Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :) Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that will provide a 3-year period of protection and work authorization to Haitians, after the Trump administration illegally terminated Temporary Protected Status for thousands of our loved ones and neighbors who fled Haiti.

If The Capture keeps at this, it might just break into my top three favorite shows ever

This is the only correct bad take

🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

Important investigation into failures with ICE medial care that have likely caused multiple deaths. I'll note that these failures are common in the criminal justice system, and are just as deadly there, which is one reason why a solution is to heavily restrict the use of immigration detention.

NEW: ICE facilities’ medical staff repeatedly failed to diagnose critical illnesses and misdiagnosed patients, @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I found, during a six month investigation that we have just published. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

SPOILER: I'll be presenting updated data thru 3/10/26 that includes Minneapolis! Based my recent NBER paper (w/Chloe East & Elizabeth Cox) Sign up here: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Link to paper: lnkd.in/gBJAXZVJ

This is so, so well-articulated.

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

This system is tedious, leading to the majority of complaints getting rejected for ridiculous bureaucratic reasons — like using the wrong size of paper. Over 10 years, only 14% of all medical grievances were denied on the actual merits of the complaint.

🚨 Prison healthcare systems are notoriously bad. And when incarcerated folks experience medical abuse or mistreatment, the only place to turn is the grievance system. But this system is designed to shut down complaints — not resolve them 🧵

I've been thinking again about Jamie Kalven's admonition that we not become internal emigres under fascism. I think some people are in fact currently in that mode of survival.

Well... you win some, you historically lose some #unc

ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many. 19thnews.org/2026/03/ice-... via @19thnews.org

Texas-based "rapidly deployable expeditionary healthcare" firm IHMS USA is advertising healthcare positions at the Williamsport, MD detention warehouse. Job listings cite "National Detention Standards," a telltale reference to ICE's governing detention rules.

words by me

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week. We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!). Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY 1/7

Why does cash save lives in Tanzania but barely move the needle in Texas? Thoughtful piece in @theatlantic.com by @draaron.bsky.social & @hthirumurthy.bsky.social what conditions make cash transfers work www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

It's been a rough week already for those of us that do research on immigration detention, but this story was a sucker punch. Thanks for taking this project on, @onofftherecord.bsky.social.

NEW: ICE finds Cuban man’s homicide at El Paso camp result of 'spontaneous use of force,' after initially claiming 'medical distress' DHS responded: 'No lawbreakers in the history of human civilization have been treated better than illegal aliens in the US' www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/t...

NYC measured wealth (assets minus debt) + health across 11 racial/ethnic groups. Punchline: wealth helps, but it doesn’t erase racism. Next: measure wealth in surveillance + treat debt relief and asset-building as health policy. Health policy is economic policy. www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...

LOVE seeing @ichotiner.bsky.social interviewing @ahilantoolong.bsky.social, a literal McArthur Genius who is also one of the nicest people working in the entire field of immigration litigation. Read this!

Just FYI — we had a TikTok account for about three hours today to share video content. It was banned just a few minutes ago. The last thing we posted before the ban was an explainer of today’s article about GEO Group getting on to WEXMAC TITUS.

Just how unprecedented is the ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown? We answer those questions and more in our new NBER working paper. www.nber.org/papers/w34794

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Fear delays care. Delayed care harms patients. My new MS NOW piece, “I’m a doctor. The consequences of ICE presence in hospitals could be deadly” on how enforcement fears are deterring people from seeking medical help.” Link to my full OpEd: www.ms.now/opinion/immi...

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Not ICE, but CBP. ICE is terrible, but CBP is orders of magnitude worse. In many ways, abolishing or radically overhauling CBP is of greater urgency than ICE, but likely tougher to do. One can argue that ~all of ICE's duties can be reallocated. Harder to say that with CBP.

"DON'T take his class if you care about your GPA!!! Treats everything like pass/fail. Only cares about you if you're failing the class, so good luck getting that A- up to an A." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sel...

“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors

Not could. Have. Fred Hampton.

Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1

A few updates on the deeply unethical study to probe "non-specific" effects of the birth dose HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau by Danish investigators. 1️⃣ The study was canceled as per AfricaCDC - HHS disputes this. 2️⃣ Full protocol was leaked and it's bad. Quick 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

I pulled up next to one at 10:17am yesterday an snapped a photo. By 10:27 the agents I photographed were in front of my house, along with another vehicle that met them there. It's a 10 minute drive from where I took the photo to my house - so they got the data *instantly* bsky.app/profile/mitc...

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

Closer to a land acknowledgment than anything I’ve ever heard from a Democrat

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

New from Matthew Soerens at the Evangelical Immigration Table: deportation policy is reshaping American churches. A new report finds roughly 4 in 5 of those vulnerable to deportation are Christians. He documents what that looks like for one family.

Paradox of measurement www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... "This is the paradox of measurement: to make something known it must be countable, but if it has not already been translated into commensurable and quantifiable terms, it is difficult to count and may remain unnoticed and uncounted."

The contrast with police: If a cop searches your home without a warrant, evidence may be excluded and you can sue for damages. For ICE, neither remedy is effectively available. Same constitutional violations, different accountability.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

There are only about 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. There are 53.3 million *total* foreign-born, including permanent residents & naturalized citizens. But 100 million is close to the exact number of people in the US who identify as nonwhite (95 million).

People will read old newspaper clippings