China - which views the Iran conflict as another example of US-caused chaos, as the Global Times cartoon shows - is stepping in to broker an end to the debacle. Oh, and to bolster its diplomatic credentials and its push for a multipolar world order. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/annafifi...

Can China broker an end to the Iran conflict?

And why this would be good for New Zealand — but also complicated.

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This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ajc.com

If this were Russia, everyone from the New York Times on down would be calling him a “regime-linked oligarch”

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

This is the reporting from @apmreports.org the doctor is citing. Renee Good had a pulse for at least 8 minutes and 34 seconds. www.apmreports.org/story/2026/0...

ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good

Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Age...

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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 8mo ago

MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago

Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

doomsdayscenario.co

Good piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social about the liberal faculty lounge chin-stroking origins of what became a politically potent nativist argument about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. (Aside: I am sorry to hear that Peter Schuck, whose torts class I took 23 years ago, is ailing.)

Rachel Morris@rachelmorris.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Forty years ago, two liberal professors published a "provocative" book about immigration that sold poorly and got terrible reviews. It also inadvertently handed Trump the legal argument he's using to attack birthright citizenship. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Rogers Smith was my thesis advisor in college. A kind and decent man without a xenophobic bone in his body. But the story of how his work became fodder for White supremacists is an object lesson in how galaxy brain thinking has consequences. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.

newyorker.com

Fascinating piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social on the long, strange path of a clause in the 14th amendment and the contested nature of citizenship www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.

newyorker.com

Forty years ago, two liberal professors published a "provocative" book about immigration that sold poorly and got terrible reviews. It also inadvertently handed Trump the legal argument he's using to attack birthright citizenship. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.

newyorker.com

"A real-estate lobbyist told me that he does not know anyone who is leaving the city because of Mamdani, though he does know 'several who may pied-à-terre.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

newyorker.com

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff says his office has documented more than 500 cases of abuse in immigrant detention centers, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.

Investigation by Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges abuse of children, pregnant women in ICE custody

An investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges more than 500 counts of human rights abuses in immigration detention, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · last yr.

"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

I wrote about Jacinda Ardern’s new memoir and New Zealand’s strange transformation during the pandemic for the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?

A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.

newyorker.com

This sentence could have used some work.

“The AI jobs crisis is not the sudden displacement of millions of workers in one fell swoop—instead, it’s evident in the attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.”

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · last yr.

The AI jobs crisis is not coming—it's here right now. It just might not look the way many thought it would. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

We’re only 100 days in.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants

One mother was allowed less than 2 minutes on the phone w/her husband to figure out what would become of her 2-year-old US citizen son. Another wasn’t allowed to speak w/attorneys or family members before she was deported, accompanied by her US-born kids, even though ICE knew one had Stage 4 cancer.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.

In new details, attorneys say ICE explicitly told one mother to bring her children with her to a check-in and knew in advance that another mother’s child had Stage 4 cancer.

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

theatlantic.com

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

zeteo.com

a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that

Has anyone checked in with John Key to see how’s he’s feeling about his prediction that Trump would be “better on the economy”? www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns

The world economy could face a downturn similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International C...

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Some DOGE staffers are getting paid six-figure salaries from the very agencies they're slashing and burning killer scoop from @knibbs.bsky.social !!!! www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

wired.com

Heating food in this kind of plastic packaging (even if you don’t burn it till the plastic melts into the food, ffs) is a public health disaster waiting to happen—toxic chemicals from the plastic leach into the food when heated. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Children eat burned plastic in ‘appalling’ school lunch

“Disgusting and dangerous”: Children who reached the bottom of their lunch discovered the plastic container had melted into their food.

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