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Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”. www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

AIPAC gave Katherine Clark $371k last year we know who you are lol www.opensecrets.org/members-of-c...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are playing games with your Social Security benefits — money you've earned through a lifetime of hard work. They want to fire workers responsible for processing checks and close hundreds of regional offices. Not on my watch.

Again, the goal for this administration isn’t to counter antisemitism or protect Israel. It’s to weaponize antisemitism to go after their political enemies, advance an extreme agenda, and undercut democracy — and it only makes Jews *less* safe.

Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and attempted deportation is certainly authoritarian. It’s also very much a throwback to 2002-2006 as people who were adults then should recognize

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

Yeah this makes so much sense…let’s have the cops actually openly show their colors

Covergirl went Nazi. You hate to see it.

F this guy specifically

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

What does it mean for DOGE to "make mistakes" with seniors' Social Security? Long wait times, underpayments, or no payments at all. The richest man in the world is sticking his fingers in the benefits our seniors have paid for their entire working lives.

@warren.senate.gov why have you not weighed in on Mahmoud Khalil? Are you really going to let them unlawfully detain someone? What did we hire you for if not this? I’ve voted for you often enough I want a real answer.

Let’s be clear: this is a foreign politician joking about murdering students on US soil. Is @harvard.edu okay with that?

Strong statement from ACLU on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil: "The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

An early step in the Second Red Scare was Truman's executive order which claimed that federal employees could be fired for "disloyalty" if they belonged to groups the attorney general said were dedicated to the overthrow of the gov't ... OR if they had any "sympathetic association" with such groups.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

This. It has nothing to do with combatting anti-semitism. It's using Jews as a ramming rod to attack free speech, universities, and pro-Palestinian activists, which includes Jews.

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Disappearing people from the jurisdiction of a court is authoritarian and corrupt to the core.

A President who detains a protestor and revokes their legal status can only be called one thing: A dictator. Silencing dissent is unlawful, unjust, and authoritarian through and through.

Glad to see that many Jewish groups stand by civil libertarian principles here. Would be great if the ADL did too. www.jta.org/2025/03/10/u...

First, pull funding from Columbia and start to lock up its students. Second, threaten other universities with the same. All 60 schools on this list need to join together to fight this assault on academic freedom.

What happened to Mahmoud Khalil should not happen to anyone in this country. I believe in a free Palestine. I believe in the human rights of Palestinians. But even if I did not agree with his views, even if he had a different ideology, I would still believe that he has the right to disagree freely.

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi This should be repeated in articles, regularly

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...

You know what this means right? Call them and tell them this is a great idea and keep it up. if your senator is GOP, call them to yell at them.

I do not personally or professionally know this person, but their advice on how to help your trans and nonbinary friends right now is excellent (On a related note, I haven't been loud about the financial pieces discussed here that impact me personally, but happy to talk more by DM if folks want)

Additional bonus option that we're going to lean on a *lot* in the coming days: "This is not actually logistically feasible to implement" and/or "this is only implementable if people pre-capitulate" Lots of things are unenforceable, they're intended to be scare tactics. The cruelty is the point.