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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

This one student, Mohsen Madhawi, has more courage than the entire Republican Party, billionaires, media personalities, powerful law firms, and corporate institutions who all bent the knee to Trump.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

a lot of people with great reviews turned out to be very sketchy last time i used it

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

Recognition is not enough, but yes, a reconstruction of the democratic block has to start with walking back the hypocrisy on palestine.

For anyone who is confused, remember Tuesday tariffs are for A through Z but not R countries. Wednesday Tariffs are for C countries.

burada da takipçiler arasında çok tuhaf hesaplar var, dikkat edin derim. Bot olabilir çoğu.

💥🪧Happening right now in Budapest:

🇭🇺 Anti-government protesters have occupied four bridges, opposing Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on freedom of assembly under the guise of “child protection.”

🗣️ Though aimed at the Pride march, Orbán’s law threatens banning any kind of protests or rally.

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hundreds of people at a lively anti tesla protest with signs and flags

crowd chanting:

we don't want your Nazi cars
take a one way trip to Mars

#teslatakedown #Boston

Excellence in Middle East Studies — something Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer personify— is being sacrificed at the altar because the boards of these schools wager not many people will care and it will satisfy the barbarians at the gates. They’re wrong on both counts.

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow.

She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

INTRODUCTION Rümeysa Öztürk is an international PhD student who was arrested on March 25, 2025 when six plain-clothes federal officers surrounded her on the street just outside her home in Somerville, MA. Rümeysa screamed as a man in a hooded sweatshirt grabbed her. Several other officers encircled her and soon covered their faces with masks. Rümeysa was handcuffed and escorted with an officer holding each arm into an unmarked vehicle. For more than 20 hours, her friends, family and legal counsel could not locate or contact her. After an exhaustive search, they learned that she had ultimately been removed from Massachusetts and sent more than 1,300 miles away to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's attorneys—now including the ACLU!—describe her arrest and detention as "part of a concerted and systemic effort by Trump administration officials to punish students and others identified with pro-Palestine activism." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social
We also discuss what may come next:

www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Opinion | I am Erdogan’s Main Challenger in Turkey. I Was Arrested. President Erdogan of Turkey has jailed me because he knows he cannot beat me in an election.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

For those who want to see it better

Mahkemenin baro yönetimi görevden alma kararını protesto eden avukatlar Çağlayan'da yürüyüş yaptı bianet.org/haber/mahkem...

The battle over Columbia has sadly given me a ton of deja vu of the Erdoğan government's takeover of Turkey's Boğaziçi University in recent years. @abuaardvark.bsky.social has nicely drawn that connection here -- and reminded us of the importance of student and faculty resistance:

8 year old: I’m allergic to waiting, I will die if I wait.

ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

Just to be clear, this is a faculty member reporting a recent student at his institution to a fascist regime because he disagrees with the student’s political views. Absolutely chilling and vile.

See, he just wants to end the war and save lives. Besides, this would have never, ever happened had Zelensky simply wore a suit and said thank you

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Russian Olympic champion turned lawmaker dead after falling from window Buvaisar Saitiev, a former State Duma deputy of Chechen descent, was found dead in Moscow on Sunday.

Another Putin critic falls out a window.

3-time Russian Olympic freestyle wrestling champion fell to his death.

Putin's signature assassination technique.

He was a one time member of Putin's ruling party.

But speak out against Putin & you plunge.

Every day a person with the most noxious record of antisemitism attacks liberal democracy and says with a straight face that they have to do this to fight antisemitism. I think this is bad, personally.

IPI Job Opening: Türkiye Programme Coordinator - ipi.media Overview: The International Press Institute (IPI) is seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to lead our program aimed at promoting access to information and press freedom in Türkiye. The succe...

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Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation