#defendfreespeech — Public Fediverse posts
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FCC Moves to Yank Disney Broadcast Licenses as Trumps Demand ABC Fire Kimmel | Common Dreams
“This is a clear attack on the First Amendment and a political stunt designed to intimidate critics, retaliate against a comedian practicing free speech through satire, and send a message to anyone who dares to speak out.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fcc-kimmelfrom #CommonDreams
April 28, 2026Press freedom advocates on Tuesday forcefully condemned the #Republican-dominated #FederalCommunicationsCommission—and #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr in particular—for moving to challenge #Disney-owned ABC’s broadcast licenses as President Donald #Trump again pressures to network to fire late-night television host #JimmyKimmel.
“The #FirstAmendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air,” declared Freedom of the Press Foundation chief of advocacy Seth Stern.
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FCC Moves to Yank Disney Broadcast Licenses as Trumps Demand ABC Fire Kimmel | Common Dreams
“This is a clear attack on the First Amendment and a political stunt designed to intimidate critics, retaliate against a comedian practicing free speech through satire, and send a message to anyone who dares to speak out.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fcc-kimmelfrom #CommonDreams
April 28, 2026Press freedom advocates on Tuesday forcefully condemned the #Republican-dominated #FederalCommunicationsCommission—and #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr in particular—for moving to challenge #Disney-owned ABC’s broadcast licenses as President Donald #Trump again pressures to network to fire late-night television host #JimmyKimmel.
“The #FirstAmendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air,” declared Freedom of the Press Foundation chief of advocacy Seth Stern.
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FCC Moves to Yank Disney Broadcast Licenses as Trumps Demand ABC Fire Kimmel | Common Dreams
“This is a clear attack on the First Amendment and a political stunt designed to intimidate critics, retaliate against a comedian practicing free speech through satire, and send a message to anyone who dares to speak out.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fcc-kimmelfrom #CommonDreams
April 28, 2026Press freedom advocates on Tuesday forcefully condemned the #Republican-dominated #FederalCommunicationsCommission—and #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr in particular—for moving to challenge #Disney-owned ABC’s broadcast licenses as President Donald #Trump again pressures to network to fire late-night television host #JimmyKimmel.
“The #FirstAmendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air,” declared Freedom of the Press Foundation chief of advocacy Seth Stern.
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FCC Moves to Yank Disney Broadcast Licenses as Trumps Demand ABC Fire Kimmel | Common Dreams
“This is a clear attack on the First Amendment and a political stunt designed to intimidate critics, retaliate against a comedian practicing free speech through satire, and send a message to anyone who dares to speak out.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fcc-kimmelfrom #CommonDreams
April 28, 2026Press freedom advocates on Tuesday forcefully condemned the #Republican-dominated #FederalCommunicationsCommission—and #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr in particular—for moving to challenge #Disney-owned ABC’s broadcast licenses as President Donald #Trump again pressures to network to fire late-night television host #JimmyKimmel.
“The #FirstAmendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air,” declared Freedom of the Press Foundation chief of advocacy Seth Stern.
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FCC Moves to Yank Disney Broadcast Licenses as Trumps Demand ABC Fire Kimmel | Common Dreams
“This is a clear attack on the First Amendment and a political stunt designed to intimidate critics, retaliate against a comedian practicing free speech through satire, and send a message to anyone who dares to speak out.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fcc-kimmelfrom #CommonDreams
April 28, 2026Press freedom advocates on Tuesday forcefully condemned the #Republican-dominated #FederalCommunicationsCommission—and #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr in particular—for moving to challenge #Disney-owned ABC’s broadcast licenses as President Donald #Trump again pressures to network to fire late-night television host #JimmyKimmel.
“The #FirstAmendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air,” declared Freedom of the Press Foundation chief of advocacy Seth Stern.
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Houston High School Students #Protest ICE, Defy Attempts to Restrict Free Speech
Similar Student Protests Spread in Dozens of #US Cities on February 6
https://world-outlook.com/2026/02/09/houston-high-school-students-protest-ice-defy-attempts-to-restrict-free-speech/from #WorldOutlook
Feb. 9, 2026On Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, students at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas, walked out as part of a coordinated regional effort involving several area schools, including Cypress Falls and Conroe High Schools, to protest operations by #Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) amid fears that its agents will be allowed onto school property to detain students and their families.
The Houston Chronicle article reproduced below on the Bellaire walkout conveys important developments in the fight to oppose #deportations across the United States.
The widespread high-school student walkouts on January 30 are now being followed by new and similar grassroots initiatives at schools around the country.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#StopTheDeportations
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Alarming post from US State Department (based on NY Post article)
#DefendFreeSpeech #UpholdRuleOfLaw
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She Criticized the Mayor’s Support for #Israel on Facebook. Then the Cops Showed Up at Her Door.
“This Facebook post was protected speech, and it’s not a close question — not remotely.”
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/20/miami-beach-mayor-meiner-police-speech-israel/from #TheIntercept
January 20 2026, 5:09 p.m.Pacheco, a frequent critic of the Miami Beach mayor, said she didn’t think much of a #Facebook comment she wrote on January 7, in which she pointed out the mayor’s hypocrisy over calling the city a safe haven for all.
“The guy who consistently calls for the death of all #Palestinians, tried to shut down a theater for showing a movie that hurt his feelings, and REFUSES to stand up for the LGBTQ community in any way (even leaves the room when they vote on related matters) wants you to know that you’re all welcome here,” she wrote, following up with three clown emojis.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#USA #US #USPol #politics
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Notorious pro-Israel doxxing outfit Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firingshttps://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-blacknest-doxxing-israel-potestors-united-states
from #DropSiteNews
Jacqueline Sweet
Jan 06, 2026#CanaryMission has an army of anonymous doxxers, international tech vendors, marketing plans, and a secret website called BlackNest, where the group celebrates deportations and firings as “company impact” metrics, according to a collection of unlisted websites discovered by Drop Site.
Canary’s non-public websites promise expansion into new avenues to continue the group’s mission of punishing Americans for pro-#Palestine speech via doxxing, pressure campaigns, and now arrests and deportations carried out by allies in the State Department.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #USPol #politics
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University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics
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University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics
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University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
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University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics
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University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics
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'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests
Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMTAt a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.
The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.
Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.
#FreePalestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#FreeHungerStrikers
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#UKPol #politics #Palestine
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'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests
Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMTAt a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.
The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.
Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.
#FreePalestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#FreeHungerStrikers
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#UKPol #politics #Palestine
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'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests
Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMTAt a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.
The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.
Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.
#FreePalestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#FreeHungerStrikers
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#UKPol #politics #Palestine
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'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests
Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMTAt a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.
The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.
Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.
#FreePalestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#FreeHungerStrikers
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#UKPol #politics #Palestine
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Texas governor designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as terror organisations
The proclamation gives the state's attorney general leeway to sue the groupsfrom #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 18 November 2025 21:54 GMT#Texas Governor #GregAbbott on Tuesday announced that he is designating the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the #CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelations (#CAIR) - the largest civil liberties group for American #Muslims - as both foreign terrorist organisations and transnational criminal organisations.
As a result, both groups would be barred "from purchasing or acquiring land" in the state of Texas, Abbott said.
The proclamation gives the state's attorney general leeway to sue the groups accordingly.
#DefendCAIR
#DefendCivilLiberties
#DefendFreeSpeech
#EqualRightsUnderTheLaw
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NSPM-7: Project Esther in Overdrive
from #TheVoiceMemo
by Stefanie Fox [Executive Director of #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace in #USA]
Oct 20, 2025One year ago, the Heritage Foundation released #ProjectEsther, which is best understood as an addendum to #Project2025. It was released quietly, but with ambitious tactics; it contains everything needed to defame, defund, and ultimately dismantle groups like JVP “within 12-24 months.” This is the #Trump administration’s blueprint to destroy civil society, starting with attacking Palestine solidarity.
Twelve months in, and they are well underway, judging by the giant stack of paperwork on my desk from JVP’s lawyers laying out the active lawsuits brought against our organization from Trump-aligned law firms and government requests for information...
#FightNSPM7
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#NSPM7
#US #USPol #politics #Palestine
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#ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour
Trump ally #LauraLoomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
from #TheGuardian
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDTBritish journalist #SamiHamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal #immigration authorities at San Francisco airport, and the #CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelations (#CAIR) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of #Israel while touring the #US.
A statement from CAIR said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in #Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A #Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopTheDeportations
#FreePalestine
#USPol #politics #Palestine
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A t-shirt design I came up with and produced and sold by a vendor on Etsy.
#NoKings #DefendFreeSpeech #StopTheDeportations #StopTrumpsCutbacks
#LetGazaLive #NoArmsToIsrael
#HandsOffVenezuela
#politics #USpol @palestine
#graphic #GraphicTee #Tshirt
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University of #Michigan still punishing pro-#Palestine students after graduating
Arbitration hearings carried out this summer are overreach, former students say
from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the #UniversityOfMichigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.
Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.
All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on #Gaza on 21 May 2024. He was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#USA #US #USPol #politics #Trump
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How #Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
#ColumbiaUniversity President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of #Trump's demands.
from #TheIntercept
Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes
August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m.https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
Rashid Khalidifrom #TheGuardian #Guardian
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDTColumbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Israel #Palestine #DefendAcademicFreedom
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Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews
from #WorldOutlook
July 23, 2025It’s Not Gaza Campus Protests That Endanger Jews, It’s Misguided Efforts to ‘Protect’ Them
What truly poses a danger to #Jews today is not young people demanding peace on campuses, it’s the way in which authorities, both university and governmental, but also the Jewish establishment, respond
article below was first published by Haaretz
July 22, 2025Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students.
Kahlenberg, who is #Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas, Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning #Israel’s genocidal war in #Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.
https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/those-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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Freed from #ICE detention, #MahmoudKhalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]
"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.
Meanwhile, the #Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against #Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "
#NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil
#StopTheDeportations
#NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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#ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release #MahmoudKhalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the #ColumbiaUniversity graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. EThttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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#ADL chief compares student protesters to Islamist terrorists
#JonathanGreenblatt also said protests against #Israel were driven by ‘same kind of nihilists’ who participated in Black Lives Matter
from #TheForward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]By Arno Rosenfeld and Jacob Kornbluh June 6, 2025
[contains links to audio of his speech]
"“We are an apolitical, non-partisan organization, but you have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” #Greenblatt said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the #Forward.
“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”"
https://forward.com/news/726133/greenblatt-adl-protesters-terrorists/
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of his pro-#Palestinian activism at #ColumbiaUniversity likely violates the #Constitution.
In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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#Georgetown scholar recalls terror and ‘mockery of due process’ in immigration jail
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By OLIVIA DIAZ and BEN FINLEY
Updated 6:34 PM EDT, May 23, 2025"Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.
“They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” #KhanSuri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”"
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression #ICE
#NoDeportationForBadarKhanSuri
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw #GeorgetownUniversity
#BadarKhanSuri #Palestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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#ProjectEsther: #NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of #Israel” as #Hamas Supporters
from #DemocracyNow
Interview with-
Katie J.M. Baker
investigative reporter for The #NewYorkTimesStefanie Fox
executive director of #JewishVoiceForPeace.https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/19/project_esther
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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#MahmoudKhalil blocked from holding son for first time by #ICE, lawyers say
Detained #Columbia University graduate and #Palestinian activist forced to meet month-old baby from behind glass
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington
Wed 21 May 2025 18.24 EDThttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/mahmoud-khalil-newborn-son?CMP=share_btn_url
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
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Graduates Boo #Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year
Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of #MahmoudKhalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]By Sharon Otterman
May 21, 2025 Updated 4:08 p.m. ET"The celebrations at smaller graduation ceremonies on Tuesday were also punctuated by anger directed at Columbia administrators. At the graduation for Columbia College, the university’s main undergraduate school, some students repeatedly interrupted Ms. Shipman’s remarks with loud jeers. At one point, they chanted “Free Mahmoud.”"
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
Even before President #Trump was re-elected, the #HeritageFoundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-#Palestinian activism in the #UnitedStates.
From #TheNewYorkTimes #NYT
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By Katie J.M. BakerMay 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET
Heritage officials said they did not know whether the White House, which has its own #antisemitism task force, had used Project Esther as a guide. Administration officials declined to discuss it. But Robert Greenway, a Heritage national security director who coauthored #ProjectEsther, said it was “no coincidence that we called for a series of actions to take place privately and publicly, and they are now happening.”
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“They Want to Silence Me”: #Columbia Student #MohsenMahdawi on ICE Jail, #Palestine, Activism, #Buddhism [interview]
from #DemocracyNow
May 16, 2025
"In this prison, [...], #ICE rents a section of the prison. And the section where I was, it was a mixture of three-quarters of people who have committed crimes before, and one-quarter of migrants who come in and out. And I was — my cell was C-38, the first cell in that C section where the migrants are. So, I saw waves of the migrants. Those are not just migrants. Those are the people who feed us, who plant our food, who harvest our organic, delicious #Vermont produce."https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/16/mohsen_mahdawi_columbia_university
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In #Graduation Speech, #NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed #Israeli War in Gaza
University Withholds Student’s Diploma, in Latest Flashpoint over Free Speech on U.S. Campuses
from #WorldOutlook
May 16, 2025[contains transcript of his speech]
“We commend Logan for using this opportunity to demand an end to the bloodshed in #Gaza,” said Afaf Nasher, executive director of CAIR-NY, a Muslim civil rights organization. “We demand that NYU formally release Logan’s diploma, which he rightfully earned, and suspend any disciplinary proceedings against him.””
https://world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/in-graduation-speech-nyu-student-condemns-u-s-backed-israeli-war-in-gaza/
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NYU withholds diploma of student who condemned Israel in graduation speech
University says it ‘strongly denounces’ commencement speech by Logan Rozos, who called out ‘atrocities’ in Gaza
From #TheGuardian
Maya Yang
Thu 15 May 2025 14.19 EDT#DefendAcademicFreedom
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#Indian academic held over pro-#Palestinian views released from #ICE jail
Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in March
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Marina Dunbar and agency
Wed 14 May 2025 17.47 EDT"US district judge Patricia Giles ... said that the ruling was effective immediately with no conditions and no bond. She added that #KhanSuri’s release was “in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech” during the hearing."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/judge-order-release-khan-suri-ice?CMP=share_btn_url
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#Tufts student returns to #Massachusetts after release from immigration custody
from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 10, 202510:12 PM EDT[article contains 5 nice photos :-) ]
** Summary**
* #Öztürk returns home after release from immigration detention center
* Judge in #Vermont grants bail, citing substantial claims her rights were violated
* Ozturk urges public to remember detained women in Louisianahttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/tufts-student-returns-massachusetts-after-release-immigration-custody-2025-05-11/
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Turkish #TuftsUniversity student released from Louisiana immigration detention center [#RümeysaÖztürk]
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By KATHY McCORMACK
Updated 8:33 PM EDT, May 9, 2025
'“Despite an 11th hour attempt to delay her freedom by trying to force her to wear an ankle monitor, Rumeysa is now free and is excited to return home, free of monitoring or restriction,” attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.'#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
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#Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
Updated 9:21 PM EDT, May 9, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — #ColumbiaUniversity has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-#Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week, a school spokesperson said Friday.
The Ivy League institution in Manhattan placed more than 65 students on interim suspension and barred 33 others, including those from affiliated institutions such as Barnard College, from setting foot on campus.
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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail
PhD student arrested in March for political speech released on Friday after federal judge’s ruling
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Maya Yang and Noa Yachot in New York and agencies
Fri 9 May 2025 19.32 EDT"#RümeysaÖztürk, the #Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech, has been released from the Louisiana detention center where she was being held in what she and her lawyers had argued was a breach of her constitutional rights."
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Tufts student released from US immigration custody after judge's order
from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 9, 20258:09 PM EDT***Summary***
* #RumeysaOzturk ordered released immediately from Louisiana detention center
* Ozturk was detained after pro-#Palestinian campus advocacy
* Judge said her detention chills free speech of non-citizenshttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/tufts-student-detained-by-us-immigration-authorities-must-be-released-judge-2025-05-09/
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Protesters arrested as Columbia calls in New York police to clear #Gaza solidarity sit-in – **live**
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Robert Mackey (now); Lucy Campbell, Marina Dunbar and Tom Ambrose (earlier)
Wed 7 May 2025 20.23 EDT20.16 EDT
#Columbia student protesters arrested and led away in handcuffs by policeA graduate student at Columbia Journalism School reports on Twitter/X that at least 50 people have been arrested for taking part in the brief occupation of Butler library on campus.
Five minutes ago, another student at the journalism school, Somaiyah Hafeez, shared video of more than a dozen protesters, handcuffed with zip ties, being led away by police officers to an #NYPD bus. Most were wearing keffiyehs – the traditional black and white scarf that has long been a symbol of #Palestinian identity.
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#Columbia University calls in police to clear pro-#Palestinian protesters
University’s president says activists refused to leave library despite warnings of disciplinary action and arrest
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Lauren Gambino
Wed 7 May 2025 19.41 EDT"#ColumbiaUniversity asked the New York police department to help clear pro-Palestinian activists after dozens of protesters occupied parts of the main campus library on Wednesday."
"In a statement posted on X, protesters confirmed that they had refused to show their IDs and that some had sustained injuries in the skirmish with the public safety officers.
“We will not be useless intellectuals,” protesters said in a statement. “#Palestine is our compass, and we stand strong in the face of violent oppression.”"
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Court orders detained #Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to #Vermont
Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for two weeks, was illegally detained
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Sam Levine and agencies
Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT"A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student from a #Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.
A judicial panel ... ruled in the case of #RümeysaÖztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday."
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Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at University of Washington occupation
Group demands university cut ties with Boeing over company’s military contracts with Israel
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Edward Helmore
Tue 6 May 2025 09.32 EDT"More than two dozen pro-#Palestinian protesters were arrested on Monday night at the #UniversityOfWashington in Seattle after they occupied an engineering building and set dumpsters on fire.
The protest group, called #SuperUW, occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to demand that the university sever its ties with #Boeing, as the aerospace company has military contracts which the students say “are used by #Israel in their US-funded genocide of Palestinian people”.
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#Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention
Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDTA group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald #Trump administration to immediately release the #TuftsUniversity graduate student #RümeysaÖztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/trump-tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-ice?CMP=share_btn_url
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Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders
"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 23, 2025" Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the #Michigan homes of pro-#Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against #Israel's genocidal assault on #Gaza. "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-raids-palestine
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