350,000 peoples’ lives hang in the balance. A majority entered the U.S. legally and have never been in violation of any immigration law. They’ve had to go through multiple background checks. And yet they’re hanging on by a thread, even though the situation in Haiti hasn’t gotten any better.
United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.
BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.
Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.
Haiti TPS is safe for now.
Kennedy Center updates:
—Rep. Joyce Beatty (ex officio member of the board of trustees) is suing again, this time to make sure Trump doesn't demolish the center.
—Grenell has, as threatened, sued Chuck Redd for canceling a concert.
—The exec. director of the National Symphony Orchestra has quit.
I keep thinking about this weird thing where the DOJ is investigating Jerome Powell for allegedly lying to the Senate about renovations (even though no senators have accused him of lying), while Kristi Noem told the Senate Trump approved her $220M ad campaign and Trump himself said that wasn't true.
The Olden Times.
No, I doubt it. They are likely going to claim they’re not posting them because of the partial government shutdown.
It’s new urgency in the same way I used to play peekaboo with my daughter, I’d disappear and then appear anew, but she’s 4 now and she’s over it.
In that, she’s more of a strategist than anyone at DoD.
So frustrating!
I've been thinking about this Pew survey all week. It's incredibly depressing and makes me wonder what it would be like to live among people who didn't despise one another. washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/06/americans-immoral-unethical-survey/?itid=hp_more-top-stories_p002_f006
Keeping an eye on how long it'll take them to open the warehouse in Socorro.
Huh. The demise of Camp East Montana may have been announced too soon.
Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.
My story:
And this is before the spike in gas prices that appears to be coming in a matter of days.
Latest Iran poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist conducted Monday-Wednesday finds 44% support/56% oppose military action. The -12 margin of net support is about the same as -11 across six polls conducted through March 3, suggesting initial reactions have persisted maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/war-wi...
4. In the rules summary displayed to users at the time the Market was opened and during the period when most trades were placed, Defendants prominently represented that “if Ali Khamenei leaves office before March 1, 2026, then the market resolves to yes.” This language was clear, unambiguous, and binary: if Khamenei left office for any reason—including death—the Market would resolve to “yes” and holders of “yes” positions would receive the full contractual payout. 5. On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran. News outlets began reporting that Khamenei had been killed. Khamenei’s death was subsequently confirmed. By any reasonable interpretation of the Market’s terms, Khamenei had “left office” before March 1, 2026, and the Market should have resolved to “yes.” 6. Instead, after Khamenei’s death became public, Defendants invoked a socalled “death carveout” provision—a fine-print mechanism designed to allow Defendants to avoid paying consumers what they were owed when the predicted event occurred through its most foreseeable scenario. Under this provision, Defendants asserted that if the leader “leaves solely because they have died,” the Market would
Lawgeeks, here's the complaint against Kalshi for not paying out the bet on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader" because he died.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"When we declare we've won they've essentially surrendered" is an... interesting way to try to avoid the embarrassment of the "mission accomplished" banner.
A one month chart of oil prices
Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.
They think, or at least pretend to think, that this doesn’t sound like obvious cope to everyone in the world
It’s an entire White House comms shop built on the premise of “my hot girlfriend lives in Canada” being believed by normal people
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
This policy needs to be revisited. A couple thousand of these cases around the country in last few months. Many filings inaccessible.
Even causes problems for US Attorney offices because THEY can't see the filings remotely unless the specific attorney is assigned to that case
They talk in the affidavit about how they'd just moved to an electronic refund system but a lot of importers are still not registered there yet.
26. CBP has never been ordered to, nor has it attempted to, process a volume of refunds anywhere near the volume of total entries and Entry Summary lines on which IEEPA duties have been deposited. However, where CBP’s predecessor, the U.S. Customs Service, was previously ordered to refund to exporters the Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) that was held to have been unconstitutionally imposed as applied to exports by the Supreme Court in United States Shoe Corporation v. United States (1998), the process took several years to complete and required an updated regulatory procedure.
There is an interesting historical note saying that the last time a major duty was struck down as unconstitutional, it took the Customs Service "several years" to issue all the refunds. So if CBP's new plan to have a system up and running in 45 days is actually feasible, that would be a lot faster.
Link to the declaration here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
CBP calculates that doing it manually would take 4.43 million man-hours, which to be fair is a hell of a lot.
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FUNCTIONALITY IN ACE 27. CBP has a history of developing effective processes to meet its legal responsibilities and operational needs that also provide efficiencies for industry, and we continue to do so now. In preparing for the potential need to refund IEEPA duties, CBP has considered how to implement a process to issue IEEPA duty refunds in a more efficient manner than the above-described, currently available processes. CBP is confident that it can develop and implement new ACE functionality that will streamline and consolidate refunds and interest payments on an importer basis, rather than issuing 53,173,939 separate entryspecific refunds with multiple payments going to the same importer. Though operational, legal, and technical considerations may require alterations or modifications, CBP anticipates that the process will involve the following steps: • The importer files a declaration in ACE that includes a list of entries on which IEEPA duties were paid. • ACE runs a series of validations on each entry within the declaration and
automatically re-calculates the duty owed without the IEEPA tariffs (with applicable interest). • CBP verifies the declaration and processes refunds as soon as practicable. • ACE automatically finalizes (liquidates or reliquidates) the entries. • ACE automatically aggregates the refunds with interest by importer and liquidation date. • CBP certifies the refunds. • The Department of the Treasury issues IEEPA refunds electronically. 28. CBP estimates that the automated controls described above will save CBP over 4 million hours compared with the manual processes it would otherwise have to complete. 29. CBP is making all possible efforts to have this new ACE functionality ready for use in 45 days. This new process will require minimal submission from importers. It will also minimize errors by ensuring accurate IEEPA refund calculations through system validations and allowing for a review period for CBP to resolve any discrepancies with the importer and to confirm no other outstanding enforcement issues or no revenue is owed. The process will be simpler and more efficient than the existing functionalities, and CBP will provide guidance on how to file to refund declarations in the new system.
CBP does say it has a plan, though! It's just going to take a couple months for them to stand it up.
CBP puts the blame on legacy IT systems. To be blunt, while these problems may be completely valid, this is entirely the fault of the government.
Thanks! So looks like they are saying that it would require a very significant IT upgrade. Guess they should’ve thought about that first!
Do you have a link to that?
This is not accurate. In fact, no country required its submarines to rescue survivors, due to the risk of surfacing and/or limited space to keep prisoners in the very small, cramped subs. What they were expected to do was not attack survivors in the water.
Trump thinks this will be Venezuela, over in a week, then onto Cuba
