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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Stop abducting children and grandmas!!!

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, “———-Supreme Court clears deportations to conflict-ridden South Sudan www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Supreme Court on Thursday reinforced its order allowing the Trump administration to deport migrants to countries other than their own without a “meaningful opportunity” to raise fear-based claims of torture. The court’s action clears the way for the deportation of eight men being held in a makeshift detention center at a U.S. naval base in East Africa to conflict-ridden South Sudan. Their fate was unclear after the justices initially gave the go-ahead in late June for Trump officials to deport immigrants to t

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Tracy Sangaré @tracysangare.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Wow. @cnn.com could not manage to have 1 guest who is against the genocide in Gaza. The inhumanity that @cnn.com and Abby Phillips are hosting right now is absolutely disgusting.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

state troopers and police in general overwhelmingly support Trump and back these policies. the cops are not going to save you or anyone from the cops.

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ValentinaESL @valentinaesl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The second edition of the ELL Teacher’s Toolbox is amazing! This is a resource I can’t recommend enough to educators of multilingual learners. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social & @khullsyp.bsky.social

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Harvard has dismissed the faculty leaders of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies due to the specious claim of ‘antisemitism’ for a ‘failure to represent [genocidal] Israeli perspectives.’ www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the faculty leaders of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on Wednesday, according to a faculty member familiar with the situation — a dramatic shakeup at a center that has come under fire for its programming on Israel and Palestine.

The CMES’ director, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, History professor Rosie Bsheer, were both forced to leave their posts, according to the faculty member.

Global Health professor Salmaan A. Keshavjee — the center’s interim director while Kafadar was on leave — will continue to hold his post.

The departures come after the CMES has repeatedly faced public criticism from Harvard affiliates who have alleged that some of the center’s programming has been antisemitic and has failed to represent Israeli perspectives.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Columbia University’s Board of Trustee co-chair and new Acting President Claire Shipman appeared on stage at AIPAC’s 2018 conference. (And look who Sen. Coons — who appeared with Shipman — led a bill with to send more aid to Israel):

Tweet from Sen. Chris Coons

(1) Great to appear on the @AIPAC 2018 Policy Conference main stage w/ Claire Shipman on why the U.S. needs to protect its democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel. Together, we must enhance our strong military deterrent in the face of threats from Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, & ISIL.

(2) .@marcorubio and I introduced S.2497, the U.S. Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act, which will authorize $3.3 billion in security assistance for Israel, extend access to war reserve stockpiles, and extend loan guarantees to Israel.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 29/03/2025

Wow. An AIPAC attendee is now president of Columbia. This is grim

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Earlier this month, Taal, along with two U.S. citizens, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s executive orders that target foreign nationals who it claims are national security threats. “I believed I was going to be a target eventually,” says Taal. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/24/mo...

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Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation

The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to target free speech on college campuses and one doctoral student at Cornell University who was involved in pro-Palastinian protests on campus now finds...

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Tracy Sangaré @tracysangare.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I truly believe that Columbia “leaders” did not cave- this is exactly what they want to do.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Momodou Taal: “When we say Palestine is a litmus test, we’re saying that it is not that we privilege the Palestinian cause over every other cause, but rather Palestine holds a mirror up unto the world and says, 'What kind of world do we want to live in?'”

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/03/2025

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

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Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped

The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”

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‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs

Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/03/2025

They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/03/2025

What the f*ck, Chuck⁉️ This is what we’re dealing with in our current Democratic leadership… “It’s a disaster in a few weeks if there was a shutdown, everyone would be complaining…” — @schumer.senate.gov Chris Hayes makes more sense than Schumer. Watch this.

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Tracy Sangaré @tracysangare.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is Albany. We cannot normalize this.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Every teacher’s union in the country should go on strike immediately

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Tracy Sangaré @tracysangare.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

NY State leading the way in suppression of free speech…

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“I asked Schlanger just how freaked out we should be by Khalil’s apprehension. ‘I teach constitutional law,’ she said. ‘And I’m freaking out.’”

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Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare (Gift Article)

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025

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.)

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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.

Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 11/03/2025

Free Mahmoud Khalil

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11/03/2025

City Hall admits that Mayor Eric Adams had no idea whether Khalil had a gun (which he didn't) and was just saying random shit, possibly because he misheard the question: www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/10/m...

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Mayor Adams, asked about ICE’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, offers a perplexing response

Khalil, a green card holder, was arrested by federal immigration agents for his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and is now being detained in Louisiana. His arrest has…

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Tracy Sangaré @tracysangare.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Friends, I have not been active on here and I do not have the reach that I had on the awful app. Mahmoud is my daughter’s friend. Right now, the Columbia students are asking that we sign this petition, share it widely and continue talking about Mahmoud. Please sign and share and keep talking.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Columbia affiliates have received two emails since the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student protestor: — An announcement that campus is locking back down, closing it off from the community — A newsletter titled "How Columbia Strengthens Relationships in our Community"

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

Truly shameful.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Trump Administration disappeared Mahmoud Khalil in order to capitalize on the liberal/left split on Gaza. You either step up to defend people and protect rights or you don’t. This is another crossroads and I pray people see it for what it is.

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Ashley @noeksek-shkode.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It takes under 5 minutes to call/email @schumer.senate.gov, Gillibrand, and Hochul. Where is Mahmoud Khalil?!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 09/03/2025

Read our full statement:

NYCLU press statement regarding the detention of a student activist at Columbia University.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 09/03/2025

The Trump administration’s detention of Mahmoud Khalil — a green card holder studying in this country legally — is targeted, retaliatory, and an extreme attack on his First Amendment rights. apnews.com/article/colu...

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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

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