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  1. As bombs fly over Iran former #FoxNews host #Hegseth bans attendees of ivy league and other top colleges from enlistment in US Military #DOD employment...The institutions include #MIT, #Princeton, #Yale, Brown, #Georgetown, #JohnsHopkins, #Columbia, George Washington, #Tufts, St. Louis and Carnegie Mellon, as well as the College of William & Mary in VA, #Middlebury College in VT and Queen’s University of Canada

    nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/poli

    #TheIdiocracyIsReal #Edu

  2. Young added, “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the #Constitution.”

    Young’s comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep #sanction against the #Trump admin for seeking to “chill” the #FreeSpeech of pro-#Palestinian #activists targeted for arrest & removal weeks after Trump took office—including #Columbia University’s #MahmoudKhalil & #MohsenMadhawi, as well as #Tufts PhD student #RumeysaOzturk & #Georgetown academic #BadarKhanSuri.

    #law

  3. Young added, “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the #Constitution.”

    Young’s comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep #sanction against the #Trump admin for seeking to “chill” the #FreeSpeech of pro-#Palestinian #activists targeted for arrest & removal weeks after Trump took office—including #Columbia University’s #MahmoudKhalil & #MohsenMadhawi, as well as #Tufts PhD student #RumeysaOzturk & #Georgetown academic #BadarKhanSuri.

    #law

  4. Boston judge orders one regime agency to permanently ditch policy limiting how much colleges get paid for supporting federally funded research
    universalhub.com/2025/boston-j
    #MIT #Tufts #lawsuits #NSF #IndirectCosts

  5. Boston judge orders one regime agency to permanently ditch policy limiting how much colleges get paid for supporting federally funded research
    universalhub.com/2025/boston-j
    #MIT #Tufts #lawsuits #NSF #IndirectCosts

  6. #BostonWeekend 43/x
    Graduation season continues through June and @hmelman
    was kind enough to compile this listing of #Boston area graduation ceremony activities

    5/16 #Simmons Commencement at MGM Music Hall at Fenway
    - 5/17 #Bentley Commencement at Bentley University Football Stadium
    - 5/17 #Lesley Commencement at the Leader Bank Pavilion
    - 5/18 #BU Commencement at Nickerson Field
    - 5/18 #Tufts Commencement at Tufts Green
    5/18 #Suffolk Univ Commencement at Leader Bank Pavilion
    - 5/18 #Brandeis Commencement at Brandeis Gosman Sports and Convention Center
    - 5/19 #BC Commencement at Boston College Alumni Stadium
    mastodon.social/@hmelman/11434
    #Boston #graduation #Congratulations #Commencement #Massachusetts

  7. #BostonWeekend 43/x
    Graduation season continues through June and @hmelman
    was kind enough to compile this listing of #Boston area graduation ceremony activities

    5/16 #Simmons Commencement at MGM Music Hall at Fenway
    - 5/17 #Bentley Commencement at Bentley University Football Stadium
    - 5/17 #Lesley Commencement at the Leader Bank Pavilion
    - 5/18 #BU Commencement at Nickerson Field
    - 5/18 #Tufts Commencement at Tufts Green
    5/18 #Suffolk Univ Commencement at Leader Bank Pavilion
    - 5/18 #Brandeis Commencement at Brandeis Gosman Sports and Convention Center
    - 5/19 #BC Commencement at Boston College Alumni Stadium
    mastodon.social/@hmelman/11434
    #Boston #graduation #Congratulations #Commencement #Massachusetts

  8. @CatDragon This is why I’m having a rough go of it today. It’s one of those days when it’s all too much. What’s getting to me is there are still people out there, even now, who can’t bring themselves to care enough to pay attention. Last night a friend of ours came over for dinner, and in the course of conversation my wife and I discovered they had no idea who #RFK Junior was. Sit with that for a moment. And I know they’re not alone. There are plenty of people who are actually proud of their ignorance, like that makes them smarter than everyone else or something. So as everything goes down the tubes, my depression is weighing heavy on my heart. And, of course, it didn’t have to be this way, but hey, look on the bright side, at least the evil baby killer lost. I’m really sorry for being such a downer. I am extremely happy that the #Tufts graduate student is out of #ICE custody. Score at least one for the good people.

  9. @CatDragon This is why I’m having a rough go of it today. It’s one of those days when it’s all too much. What’s getting to me is there are still people out there, even now, who can’t bring themselves to care enough to pay attention. Last night a friend of ours came over for dinner, and in the course of conversation my wife and I discovered they had no idea who #RFK Junior was. Sit with that for a moment. And I know they’re not alone. There are plenty of people who are actually proud of their ignorance, like that makes them smarter than everyone else or something. So as everything goes down the tubes, my depression is weighing heavy on my heart. And, of course, it didn’t have to be this way, but hey, look on the bright side, at least the evil baby killer lost. I’m really sorry for being such a downer. I am extremely happy that the #Tufts graduate student is out of #ICE custody. Score at least one for the good people.

  10. Senator Markey live streaming on YouTube: “Rümeysa Öztürk and her legal team speak at Logan Airport after arriving home from ICE detention in Louisiana”
    youtube.com/live/vrHq1xKtdEM

    #ozturk #massachusetts #tufts #boston #aclu #constitution

  11. Senator Markey live streaming on YouTube: “Rümeysa Öztürk and her legal team speak at Logan Airport after arriving home from ICE detention in Louisiana”
    youtube.com/live/vrHq1xKtdEM

    #ozturk #massachusetts #tufts #boston #aclu #constitution

  12. 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."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  13. 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."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  14. Federal Judge rules that #Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk must be released on bail from the Louisiana migrant detention center where she has been held for weeks reuters.com/world/us/tufts-stu

  15. Federal Judge rules that #Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk must be released on bail from the Louisiana migrant detention center where she has been held for weeks reuters.com/world/us/tufts-stu

  16. A U.S. judge has ordered the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities. Read more from @CNN
    flip.it/rjn8ua
    #Tufts #ICE #Immigratrion #US

  17. A U.S. judge has ordered the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities. Read more from @CNN
    flip.it/rjn8ua
    #Tufts #ICE #Immigratrion #US

  18. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

    The judge ordered that she be released immediately!!!

    #tufts #SomervilleMA #ozturk #constitution

  19. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

    The judge ordered that she be released immediately!!!

    #tufts #SomervilleMA #ozturk #constitution

  20. This morning there was a bail hearing before Judge William Sessions for #Tufts student #RumeysaOzturk at a Vermont federal court. #Ozturk attended via Zoom from a #detention center in #Louisiana.

    Ozturk testified in support of her release. She discussed her #humanitarian work related to child development & her increased #asthma attacks since detention. She also said Tufts has offered her housing should she be released.

    The #Trump #DOJ declined cross-examination.

    #immigration #law #FreeSpeech

  21. This morning there was a bail hearing before Judge William Sessions for #Tufts student #RumeysaOzturk at a Vermont federal court. #Ozturk attended via Zoom from a #detention center in #Louisiana.

    Ozturk testified in support of her release. She discussed her #humanitarian work related to child development & her increased #asthma attacks since detention. She also said Tufts has offered her housing should she be released.

    The #Trump #DOJ declined cross-examination.

    #immigration #law #FreeSpeech

  22. 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."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  23. 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."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  24. Per John Hawkinson:

    "Rümeysa Öztürk just won at the 2nd circuit.

    "The merits of her case are still to be argued, but she is being transferred to Vermont."

    #SomervilleMA #Tufts

  25. Per John Hawkinson:

    "Rümeysa Öztürk just won at the 2nd circuit.

    "The merits of her case are still to be argued, but she is being transferred to Vermont."

    #SomervilleMA #Tufts

  26. CW: cw food discussion - cakes

    @constantorbit others mentioned Flour, they're consistently great, our usual go-to for years.

    If the recipient is into marzipan, Danish Pastry House by #tufts in #MedfordMA has done some tasty, pretty cakes for me over the years, plus their pastries are tasty and gorgeous. danishpastryhouse.com/cakes/

  27. CW: cw food discussion - cakes

    @constantorbit others mentioned Flour, they're consistently great, our usual go-to for years.

    If the recipient is into marzipan, Danish Pastry House by #tufts in #MedfordMA has done some tasty, pretty cakes for me over the years, plus their pastries are tasty and gorgeous. danishpastryhouse.com/cakes/

  28. In that same vein, I'd like to talk a little more about the regime's pattern of identifying the "criminal" they want to target, before determining what "crime" they're being charged with, in regards to its targeting of foreign students who expressed anti-genocide sentiments while legally studying in the United States. Nowhere is the authoritarian inversion of the process of legal enforcement more apparent than in the abduction, detainment, and attempted deportation of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student targeted by the regime for writing an op-ed calling for the school to divest from its financial relationships with companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel, as it commits a genocide in Gaza.

    What makes Öztürk's case so revealing is that we have access to a State Department memo that shows Foggy Bottom knew the regime had no case against her, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was advised to use his (presumed) authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to accomplish the desired goal - attempting to deport Öztürk for her completely legal exercise of free speech rights to criticize her school and its support for a genocide.

    truthout.org/articles/state-de

    State Department Found No Evidence of DHS’s Reasons for Abducting Tufts Student

    "The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing a State Department memo, that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had not provided any evidence of Öztürk engaging in activity labelled antisemitic or “terrorist” supporting. Additionally, searches of government databases did not turn up any evidence of Öztürk participating in terrorism-related activity.

    As a result, Secretary of State Marco Rubio lacked grounds to revoke her visa under certain immigration provisions allowing him to do so. Instead, the department recommended a different authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act that legal experts cited by the Post say allow Rubio to revoke immigration status that does not require “a rationale and explanation and evidence.”

    The agency recommended a “silent” revocation of Öztürk’s visa as part of that authority, the memo reportedly says, meaning that the administration would not notify her of the action.

    Days later, immigration agents “disappeared” Öztürk, with footage showing that they swarmed her on the street outside of her home and forced her into an unmarked car."

    Folks, this is literally the smoking gun that proves what anyone who isn't a disingenuous apologist already knows in their heart; the Trump regime is transforming the law into a weapon to punish protestors, intimidate dissidents, and suppress the free speech of folks who oppose Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. These fascist jackanapes are literally so incompetent that their own memos prove they're inverting the legal process to target portions of their political opposition in a very visible type of fascist ideological policing. Anyone still arguing that this isn't a fascist government while the Trump regime itself is more or less shouting "yes we're doing fascism" in its internal memos, is either a fool, or thinks you are.

    #Fascism #Trump #ICE #DHS #StateDepartment #MarcoRubio #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #Israel #Imperialism #SettlerColonialism #RumeysaOzturk #Kidnapping #Tufts

  29. #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 EDT

    A 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”.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  30. #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 EDT

    A 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”.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine