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! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gras a dye www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

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...

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.” ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/30/f...

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

"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." ... "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.

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 www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/opinio...

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.

"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.

"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.

The death toll now stands at 83. The U.S. government has extrajudicially killed 83 people. www.wola.org/2025/11/mari...

The whole world can see that these boat strikes are murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

As temperatures drop and winter approaches, the Haitian Bridge Alliance is launching our community-driven initiative to ensure immigrants across New York, Springfield and beyond are not left out in the cold.

🧵1/2 IG: mike_kelly_photography “After an unsuccessful foot chase outside a Sam's Club, this ICE agent became visibly angry with my presence documenting their activity, threatening to arrest me several times-as seen in this video” 🟥cont.🧵⤵️⤵️⤵️ ▪️Chicago video taken 9:25 a.m. 10/22/2025

Mandatory reminder that the expelling and deporting of students protesting a genocide was an eagerly bipartisan project

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Thank you, @longreads.com for sharing my piece about Springfield, Ohio, published in the current issue of @thebaffler.com

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

The White House convinced many its focus is “illegal” immigration. Then: —Today’s near-ban on LEGAL high-skill work visas —Ended LEGAL refugee visas —Slashing LEGAL student visas —Ban all/most LEGAL visas for 17 countries —Ending LEGAL parole & TPS for millions Not a “crackdown”. A lawless purge.

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

Pooja Bhatia recounts what the last year in Springfield, Ohio has looked like for Haitian residents who have been the target of our hate-filled president and also their own neighbors thebaffler.com/salvos/home-... @bhatiap.bsky.social @thebaffler.com

The most important immigration fights right now are about the Constitution. None of it has anything to do with the substance of immigration policy. If you stand with ICE, you stand against the Constitution. Can the govt... 1. racially profile? 2. set up checkpoints wherever they want?

"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Remember Springfield, Ohio, where the US president spat lies about Haitian immigrants "eating the cats"? County Commissioner: Springfield and Clark County are "the strongest that they've been in my lifetime." @bhatiap.bsky.social went to Springfield and wrote for @thebaffler.com —>

What if Democrats had defended immigration over the last few years instead of running from it?

“Public comment at the commission meetings is technically open to anyone who lives in Clark County. But very few Haitian residents have spoken at them. And only a minority of residents has taken to the dais to urge kindness and humaneness.”

The racist media frenzy around Haitians “eating the dogs” in Ohio may have died down, but Springfield’s immigrant community is still dealing with the consequences, as @bhatiap.bsky.social reports in our new issue.

DECENCY LIVES! It was a privilege to report this piece, which features a bunch of v courageous people.

Trump Kills ‘American Experience’ — one of PBS’s three flagship shows. They have produced consistently excellent, nonpartisan history documentaries. I guess nonpartisan history is no longer permissible.

Timeline cleanser. 0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.

New from me: The National Guard is, at most, half the story when it comes to the DC takeover. The other half is the stuff that is actually having an impact. That's right, y'all, this is _yet again_ about immigration enforcement. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/immigra...

Every single signatory of the Genocide Convention (that includes the US) is obliged to stop this. Will any country do so? No. Israel is yet again a rogue state, aided and abetted by the “civilized” countries. Shame. #FreePalestine. #BDS

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. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

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.