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New from Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer: Rumeysa hasn't been accused of any crime & "DHS has not produced any evidence" that she did anything unlawful. Rumeysa wasn't able to speak to her lawyer for 24+ hours & not until after she was in Louisiana — despite a court order that she not be moved from Mass.

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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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Rubio orders consular offices to vet student visa applicants' social media, and the standards for denial are so broad as to be basically meaningless. Another @marisakabas.bsky.social scoop. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-dept...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Listen - do NOT assume a mask ban is unpopular in NY. Assume the opposite. if you are in NYS, call your state electeds and tell them you do not want a mask ban. If you're in the city, call your council member too.

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 4 days ago • 314 comments

I’ve seen video of IDF bombing Nasser Hospital, where a friend of mine is on a humanitarian mission to treat patients. My friend survived the bombing but a teen patient he treated and who was set to go home today was murdered. Are you warmongers not tired and sick of this yet? This horror

submitted 5 days ago • 160 comments

By request, my thread last night on my work involving crimes against humanity, and how it informs the present moment and what the Trump administration is doing, is now available on my Substack. Find it here. open.substack.com/pub/newslett...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

Things are getting more and more dangerous. This filing relates to the illegal storming of the USIP building by DOGE agents.

submitted 10 days ago • 209 comments

It took detaining a white Canadian woman for the public to get a glimpse into ICE detention. The stories she tells—of her dehumanizing experience & that of so many other women—are horrifying. This is America. Not new to this administration, just ramped up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

Solidarity with Columbia law profs, who are doing what they can. This is a hell of a statement. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

🪦 New Yorkers are in front of the New York Stock Exchange for a mass die-in to symbolize how these devastating cuts will destroy families & take lives. Deep spending cuts to programs like healthcare, food assistance, and education is a matter of life & death for millions. Congress: #StopTheCuts!

submitted 14 days ago • 135 comments

1/ Musk says he’s dead but he isn’t. Social Security clawed back 2 months of benefits & haven’t sent more. “He called Social Security 2 or 3 times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.” Finally he went down in person www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 13 days ago • 235 comments

I wrote a tribute to my dad, who died Tuesday at the age of 88. He was a great father whose long life celebrating scientific discovery and a society governed by truth and civic involvement embodied an American century now under assault www.inquirer.com/opinion/brya...

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

submitted 14 days ago • 984 comments

If you're an Arab greencard holder you can absolutely not travel right now. You will walk yourself right into an ICE arrest

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 15 days ago • 188 comments

This letter is a direct attack on the independence of American universities. Literally seeks to use government power to dictate how private universities are organized and operated.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Pushback works

submitted 16 days ago • 87 comments

Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!

submitted 17 days ago • 842 comments

"The idea that we should live in a country where Marco Rubio can remove a Green Card holder because he doesn't like his views and they're against 'US foreign policy'... that's outrageous. And there was a time when the Republican Party would have been against that, but not today."

submitted 16 days ago • 101 comments

i keep reading statements from democrats saying they find mahmoud khaleil's views to be abhorrent and despicable before going on to say that he should nonetheless be given due process. but no one has been able to demonstrate what khaleil's views are beyond the admin's assertions. except for cnn:

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"Records show Jaimes was booked in St. Clair County Jail, but with no criminal charges and an immigration hold." His family didn't know he was detained until they saw it on Facebook. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

submitted 17 days ago • 172 comments

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.

submitted 19 days ago • 120 comments

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

submitted 19 days ago • 216 comments

Make to change your clocks tonight to 1842.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 days ago • 1284 comments

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

submitted 25 days ago • 728 comments

JUST FYI EVERYONE, IF YOU SEE A POST THAT SAYS IT LINKS TO LUIGI MANGIONE'S SEX TAPE DON'T CLICK ON IT!! THERE'S A VIRUS THAT PUTS EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS

submitted 24 days ago • 548 comments

So @propublica.org has a blockbuster story about Jodi Ernst, who cast a critical vote on Hegseth and has great sway over defense matters, being in an 'inappropriate relationship' w/ a top general The story has responses from both -- and they aren't exactly denials www.propublica.org/article/joni...

submitted 25 days ago • 24 comments

Are you disgusted and want to help? Read this. Digest how evil it and Cuomo is. Send it to every New Yorker and person with a platform that you know. Add a note on top from you. There are many monsters in the world right now. We can beat this monster now. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 26 comments

Outside the Tesla showroom in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

"Battle Royale" is a very good way to describe a situation that kills a huge number of children for the sport and profit of the absolute worst people alive azcapitoltimes.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Just read the headline. How shameful. This is America under Trump. A wanna-be Putin dictatorship. Republicans enabled all of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

This is evil. Pure evil.

submitted 30 days ago • 3946 comments

When you believe in personal liberties so much you order everyone to write about them.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

This is a proposal to create concentration camps with a private SS. Call it what it is.

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 33 days ago • 764 comments

I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments