NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
The Dept of War just asked Congress for an additional 50 billion dollars. And at the same time, the state is policing what kinds of food SNAP recipients can purchase.
fREeDOM!!!
Week in review: @veenadubal.bsky.social and @azizaahmed.bsky.social on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, @lookheron.bsky.social on market governance in Trumpworld, and @abalasub.bsky.social on the misnomer of modern Indian capital.
Plus, the best of LPE from around the web 🧵
"In many ways, the pioneering Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS) encapsulates Berkeley Law’s mindset: prioritizing civic engagement, collaborating across disciplines to maximize impact, and assessing how law operates on the ground."
(👋 @veenadubal.bsky.social!)
““It’s stunning there were no orders for authorized departure for nonessential U.S. gov’t employees & family members in almost all the affected diplomatic missions in the region — nor public recommendations to American citizens to depart — until days into the war””
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
“Anthropic said it needed terms that would ensure that its A.I. tech would not be used for domestic surveillance of Americans or w/autonomous lethal weapons. But the Pentagon insisted …Anthropic could not decide how its tools would be used in national security work.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/t...
Notably, this education on nutrition does not include teaching medical students anything about food insecurity or how to screen for it.
The MAHA med school curriculum framework includes: “the promotion of dietary supplements and “wearable” devices.” One proposed that medical students study “soil sampling, composting and crop rotation.””
50 medical schools sign on.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
“A day after an Iranian ship was torpedoed by the U.S. in the waters near Sri Lanka, the country’s president said his government has allowed a second Iranian ship to dock in one of its ports and allowed its crew into the country.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents.
Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The intro chapter of my book is now available to access for free. See link 👇🏼
““He [the military Commander] said that ‘President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth’”, the NCO added.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
“Mr. Kennedy, who has made healthy eating a centerpiece of his campaign to address what he calls an epidemic of chronic disease, has spent months pressuring medical schools to adopt his ideas, threatening funding cuts and promising public recognition.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
50,000 US military workers are engaged in “operation epic fury”.
“India’s overseas workers send home more money, as remittances, than any other country’s. The $125 billion they pour into India’s economy every year plays a crucial role in boosting the value of the Indian currency, the rupee.”
“Altogether, more Indians live in the Persian Gulf than there are citizens of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain combined.
No one expects these millions to flee overnight, though South Asian workers have been among the first fatalities caused by Iranian retaliatory strikes”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
“What we ask of science matters. What we expect agencies to do matters. Expertise structures distribution. Epidemiology and public health knowledge don’t simply describe reality; they organize access to resources.”
Before reading Aziza’s work, I had no idea how women with AIDS & their allies actually changed the science and history with their advocacy.
In this moment of vaccine skepticism & MAHA approach to health, what Aziza taught me (among other things) was this:
This was the most interesting conversation I have had in a long time. Brilliant @azizaahmed.bsky.social talked to me about her new book & how feminists transformed the science of AIDS.
lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem...
Thank you to the most brilliant @veenadubal.bsky.social for being my conversation partner about my book on the @lpeblog.bsky.social and to the masterful @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his support. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem... @bulaw.bsky.social
“There are people who are extremely fearful of what this war — that doesn’t seem to have a very clear end — is going to bring to Iran,” Ms. Alian said, “in terms of civil war, in terms of the disintegration of Iran, or in terms of another failed state in the region.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...
After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.
The idea that firms whose power is encased by law and politics will take consistently principled stances based on morals alone belies everything we know from the last centuries of modern history
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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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So much for the pretext of saving women in Iran.
