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dburbach.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

This is insane

BREAKING: The US Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the genocide in Gaza violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.

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kirkmurphy.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Nope. I did my residency in UCLA system & Trauma Psychiatry fellowship there.
In San Fernando Valley & WLA I cared for people who joined Polish Resistance to fight Nazis who killed their fam & Shoah survivors w/ wrist number tattoos.
Deputy AG Todd Blanche isn’t mentally ill.
He is a deadly fascist.

martygit.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It is absolutely insane- the problem is that the "administration" will declare it "illegal" arrest the people involved and it will take several years before the Supreme Court says it's not - in the meantime these protesters will be in jail - they're taking advantage of the delays in our legal system

claycopper.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Look, I hate when people say "we're cooked," but we're cooked. There's no cavalry. We all lived to experience rapid institutional suicide in a democracy with nukes. The press is cowed. Universities cowed. Opposition party cowed. Civil service cowed. It is time to defend our most vulnerable friends.

salome7veils.bsky.social•13 hours ago

At some point, it’s gotta be on the ones who purport to be “terrified” by entirely non-threatening, constitutionally-protected protest, for being snowflakes.

sagcap1222.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And very frightening

lisairontongue.bsky.social•12 hours ago

They'll use any pretext to suppress dissent.

jackdraper3.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I'm tempted to paraphrase Martin Niemöller--in fact, in his famous poem he did say they came for several other groups *before* they "came for the Jews". It would be easy to put immigrants on that list today.

glenndavid711.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Todd take a minute to look into Jan 06, 2021 for possible anti-terrorism laws that were broken.

montie2.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It's all a reality show to them. Make a bold announcement on Friday. We forget about it by Monday. Trump's supporters think he did something great, but nobody will actually be charged.

balrogwtf.bsky.social•13 hours ago

We're going to have to protest the detaining of the protesters protesting protester detainment.

jeffgoldvalley.bsky.social•13 hours ago

If you protested the detaining of the hostages rather than celebrating it you wouldn’t be in this predicament.

balrogwtf.bsky.social•13 hours ago

There's no predicament for us. There's a predicament for the Palestinians being mistreated.

Being an advocate for Palestinian dignity is different than being pro-hostage-taking.

Also, Israel is a terrorist, apartheid state killing many more people, taking more people hostage than Hamas.

petenaps.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Hey Jeff, fuck off

p0rtiab00.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Well, in the sense that everything they do is insane, I suppose it is. But this not new, or unexpected. We're two months into hell. We can continue to be surprised, or we can speak truth about the immediate and historical ramifications of what has happened.

citizen2.bsky.social•13 hours ago

What’s old is new again. Welcome back to 1938 Germany. 🇩🇪

katharinethegeek.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Please don't use the modern German flag in association with 1938 Germany. I know you probably don't want to show the 1938 German flag either, so maybe no flags next time.

citizen2.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thanks for the information. I was remiss in posting the current German flag. 😕

tourtweet.bsky.social•13 hours ago

arrest people for freedom of speech, throw them in privatized jails, make money. let’s go fascism!!!

welshrarebit.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Why go through the rigmarole? Trump didn’t like the protests and that makes them illegal. That’s the effective official position now, isn’t it.

kilog013.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Meh… free speech absolutism

libbyco.bsky.social•13 hours ago

What the actual f*ck?

harry-is-human.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It is not insanity, it is an entirely rational action when your objective is to bring in censorship.

These are bad faith actors. They are not suffering any kind of psychiatric disorder. They are simply bad people and need to be dealt with on that level.

scottage.me•13 hours ago

And once again, a peaceful plea of, "Could we just not do quite so much murder, or not fund others to do so much murder?" is treated as an existential threat by those in power.

durelleth.bsky.social•11 hours ago

And so begins labeling citizens as domestic terrorists for exercising 1st amendment rights. The rest flows from that.

sirensblaring.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Fuck these fascists

ca-nc-galady.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Why does 🍊🧀🐡 have such a hard-on for Columbia??

bubbleheadbob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

My guess is he's making an example of them. Create a chilling effect for potential protests against his actions down the road. Or maybe, since he's transactional, he's just clearing a debt to some donor who didn't like the protests that took place there after the Hamas attach on Israel.

ca-nc-galady.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Maybe, but just about every large campus had massive protests. He hasn’t gone after them. This seems specific.

arkancrow.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Attacking the right to protest.
More censorship.

jeffgoldvalley.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Correct calling it a genocide in Gaza is insane.

debby64.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Nazi America

kevshea.bsky.social•6 hours ago

gustavmeyrink.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Well at least his last name is white...

vmg-ylw.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Todd missed the chapter on the 1A.

devotaj.com•13 hours ago

this is our new reality.
It’s horrifying.

infinitelyloopy.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They’re going to feed Columbia into the wood chipper and hope everyone else gets the message.

radspindoc.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Peaceful protests ARE NOT terrorism. Those occupying the WH are domestic terrorists. Period.

carbage.online•13 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/carbage.online/post/3lkekyyalps2a

sandor22.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Says the loser lawyer

lazer-cat.bsky.social•13 hours ago

So...not being a genocidal madman is...terrorism?

chirpitychirp.bsky.social•13 hours ago

We absolutely cannot tolerate this and have no choice but to raise hell.

margaretsheehan.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Overrun the Capitol to overturn an election: not terrorism
Constitutionally protected protest: terrorism

erobin.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Saw this coming when my US Rep was trying to get "Antifa" designated a terrorist organization. Soon, they'll be able to designate anything a terrorist organization and all the org's donors will be on the hook as well for materially sustaining a terrorist org. USA PATRIOT Act started it AFAIK

roguemonk.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It will get worse.

jim85716.bsky.social•13 hours ago

"Protests" = "Terrorism." Now it makes sense when Bondi says the DOJ will protect Tesla dealerships!

ryzhorak.bsky.social•13 hours ago

UNHINGED!

mgreenfield.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Hope all the Arab-Americans who voted for Trump are happy now

pterognar.bsky.social•13 hours ago

They’ll probably just limit this to (Columbia x Gaza). They’d never do this with (Harvard x abortion) or (Stanford x speech) or (Yale x due process) or (Princeton x climate) or…

dlaw51.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thank God we have Democrats there to do absolutely nothing to stop anything.

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