The fine is $998 per day for “willfully” failing to depart after a final order of removal. $3,000 for failing to depart after voluntarily agreeing to do so, per incident. $250 for entering the United States not at a port of entry (increased to $5,130 after 4 July, 2025).

The per-day fines accrue to a limit of $1.8 million per individual.

The $998 per day fine was part of the 1996 immigration reform package. Previous administrations didn’t bother with it too much, because how the heck are going to collect the money from people you’ve already deported to foreign country? And how will people pay you hundreds of thousands if they’re already poor and broke?

This administration doesn’t care about the practical limits of collection, and I suspect they don’t care too much about proving the “willfully” part of it either.

Who needs most of the Pacific fleet anyway?

The problem with lethal injections is they use untrained or low trained prison guards to do the injections. If board certified anesthesiologists were doing it, it would be much more painless, and complications could be handled and responded to.

Anesthesiologists don’t become executioners because they all swore to the Hippocratic oath.

For a long time I was really confused about what is so bad about the Atlanta Hawks that you might need an alibi to go see them.

It turns out that the second part of this wacko’s conspiracy theory is that Jack Smith used the Atlanta Hawks (which, again, Smith never actually went to) as a cover to secretly meet with Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis.

Absolutely no evidence as to this “meeting” with Willis was presented whatsoever.

And if you live in Texas, don’t rely on DPS to process your voter registration through the driver license system. File an application directly with your county registrar.

There’s a provision in the law where they can’t do any mass purges within 90 days of an election. So this ruling is limited to “individualized queries” for the rest of the 2026 cycle. But you can expect it to be a much bigger deal in the 2028 cycle if it doesn’t get overturned.

(This is a situation where Congress has the power to change the law. Hint, hint.)

Before two days ago, there was a period of several months where the African deportations were legal because everyone’s favorite Supreme Court decided to allow them during the litigation.

Update: in a recent filing, the white house claims all press passes are restored, but it took like all morning to find and process then

EDIT update: lol

Judge ordered the gov to provide some response by 12:30, on about half an hour.

This is apparently direct contempt of court by the white house, and it’s going to be very well covered because guess who the plaintiffs are.

Meanwhile, the government may also be defying the 1st circuit order that bars no-notice third country deportations to Africa. But it’s hard to tell. There’s evidence that some planes may be heading to Africa today. But who is on the planes? ADS-B doesn’t tell us that.

Update: the hearing on the proposed restraining order is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Something to keep in mind is that the lawsuit to reverse this has already been filed, and it seems like a solid winner on first amendment viewpoint discrimination grounds. I think it’s likely an injunction will come down pretty fast to restore the credentials.

This is still a big deal result with a lot of physical significance if it holds up.

Full Navier-Stokes are / were understood to model all of the important physics associated with continuous domain fluids. (Continuous domain here means we approximate the many, many particles of the fluid as a smooth, continuous substance).

In particular, Navier-Stokes are supposed to fully model fluids with turbulence. Turbulence is an everyday phenomenon that you can reproduce for yourself in your kitchen sink, and yet it is extremely difficult to formulate a mathematical function for it. Turbulence appears to be random if you look at it, and yet if it is produced by NS, then it is not random. Solving even the numeric approximations of NS for turbulent flows is difficult because the flows exhibit severe variation in velocity over wide ranges of time and distance scales.

Anyhow, if NS is a good physical theory it has to have a physically realistic solution to every physically-possible set of initial conditions and environmental forcing functions. In math terms this mainly means that all of the velocities, pressures, and forces have to be finite and smooth at all times. Step discontinuities don’t really occur in the real physical world (although they do approximately occur).

This result would mean that NS is not the end all final theory for classical continuum fluids. The scenario constructed by OpenAI is claimed to be one that can (at least theoretically) be setup and run in the real world. But if we did that, the real world is certain to do something else besides the infinite flow velocity vortex that OpenAI claims NS predicts. What would really happen in that experiment? Who knows. We’re gonna need to find some new physics to find out.

Apparently, Hoskins was at the hearing, but it sounds like he might have escaped with some light ass chewing.

The court found that Hoskins was in contempt, but he managed to purge the contempt by hearing time. (i.e. he came into compliance with the court order by directing election officials to use the 2022 map.)

A few points here:

• Fox News is a cable channel, so it isn’t subject to this rule. The rule only applies over the air.
• Fox News argued in a legal case that one of its talk shows (I think Tucker Carlson) was not news and no one should believe it. I don’t think they were talking about their actual news programs on Fox News.
• The current FCC of this president is arguing that Kimmel is not a news program. Previous FCCs took the opposite view.

The Supreme Court of Missouri has ordered the Secretary of State of Missouri to appear in person at a contempt of court hearing today.

The Equal Time Rule would require Kimmel to offer to air an equal-time interview to Ken Paxton as well as Talarico. Unless Kimmel’s program is a bona fide news program, which would be exempt from the rule.

Previous administrations adopted a more broad interpretation of “bona fide news program” that included these late night shows that interview guests. Mainly because this rule and the exception are playing with legal fire regarding the first amendment and core political speech.

The Equal Time Rule applies only to over the air broadcasts. YouTube is unregulated on that point.

FYI, this is a midterm election that is coming up. The senators and representatives who will have been elected will be sworn in on Jan 2, 2027 in their respective chambers. Nothing significant to the constitution is scheduled for Jan 6. That’s only in presidential election cycles.

This action also forces the appeals to start over.

ICE spokesperson Jason Chudy said the agency arrested Javar because he allegedly failed to disclose a criminal conviction when applying for his immigrant visa in 1995. Chudy declared that Javar was “therefore ineligible to remain in the United States now.”

This is the kind of stuff that previous administrations overlooked and used their discretion on. This administration is mainly applying the immigration law strictly according to the letter. The immigration laws themselves really suck and they have for a long time.