Stop abducting children and grandmas!!!

The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide theintercept.com/2025/07/03/i...

“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...

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.

Canadian-resident return trips from the U.S. drop again for April, StatsCan data shows www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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-...

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.

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

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...

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):

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

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...

A special education leader under George W. Bush says the dismantling of the Department of Education will impact students with disabilities. (via @wbur.org)

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

While I understand our academic institutions have often been on the wrong side of history, this is still devastating. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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?'”

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.

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.”

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

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

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.

This is Albany. We cannot normalize this.

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

NY State leading the way in suppression of free speech…

“The first protester, who spoke about Livni’s alleged war crimes, left peacefully when asked but was still arrested.” www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/03/11/p...

“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.’”

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.

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.)

Free Mahmoud Khalil

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...

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.

This is horrific

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"

Truly shameful.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

Read our full statement:

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...