Laura A. Ring

University of Toronto agrees to host Harvard students facing Trump visa restrictions Pact will help international students finish their studies amid Harvard’s legal battle with Trump administration

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

As a mother? I don’t want to hear a word about Mother’s Day when this is what we’re doing to mothers in this country.

No lies detected. This is our country now.

I cannot stress how important learning this was for me.

This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.

Hey Marco

Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually

Fun fact: the International Criminal Court at The Hague does NOT recognize any immunity based on official title or diplomatic status.

forever re-learning that the poem comes out of what I don't yet know. I don't have to know or plan what's going to happen when I go to the page, and it's usually better if I don't. the point is to sit down and let it happen.

"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.

““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,”

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Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned | U.S. Senator Chris V... U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he is in the United States this week in...

if Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,”

People want action, this is action.

This is the highest form of doing something

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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.

Philip K. Dickens

Multiple Columbus speaking events canceled for doctor who treated Palestinian bomb victims Oxford University's Dr. Nick Maynard was supposed to speak about how Israel's bombing of Gaza is also an attack on healthcare workers there.

good grief...

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BIG UPDATE TODAY: This afternoon, the ACLU filed a new "class action habeas" lawsuit in New York challenging the Alien Enemies Act removals. They are seeking a temporary restraining order which would basically replicate the same thing they previously had with Judge Boasberg's order.

Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How The litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration’s lawlessness and aggression.

"University leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance": read my brilliant colleague Dave Pozen @ryandoerfler.bsky.social and Sam Bagenstos in @thenation.com here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

MEMORANDUM OPINION In 2019, an immigration judge acting under the authority delegated by the United States Attorney General and pursuant to powers vested by Congress- granted Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia ("Abrego Garcia") withholding of removal, thereby protecting him from return to his native country, El Salvador. ECF No. 1 9 41; EC No. 1-1. Such protection bars the United States from sending a noncitizen to a country where, more likely than not, he would face persecution that risks his "life or freedom." See Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(A); see also 8 C.F.R. §$ 208.16-.18 & 24 (setting forth the standard for withholding of removal and the procedures required for its termination). Six years later, without notice, legal justification, or due process, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), a subagency of the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), put him on a plane bound for the Terrorism Confinement Center ("CECOT")

NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oh HELL YEAH

Looking down on a crowd from a small hill. Onto the Vermont State House lawn. Lots of umbrellas and colorful raincoats. Hard to read any signs but there is one in support of sovereign Canada. The whole lawn is full, a few thousand people. It’s grey and the trees are still bare. Across the street is a 5 story cream colored early 20th century office building. More interesting Victorian-ish buildings to the sides. Behind are low, tree covered hills.

Montpelier, VT #HandsOff
It was 40° F and raining. This is a pretty impressive crowd for Vermont.

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

really into this new collaborative art installation

The #HandsOff rally in Chicago is packed!

A smiling person holds a sign over their head. It reads “vegetarian but will eat the rich”

Lots of people willing to try new foods

Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.