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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

Incredible the depths of darkness we find ourselves in

Headline: California renters are very picky customers

How are they picky? Do they keep changing apts because of colors? Amenities?

Oh… it’s because of rising unaffordable rent.

Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’ At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden

This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When gov't agencies feel comfortable trying to assassinate people in broad daylight on the streets,

My brother has brain cancer and has been denied three times, how much harder can it get?

the three categories of email I get from columbia now are (1) we did a fascism; (2) thank you for your email about how we should not have done a fascism, we hope to regain your trust someday; (3) we will let you know by mail if we have accidentally released your social security number into the world

On this day we join with hundreds of thousands of Black Americans in celebrating freedom.

Pink roses through a wood fence

Some random beauty, the neighbor roses have broken containment. #FlowerReport

No mystery about what's happening here. Not hard to describe or understand. And yet we wait, passively, for someone to do something.

A green card holder and UW lab tech who immigrated from the Philippines 50 years ago detained at the border for over 3 weeks and counting. No one knows why.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

German national with green card detained by ICE after arriving at Logan Airport, family says - The Boston Globe Fabian Schmidt, of New Hampshire, is being held at the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, R.I., according to a public Immigration and Customs Enforcement database.

More green-card holders detained by ICE for no reason, this time a 34 year-old German national in the US since he was a teenager.

His mother, who lives in New Hampshire: “It’s unbelievable what’s happening now.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/15/m...

Anti-trans bills take center stage in House as KY lawmakers work deep into the night • Kentucky Lantern House GOP cuts off debate as Democrats beg them to reject a provision that would end Medicaid coverage of hormone treatments for transgender Kentuckians.

good morning. kentucky is on the cusp of passing a bill that will:

• ban medicaid coverage of hormones and surgery for all trans people
• end state restrictions on conversion therapy

gov andy beshear is expected to veto but it seems the gop can override

kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/15/a...

This is an important thread on colleges & universities standing up to Trump. Just wanted to add that some universities are quiet so as not to offend their donors. But the donors support Trump!

19. I cannot overstate how distressing this entire experience has been. The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need. 20. I am currently in my thirty-third week of pregnancy, and I am due to give birth to Mahmoud and I's first child on April 28th, 2025. We are expecting a son. The thought that Mahmoud may miss the birth of our son is devastating. 21. I am not exaggerating when I say that I would not have been able to get through my pregnancy without Mahmoud. At this stage of my pregnancy, I have biweekly appointments with my doctor scheduled. In just three weeks, those appointments will increase in frequency, becoming weekly appointments. Prior to his detention, Mahmoud attended almost every doctor's appointment with me. He cooks every meal for us, he cleans the house, he does our laundry and takes care of every need that we have as a household. 22. Mahmoud has been invaluable to me in helping me cope with the physical and mental impact of my pregnancy. Early on in my pregnancy, my doctor found indication that I might require a regimen to preempt preeclampsia, a very serious condition that can cause major complications for a pregnant person and their baby. I was prescribed two baby aspirin per day, and I am still supposed to be taking that medication. I forget to take medication, and Mahmoud reminded me to take the medication every night, getting it for me before bed. Since the agents took him away, I haven't been able to sleep well or focus and am afraid that I have forgotten to take that medication. 23. Just last month, on February 2, 2025, I had to be admitted to the hospital because I had not felt our baby in my stomach for a full day. I spent approximately four hours at the hospital, and Mahmoud supported me through the distress of being unable to feel our baby's movement in (page ends here)

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (U.S. National Park Service)

And the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the NPS has been terminated under Trump's Executive Order. Take a look at all this amazing work while you still can.
And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars.
🗃️
www.nps.gov/orgs/1296/in...

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened here, then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I."

Israeli Airstrikes Kill Two Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Continues to Violate Ceasefire In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes have killed two Palestinians despite the ceasefire agreement. Separately, an Israeli civilian contractor working with Israel’s military in Gaza was shot dead by Israeli sol...

Israeli Airstrikes Kill Two Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Continues to Violate Ceasefire
#GazaGenocide #IsraelIsATerrostate
www.democracynow.org/2025/1/30/he...

I feel this so much. Less than 68 and I’m in a jacket

Trump to issue orders on K-12 ‘indoctrination,’ school choice and campus protests The order will also reinstate the 1776 Commission that Trump created during his first term in office to promote patriotic education.

Politico is reporting they may ban schools receiving federal funding from allowing kids to be trans as soon as today. Also opens door to investigations into schools that disregard the directive

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented. 10:40 AM • 1/29/25 • 113K Views

Well, now I’m more confused