New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration
Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...
Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.
"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”
“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
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also it's no surprise that Hamburger would join the side of the arbitrary power crowd. He already dropped a batshit insane ssrn arguing that people in deportation processes literally are outlaws without rights.
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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.
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.
Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
Congress is on vacation
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
If folks are interested, I've just posted an updated draft of The Chadha Presidency, with revisions accounting for the Supreme Court tariffs case, Iran WPR resolutions of disapproval, and more. ssrn.com/abstract=536...
"Congress cannot ... expropriate the papers of the Chief Executive"
*goose meme* WHO PAID FOR THOSE PAPERS, OLC? WHO?
Thanks to ImmigrationProf blog for highlighting my forthcoming article, First Amendment Coverage in the Immigration Context!
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The Atlantic Subscribe IDEAS Where Are All the Campus Protests? Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.
Honestly, fuck off.
I have the stomach to say one more thing: as meaningful as what students saw in response to their protests (repression) is what they didn't (US shifting away from support for genocide). describing this as *their* failure as opposed to the supposed adults in the room is a joke and not the funny kind
I'm proud to be one of more than 75 academics and advocacy groups who signed this letter calling out FCC chair Brendan Carr's flagrantly unconstitutional threats against media institutions who accurately report news about the Iran war in ways Donald Trump doesn't like
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Thank you, @jerryedwards.bsky.social! I'd love to hear any thoughts you have on the draft.
This whole talk of an exit strategy is bizarre. Israel perceives Iran as an existential threat. We can't trigger regime change there, so we need to make it as militarily weak as possible. The longer it takes for them to regenerate, the better. The more economic woes they have, the more constraints they have on the defense budget, the better. So, we wreak havoc on them. Wreaking havoc for three weeks will achieve better results than wreaking havoc for one week, and wreaking havoc for three months achieves more than for three weeks. We keep going until Trump stops us. There is no need for an "exit strategy". Nadav Eyal ›'x aT @Nadav_Eyal • 5h What came through in my conversations with senior security officials is optimism about how the war is unfolding- even though they openly acknowledged a developing energ...
Very obviously, from day one: the whole point here is to bring Iran - again, a country of 90 million people - as close as possible to a state of collapse and ungovernability, by any means necessary. The only question is for how long the hooting imbecile in charge will accept the ruin of his power.
Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"
fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo...
I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
Thanks, @meplusdog.bsky.social!
Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for highlighting my article, First Amendment Coverage in the Immigration Context! I am thrilled to report that the article will be published in Vol. 29 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law con.law.
Recently the DOJ sued UCLA, arguing that we are such a "hotbed of campus antisemitism"—primarily because of pro-Palestinian student protests—that it's a hostile work environment for Jewish faculty and staff.
Well, many actual Jewish faculty and staff vehemently disagree and we wrote this letter:
Chilling effects are hard to measure or document. They are what doesn't get said over here, because of some gvt action over there. But pieces like this are a small part of making visible what is obvious: right now, chilling effects are everywhere
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
“We want to change the rules of the next election so Democrats don’t win anymore”
