Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

🇬🇧 Conservative MP Mark Pritchard: “I have supported Israel at all costs - today I want to say I got it wrong. I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza and indeed in the West Bank… the life of a Palestinian child is as precious as the life of a Jewish child."

Switzerland turns train tracks into solar power plants A Swiss start-up’s system to install and remove solar panels between train tracks is now being tested. The technology is attracting interest from other countries.

www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...

Mitä vaaditaan, että saa kutsua fasistiksi? Kaasukammiot ja polttouunit? 3. Maailmansota?

Ja jos siinä tapauksessa käyttää tuota rumaa sanaa, tekeekö eduskunnan puhemies idolinsa puolesta rikosilmoituksen, jonka Helsingin poliisi tutkii ennätysajassa?

Tekstinä kuvakaappaus Hesarin jutusta. Linkki juttuun postauksessa.

Orpon hallitusohjelman vuoksi Suomen tieteellinen vapaus on tippunut sijalta 12 sijalle 47. Esim Hondurasissa ja Nigeriassa on parempi vapaus tutkijoilla.

#hyvähallitusohjelma
#tiede
#hallitus
#orpo

www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Senator Murphy on the Trump grift and likely massive insider trading scandal that just took place

Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate’s release

Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

A US citizen lawyer returning from an overseas vacation is asked to give up his cellphone. CBP doesnt take it but they do look through his contacts. His work? Representing a protestor at U Michigan- www.freep.com/story/news/l...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

There have already been reports of fake ICE agents approaching students in Los Angeles. It seems like just a matter of time.

ktla.com/news/local-n...

Wtf

We will mobilize in HUGE NUMBERS on April 5 for a national march on Washington. This is not ‘just another demonstration.’ This is a decisive moment in our movement for Palestine and in defense of civil liberties.

🚌 🔗 Get more information and find a bus from your city at marchforpalestine.org

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.

Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Thousands call for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, MA. The Tufts grad student was abducted by ICE last night after publishing an article that was critical of Israel.

UVA Walkout. Hands off our students, hands off Gaza, release Mahmoud Khalil, ICE off our campuses. Wednesday March 26, 11:30 am. South steps of rotunda. Many badges of cosponsoring student organizations.

Please share widely. Community members welcome.

Cartoon; a boy and his dad: - Dad, where is Yemen? - Why? - My group chat says we strike at midnight.

"Mikään ei ole muuttunut"
- joku Petteri -

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this:

"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I could not in good conscience suggest to any non-citizen that they shld be trying to transit in and out of the United States at the present moment.

Gaza | AP: Yhdysvallat ja Israel haluavat pakkosiirtää gazalaiset Afrikan sarveen Yhdysvallat ja Israel suunnittelevat gazalaisten siirtoa maihin, joissa on käynnissä sisällissota.

"Etninen puhdistus tarkoittaa johonkin epätoivottuun etniseen ryhmään kuuluvien ihmisten poistamista alueelta, jotta alueen demografinen koostumus saataisiin muutettua halutunlaiseksi. Poistaminen voi tapahtua karkottamalla tai surmaamalla."

some helpful reminders:

-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

The co-president says speaking against Putin’s interests is akin to treason.

So I guess that’s where we are now.

The list of banned words in the US federal agencies includes the word 'women'.

How horribly fitting on the international women's day.

London

Q: “The foreign affairs minister called all of this a psychodrama - how do you characterize it?”

TRUDEAU: “Thursday.” 🔥