From my Welcome speech tonight: Whether you come to celebrate, or to find healing Whether you come to study and learn or find enjoyment in music and art Whether to be in service to others or to find fellowship and community There is space for you. Find what you seek, and by engaging enrich us all

…created by AI, I’m afraid, and definitely slop

Any immigration lawyers out there who have heard of Guatemalan police altering the dates on reports? We've got a client with a timeline problem and the best explanation is that the police are backdating paperwork sloppily. DM me if you have any thoughts. Thanks.

There’s a Reddit! The things I learn. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72193

Aaaaaaaah, SCOTUS cited a Bolts article today... in a case that held for a defendant's rights, and to show how far prosecutors can go if left to their own devices, no less!?!?!?

I don’t feel the same but this and the replies are very funny

Every other thing on that list has serious problems too, but the inclusion of a "real names" mandate in any list like this proves the speaker a) knows nothing about the actual science of online behavior b) is more motivated by punishing Bad People than stopping online abuse

Let’s Make American Families Safe Again: abolish and disestablish ICE and DHS

Were they only paroled in for the match? How does this work otherwise? They can't just summarily and unilaterally order admitted nonimmigrants to leave without process.

Her last tragedy, I expect. It’s not like Dunning Kruger. It’s like when a drunk loses his sense that he shouldn't be driving, because he’s drunk.

The Inquirer is not being as inflammatory as might be. Combine the reporting with a picture like the one in the post I’m quoting, and describe it as “three white cops aim guns at, shoot and kill, and are shot by black retired firefighter” and whew Gift link share.inquirer.com/OXaWyp

Pope Leo XIV casts a wreath into the waters off Spain's Canary Islands in memory of the thousands of desperate migrants who have lost their lives while attempting to cross into Europe. “Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” he said in his remarks.

Adorbs

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

I do not welcome US war crimes nor the retribution they would see to invite. I do welcome justice, swift and sure and delivered to those who ordered and carried out those crimes, ideally in a neutral forum. Jail, and ignominy, for those who violate the mandates of humanity.

Deportation, exile, for a crime that shouldn’t be a crime. Her murder by the Nazis, as thread says, is later, a mere 83 years ago. May her memory be for a blessing. So much/little has changed.

NEW FROM ME: with a trio of new regs (two of them not yet final), USCIS wants to make people apply for work permits a bunch more often and make applications take longer to evaluate. Which, gee, it’s not like there’s already a 1.6M-application work permit backlog. documentedny.com/2026/06/12/u...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports on the obstacles local leaders face when trying to investigate Utah sheriffs for misconduct.

Instead of dunking on a math PhD being Bad At Reading in replies and posting through it, I blocked him. Do I deserve a Profiles in Courage segment, well obviously,

Just saw that Jane Yolen has died (her daughter Heidi confirmed it on FB). Truly a loss. I'm glad we managed to meet her and tell her how much her books meant when she was at the Watertown library a decade ago (maybe longer?).

Post your voting hot takes I’ll start: Actually it’s fine for tabulation to take a week or more in a huge state doing a lot of elections. The demand for instantly known results is impatience, immaturity, a recent deviation taught by American Idol or whatever. You can wait. We can wait. Let em count

Just impossible to tell what political commitments this guy has, I guess.

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

Last night, the Southern Baptist Convention elected Willy Rice as its new president. His win is seen as a victory for the denomination's right flank, and showed up in my colleague @bmietana.bsky.social's recent story on "pastors who support ICE raids." religionnews.com/2026/06/05/m...

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Today Jeffery "J Love" Lee won in the lower court after yesterday's win in the 11th: a permanent injunction against executing him with nitrogen, in addition to acknowledging that the AL protocol is an 8th amendment violation. 🙌🏻 Thanks to all who fought for him and cared. It means so much to me. 💕

If anyone is a constituent of @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social and wants to yell this into the ear of a staffer (or politely email or mail or whatever) maybe they would thank you for helping them be accurate. 5! Not three!

INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“don’t have discretion” here is slippery language. The govt has had and always has discretion except for the specific circumstances where the law says mandatory detention. Those aside: if DHS pretends that marching orders emanating from S Miller removes their discretion, that is false.

Seth Moulton is rebranding himself as a progressive in his campaign against Ed Markey. But his actual record says otherwise.

Heard about a MegaMutt who has all the varieties, all the strains. Gonna refer to her as an Everything Beagle

Yes but also “no *plausible explanation other than politics” they don’t have a subtle or poorly articulated reason other than that, they’re lying when they pretend otherwise.

This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers (June 6, 2026) austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

(whispering, as appropriate in an immigration Friday): BOOOOOOOOOO

JUST IN: Judge Mary McElroy (Trump/RI) refers DOJ attorneys to the court discipline committee over handling of fight over trans medical care subpoenas to RI Hospital. Earlier she agreed that presumption of regularity for govt 'no longer holds.' storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Quietly: YAY

Good apology from Wim Wenders to Nastassja Kinski, one that involves action as well as words. He's sorry for the topless scene filmed when she was 13, and he's withdrawing the film until it can be reedited in a way that works for her. 1/

“Caitlin Clark’s public unmasking leaves the WNBA in a slow-motion Milli Vanilli moment, exposing the unearned currency of its manufactured basketball star.” newsone.com/6862223/how-...

New superseding indictment against the SPLC handed down yesterday. It rewrites the original indictment, including changing some of the relevant dates and tightening up the language, but the 11 counts and forfeiture allegations remain substantially the same: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I met Carlos Lopez in court last July, minutes before he was illegally abducted by ICE in the hallway. Thankfully, we were able to reunite him with his family, but only a morally bankrupt system would detain him to begin with. (1/2)

here's what i wrote

Since they don't post here (DO IT BITCH @phillies.com) here's the Phillies pride graphic.

suddenly finding my own version of lottery daydreams

NEW: The Trump admin is facing internal strife over resurrecting an AI exec order Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent are pushing for an EO, because Treasury needs that before any talks with China. But David Sacks remains opposed @WIRED.com latest w @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-wh...

I’m not current on NJ elections but this thread was good - was 4 months ago - and the person who wrote it is on the ballot today. Good luck in your elections today, NJ. Uh, “last day of voting”

Exciting news! They have reversed course and physical mail can once again be received by the asylum office in Newark. Still no email, phone, or in-person inquiries or information services. What kind of customer service oriented org would- yeah yeah yeah. The job is law enforcement, we heard you.

People will just say anything on this website. “I added too much cheese” no you didn’t. That’s not true.