Pooja Bhatia

Hey @aclu.org we need your help in standing up & reining in impunity!

The court observers detained and cited yesterday in San Diego need you to bring a case & nip this in the bud before this happens everywhere!! 🙏 www.daylightsandiego.org/officials-de...

This is nonetheless more favorable terrain for Trump than for the American system. As New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote (here in The Post), “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Trump has for years stoked the idea that actually, having your own facts is fine. And even as his base chooses facts that he finds inconvenient in the moment, he’s still pushing toward the next phase: Everyone is entitled to the facts that Trump presents. What institutions of power will be left to disagree?

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This opinion SLAPS!
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Gras a dye www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Springfield on edge as federal judge decides fate of Haitian immigrants With a court ruling looming over Haitian immigration, Springfield families face uncertainty about jobs, homes and children as Ohio prepares for what could come next.

Now on tenterhooks -- can one frantically wait??-- for the TPS decision supposed to come down today DC district ct. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Hundreds show support for Springfield Haitians at faith event on eve of TPS ending St. John Missionary Baptist Church was over capacity as hundreds supported Springfield’s Haitian community while advocating for the extension of Temporary Protected Status Monday morning.

Inspired and fortified by the solidarity work in Springfield, Ohio, where an event for supporting Haitians was over capacity, "packed with an estimated 1,200 people. Hundreds were asked to leave and watch a livestream per the fire marshal’s instructions." www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/hundred...

"As actors playing ICE agents busted through the church sanctuary door, some participants took out their cell phones to start recording. A woman in a wheelchair did circles in the aisle to complicate the agents’ path. More than a few dropped to their knees and began to pray."

Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community • Ohio Capital Journal Church-supervised hubs to house and care for children separated from their parents. Volunteers to deliver food to hungry neighbors. Training on what to do if ICE agents breach churches. These are just...

re: efforts to protect Haitians in Springfield as ICE threats worsen:

“The demographic ...is changing, more and more everyday people that wouldn’t normally be involved in this type of stuff are concerned and feel morally obligated to do something.”

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia The residents of Springfield, Ohio, have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

The Feb 3 expiration of Haitians' TPS is looming. Springfielders have been preparing carefully and courageously. thebaffler.com/salvos/home-...

Minnesotans' solidarity and grace has been awesome-- and it's also ordinary and widespread. Residents of Springfield, Ohio, have been mobilizing for several yrs to protect their community, including Haitian newcomers; they are smart, fierce and inspiring. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springf...

I would love to know how many people who were convicted for January 6 are now member ICE

A doctor says DHS agents were counting bullet holes rather than assisting Alex as he died. Indeed, they were actively harming him further. We know initially they had only been concerned with finding his weapon

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

"About eight seconds after he is pinned, agents yell that he has a gun, indicating that they may not have known he was armed until he was on the ground."

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"The agents appear to have him under their control, with his arms pinned near his head."

They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

The pigeon toes. The earnest crossing guard hand. The way his other arm, holding the camera, is tucked into his side. The way he stands before the threat, looking over his shoulder at the wellbeing of another. The brown, the beige, the hat. One humble soul. Here is another Tiananmen Square.

"The lies of 2024 painted us as a city drained by immigrants. The truth of 2026 will prove that we need these people as much as they need us. We should beg our representatives to advocate for a TPS extension. The city of Springfield hangs in the balance."

OPINION: Lawmakers need to expand TPS as Springfield’s fate hangs in balance When discussing Springfield’s Haitian community, Mayor Rue has pleaded for “people who understand the entire issue to speak and not be silent anymore.” With the upcoming Feb. 3 termination of Temporar...

If "the world wants to look to Springfield as the microcosm of a national immigration conversation, then hear us loud and clear: the Haitians have breathed life, not destruction, into our declining city."
-- Chloe Reep in the Springfield (Ohio) News Sun
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Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs & © @WHAAsstSecty Detaining Nicaraguans for "liking" posts online shows how paranoid the illegitimate Murillo and Ortega regime is. We demand the unconditional release of all political prisoners— no exceptions, no house arrest, no new arrests. Freedom means ending the regime's cycle of repression. #LibertadYa 11:23 AM • Jan 17, 2026 • 91.6K Views

Plaintiffs Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, along with Jane Doe and John Doe, noncitizen students holding F-1 visas issued by the United States, filed an amended complaint alleging claims under the First and Fifth Amendments against Marco Rubio, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and Kristi Noem, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security (together, the "Government"). First Am. Compl., ECF No. 65 ("FAC"). Jane Doe and John Doe allege that since March 2025, the Government has changed its immigration policy and pattern of enforcement, namely arresting, detaining, and deporting students with F-1 visas when those students voice opinions that express support or empathy for Palestinian people or are critical of Israel's actions regarding Palestine or the conflict in Gaza. Because Jane Doe and John Doe fear that the Government will revoke their visas and deport them for expressing views that the Government may now deem "anti-American or anti-Israel," Jane Doe and John Doe have self-censored. FAC I2. They have stopped exercising their First Amendment rights when it comes to the subject of Israel and Palestine, including publishing commentary online. They have also changed their social media practices and have avoided wearing clothing that indicates a pro-Palestinian view. Similarly, Stanford Daily Publishing ("Stanford Daily"), the parent company of campus

newspaper The Stanford Daily, fears for its student journalists. Noncitizen student-journalists who hold valid F-1 visas - and are therefore lawfully present in the United States - are asking Stanford Daily to take down their previously published articles about Israel and Palestine. And although they have already expended considerable effort investigating and writing new articles about the Israel-Palestine conflict, noncitizen student-journalists are choosing not to publish those articles because they are afraid the Government will revoke their visas and deport them. In their amended complaint, Plaintiffs point to the news of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, and other students lawfully in the United States who expressed opinions about Israel and Palestine; the Government then arrested, detained, and transferred those students to immigration jails. Plaintiffs quote public statements by Secretary of State Rubio and the President, including comments he made prior to being elected, warning noncitizens that they will be deported if they express similar views. Plaintiffs argue that the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA") (8 U.S.C. §§ 1182(a)(3)(C)(iii), 1227(a)(4)(C)(i) and § 1201(i)) that the Government relies on for its authority to cancel student visas and initiate deportation proceedings, are facially unconstitutional. Plaintiffs bring eight claims under the First and Fifth Amendments for declaratory and injunctive relief. See FAC. The Government now moves to dismiss Plaintiffs' complaint solely for lack of standing. Mot. to Dismiss, ECF No. 66. The matter is fully briefed, and the Court held a hearing on January 6, 2026. ECF Nos. 66, 67, and 68. The Court DENIES the Government's motion to dismiss.

The State Dep't Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs today posted that detaining people "for 'liking' posts online shows how paranoid [an] illegitimate" regime is, referring to "political prisoners."

On Friday, a fed'l judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit over State taking similar actions in the U.S.

Noem says that virtually anyone could face a Kavanaugh stop Trump started off the day with an Insurrection Act threat. DHS Sec. Noem followed up by saying that anyone "surrounding" any DHS target has to prove their legal status.

"If, as Noem said on Thursday, the administration’s view is that anyone 'surrounding' any person involved in a Kavanaugh stop can have their citizenship questioned — a Kavanaugh stop once removed, if you will — then virtually anyone in the U.S. could find themselves subject to a Kavanaugh stop."

feeling sick about this

This could be anyone in America. We are all under siege.

Suspending our Constitution harms every Conservative and every Liberal American.

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

I Don't Care A doctor asks to check her pulse.

"The lie is not meant to convince. It is meant to demonstrate that truth no longer matters. What matters is power, and power is the ability to say I don’t care and face no consequences." thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/i-dont-care

This--ICE's overall mission, its culture, the specific posture ICE takes in relationship to the people of the cities they invade, the specific actions being performed by agents in those cities, this specific agent in his role as government agent--cannot be reformed. It can only be abolished.

Pope Leo could do the funniest thing.

Millions of people across America are watching the videos of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and they know that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem are LYING.

We can see what happened with our own eyes. We won’t believe their propaganda.

The way Colonel Lockjaw wears a tear gas canister ready for deployment at any time is pure theater.