow the impact somewhat. Many, many questions remain.

Juan’s #DACA expired while he was in ICE detention, and his renewal — which he submitted in November — still appears to be pending. Many other #DACA recipients are facing losing their work permits and deportation protections due to these intentional delays: spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Sometimes I get very vexed when people whine about uses of the passive voice that aren’t uses of the passive voice. This is a use of the passive voice.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

So apparently the actor who plays the Cyclops in Nolan's Odyssey has two eyes 😬

👀 www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Just brazen, wanton, unrestrained corruption. And this is just one tiny part of it. Trump was the most corrupt president US history in his first term. Now he’s unshackled by SCOTUS immunizing him from prosecution and a wholly subservient Congress.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

Boston really outmaneuvered Pittsburgh on this trade

I spoke to @ariberman.bsky.social about the Southern states' mad rush to destroy Black and Brown voting power in the wake of Callais

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

The Roberts court has spent decades systematically making it harder for workers and consumers who try to fight back in court—including raising the bar to bringing antitrust suits, blessing fine-print clauses that deprive workers of their day in court, and gutting class actions. trib.al/cARcvaU

There is a **massive** error in the TPS Haiti revocation notice in the Federal Register. Secretary Noem (and @uscisgov.bsky.social ) included this false claim about Haitian illegal entries. These numbers include LEGAL entries at ports of entry. Border Patrol arrests FELL 90% from 2022-2024!

Masked federal agents held a teenage boy at gunpoint, pushed him facedown on the ground, and arrested him. Cellphone video showed the 19-year-old bleeding out of his head as ICE agents put him in their vehicle. Only in the car did agents realize they arrested the wrong person. trib.al/o2TQBEz

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Renewal delays, detention, and deportation: The Trump administration is making clear that young immigrants can no longer rely on #DACA for protection: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/trump-is-b...

How Donald Trump compares unfavorably with the Emperor Caligula. Trump, a fan of golden statues, marble monuments and cage-fighting, has yet to appoint a horse to his cabinet. He has, however, appointed unqualified sycophants to positions of high rank and displayed a great fondness for pedophiles.

AVERAGE WHITE MLB PLAYER: has 18 latino teammates he doesn’t speak to, believes the 2020 election was stolen and is in a group text with morgan wallen AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Homan said he spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin earlier in the morning to discuss what the administration will do “in the next couple of months.” “You ain’t seen shit yet,” Homan said. “This year will be a good year. Mass deportations are coming.”

From renewal delays to ignoring protections in order to detain and deport Dreamers, Trump is breaking #DACA’s promise: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/trump-is-b...