Some job news: I now work in the newly-established Federal Department of Metaphors. How are we doing so far?

A thought for Superman Day.
#SupermanDay #inspiration #fypシ

Also, important obligatory update from Vermont: Today — April 14, 2026 — is @benandjerrys.bsky.social Free Cone Day, if you find yourself close to a scoop shop: www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/...

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

I filed my taxes and waited to learn whether a civilization would be destroyed in my name Connection/complicity

"I don’t know what comes next, but I am caught up in it. We all are. The man who threatened war crimes is still in power, in my country. Yesterday, I gifted him more money."

thewhitepages.net/p/i-filed-my...

Nothing seems to move the nation’s federal prison system operators to improve their response to the urgent medical needs of the federal prison population. Court orders go unread or ignored. OIG reports are dismissed, recommendations unheeded. Sanctions brook no change. Outside medical referrals are like Solzhenitsyn’s sick bay in the Soviet Gulag: a coveted but nearly inaccessible refuge for which only prisoners near death qualify for admission.2 2 See generally Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

Department of Justice attorneys must be mindful in dealing with the Bureau of Prisons to ensure they comply with their duty of candor to the Court. A client who repeatedly fails to comply with court orders and OIG recommendations falls into the “trust but verify” category of governmental agencies. There can be no presumption of regularity. The Bureau of Prisons will emerge unscathed, while the Government’s lawyer—and most importantly, the inmate—will carry the scars of its misfeasance. See United States v. Bardell, No. 6:11- cr-401 (M.D. Fla. 2011); OIG Report at 47, 50–51.

But here's the part that would have me crawling into the sea if I were involved on the BOP side.

The judge basically call the US prison system Soviet Russia.

Honesty hour: it was incredibly disorienting to put this chron together (mostly due to moments like "SignalGate was WHEN?!"). But perhaps the most surreal (and devastating) part is that these entries barely scratch the surface of all the data / info losses we've faced--some we may never know about.

A Tribute to Workers, Written in Chalk | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera When my daughter Josie was seven, she became obsessed with a battered paperback in her school library. It was an illustrated novel for children about the Triangle Factory Fire. (I know, who the heck w...

Lovely piece by @marjorieingall.bsky.social: arcmag.org/a-tribute-to...

We are heartbroken by the passing of former Vermont Democratic Party Chair Terje Anderson.

AI pilot program in L.A. County courts will help judges craft rulings in some cases — Los Angeles Times A select panel of L.A. County judges now have access to an artificial intelligence tool that can help them summarize motions and draft rulings in civil court. The tool, Learned Hand, is already in use...

🧵 “The program, which launched last month, gave half a dozen LA County civil court judges access to AI software called Learned Hand.”

Can we agree that naming AI after people without any acknowledgment—much less consent—is bad? (I didn’t find any acknowledgement on Learned Hand’s web site.) 1/3

I'll give them a pass on the U.S. instead of United States.
But they also appear to be missing a comma between Enters. and Inc.
And there's a space missing between 292,297.
And the quote is missing a comma after "violated."
And the quote itself is actually a quote within a quote.
Other than that...

E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on a Cancer-Causing Gas

This gotta be the most pro-cancer administration in our country's young life

that's the fun part! you just have to ... see if anyone tells you that they saw your name!

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. BACKGROUND ...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. I. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION OF JUNE 3, 2025......... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. II. THREE INMATES ALLEGE RETALIATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CASE ............................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. III. THE COURT’S ENTRY OF THE NATIONWIDE PROTECTIVE ORDER ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. LEGAL STANDARD ............................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ARGUMENT ............................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. I. THE INMATES’ RETALIATION ALLEGATIONS ARE UNSUBSTANTIATED. ............................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. A. Former Inmate Dye’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. ........... Error! Bookmark not defined. B. Inmate Meskill’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. Error! Bookmark not defined. C. Inmate Pinson’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. . Error! Bookmark not defined. II. THE PROTECTIVE ORDER IS LEGALLY DEFECTIVE. ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. A. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with Rule 65(d) ...... Error! Bookmark not defined. B. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with PLRA’s Requirements ............. Error! Bookmark not defined. CONCLUSION ......................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

“America’s calendars now have eight days a week. That’s not even touching the mangled American flag and the random splattering of stars around it.”

The least of the issues with the cooption of the IMLS, but also so representative of all that Kelly Jensen has been documenting.

Scenes from a personalist regime

“by ignoring de minimis privacy encroachments, the law is complicit in normalizing surveillance. Privacy law helps acclimate people to being watched by ignoring smaller, more frequent, and more mundane privacy diminutions. We call these reductions ‘privacy nicks’…”

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

But this is not one of those times. I will not change a presentation title, and quite literally erase the word “trans” from my entire presentation, to comply with a regulation that undermines academic innovation, independence, and integrity, solely to receive funding.

Absolutely not.

We asked four horses in a rural diner why they think AI is the future

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

How to avoid getting an education while paying for one:

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

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Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Taken: Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents From Minnesota to Texas We document these patterns through the use of sworn declarations and court filings.

Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas - @justsecurity.org @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi

Is this the most valid excuse in academic history?

Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas posted her email to her professor, asking for an extension due to her participation in the Milano Cortina Olympics 🔥

I am not a Philadelphia sports fan and I can’t read Hebrew but I would still buy 10 prints of this