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Alexandra Rosati

@alexrosati.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at University of Michigan interested in primates, cognition, development & evolution Cognitive Evolution Group: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-evolu… Primate Learning in Action: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearning

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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Congrats to @francescadp.bsky.social for being awarded the 2026 Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology Early Career Investigator Award! And all the other SBNCP honorees as well!
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New data science activity! Check out this R module on calculating and analyzing #grooming and #aggression rates in #chimpanzees, using real data from the Kibale Chimpanzee Project Activity information: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn... Kibale Chimpanzee Project: kibalechimpanzees.wordpress.com
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Primates like these #Barbary #macaques at Trentham Monkey Forest love to #groom! We are excited to be back to start some new research examining how these monkeys think and make social decisions.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Did you know male #Barbary #macaques will carry infants from the group? Males show high rates of #infant #handling compared to other primates, and will even carry young, unweaned infants around.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We are hiring! Jointly with @felixwa.bsky.social and the Social Minds Lab at UMich, the Cognitive Evolution Group is accepting applications for a full-time lab coordinator for research on cognition in #children, adults, and #primates. More information at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Check out our new paper on #female affiliation and #status in semi-free-ranging #chimpanzees! This is a collaboration with Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, along with Margaret Bryer, @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and many others! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Female Affiliation and Status in Semi‐Free‐Ranging Chimpanzees
Objectives Sex differences in social behavior and status are pervasive across primates and other mammals. In the wild, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) exhibit many sex-typed behaviors: adult female ch...
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2026
Stand Up for Science is excited to be hosting almost 200 speakers nationwide at our March 7th, National Day of Action rallies, including Representatives, Influencers, Nobel Laureates, PhD's, Former and current US Heath/Science Officials, and much more!
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Check out our new paper on (lack of) #inflammaging in semi-free-ranging sanctuary and wild #chimpanzees, led by @megancole.bsky.social along with many others! A story spanning two sanctuaries, the #Kibale Chimpanzee Project, and a lot of biosamples. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Minimal Evidence of Inflammaging in Naturalistic Chimpanzee Populations
Objectives Whereas chronic inflammation is a hallmark of aging in many human populations, inflammaging is reduced in groups characterized by frequent physical activity and diets low in processed foo...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/01/2026
We can't believe we have to say this, but POLIO IS REALLY BAD. RFK Jr.'s "independent" "expert" ACIP is destroying the foundations of our public health system. It cannot be clearer: if we want to save lives, we have to #RemoveRFKJr. Take action now: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
ACIP CHAIR’S COMMENTS — The head of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s panel of independent vaccine advisers recently questioned the necessity of the polio vaccine — spurring a sharp backlash from Democrats and public health experts.

“As you look at polio, we need to not be afraid to consider that we are in a different time now than we were then,” said Kirk Milhoan, chair of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, on the podcast “Why Should I Trust You?”

“Our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different, and so those all play into the evaluation of whether this is worthwhile of taking a risk for a vaccine or not,” Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist and a senior fellow at the anti-mRNA Independent Medical Alliance, added.

Milhoan also said that “we have to take into account” whether the U.S. is enjoying herd immunity, and whether the disease burden could go up “if we take away all of the herd immunity.”

Key context: Before the polio vaccine became available in 1955, roughly 16,000 polio cases occurred each year in the U.S., often paralyzing children. If polio vaccination rates dip, the U.S. could see the return of a disease that once caused widespread fear in America, critics of Kennedy’s advisory panel warn.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...
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Diversity Recruitment Weekend | U-M LSA Department of Psychology
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Senate is voting on funding for DHS this week. Contact your senator now and tell them to defund and rein in ICE.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Find your congressional rep: www.house.gov/representati... Find your senator: senate.michigan.gov/senators/all... Rep for Ann Arbor: debbiedingell.house.gov/contact/ Senators for Michigan: www.slotkin.senate.gov/contact/ www.peters.senate.gov/contact/emai...
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
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Rep. Debbie Dingell @debbiedingell.house.gov · 03/01/2026
The Trump administration’s illegal military action in Venezuela sets a dangerous precedent for national sovereignty. We must recognize that Maduro’s authoritarian government was illegitimate and oppressive, and that the president cannot unilaterally depose a foreign leader.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Check out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/10/2025
7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy. This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.
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Detroit Free Press @freep.com · 18/10/2025
Thousands of protesters march down Michigan Ave in Detroit to participate in the nationwide No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Video by Finn Gomez #NoKings #Protest #Detroit
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Check out this online seminar on #applying to grad school from UMich's #Psychology Department (open to all; register her: lsa.umich.edu/psych/underg...)
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play? To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others! "Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees! leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Tolerant and despotic macaques show divergent temperament but similar theory of mind | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The social intelligence hypothesis proposes that the demands of social life shape the evolution of cognition, but different aspects of social interactions may be relevant. To test how competitive vers...
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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/06/2025
The Trump administration lost a shocking 96% of rulings in federal district courts last month, according to a recent analysis by Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 09/06/2025
An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.
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Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts
The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/06/2025
President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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White House aide calls Los Angeles anti-ICE protests an 'insurrection'
Senior White House aide Stephen Miller on Saturday condemned protests in downtown Los Angeles against federal immigration raids as an "insurrection" against the United States.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/06/2025
Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say reut.rs/3SxBvuL
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Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/05/2025
President Trump is using the same law to deport immigrants as the U.S. government used in WWII to justify the internment of Japanese Americans, including George Takei. We're fighting Trump’s unlawful use of the Alien Enemies Act in court.
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George Takei: How the Alien Enemies Act Was Weaponized to Incarcerate My Family | ACLU
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What an embarrassment, and so destructive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/05/2025
Secretary Rubio can't answer the question because there's no constitutional reason why Rümeysa Öztürk was detained. Writing an op-ed is not a crime.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Possible due to years of US #federal #grant #funding, both to understand and develop CRISPR in the first place, and for this specific baby's treatment www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease
Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!
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Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Use Tools to Access Out of Reach Water
The use of tools to drink water is well-documented in wild chimpanzees, but the specific function of this behavior is unclear. Here we use a large data set of drinking behaviors spanning 14 years of ....
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Major study of dementia risks involving a 20 year follow-up terminated: "The most salient, I think, to why this grant was terminated is because it is the only nationally representative sample of Black Americans that’s ever been collected to assess health status in this group”
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NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia
A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Looking forward to the Trump DOJ trying to explain to Judge Xinis how the United States remains totally powerless to do anything about Abrego Garcia’s continuing detention at the CECOT.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/04/2025
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant wrongly deported to El Salvador, with a warning about the rule of law and the possibility the dispute presented an “incipient crisis.”
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Appeals court backs judge in Abrego Garcia case, saying Trump DOJ ‘would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness’ | CNN Politics
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant who was wrongly deported to El Sal...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
JUST IN: @aclu and @democracyfwd ask Boasberg to reimpose nationwide TRO on Alien Enemjes Act deportations. They also want to refile habeas corpus claims in DC for the roughly 130 men deported March 15 despite Boasberg's order to turn planes around. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/04/2025
The Trump administration is trying to deport our client Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation for his protected speech in support of Palestinian rights. Their "evidence"? Tabloid articles.
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Government's case against Mahmoud Khalil is reliant on tabloid accounts, review of evidence shows
Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who helped lead pro-Palestinian protests, was finished with postgraduate studies when he was arrested on campus and scheduled for deportation.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are hiring! Jointly with the Social Minds Lab at UMich, we are accepting applications for a full-time lab coordinator for research on cognition in #children, adults, and #primates. Read more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/04/2025
Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime. She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
7/ You may not think this case matters to you. But Abrego Garcia was legally in the U.S., just like all the rest of us. His status as an immigrant doesn't matter as a matter of law. If Trump can lock up or remove ANYONE - no matter what the courts say - we are all at grave risk.
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