I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy. - ThreadSky

hebagowayed.bsky.social • 20 days ago

I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.

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aoilainn.bsky.social•20 days ago

As for anticipating how much courts will help the situation:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-woman-transferred-to-mens-prisons-despite-rulings-against-trumps-order/

ianliujiatian.bsky.social•20 days ago

Agreed!

hajoon.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is as much a prelude to a holocaust as we've ever had. A legal resident getting deported (presumably back to Palestine which might as well be a death sentence based on this administration's policies) for his free speech is as fascist as I think America has ever been

chosenknight.bsky.social•20 days ago

Free speech? He was part of a group that illegally took over private property. Kept other students from attending classes and two Columbia employees were held against their will.

hajoon.bsky.social•20 days ago

If you don't see how deporting a legal resident and husband to an American citizen for political reasons is not an obvious precursor to a much more violent reality, I think you're being willfully ignorant at best.

chosenknight.bsky.social•20 days ago

Green card doesn’t mean citizen. If a green card holder commits a crime they can be removed from the country.

hajoon.bsky.social•20 days ago

1. I didn’t say citizen, I said legal resident, which he is.
2. He hasn’t been charged with a crime, but even if he were, he would be entitled to due process.

Why embarrass yourself by publicly deepthroating boots?

chosenknight.bsky.social•20 days ago

How do you know he was not arrested last May when the group took over Hamilton Hall?

mikekeating.bsky.social•18 days ago

was he charged with a crime? was he convicted?

blueridgebadger.bsky.social•20 days ago

Are interment camps next? The balance in this country is tipped the wrong way.

taliajane.bsky.social•20 days ago

yeah this is absolutely a new page. goes slowly and then all at once.

hebagowayed.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s making me so sick. I can’t think about anything else. I hate how paralyzed we are to stop it.

hollyglightly.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm incensed. Every day seems to be THE tipping point dark day but F this one is so bad.

dbgreenwald.bsky.social•20 days ago

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that his wife is 8 months pregnant.

hebagowayed.bsky.social•20 days ago

I checked with friends today to offer a meal train or baby clothes, but she has a good support network and was set on those things ❤️

dbgreenwald.bsky.social•19 days ago

Great idea. Thanks for this.

hebagowayed.bsky.social•20 days ago

Now we wait to see if the courts will protect, and compensate this man from this illegal transgression.

Meanwhile his wife & lawyers don’t even know where he is.

Make no mistake the process of deportation, successful or not, is torture.

hebagowayed.bsky.social•20 days ago

Also for the love of god faculty wake the fuck up and pressure your institutions to stop the nonsense. Academia has
become the primary site of repression because we allowed it to be. We invited this onto our students, our campuses, our nation.

ktfalvey.bsky.social•20 days ago

Disappearing people at the dictator's whim is definitely entering the final phase of fascism.

diehoren.bsky.social•19 days ago

I hope you will join me in sending a letter of support directly to Mahmoud Khalil at the following address:

Mr. Mahmoud Khalil
ICE Processing Center
PO Box 560
Trout LA 71371

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