what if separating families was bad?

gonna start writing it as "qualified" immunity

Newark Asylum Office: you can't fax us anymore, here's an email address you can use : AO: jk no more emails : AO: also no physical mail, in-person inquiries, or phone calls. if you didn't apply online and set up an account you still have access to, FYFO : AO: any questions?

Still true

Supreme Court of Georgia suspends prosecutor’s privilege to practice law before the court for six months after filing a brief with the court that contained non-existent cases and cases that do not stand for the proposition asserted in the brief due to AI usage. www.gasupreme.us/wp-content/u...

So this is the source of the murder spree. They’re torturing people to death by depriving them of medical care

In January 2026, “only 21% of those taken into custody had a criminal conviction. Add those with criminal charges, and the figure increases to 41%. That means nearly 60% of all immigrants arrested in January in Pennsylvania had no criminal record of any kind.”

My consistent support for anti money laundering, robust audits and a stable banking system has earned me an F. No regrets.

I’ve seen Baltimore experience four homicides in a day - even the span of a few hours - countless times. April just saw 4 homicides for the entire month, a single-month, all-time low for the records we have going back to 1970. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Now listening: @aimeemann.bsky.social “Charmer” - with the most anti-AI video ever made, 13 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpX...

It took me 17 years and an alphabet soup of visas to become a U.S. citizen. And in Congress, I’ll continue working to protect and expand legal pathways to citizenship, including for TPS holders.

i realize we spell it “moots” instead of “mutes” for clarity and that’s how i’ve always said it aloud (the rare times my terminal onlineness breaks into the real world like that movie where Russel Crow eats glass to repair his body or was that Robbins?). i think we should pronounce it “mutes”.

MYTH: perfect characters have no room for growth REALITY: simply write a perfect character and then make them grow to be more perfect, you can always gild a lily, perfection isn’t boring because if it’s boring it’s not perfect, QED, …

Religious hatred alert: when Christian nationalists use Pharisee this way it’s antisemitic and it’s been explained to them already, so we don’t have to use “some say” and “many experts consider” we can just conclude: This Sec Def is overtly hostile to (some) religion(s).

Would like NYC journalists to do a story on dramatic uptick of attempted ICE abductions over the past few days.

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

Sean does a good job of launching from Steve’s diagnosis of what’s wrong to propose specific legislative fixes to bring the Court back under a semblance of control by what has been a supine and passive Congress. I write separately to concur and to point out what I see as a flaw in SV’s argument.

This is a good thread.

Flyers: Eliminate the Penguins in NHL playoffs @ifbookspod.bsky.social :

I used to say, when Biden had yet to be sworn in, that job 1 was voting and job 2 was immigration. When we cast this criminal permanently from power we have to deal with this Court first, before we can restore the hard-won victories of the 14A and the CRM.

Unless applying for a passport in-person at the DC Passport office itself, you won’t be issued a “Trump passport” anytime soon. Trump passport blanks won’t be widely distributed; all/most all initial such passport blanks will be limited to just the DC passport office for quite some time.

In this post, I condemn Trump's shameful policy of deporting Russian dissenters fleeing Putin's regime. It's unjust, illegal, and damaging to US interests. But consistent in those respects with Trump's other refugee policies: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

The 2nd Circuit concluded that it is simply not plausible that Congress mandated the detention of millions of people without explicitly saying so — and that no prior administration noticed or beleived existed until now. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I blocked instead of dunking on a dude who annoyed me who had ~ 1 like on each of his posts: my story

People mock but if we don’t have ballrooms in the hands of lawful users, only outlaws will have ballrooms

NEW Appeals court clears way for U.S. to reopen border for asylum seekers www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

(incoherent garbled wailing, gnashing, groans etc)

We are not nearly aggressive enough in treating proponents of racist lies who have law licenses as defective, as morally and professionally unfit. You have the right to believe falsehoods and to hold racist beliefs. You do not have the right to be a lawyer.

one thing i've been struck by at the no kings protests i've attended is how they try to get some group singing going--and how flat it falls. this is because they are transplanting a *tactic* from the CRM without understanding the social context it emerged from. a corrective, from thomas ricks:

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.

Just want to volunteer that I’m on the discover feed and Bsky is offering me pictures of takoyaki and pork dumplings and I couldn’t be more pleased. (unless It happens) Discover feed: it also has unexpected food pics

The 11 yr old made homemade pork dumplings for dinner tonight. They were delicious. Now I have to do the dishes.

Ayer hice takoyakis y estaban de muerte

Agree that it’s hilarious and brutal. Not sure I’d call it an action comedy. That’s Jamie Lee and Arnold in True Lies. This is a thriller and a drama and a slasher film and possibly boxes are a bad fit for stories, which can transcend easy labels.

Most Americans favor protecting people who came to the US as children, went to school and have clean criminal histories. Trump lied and said he’d protect them. Obama did a little but not enough. Congress is totally derelict. We need a path and protection for everyone.

“In recent months, there have been over 300 arrests [of DACA recipients] & 90 DACA recipients have been deported,” said Andres from our legal team. #DACA recipients continue being targeted by an admin hellbent on separating immigrant families. We'll keep fighting to protect the DACA program!

Look this whole thread isn’t about me and I sympathize with the confusion at being offered BBQ and not getting it. I even understand this, although personally I’m fully on board with 5pm dinner. I just can’t imagine being upset at being offered spaghetti. “Thank you,” that’d be me. “Slurp” etc

Four months ago I pointed out that there were so many vacant positions at the top of EOIR that each ACIJ's workload had roughly doubled in a year. A few of the top positions have been filled since then. But there are still so many vacancies at key offices and positions. bsky.app/profile/hopp...

Good Action by bad man will have some predictably good results for some people. Regular reminder by immigration lawyers: noncitizens should STAY THE HELL AWAY from any drug that isn’t OTC or prescribed to them. There’s one, small, carve out for a single conviction for simple possession, <30g MJ.

There’s no serious argument that anyone is invading the US or that countries are weaponizing migrants. I do think that racists have weaponized extremely stupid and extremely gullible people, and what Judge Ho is doing in his cravenly pick-me efforts to get a promotion can pass for either.

The mother's story is a stark example of how immigration policy can change drastically with each administration — and transform the lives of immigrants.

Hitting Like violates my rule about not doing that for images without Alt Text but… to me this Quino strip with a biting satirical point about art appreciation, culture, and context is worth sharing.

The Trump administration "talks a big game when it comes to crime and terrorism, but the fact ​that it’s hollowing out agencies tasked with addressing them shows that they don’t stand behind their words," said a former DOJ lawyer www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

JUST IN: Virginia adopted a new law yesterday to forbid sheriffs & local police from contracting with ICE — if ICE doesn't say it'll follow state laws & agree to let its agents be prosecuted. Everyone seems to agree ICE won't promise that, and that this spells the end of ICE contracts in Virginia.

Alt text: ANTES appears above four characters representing Verano, Otoño, Invierno and Primavera, with clothing and colors suggestive of each season. AHORA appears before a combined character that is labeled Inveranotoñovera which combines them all, Dr. Moreau-style

If I were Secretary of State, I don't believe I would blindly approve policies that haven't even been written yet or presented to me.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg told her children’s school to call her husband, she could not come, she was a literal Justice at the Supreme Court and had oral arguments deciding issues of national importance and nonetheless she would come back from oral argument and they’d have called her and not her husband.

When you need a better screening mechanism in the caucus- and maybe better (younger?) leadership - because this is a serious failure of party integrity.