Liz Fitting

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada Visit the post for more.

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.

www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

88 out of 100 people icons coloured turquoise to represent 88%. Text that reads "88% of Canadians think post-secondary education should be affordable."

Canadians overwhelmingly agree that universities and colleges should be affordable

Canadians deserve access to high-quality post-secondary education and all the benefits that come along with it.

That education should be affordable for everyone.

Learn more at Education2025.ca

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason, but doors that don't come off while you're burning alive inside it. My dreams have come true.

German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S. (Gift Article) Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.

To all of my international friends, do not come to the United States! It is not safe for anyone with a foreign accent in this country. Boycott the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/w...

I found a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle “Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

1/ Musk says he’s dead but he isn’t. Social Security clawed back 2 months of benefits & haven’t sent more. “He called Social Security 2 or 3 times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.” Finally he went down in person www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Statement from VOA Director Michael Abramowitz, placed on admin leave this weekend and locked out his office along with more than 1300 other journalists, producers and support staff. Posted on personal FB

This was the stuff you'd see on white supremacist forums a decade ago and now it's the vice president.

US added to human rights watchlist over Trump moves The United States has been added to CIVICUS’s monitor list of potential human rights threats due to President Trump’s restrictive executive orders and institutional cutbacks, which are …

It's official: US now seen no longer open and free thanks to Trump's "undue restrictions on civic freedoms." The watchdog group says Trump's "Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association" thehill.com/homenews/adm...

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

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Jfc

Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.

This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

Trump Is Viciously Cracking Down on Free Speech The detention and possible deportation of Columbia University student and pro-Palestine organizer Mahmoud Khalil is the most serious attack on the First Amendment by any president in years.

The detention and possible deportation of Columbia University student and pro-Palestine organizer Mahmoud Khalil is the most serious attack on the First Amendment by any president in years.

The fact that the Nazis are always the bad guys and never the good guys shows just how woke and out of touch Hollywood has become

The number of protests that are gonna happen in the coming months just because it’s finally getting warm outside is going to be nuts

TRUMP TARIFF CHESS

Feb 1: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽
Feb 3: pauses tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽
Feb 27: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽
Mar 4: imposes tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽
Mar 5: delays 🇨🇦🇲🇽 car tariffs
Mar 6: pauses tariffs on USMCA-compliant 🇨🇦🇲🇽 goods
Mar 7: threatens tariffs on 🇨🇦 dairy (250%) and lumber

Please consider contacting the NS govt about proposed legislation that would hamper teaching and research at Nova Scotia universities, and kneecap #nspse capacity to secure federal research $$ & other partnerships by limiting research to prov govt interests.

Link here: nwmd.social/s/copylink/6...

YouTube video by Friends of Canadian Media Vote to Save the CBC

OK this ad is actually very good lmaoooo
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These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males | CBC Radio Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.

This is the news we deserve.

“These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males

'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”

There are many faculty, especially in STEM, who believe that if they can just show how useful their work is, they can keep their funding and keep going under this anti-constitutional regime and survive. You are wrong. You, too, are the enemy now. Labor solidarity is the most powerful tool we have.

Ontario, Canada cancels Elon Musk’s Starlink contract and bans all U.S. companies from government contracts. 🇨🇦

Transgenic is not the same as transgender. Asylum seekers are not coming from insane asylums. Holy Mother of god what ignorant dodos. ( I know this isn’t new. Just had to vent)

Helpful graphic:

A quote from the Harvard professor Ryan Enos that reads, “The historical parallel, in my opinion, is crystal clear—it looks like a rerun of McCarthyism. One day, people will look back on this and be embarrassed.”

Universities are changing their stance on speech tolerance. What does that mean for the future of higher education?
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oh wow amazing way to fight back this will make them tremble in fear why do they even bother getting up in the morning