Spotlight on Climate: Climate change is driving migration in the US and around the world The latest installment of Spotlight on Climate, from the Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance

I wrote for my hometown newspaper, the Arizona Daily Sun: "Climate change is driving migration in the US and around the world"

azdailysun.com/opinion/colu...

youre not gonna believe it, but this is the 50th EPISODE of this podcast we made!

What a cool milestone

Ive been waiting for someone to write this deep dive of the changes at the US immigration court system (which is actually part of DOJ)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Honey In The Wound by Jiyoung Han

Happy pub day to @jiyounghan.bsky.social!

Buy Honey In The Wound from your local bookstore, read it, and be moved and astonished

Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen have just broken the record for the furthest that any human beings have ever traveled from the Earth as Artemis II passes beyond the distance that Apollo 13 traveled in 1970.

We All Float On: A Weekend Aboard The Modest Mouse Cruise “What’s up, floaters?!” The Norwegian Pearl is pulling away from Miami Cruise Terminal B, and hundreds of people are gathered on the pool deck, waiting for the show to begin. The friendly thirtysometh...

of course there is now a millennial indie rock cruise headlined by Modest Mouse

of course the writeup mentions "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"
stereogum.com/2493841/we-a...

Poster for END PAPERS: A MINI-BOOK FEST ON CAPITALISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS SATURDAY, APRIL 4 12PM - 9PM RED EMMA’S 3128 GREENMOUNT AVE, BALTIMORE

Promo poster for Julian Hattem book event on Saturday, April 4th (6:30pm) at Red Emma’s. Julian Hattem presents SHELTER FROM THE STORM: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS CREARING A NEW ERA OF MIGRATION IN CONVERSATION WITH MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ

Baltimore/DMV folks! Come down to @redemmas.org today for END PAPERS: A Mini Book Fest on Capitalism & the Climate Crisis 🔥

The lineup is incredible, the conversations will be electric! I will be on stage speaking w/ the great @jmhattem.bsky.social about climate change & mass displacement/migration

Today! @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @nikifabs2024.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social + local climate organizers coming through 4 a bookfest on capitalism & the climate crisis!

space is so cool i love space

End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis. Saturday, April 4th 12pm-9pm

I'm super stoked to be speaking at this event at @redemmas.org mas.org in Baltimore on Saturday, alongside @triofrancos.bsky.social y.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social

C'mon by! It's gonna be a great time
redemmas.org/events/end-p...

Immigrants seeking asylum are ordered to countries they've never been to, but end up stuck in limbo In recent months, thousands of immigrants living legally in the U.S. and waiting for rulings on their asylum claims were suddenly ordered deported to countries where most have no ties.

"Thanks to unexplained changes in U.S. policy, many are now mired in immigration limbo, unable to argue their asylum claims in court and unsure if they’ll be shackled and put on a deportation flight to a country they’ve never seen."

apnews.com/article/trum...

I learned today that EB White, of Strunk & White fame, is also the author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little

happy friday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump to attend Wednesday Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship in unprecedented move for a sitting president.

The number of people deported under these agreements has so far been a fraction of the total deportations conducted by the Trump administration because, except for Mexico, most countries have agreed to accept at most a few hundred deportees. The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) estimates about 15,000 third-country deportations (13,000 of them to Mexico) occurred between January 20, 2025, and December 31, 2025—a tiny share of the 1 million annual deportations the administration has said it intends to achieve. As a result, it appears the focus on expanding deportations to third countries is less about achieving numbers than it is incentivizing people to “self-deport” or deterring would-be irregular arrivals by making clear their future could be completely out of their hands if they are sent to countries such as Ecuador, Eswatini, or Uzbekistan, where they have no ties.

third-country deportations -- ie those that occur to places other than migrants' homelands -- were a tiny fraction of US deportations last year, adding up to about 15,000 in total. Of those, 13,000 were to Mexico

Read @ruizags.bsky.social : www.migrationpolicy.org/news/us-thir...

"From a hilltop on the base, the town of Caimanera on the other side of the bay was enveloped in darkness on a recent night. But Gitmo... was thriving."

End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis A one-day festival of books on capitalism and the climate crisis, featuring Thea Riofrancos, Tao Leigh Goffe, Alyssa Battistoni, Billy Fleming, Julian Hattem and more! Plus a radical resource fair wi...

Are you in Baltimore this weekend? Come out to Red Emma's on Sat, April 4!

I'm taking part in this great daylong event: "End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis."

redemmas.org/events/end-p...

Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding Two kona low storms dumped up to 50in of rain on Oahu, flooding fields and submerging equipment

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding

State Dept. is moving into Institute of Peace building during ongoing litigation After the 2025 DOGE raid, a court ruling on ownership of the building remains in limbo.

SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them.

This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.

College credit in high school? Trump administration pushes new limits for undocumented students Chalkbeat reporting found that nearly every Virginia school district agreed to block undocumented students from accessing federally funded career-technical education programs. The leader of a superint...

At least three states have taken steps to restrict undocumented high school students’ access to dual enrollment/career-technical education programs, according to documents reviewed by Chalkbeat. In Virginia, the policy was reversed following Chalkbeat inquiries.

www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/27/t...

Villagers Say This Island Is Cursed. Migrants Saw an Opportunity.

NYT reports on how a small "cursed" island in Gambia has become a major setting-off point for EU-bound migrants
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

Far fewer immigrants are moving to big cities in U.S., data shows New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among the metro areas seeing steep declines in net immigration amid the Trump administration’s crackdown.

The number of immigrants settling in U.S. metropolitan areas declined steeply, census data shows, as the Trump administration restricts arrivals from other nations.

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago saw net immigration declines of 62 percent or higher.

Baltimore! Next weekend! Come out if you can!

Gregory Bovino’s Final Days: Harsh Words and Few Regrets

We spent hours talking to Greg Bovino in his final days as a Border Patrol official.

He mocked Tom Homan. Criticized the current CBP chief. Acknowledged clashes with ICE and the National Guard.

Lots more here:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

By a vote of 54-45, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Markwayne Mullin to be Secretary of Homeland Security.

Born Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong

“As many as 200,000 adoptees are vulnerable to deportation because they lack U.S. citizenship or important proof of it… Many international adoptees first learn they are not citizens when they apply for a drivers license, join the military or, these days, when federal agents stop them on the street.”

"The differences between the fates of detained immigrant parents under the two presidents are stark, our analysis shows. The impact on mothers is particularly pronounced. Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did."

Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.

“We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee,” Ms. Rachel told me. “I just never thought those words would go together.”

Read my story on Ms. Rachel’s new mission to help shut down Dilley and free kids trapped there — starting with two she met over Zoom last week.

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court.

A look at this emerging trend.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Data Centers Are Military Targets Now With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

Scholars of the law of armed conflict say that the militarization of the cloud (or the cloud-ification of the military) mean data centers can be legitimate targets during war theintercept.com/2026/03/20/a...