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Maine's two largest cities are bracing for a federal occupation "as early as next week".
"Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, which operates an online resource hub and hotline to report ICE activity, said her organization has been on high alert for 48 hours"
"Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, which operates an online resource hub and hotline to report ICE activity, said her organization has been on high alert for 48 hours"
Lewiston, Portland leaders brace for wave of immigration enforcement
Rumors of an impending federal action has leaders of Maine's 2 largest cities reminding people to 'know their rights.'
www.pressherald.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Maine's two largest cities are bracing for a federal occupation "as early as next week".
"Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, which operates an online resource hub and hotline to report ICE activity, said her organization has been on high alert for 48 hours"
"Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, which operates an online resource hub and hotline to report ICE activity, said her organization has been on high alert for 48 hours"
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BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally.
Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
January 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally.
Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
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This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
“How Gaza Broke the Art World” www.equator.org/articles/how... an excellent piece calling out art world cowardice by former Artforum editor David Velasco ( archive.ph/9j25V for those without a subscription)
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
www.equator.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“How Gaza Broke the Art World” www.equator.org/articles/how... an excellent piece calling out art world cowardice by former Artforum editor David Velasco ( archive.ph/9j25V for those without a subscription)
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praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith
September 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith
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America and Europe are on the path of destroying themselves due to white supremacy. Instead of sharing with the rest of us, they'll choose to burn it all down.
I dont think people are prepared or aware of what's happening right now.
Thankfully, we still have the numbers but we must organize.
I dont think people are prepared or aware of what's happening right now.
Thankfully, we still have the numbers but we must organize.
September 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
America and Europe are on the path of destroying themselves due to white supremacy. Instead of sharing with the rest of us, they'll choose to burn it all down.
I dont think people are prepared or aware of what's happening right now.
Thankfully, we still have the numbers but we must organize.
I dont think people are prepared or aware of what's happening right now.
Thankfully, we still have the numbers but we must organize.
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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
September 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
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Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine
We have the momentum
We have the momentum
April 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine
We have the momentum
We have the momentum
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"Huge protest in Portland, sir."
"Those hippie fre--"
'WRONG ONE, SIR. LOBSTER PORTLAND."
"Those hippie fre--"
'WRONG ONE, SIR. LOBSTER PORTLAND."
Huge crowd of protesters in Portland, Maine at the Hands Off! protest!
Thank you, Maine!!!!
Thank you, Maine!!!!
April 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Huge protest in Portland, sir."
"Those hippie fre--"
'WRONG ONE, SIR. LOBSTER PORTLAND."
"Those hippie fre--"
'WRONG ONE, SIR. LOBSTER PORTLAND."
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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some are wondering how this is all happening so fast. it's because we are watching the crumbling of a facade, the thin outer layer of something that has been consistently and relentlessly hollowed out by both parties, bit by bit, for decades. this shell was the fantasy world to which liberals clung.
March 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
some are wondering how this is all happening so fast. it's because we are watching the crumbling of a facade, the thin outer layer of something that has been consistently and relentlessly hollowed out by both parties, bit by bit, for decades. this shell was the fantasy world to which liberals clung.
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Cracking the Magafacists code
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cracking the Magafacists code
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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
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This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.
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You ever think about how Republican voters never need to urgently call their representatives out of fear that they're gonna collectively support the Democratic party agenda for no explicable reason? Must be nice!
March 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
You ever think about how Republican voters never need to urgently call their representatives out of fear that they're gonna collectively support the Democratic party agenda for no explicable reason? Must be nice!
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They gave up private student records, let ICE on campus, suspended and expelled students, let the police brutalize students, removed members of the faculty, etc. It was not enough. It'll never be enough because the goal is to destroy academic institutions. Columbia did not understand that.
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
They gave up private student records, let ICE on campus, suspended and expelled students, let the police brutalize students, removed members of the faculty, etc. It was not enough. It'll never be enough because the goal is to destroy academic institutions. Columbia did not understand that.
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"they're gonna make us look bad"
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
March 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"they're gonna make us look bad"
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
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It’s clear that the leadership of the Democratic Party is absolutely fucking worthless and has no grasp of the moment they are in.
The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, which means a lot of Dems voted for her. During a fucking constitutional crisis.
March 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It’s clear that the leadership of the Democratic Party is absolutely fucking worthless and has no grasp of the moment they are in.
Fascism (and absolutely fucking bullshit). These schools all need to band together and then not budge. Not just push back only to cave layer saying they had no choice.
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Fascism (and absolutely fucking bullshit). These schools all need to band together and then not budge. Not just push back only to cave layer saying they had no choice.
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My school is on the list, facing the same threats. How schools respond is crucial: will they cower in servile displays of regime deference, or will they fight to maintain the ideals of academic freedom and critical citizenship? If the latter, the fight must be collective. There is no other way.
First, pull funding from Columbia and start to lock up its students. Second, threaten other universities with the same.
All 60 schools on this list need to join together to fight this assault on academic freedom.
All 60 schools on this list need to join together to fight this assault on academic freedom.
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My school is on the list, facing the same threats. How schools respond is crucial: will they cower in servile displays of regime deference, or will they fight to maintain the ideals of academic freedom and critical citizenship? If the latter, the fight must be collective. There is no other way.
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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.