On August 19, @reptimkennedy.bsky.social was at a town hall in Niagara Falls NY.

Former UN official @craigmokhiber.bsky.social questioned him about the genocide in Gaza and Kennedy's recent AIPAC-backed trip to Israel.

We did some fact- and tone-checking of Kennedy's response.

That'll really help the brand's climate-friendly upscale image.

Oh my God. The email contains an implied threat that any student who doesn’t immediately leave might be sent to El Salvador.

/technically it says “countries other than their countries of origin,” but the context right now, given everything going on, makes the threat clear.

"everyone i don't like is the hamas support network": coming soon to a community near you

The Trump administration's outrageous detention of Mahmoud is designed to instill terror in students speaking out for Palestinian freedom and immigrant communities.

This is the fascist playbook. We all must fiercely reject it, and universities must start protecting its students.

this is what they’re calling a justification for stripping someone of their green card: “he did campus activism. he handed out leaflets.”

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

Immigration Authorities Arrest Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

The Trump administration is using claims of antisemitism to cripple universities--along w/ independent media--because they are centers of resistance to authoritarian rule. And the ADL is applauding this assault on liberal democracy. What a shameful moment in American Jewish history.

First they came for the visa holders, then the green card holders. Are citizens next? The person in question was a student who participated in last spring's protests.

Congrats, everyone—the Elon boycott is working! Reports indicate that Tesla inventory is swelling, especially with Cybertrucks piling up outside their factory. Keep the boycott going, and don’t forget—today is the Economic Blackout!

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

To Use Their Language Is to Endorse Their Lies Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis, and the current one here in the US is also a language crisis. How we use the language and how we listen for lies that are in single words and phrases as ...

A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the countr...

This may not sound shocking, but it is one of the most shocking parts of this coup: why would you shut down all the federal offices unless you're nihilists who've decided we don't need a government? apnews.com/article/trum...

Or this one.

Opinion | Israel Is Meant to Be Jewish and Democratic. It Cannot Be Both. Israel cannot be both Jewish and democratic.

States Don’t Have a Right to Exist. People Do - NYTime opinion piece from Peter Beinart.

Bernie Sanders’ Vote on Gaza Genocide Forces Senators to Go on the Record Today, US senators will be forced to record for posterity whether they condone US enabling of the genocide in Gaza.

Bernie Sanders' vote today will force all Senate members to go on the official legislative record about whether or not they condone the United States’ continued facilitation of a genocide in Gaza.