John Leguizamo: "We feed this country, we serve this country, we build this country, and then we get treated this way."

Lol so were the Gestapo

Simple solution would be to just go and arrest them.

the single image every genuinely freedom-loving american has been waiting for

This sign was recently required to be posted at the Manzanar visitor center. Be sure to read the fine print at the bottom.

Cover of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy” showing a young Japanese American boy in a line of people being sent to an internment camp guarded by a uniformed American soldier

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

Hi, Dr. Thrasher. I'm so saddened to hear your tenure was rejected at Northwestern. You were the most thoughtful, honest and nurturing professor had during my master's program. You gave me confidence I could become a journalist. I am an admirer and look up to your work and advocacy all the time O e Thinking of you.

Dean Charles Whittaker alleged I am inadequate as a teacher. But I trust my Medill students, who have moved me to tears by sending messages of support like these (shared with permission)

Appalled to see my alma mater retaliate against an incredible internationally-renown journalism scholar & award-winning faculty member by denying tenure.

This is a chilling message for faculty & students.

In the original thread are links to a letter & material support for @thrasherxy.bsky.social.

Queer, HIV-Positive, and Running Out of Medication in Gaza A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.

JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

Denying tenure to @thrasherxy.bsky.social
is another nail in the coffin of American academia & the fiction that liberalism has ever presented resistance to fascism

These corporate bastions of neoliberalism provide no resistance. They are the empire.

Tenured faculty-SPEAK NOW or you’re next.

Keep telling yourself it’s only about Palestine…sit quietly protected by tenure & let junior faculty members, grad students, and students get expunged- cowards.

Soon enough it will be because you said this thing about race, that thing about gender…

Clairvoyance isn’t needed to see where this ends.

Saw a video of a Palestinian child trying to pick up the scraps of flesh that were left of his mother.

And I live in a country where if you call this barbarism you risk arrest & deportation, where protest is ‘anti-Semitism’ & colleges turn students over to the gestapo.

Fascism? We need new a word

Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea!

A taste of today's fantastic National March for Palestine

#FreePalestine #NoEthnicCleansing #StopArmingIsrael

When people say “MAGA,” I ask “when was the US great?”

They respond typically with “the ‘50s-‘70s.”

So I reply “oh! when the marginal tax rate was 91%! When college was cheap and publicly funded! When corporations divided profits among their workers! When salaries kept up with inflation! Right?”

This message of solidarity by American Jews with Mahmoud Khalil and the Palestinians is the best answer to the weaponizing of antisemitism by the Trump administration.

Hundreds of Jews and allies detained at Trump Tower during a mass civil disobedience against the Trump admin’s unlawful detainment of Mahmoud Khalil.

NYPD commandeered an NYC bus to load arrestees into for transport to 1PP. Onlookers chanted and cheered in support of arrestees.

Last Spring, in an interview with CNN, Mahmoud Khalil expressed how Palestinian and Jewish safety are intertwined.

Peeps;
Below website (updated regularly) allows us to know which companies partner with Apartheid, Fascist, Nazi Israel.
So, please bookmark it for future reference and use.
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"We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again." –President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 Image of Mahmoud Khalil. Kuffiyah in the background. The caption reads: “Shalom Mahmoud”

This is what Trump’s White House official account posted on X.

Sweet lord christ

The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation, deportation, and expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. Estimates of how many were repatriated, deported, or expelled range from 300,000 to 2 million (of which 40-60% were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children) [4):fn 2015]

For those who doubt that the US would ever deport US citizens.

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Mahmoud Khalil isn't an illegal alien. He isn't a terrorist. He's a Columbia graduate student and a legal U.S. resident. He's a husband. And his wife, a US Citizen —8 months pregnant—has no idea where he is.

This fucking liberal discourse solely focused on defending “legal residents” and citizens as opposed to “illegal aliens” shows how the Democratic Party creates the conditions for more explicit fascist policies.

On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)

“As anthropologists, we are witnessing a doubling down on the discipline’s classical roots where a Palestinian woman can only occupy the savage slot–she can only speak as an object of research, through the colonizer’s narrative of her”
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. ...

My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So.. I told my students about Mahmoud Khalil at the end of class today and assured them that in case I disappear, I will leave plans for their class with the department head.

I, too, am a green card holder.

I, too, publicly oppose the genocide in Palestine.

I, too, fear disappearance.

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We MUST fight for each other, and for ALL of us. We will not survive without each other.

For full alt text, follow pastebin link in next post. Partial text: Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening: First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow. The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail. Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.

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.)

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Since this has already made its rounds on here.