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"the entire US national security team accidentally cc’ing a journalist to a classified war plan is incredible enough. But don’t miss.... texts by VP JD Vance expressing hostility to European military 'freeloading.' Great insight here into how the Trump adm thinks." www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

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"Trans people are not scapegoated because we are different. We are scapegoated because we seemingly undermine difference itself. Social structures tolerate difference within their order, but we present a difference to the order." www.frieze.com/article/scap...

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A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

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"We don't want your swasticars Take a one way trip to Mars" goes so hard as a rally chant

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In the early 1990s, when Trump was facing bankruptcy, he tried to get Columbia to buy his freight-yards property on the Upper West Side for $400 million. When Columbia said they’d pay $90 million, Trump stormed out. He seems to have gotten his price. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/03/line...

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The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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Anyone who knows Columbia knows they've wanted to do plenty of this for a long time; it's just not that radical or disruptive for them. We shouldn't pretend otherwise. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

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" the courts will not save us... because they cannot enforce their own decisions. The executive enforces the courts’ decisions. And if you have an executive like Trump who is willing to ignore court orders, then there’s nothing courts can do." www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/el...

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Me: “I think it’s more clear to the public, to university faculty and students, that [university trustees] are not playing the kind of role that we expect them to play in defending..the values that higher education is built upon…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Disgusted to learn that Meta used 3 of my books and 6 of my essays to train its AI via this pirated database. WTH?!? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The revolution will have good music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Og...

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So awesome to have been part of this!

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New issue of Critical Ethnic Studies journal now available! "Palestine After Analogy," ed. by Nasser Abourahme & Iyko Day. manifold.umn.edu/projects/ces...

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Last 2 months are basically a ketamine fueled Crime Spree

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Just so that we’re all clear what’s happening here: The United States is deporting people without due process, sending them to labor camps in El Salvador, and paying the Salvadoran government for it.

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"During jury selection, potential jurors appeared to largely dislike the protests, and... in the end, more than half the jurors selected to hear the case had ties to the fossil fuel industry." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Energy Transfer Partners... "sued Greenpeace for $300m alleging defamation & orchestrating criminal behavior by protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016 and 2017, claiming the organization 'incited' people to protest by using a 'misinformation campaign.'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Starting soon! "The Rise of Fascism & the Indigenous Peoples’ Response" featuring: Dallas Goldtooth, Ellen Gabriel, Melina Laboucan-Massimo & Janene Yazzi March 19, 2025 3PM PST / 4PM MST / 5PM CST / 6PM EST LIVE on Facebook! www.facebook.com/share/15MwVK...

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"We live in a fascist dictatorship," @thenation.com's @elienyc.bsky.social says of Trump administration attacks on the judiciary. "There's not a coming constitutional crisis. We are in the constitutional crisis right now."

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All the more reason why college administrators should be protesting this en masse and at high volume. They should also be mobilizing alumni. They should also alert local communities, who will suffer enormously, not to mention the nation. Where are these college “leaders”? 1/2

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"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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It is a fundamental mechanism of US imperialism to rely on a flexible claiming and/or disavowing of sovereignty, jurisdiction and/or territorial control to wield power with impunity. Amy Kaplan‘s and @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social‘s work have been instrumental in pointing this out. 1/

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"If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation... even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice." inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

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BREAKING: Ahead of a scheduled vigil for immigrant rights leader Jeanette Vizguerra detained at an ICE detention center in Aurora, CO, Aurora Police and Fire Dept are detaining an indigenous woman in a "criminal investigation" reportedly because she was burning ceremonial copal resin.

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Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed reports live from the Gaza Strip, where "the corpses of people are now piled up at the morgues, at the hospitals" after Israel's abrupt resumption of attacks on Palestinian civilians.

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On Monday, longtime immigrant rights leader Jeanette Vizguerra was arrested by ICE and is being held at the for-profit GEO Group Detention Center in Aurora, CO. Supporters of Vizguerra, including her children, are rallying at the facility right now: www.youtube.com/live/HnIuj9n...

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Rise of "scientist-entrepreneur" means "tenured faculty... & scientific leaders increasingly hold significant investments in biotech & pharmaceutical industries—& if the government funds being cut for NIH will instead be spent towards helping their own private interests, why would they intervene?"

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As the genocide of Palestinian people resumed, DWN remains resolute in our demand for a permanent ceasefire. We believe in the liberation of oppressed people & express our unequivocal solidarity with Palestine. ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/kha...

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Cat led bands from the early 1970s. The secret force behind Vega and Rev.

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Trump adm revokes Executive Order 14112 of Dec. 6, 2023 — “Reforming Federal Funding and Support for Tribal Nations to Better Embrace Our Trust Responsibilities and Promote the Next Era of Tribal Self-Determination.” nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

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ICE has ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...

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Dan Martinez HoSang and Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social in conversation with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/mult...

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Add your name to the Scholars For Social Justice statement: Faculty Nationwide Condemn Arrests of Mahmoud Khalil & Leqaa Korda, DHS Raid on Columbia’s Campus www.scholarsforsocialjustice.com/mahmoud-khalil

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"We are faced with an all-out assault on our very ability to speak out, protest, and otherwise pursue justice in the United States. And this is only the beginning." [email protected] organizingmythoughts.org/mahmoud-khal...

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A Statement on Recent Events lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

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#CallforPapers GLQ is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue to be titled: "Post/Anticolonial Queer and Transgender Studies: Radical Efflorescence from the Global South," edited by Svati P Shah and Paul Boyce. View the full CFP here: buff.ly/AwP926C

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ICE moved Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as retaliation. theintercept.com/2025/03/11/m...

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"Vance’s behavior at the Munich Conference has not been a diplomatic faux pas, but the proclamation of a program for a transnational Bewegungsstaat (movement state)... a state in which a government acts as spearhead of a certain political movement." criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/12/t...

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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

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These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory. He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

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"It was the Biden administration, it was the Democratic establishment, that has created the conditions that we are now seeing taken advantage of," Palestinian scholar Noura Erakat says of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest and the Trump administration's crackdown on dissent.

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YES. More of this. Especially incumbent on Jewish people who are being used as weapons by the right to destroy both universities and political protest under the guise of needing right-wing protection against specious claims of anti-semitism

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"For each minute that Khalil is held in detention, every one of us should feel like our own individual rights in this country are being shredded." I wrote about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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