Micki Turney

MIKE JOHNSON: We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone

TAPPER: Does the rule of law apply to people who stormed the Capitol on January 6?

JOHNSON: Apparently there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd

TAPPER: They were sent there to do crowd control. It wasn't a false flag operation

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

Drawing of a puppy on a boat with the caption; "I still believe there is good in the world even if I have to search"

Puppy on a boat

Great day for WSER100❤️🥰

It's always fascinating to me, the moral flexibility of moral absolutists.

I mean, this guy could lick his own asshole.

Oh Mark I’m terrified with this administration 🥺🥺🥺

Melissa Ribley and Wee Horse at Tevis 100 mile horse race

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Republicans are the problem

Bringing the heat

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

Liar-that was obamas economy 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

I’ve tried to make my own sourdough starter-no luck

"On day one"

Our wedding day

the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

FACTUAL BACKGROUND A. Background Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian, but he was born and raised in Syria because his grandparents were forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Tiberias, Palestine? Since the war in Syria, his family was again displaced and are now dispersed throughout Europe and West Asia. Mr. Khalil entered the United States on a student visa in or around December 2022 in order to pursue a Master's degree in Public Administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs ("SIPA"). Mr. Khalil completed his program in December 2024, and has an anticipated graduation date of May 2025. Mr. Khalil married his U.S. citizen wife on November 16, 2023. He became a lawful permanent resident in 2024. Mr. Khalil and his wife are expecting their first child together next month, sometime in April 2025. While Mr. Khalil's habeas corpus petition employed redacted initials instead of his name, the publicity urrounding his ordeal over the past two days, along with public statements by U.S. government officials identifyin him, foreclose the possibility of proceeding anonymously. 3

Case 1:25-Cv-01935-JMF Document 11 Filed 03/10/25 Page 5 of 13 B. Student Activism and Speech on Matters of Public Concern As a Palestinian, Mr. Khalil has felt compelled to be an outspoken advocate for the human rights of Palestinians, including on the campus of Columbia University. He is committed to calling on the rest of the world to protect the rights of Palestinians under international law and to stop enabling violence against Palestinians. Additionally, Mr. Khalil has been a mediator and negotiator, facilitating dialogue between Columbia University's administration and its students. In this role, he has advocated on behalf of his peers to be treated humanely and fairly by the university. This role has placed him in the public eye, particularly through numerous interviews with national media outlets. Speech regarding international law, the obligations that the United States and Columbia University have under that law, the human rights of the Palestinian people, and related matters are all topics of public concern clearly protected by the First Amendment. C. Unlawful Arrest by the Department of Homeland Security On the evening of Saturday, March 8, 2025, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Mr. Khalil and his wife were returning to their Columbia University apartment from a friend's home. When they arrived at their apartment building, Mr. Khalil and his wife were approached by approximately four people who were dressed in plain clothes. All of them entered the lobby of the apartment building, which is owned and operated by Columbia University. See Ex. 1, Declaration of Amy Greer ("Greer Decl.") at 14. When the people approached Mr. Khalil and his wife, they asked: "Are you Mahmoud Khalil?" When Mr. Khalil answered in the affirmative, the men identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and stated that they had to take Mr. Khalil into custody. The agents told Mr. Khalil's wife to go up to her apartment, and that if she would not leave

Mr. Khalil's wife retrieved his immigration documents to show the DHS agents that Mr. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident. She handed the documents to an agent, who was talking to someone on the phone. The agent looked confused when he saw the documents and said: "He has a green card." Mr. Khalil's wife heard the agent repeat that they were ordered to bring Mr. Khalil in anyway. While Mr. Khalil's wife went to their apartment, Mr. Khalil was able to place a call to his attorney, Amy Greer. Greer Decl. at 11 4-5. Attorney Greer advised Mr. Khalil to ask if the DHS agent had a warrant, and the agent advised that they did. Attorney Greer then heard a voice tell Mr. Khalil to hand over the phone. Attorney Greer identified herself as Mr. Khalil's attorney and asked who she was speaking with. The agent identified himself as Special Agent Elvin Hernandez of Homeland Security Investigations. Id. at 1 4. Attorney Greer asked if Agent Hernandez had a warrant, and he answered in the affirmative, stating that Mr. Khalil's student visa had been revoked by the U.S. Department of State and therefore they were detaining him. Id. Attorney Greer advised Agent Hernandez that Mr. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident and has the right to due process. Id. at 1 5. Agent Hernandez responded that the Department of State had revoked Mr. Khalil's green card,? too, and that he would be brought in front of an immigration judge and hung up the phone. Id. The agents then handcuffed Mr. Khalil and brought him outside where there were multiple vehicles waiting. Mr. Khalil's wife asked for the names of the agents, their contact information, and how to reach them to follow up on her husband's detention, but they only advised her that Mr. Khalil would be taken to 26 Federal Plaza (in Manhattan), and otherwise refused to speak with 3 Counsel is unaware of any provision in law that would allow the Department of State to rescind or revoke

her. Id. at 1 6. They left her no business card or any information at all as to how to find out where her husband was to be taken, on what grounds, or who she can contact. Id. at 1 7. D. The Habeas Corpus Petition Filed in this Court Challenging the Legality of Detention Under the law of this Circuit, it would be unconstitutional for Respondents to have imposed punitive immigration consequences on Mr. Khalil, such as detention and removal, as they appear to have done, in retaliation for Mr. Khalil's constitutionally protected speech and advocacy. See Ragbir v. Homan, 923 F.3d 53, 78 (2d Cir. 2019), cert, granted, judgment vacated on other grounds sub nom. Pham v. Ragbir, 141 S. Ct. 227 (2020). Counsel filed the instant habeas corpus petition on Mr. Khalil's behalf on March 9, 2025, at 4:41 a.m. ECF No. 1. The urgently-filed petition challenged his detention as unlawful and sought an order from this Court for his release. The petition lodged jurisdiction with this Court.ª On March 9, 2025, at 4:29 a.m., counsel checked the ICE online detainee locator, which indicated that Mr. Khalil was in New York. Id. at 1 10. At 8:30 a.m., counsel once again checked the ICE online detainee locator, which indicated that Mr. Khalil was still in New York. Id. After multiple emails to ICE to attempt to reach Mr. Khalil, at 1:47 p.m., counsel was informed that Mr. Khalil was in the process of being transferred to a detention facility within the New Orleans ERO Field Office. Id. at 1 12. Counsel reached out to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, who confirmed that Mr. Khalil was en route to Louisiana. Id. at 1 13. Counsel requested Mr. Khalil's immediate return, but was told that ICE would not consent to his return absent a court order. When Mr. Khalil's counsel attempted to schedule a telephone call with Mr. Khalil—a process that typically occurs the same day or the next day here in New Mr. Khalil's habeas corpus petition was filed urgently and counsel pla…

Mahmoud Khalil’s counsel has filed a motion to compel his return to New York. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Scene from The Office.

Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.

Kill the bird. Save the world.

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This is communist Russia type of shit happening domestically in America.
It's only been 6 weeks. FFS

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Pete Hegseth has gotten the Pentagon to scrub a photo of a B-29 Superfortress ‘The Enola Gay’ (named for the pilot's mother). It was the plane that dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, but the pilot's mother's name was "Gay."

We are not just a country being run by bigots, we are one run by stupid ones.