Why isn't this getting maximum attention? MSNBC report that 300,000 Black women have left the workforce in the last three months--targeted by DOGE www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...

Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

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🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

Freedom Flotilla Coalition update: "The [Madleen] volunteers are currently being held in a detention facility at Ben Gurion International Airport, where they are expected to face hearings before their deportation to their home countries."

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Walid often sends me videos of his daughters. This morning he sent me this video of his daughters with a shell that didn’t kill them. Let’s help them survive another day. chuffed.org/project/1253...

Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza. Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel. It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.

Ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza attacked by drones, NGO says, and at risk of sinking after its generator targeted with 30 human rights activists on board www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Easter in the genocide. Again.

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.” A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment. ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever 🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

Columbia student: "How are we obstructing if this gate has been closed since the start of the semester?” Columbia admin: “Because if we were to open it, you would be obstructing that entrance."

Crowd gathers downtown to protest detention of U of M student by ICE

“The Penn investigation, which remains open, is one of svrl across the 🇺🇸 in which universities have turned to more sophisticated tech + shows of police forces” — here, tracking 📱 + raiding an off-campus apt — “to investigate student vandalism + other property crimes related to pro-🇵🇸 demonstrations.”

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

This is really concerning, not just the raid but that Indiana University has literally disappeared XiaoFeng Wang (a full professor with a named chair position) from their web sites. The attacks on Chinese-born faculty were bad in Trump 1, but this I worry is way way worse.

ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“I think pretty much every legislator in Olympia knows him. He’s a serious young man who really wants to fight for justice, and he knows how to express himself and he’s tireless. He is like 24/7 on immigrant rights and farmworker rights.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

ICE has abducted an Iranian mechanical engineering doctoral student at the University of Alabama. thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

A Somerville, MA resident sends along this image of all the people who turned out for an emergency rally today for Romeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD international student who was essentially abducted by ICE yesterday. Thousands came "on six hours' notice."

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

I saw a longer version of this video, and at the end the scene is just an empty street corner. Blood curdling to see a person disappeared like that.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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They're literally kidnapping dissidents. And these institutions are on about rule of law. It'll be law too when they put us all in camps (you know in addition to all the folks already imprisoned in this nation, immigrant and not).

I want everyone to how rapidly a euphemistic language of acquiescence has been codified among the administrative class, insulating the perpetrators of this chaos from blame.

Thank you to Kaveh Akbar, Weije Wang, & Kevin Lozano for publishing this poem from my B-Sides of the Golden Record ms in @thenation.com * it's in the April print issue and online here www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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...

Toni Morrison:

The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

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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...

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.