Nina Cohodes
@ninacohodes.bsky.social
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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
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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
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Read my latest:
Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Read my latest:
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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.
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.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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.
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.
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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
July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Within a few hours of Harvard's motion for a new temporary restraining order, judge grants the temporary restraining order.
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June 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Within a few hours of Harvard's motion for a new temporary restraining order, judge grants the temporary restraining order.
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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
June 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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
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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.
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.
This is expected from apocalypse cult Christians. Non-evangelicals are non-human and they exist only to die. Everyone “perishing from the earth” is the goal! “People are gonna die” is a success for them!
“I thought people understood” is the big giveaway. “You didn’t know your death is the plan??”
“I thought people understood” is the big giveaway. “You didn’t know your death is the plan??”
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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.
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.
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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:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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:
My report:
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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
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
April 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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From today’s protest:
April 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
From today’s protest:
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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?
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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?
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🧵 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...
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🧵 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...
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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...
April 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
The Massachusetts House has taken a major step towards banning trans athletes in sports.
It would be the first blue state to do so.
The amendment has been inserted into the state budget bill.
This is a five alarm fire for trans people in Massachusetts.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m...
It would be the first blue state to do so.
The amendment has been inserted into the state budget bill.
This is a five alarm fire for trans people in Massachusetts.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m...
Mass. House passes language barring students from playing on teams of the opposite sex, but requires state analysis - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts House on Wednesday passed language that would ban public schools from allowing students to play on a team of the opposite sex, but only after the state is able to study the policy’s ...
www.bostonglobe.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
wtf MA, we're supposed to be better than this
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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.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.
One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
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.
zeteo.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.
One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
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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.
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.
April 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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.
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.
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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.
April 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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.
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I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.
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the way it's unquestioningly reported that trump is robbing universities "because of antisemitism" makes me apoplectic. based on what evidence???
April 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
the way it's unquestioningly reported that trump is robbing universities "because of antisemitism" makes me apoplectic. based on what evidence???