Pooja Bhatia

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

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Imagine the utter cruelty of making this decision; the people who decided, yeah, let's make it so that those toddlers here without legal status can't learn.

No matter how long this continues, it does not stop being illegal and insane.

The US military does not exist for the purpose of deployment on US soil, against US citizens, to cow them into compliance with the federal government.

Unspeakable perversion of its mission.

Stephen Miller ran for student council on a platform that the school's janitors weren't doing enough work. Now he has de facto authority over a "security" force that just got $100b more in funding....

So glad we gave this 39-year-old twerp an army that reports only to him!? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Heart broken

David is right. What JD Vance is saying is nothing is more important than destroying this country’s basic principles and crash the economy to expel a population he doesn’t like.

There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.

Community outraged after ice cream vendor detained by immigration agents in Culver City A community is outraged after a man who has been selling ice cream in Culver City for nearly 20 years was detained by immigration agents. On June 23, Ambrocio Lozano, also known as Enrique, was set…

“We hear a lot about how they’re catching gang members and murderers, but really, who they’re taking is our ice cream men, our nannies and our gardeners,” said John Derevlany, a neighbor. ktla.com/news/local-n...

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.

LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours." The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks. The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.

Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.

ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.

I don’t know what to say.

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Targeted as exemplary “bad people” by demagogue Donald Trump, the stories of both the town and the people of Springfield are brought forward by Pooja Bhatia. Gabrielle Apollon of the Global Justice Clinic, who tells of the complex “push” factors that drive Haitians from their homeland. #Haiti

This photo will win Desi Whatsapp today

The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza Podcast Episode · The Kicker · 06/24/2025 · 25m

Gaza— "The world's greatest self-declared democracy that is backing another self-declared democracy that is literally carrying out the annihilation of an entire population in blatant view of everyone to see.”
@arwadamon.bsky.social on CJR's The Kicker

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Dear Future (if you exist),

The irony is that the vast majority of us opposed the suffering of others, hated mass violence, scorned those who profited from it and understood full well that war is hell.

Love,
Pooja

Detention Is Over for Students Trump Seeks to Deport. Not His Crackdown.

"Upon his release from detention in Jena, La., on Friday, Mr. Khalil ... said he hoped to return there one day to find that the detention center had been turned into a museum testifying to what he called America’s racist policies against immigrants." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/n...

Brutality and circuses. Sadism and cruelty against the most vulnerable as they try to finance tax cuts for the rich on the backs of *everyone else* including the salivating spectators and future generations.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a conspiracy by the White House and ICE to violate the Constitution and conduct warrantless, suspicionless "sweeps" of Hispanic areas of the country. This is criminal behavior, and state police need to start investigating these crimes.

Here is why they have to lie about who they are targeting: "if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically."

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

Imagine if US police were focused on protecting the rights of residents of their cities rather than aiding fascist federal agents. Of course, they would not be US police if that were their goal. Abolish ICE. Abolish their handmaiden cops.

Trump hits Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti with travel bans amid immigration crackdown President Donald Trump announced a total ban Wednesday on the entry of Haitian nationals into the United States and partially limited Cubans and Venezuelans from coming into the country, as part of a ...

My two cents: “Singling Haiti out for special treatment provides no protection to U.S. national security, but is another in a long line of transparently racist attacks against Haitians.”

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in the same boat as Elis was: would love a zoom link for this preso but can't DM you!

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

This is awful and does not bode well for the roughly 500k Haitians whose TPS is set to expire August 3

🚨🚨🚨 The Supreme Court has just allowed Trump to strip as many as 350,000 people of legal status, effectively IMMEDIATELY.

Every Venezuelan granted TPS through the July 31, 2023 designation has been rendered undocumented as of now, significantly increasing the undocumented population.

We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid | Sandra L Babock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term

"By publishing this op-ed, we expose ourselves to harassment and risk losiing our jobs. But if we silence ourselves on Palestine, how can we call ourselves human rights defenders?"

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Pope Frank seemed like a real one.

Mainstream obituaries are erasing Pope Francis’s deep concern for Palestine Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

Pope Francis telephoned a church in #Gaza nearly every night since #Israel invaded. But the #NYTimes left that striking fact out of his obituary. My post @mondoweiss.net. #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main...