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Read this thread. And read Black Earth.

This is revolting. What are we doing here???

No American should have to give up their right to privacy just because they’re traveling.

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

WOW. They grabbed her off the street even while the State Department itself said that she had done nothing wrong.

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

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Classic abuser move: create a crisis and then position yourself as its solution. After the abuser “solves” the crisis, he will expect gratitude and adoration.

Counterpoint: no we don’t, because that’s evil.

My home state. Awesome job y’all. I’m sure we are just about to make America great again 💩

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Props to this man for knowing his rights, standing his ground, and speaking up about his experience.

very excited to learn that the constitution allows the federal government to disappear people to foreign gulags beyond the reach of any judicial remedy

Are we great yet? 😢

It’s not worth the risk for people to come here! 🤦‍♀️

That part.

i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance

Some good observations here.

There are a lot of nice places to visit that will not detain/deport you for absolutely no reason, and that don’t have more guns than people.

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

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🚨BREAKING: A three-judge panel in the North Carolina appeals court ruled Friday to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the state’s Supreme Court election unless they can fix their ballots in 15 days. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Her case will be heard in VT.

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

No lies detected.

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

Note to Columbia University: This is how you do it. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Breaking News: Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was convicted of embezzlement, jeopardizing her plan to run for president in 2027.

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

NEW: A federal judge in Massachusetts has granted a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from deporting any person to a country they are not a national of (so-called 'third country removals') without written notice and an opportunity to apply for protection from that country.

“I saw mistake after mistake. It’s not going to affect me, but no noncitizen professor at my institution can speak about politics ever again. Half my colleagues are not U.S. citizens. They can never speak about politics again.”

Marco Rubio is a very evil man.

please stop this. Usha Vance's own career demonstrates that she is fully on board with the Trump agenda. There are PLENTY of Indian Americans who have far right politics, and its borderline offensive to pretend she is some helpless little victim rather than possessing agency.

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

Agree 💯. She is making entertainment content in front of a concentration camp. Evil, repellent, and somehow also pathetic.

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

They have studied fascism and totalitarianism and know what is happening now and what is likely to come next.