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Pope Francis was a tireless advocate for the rights and dignity of immigrants and refugees in a way that seems extraordinarily farsighted now. The world has lost his voice when it was most needed--I just hope his successor has a fraction of his moral clarity and courage.

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New email: “if we are to join with many of our peer institutions in defending the academy from the current governmental assault on its independence, we must first defeat the specter of authoritarianism on our own campus and defend the independence of shared governance at our University.”

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During our second bargaining session with the University, we are proposing contract articles to protect international students, defend our academic freedom, and dismantle Columbia's regime of surveillance and policing.

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Trump, RFK Jr & Dr Oz want to convince people that chronic illness is avoidable. That a “healthy lifestyle” will ensure you never become disabled. They want to blame the sick so they can eliminate them. Don’t fall for it. Disability isn’t a choice or a moral failing. It can happen to anyone.

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For those writing about the NYT article on #StateDepartment memo and the restructuring of State, keep two things in mind about multiple versions of the memo: 1. They are trying to identify leakers; 2. They are trying to figure out what will get the most push back and not put that into final version

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coughs apartheid

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250 years after the midnight ride of Paul Revere, this message was projected on the bell tower of the Old North Church in Boston last night "Let the Warning Ride Forth Once More: Tyranny is at Out Door" 🏇🏽 No Kings #America250

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any Democratic elected who says they can't win the politics of "should we give Trump the power to disappear innocent people into a concentration camp" has a terminal case of consultant brain and should be ruthlessly hounded from office

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Fifth Ave in front of the NY Public Library is packed by The Defiance.

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Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory

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Columbia last night sent an email basically announcing they’re looking to destroy the University Senate, a governing body composed of students and faculty formed after the 1968 protests. This could be because e.g. the Senate’s public safety committee pushed back against cops on campus

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gonna just be the millionth person to say: we in the US should indeed be mad that our electoral choices have been narrowed down to "genocide abroad is fine" vs "don't settle for genocide abroad when we could also have internment camps here". but neither Palestinians nor their supporters put you here

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I actually don’t think it’s possible to write responsibly about “American freedom” as a concept without mentioning Indigenous and Black people

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It’s a crime to cage and deport anyone for speech, full stop. However, the kidnappings of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi show that the Trump administration is specifically targeting Palestine students organizers who made special efforts to include and work with Jewish students

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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Cuomo is a loser.

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"Criminals and terrorists are the bogeymen animating bipartisan racism against Black, Latino and Arab people, and Trump is weaponizing these myths because many liberals have already written them off as less than human."

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This is what has been happening to Palestinians as well. There’s so much scholarship on how Palestinians were made imperfect victims that it was normalized to collectively punish them. America’s greatest export is racism. Now all the strands are coming together and made plain in their connection.

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Never before has a government repressed its citizens’ free speech and academic freedom so brutally in order to protect an entirely different country.

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Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

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Has your religiously affiliated college/university, seminary, or divinity school said anything about being impacted by the recent rash of student visa revocations? If so, I've been doing some reporting on it, so feel free to reach out to me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60

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Why is this so hard for people to understand?

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It's weird when people who imagine they're liberationist leftists come into my timeline because we share anti-fascism but then they want to insist Stalin wasn't a mass murderer. This isn't a football game, where you have to root for this side or that. It's possible to be opposed to all mass murder!

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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

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I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

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On April 17 each year, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom under occupation. Here’s why so many have ended up behind bars. 🔗: aje.io/28de9e

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@mesa1966.bsky.social condemns in the strongest terms the targeting of noncitizen students and researchers for their constitutionally protected speech and advocacy. We call on universities and colleges to take 9 steps to ensure the protection of their campus communities. mesana.org/advocacy/let...

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I’ve been thinking about Abu Graib since Kristi Noem posted her picture.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Is this a promise? Can we have nice things? I’m in.

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JFC. Biden’s ‘antisemitism envoy’ is endorsing the Trump administration’s illegal abductions of student anti-genocide protesters. In case you were wondering how we got here. forward.com/news/712297/...

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Praying that Americans will start to question the disappearances of the Kalief Browders of this country too.

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This is the right attitude. Harvard is offended. It’s not principle. The federal complaint uses language that Harvard itself used against its centers dealing with Palestine. Reap what you sow.

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There is no excuse for this. Governor Shapiro is an American Jewish elected official who is not an Israeli citizen and who has no influence over US foreign policy. This is just blatant antisemitism, and everyone should call it out. www.pennlive.com/crime/2025/0...

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"Harvard’s shameful track record on Palestine is only the most glaring proof that in many cases, the University’s agenda converges with that of the government they ostensibly reject." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

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If Columbia had done the right thing weeks ago, Steve Kerr could have worn one of our T shirts instead.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake. Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back. If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe. Kilmar is all of us.

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you guys, new 2025 streisand effect being rolled out

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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." -Frederick Douglass, 1857

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This by itself is entirely disqualifying. Do not rank Cuomo on your ballot in the Democratic mayoral primary, friends. Leave him completely off - vote for five other candidates instead.

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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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