Liz Loveland

The U.S. now operates the world's largest immigration detention system. Here's what that actually looks like by the numbers. 🧵

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims...

NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A 19th-century slave ship showing African captives

🗃️ March 1807: Congress prohibited the importation of enslaved people into the United States after January 1, 1808. It thereby recognized and protected the existence of slavery in the United States. 🧵1/6

Is AI a Scam? We Ask Prof. Emily Bender, Author of “The AI Con” YouTube video by Agents of Tech

I'm not sure why you feel so entitled to my time and attention and I am not going to retype all of my arguments here 300 characters at at time for you, especially since you are engaging with none of them. I'll leave you with this, on automatic transcription:

youtu.be/LfOiEV_x1fg?...

Georgia 14th Congressional District Special 2026: Live Election Results Get live results and maps from the 2026 Georgia special election.

Dems overperformed by a 17-point margin in Georgia's 14th Congressional District special election primary. The combined party vote is 60-40 Republican in a district Trump won 68-31.

All candidates ran on one ballot, and Democrat Shawn Harris will face Republican Clayton Fuller in the April 7 runoff

An excellent piece, and a good reminder of something my coworkers and I were talking about the other day: many of the things we're talking about are crimes if a person or company does them, actual named crimes, and laundering that criminality through AI shouldn't change that.

They should invent a Daylight so strong that it doesn't need to be saved every year

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

"follows months of protests over the appointment of Venezi, who has ties to the right-wing party of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, to the 4-year post she will assume next October. Critics allege that her new role is a result of political patronage rather than a purely merit-based selection."

Masthead of the newspaper De Curaçaosche Courant. Reads: "DE CURACAOSCHE COURANT. Deel XL. ZATURDAG den 16den AUGUSTUS, 1823. N. 32. Gedrukt en Zaturdag's morgens uitgegeven door De Weduwe WILLIAM LEE, Drukker voor Zyne Majesteit den Koning der Nederlanden". Available from www.delpher.nl

New publication alert! 🚨 You can now read this Open Access article about women's involvement in #Caribbean #colonialism through their work as print shop owners in #Guadeloupe #StKitts and #Curaçao 1720s-1860s 📰 @silvaperez.bsky.social @heatherfreund.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

In a world where the mind only boggles, this is mind boggling.

A company uses your name to sell AI slop "expert review" in your area of expertise?

How. Is. This. Okay.

Answer: it's not.

A spectacular lady slipper orchid in shades of magenta, pink, and chartreuse with a solid central “slipper,” two speckled side “petals,”and a striped top “petal.” Orange and white flowers are blurry in the background

Stunning bronze-colored branching orchid with cream and red centers that have lines and speckles

Pink lady slipper Archie with a deep pink outer “slipper” that is white inside with pink dots, and paler pink “petals” at the slipper’s side and top

Branching orchid with tomato-red centers surrounded by orange-red “petals”. Blurry in the background, a white azalea is in full bloom

Some of the orchids at the Gardner Museum’s courtyard on Sunday. #TinyJoys #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport

French aid worker for UNICEF killed in DR Congo's Goma, Macron says A French aid worker for the UN children's agency was killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday, after air strikes overnight killed several people in the city of Goma. 

French aid worker for UNICEF killed in DR Congo's Goma, Macron says

Out at dawn today, I noticed someone nearby had stuck a homemade sign in their window (perhaps from a protest):

“NO WAR • NO ICE”

FWIW, this echoes a misquote that I caught in the Minnesota case I covered this morning — www.lawdork.com/p/posse-comi... — relating to the text of a federal law.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

It really is an awful feeling, even having been living with it for almost 28 years at this point

My friend, Chaotic Goldy, and others are still out there patrolling for ICE, which is now mostly in the suburbs and exurbs. More driving and higher gas prices make it harder to protect our neighbors. Send Goldy a few bucks for gas if you can. I am sending $200 in Norm Nation funds to help the cause.

This is a fantastic development and long overdue. Wonderful news!

Alabama Governor Spares Life Of 75-Year-Old Who Never Killed Anyone Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

BREAKING: AL Gov. Kay Ivey (R) commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-yo-old wheelchair user who, by the state's own admission, never killed anyone www.huffpost.com/entry/alabam...

USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) John Oliver discusses the United States Agency for International Development, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how the Cha Cha Slide can help us get to the…

It’s been a year since the dismantling of USAID. In a deep dive into the fallout, #JohnOliver examines the devastating consequences: what was lost, why it happened, and who is responsible.

Among the many things USAID supported was investigative journalism, including OCCRP: buff.ly/z9uGasM

Sudanese Child Soldiers Going Viral on TikTok YouTube video by Bellingcat

Young boys dubbed “lion cubs” in Sudan’s civil war are going viral on TikTok and Facebook. Videos of children celebrating battlefield victories have millions of views. Our investigation analyses the clips and how the content encourages young people to join the war. Watch here: youtu.be/i8wf-hJAjR4

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

I'd seen the first segment of this before, but the part about the Holocaust documentary is new to me. Not surprising but still astounding.

This is amazing coverage by @marisakabas.bsky.social of The Handbasket who obtained the body cam footage via a FOIA filing. The takeover of USIP is abhorrent & unconstitutional.

Who can deny but the president general will be a king to all intents and purposes, and one of the most dangerous kind too; a king elected to command a standing army? Thus our laws are to be administered by this tyrant; for the whole, or at least the most important part of the executive department is put in his hands.

Man, the antifederalists were so paranoid.
antifederalists.org/papers/phila...

A spectacular lady slipper orchid in shades of magenta, pink, and chartreuse with a solid central “slipper,” two speckled side “petals,”and a striped top “petal.” Orange and white flowers are blurry in the background

Stunning bronze-colored branching orchid with cream and red centers that have lines and speckles

Pink lady slipper Archie with a deep pink outer “slipper” that is white inside with pink dots, and paler pink “petals” at the slipper’s side and top

Branching orchid with tomato-red centers surrounded by orange-red “petals”. Blurry in the background, a white azalea is in full bloom

Some of the orchids at the Gardner Museum’s courtyard on Sunday. #TinyJoys #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport