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Two-page letter from Harvard Human Resources addressed to the Harvard community. It informs recipients that on July 8, 2025, Harvard received a Notice of Inspection (NOI) and related subpoena from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to inspect I-9 employment eligibility forms and supporting documentation for Harvard employees. Initially thought to concern a few dozen employees in Massachusetts Hall, DHS later clarified it applies to all current Harvard employees and anyone employed within the past 12 months. The letter distinguishes this request from prior subpoenas and references the federal I-9 process. On the second page, Harvard states it is not providing I-9 records for student-only employment roles while evaluating whether FERPA permits such disclosure. It has asked DHS to confirm that any records produced will be securely maintained, accessed only by authorized personnel, and used solely for legal purposes. The letter concludes with a note to contact local HR offices for questions and provides a link to FAQs.

Two-page letter from Harvard Human Resources addressed to the Harvard community. It informs recipients that on July 8, 2025, Harvard received a Notice of Inspection (NOI) and related subpoena from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to inspect I-9 employment eligibility forms and supporting documentation for Harvard employees. Initially thought to concern a few dozen employees in Massachusetts Hall, DHS later clarified it applies to all current Harvard employees and anyone employed within the past 12 months. The letter distinguishes this request from prior subpoenas and references the federal I-9 process. On the second page, Harvard states it is not providing I-9 records for student-only employment roles while evaluating whether FERPA permits such disclosure. It has asked DHS to confirm that any records produced will be securely maintained, accessed only by authorized personnel, and used solely for legal purposes. The letter concludes with a note to contact local HR offices for questions and provides a link to FAQs.

Harvard has just informed all employees that DHS has sent a subpoena requesting access to all i-9 records for Harvard employees and that they turned them over to the Trump admin with some exceptions

Gaza is starving Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

Read my latest:

A cicada: COME, FRIEND. SCREAM WITH US.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

republicans keep making life worse for working people and better for the rich and then we have elections and they’re like no that’s not true! and people believe them and then they just do it all again and it’s enough to make a rational person feel absolutely fucking insane

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Within a few hours of Harvard's motion for a new temporary restraining order, judge grants the temporary restraining order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Trump has banned all foreign-national Harvard students and researchers from entering the US on student or foreign exchange visas. Shifts legal fight from one over State and DHS powers to presidential powers

I have a friend who is an exvangelical and she put it very succinctly: “We don’t believe anyone else is human. You are not people to us.”

Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

The Harvard Crimson continues to have excellent coverage of the admin's actions www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The government demand letter (www.harvard.edu/research-fun...) was an extreme, authoritarian overreach and I'm glad Harvard is taking steps to resist

Good.

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From today’s protest:

I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?

🧵 We got a pretty nasty load of bad news yesterday on the future of Social Security. It's not hyperbole to say we've passed the point of no return on Trump/DOGE's efforts to kill the agency...

Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

wtf MA, we're supposed to be better than this

Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.

One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

A concrete ask for every department head: commit to checking SEVIS portal every day.

Student visa revocation emails go to address they applied with - potentially consultants/brokers. Correct & current info is a specific, urgent need.

If you don't have access, find out who does & make same ask.

It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP’S TARIFFS The quick version. On April 2, Trump announced sweeping tariffs on every country except Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Belarus. Tariffs are a tax that are paid by the importer when goods enter our country. Prices on everyday items will increase radically and responsive tariffs will harm US businesses. Ask your federal representatives (numbers at reps.fyi) to revoke Trump’s ability to apply tariffs. Who pays tariffs? The country of origin does not pay tariffs. Whoever is importing the goods in the US pays the tariff, and passes the cost along to regular consumers—in other words, we, the people will pay the tariff. How did Trump calculate his tariffs? Trump’s tariff sheet claims that countries charge the US exorbitant tariffs. This is a lie. The number he lists has nothing to do with tariffs, but is instead a trade deficit ratio, calculated as the dollar amount we import from that country divided by the amount we export to that country. What is the difference between a trade deficit and a tariff? Trade deficits are not tariffs. We buy more from some countries than they buy from us because many Americans have disposable income and purchasing power. It is not possible, or beneficial, for countries to have perfectly balanced imports and exports. What impact will this have on your life? You will pay more for everything you buy, and American businesses will lose overseas customers. The last time America passed sweeping tariffs was in 1930; this is part of what made the Great Depression last so long. Trump’s tariffs are higher than the failed 1930 tariffs. Who is responsible? • Donald Trump and his cabinet for imposing the tariffs. • Every Senator and Representative who fails to block Trump’s tariffs. What can you do?

• Contact your Senators and Representative (info at http://reps.fyi), and ask them to revoke the so-called national emergency that Trump is using to impose these tariffs. • Distribute this fact sheet so that people know who is responsible and how to join in. • Join a protest against Trump’s damaging policies. Sources for these claims & this sheet itself can be freely downloaded at TrumpsTariffsExplained.com

I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.

the way it's unquestioningly reported that trump is robbing universities "because of antisemitism" makes me apoplectic. based on what evidence???

Appeasing President Donald Trump Won’t Work From Columbia University to Paul Weiss, leaders have gone beyond de-escalation into outright collaboration with Trump.

More from Roth: time.com/7272520/appe...