NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...
Trump's deportation push could cost Republicans in midterm elections, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
I snagged the display copy. Looking forward to reading it!
as part of the freakout on the right about the supposed "Islamification of Texas" giant aggregator accounts on X are pushing to boycott HEB because it sells Halal meat (and has for at least 4 years) www.chron.com/texas/articl...
I should mention that the panel's chair Carly Goodman brought donuts, a much appreciated gesture that sets the standard for all future early-morning panels
Another fine @iehs.bsky.social solicited panel: New Perspectives on the History of Labor Migration Policy, chaired by Madeline Hsu, with @hidehirota.bsky.social Kyle Pruitt and Monique Laney, with comments by Cindy Hahamovitch delivered and amplified by Leon Fink. These historians are doing the work
Timely AF panel The Urgency of Recent Immigration History in the Trump Era with @carlygoodman.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social @yaelschacher.bsky.social Alexander Stephens, Diana Martinez-Montes, and Martha Guerrero Badillo (in spirit). This great panel was solicited by @iehs.bsky.social
#OAH26
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
I was waiting to get a copy at OAH, but at least I was able to use that sweet, sweet discount
Excellent panel Critical Histories of US Immigration and Citizenship, sponsored by @iehs.bsky.social with Maddalena Marinari, Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social, Lila Teeters Knolle, Yukako Otori, and Michael Jin (in absentia). Panel #OAH2026
Trumpist Law Professors: John Eastman advocates for you being disenfranchised if you voted for the wrong party and shot by the army if you protest it. If you disagree, you’re INTOLERANT
Rare rebuke of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, enabled by small group of Republican defectors, to last three years
A Venezuelan family followed the rules to enter the U.S. After being arrested and detained for a month, they’re leaving.
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
ICE is arresting delivery drivers at a San Diego military base. According to an attorney interviewed by Kate Morrissey, military police at the gates call ICE on any driver who is not a citizen or green card holder, even if they have permission to be in the country. capitalandmain.com/ice-has-arre...
The Cato Institute published new research that shows that fewer US citizens are able to bring their lawfully wedded spouses to the United States. US citizens are often ignored and overlooked in the national immigration debate. @cato.org
Learn more about the research at www.cato.org/blog/trump-h....
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
The Trump administration views DACA recipients as deportable as any undocumented immigrant. For my latest, I talked to immigrants without permanent legal status who entered the country as children and spent months in ICE detention.
www.notus.org/immigration/...
The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents.
Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target the very people who were harmed by the developer. With @propublica.org:
I wrote about third-country deportations and how Trump is using bribes, threats, and rewards to create an expanding international network of concentration camps to go along with the domestic one.
It is sad when the vice-president of the United States sees his job as spreading Kremlin propaganda.
Q: How would it not be a war crime to strike Iran's bridges and power plants?
Trump: They're animals.
Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement. “Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.
The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as:
“Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”
University of Illinois Press's free e-book this month is Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States, edited by Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang. Request it at the link. cc: @kevinkenny.bsky.social @adamjst.bsky.social 🗃️
Why would the US/Israelis bother striking a road bridge? The B1 road bridge was in the final stages of construction and not open to road traffic. Therefore, it had no military value. Conclusion? This was a punitive and disproportionate attack on civilian infrastructure: a potential war crime.
