On repeat this morning youtu.be/mINZkelXaA4

MAINE!

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Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

Non mollare! Soffochiamo il fascismo!

Better (fairer, kinder, sadder) obit than the prudish, prurient NYTimes

Let’s go San Diego 👏✊❤️ We need every community responding to ICE like this. We outnumber these fascist cowards.

Cheers for the 2nd circuit: NB, unanimous.

"More than 60 professors and staff at Columbia University stood in the rain for an hour, holding photographs of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, Georgetown postdoctoral researcher Badar Khan Suri, and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk." www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staf...

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

FASCISTS COME FOR STUDENTS FIRST . . . .

“Mr. Bove instructed F.B.I. agents on the joint terrorism task force in New York to put on their raid jackets, go to Columbia’s campus and stand in a phalanx near any protesters”

I want to urge that we resist emphasizing how some of the people being deported are "innocent" or "haven't even been convicted of a crime" - all people deserve to have their free speech and due process rights respected, regardless of their assumed "guilt" or "innocence". youtu.be/RfLOrbILk_E

Proud to share a university with Mohsen Mahdawi

Pitch perfect. If nothing else, read the first ‘graph…. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My colleague Dhananjay Jagannathan writes what is displacing academic work from the university’s priorities and who has a stake in that happening www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

An update in Mohsen Mahdawi's capture & detention by ICE + analysis of what's going on in this case. To justify Mahdawi's deportation, Sect'y Rubio is repeating false characterizations abt student protests originally made by Columbia administrators. youtu.be/lT6CPqFW_M0

Scenes from our demonstration today urging the Columbia Board of Trustees to protect our patients, students, research and teaching.

Columbia professors calling on the university's trustees to defend academic freedom. (Statement below).

RIGHT NOW: Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients. @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social

In response to reports that OCR is requesting names and nationalities of people who may have been involved in alleged Title VI violations, the AAUP has written college general counsels to clarify that they are under no legal compulsion to comply and should NOT comply www.aaup.org/news/institu...

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

Meanwhile, back @ King’s College: “Dear…Columbia community: This evening, the Board of Trustees announced that Dr. Katrina A. Armstrong is returning to lead the University’s Irving Medical Center. Board of Trustees Co-Chair Claire Shipman has been appointed Acting President, effective immediately,…”

“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” @illdottore.bsky.social, a Columbia University professor, speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil.

Happening now!!

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

1/ So this Fulbright scholar wasn’t a protest organizer or even participant, got kettled coming back to campus and released, had liked some posts about human rights and signed an open letter, and DHS came to her door three times to arrest and deport her www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

As @self.agency has pointed out and Bruce links to here, Mahmoud’s views are actually a matter of public record for anyone who bothers to look for them www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/u...

"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?

How did Mahmoud Khalil become the first student targeted for deportation by the Trump administration? He showed up at a protest last week without a mask. "The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me. forward.com/news/703018/...

Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.