“It shouid be obvious to everyone what’s happening….is not about protecting Jews. The chill in the air now is the fear and despair we feel as Columbia’s being made a test case for the detention of activists” 2/2

Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch, daughter of Holocaust survivors: “I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime. Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is right out of their playbook. I am horrified by the Trump administration’s deceitful attacks on our campus”

Her op-ed:
forward.com/opinion/7035...
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“this practice is called “being disappeared”
No charges, no claims of criminal behavior

Once it becomes normal for the regime to disappear people simply for protesting the regime’s policies,there’s no going back

Today it’s Mahmoud Khalil, tomorrow it could be me or you”
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

SENATOR SANDERS: So you don’t think we should change the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour?

TREASURY SECRETARY BESANT: No sir

Every Republican and 16 Democratic senators confirmed the new Treasury Secretary
Scott Besant is worth at least $700 million
Fed min wage hasn’t been raised in 15 years

This is Los Angeles tonight. People from every race, occupation, and identity came to gather in a vigil in a sacred act of solidarity with undocumented people. They refuse to stay silent about the government’s cruel acts of ripping families away from this city they call home.

happy friday bluesky!
meet my queen and spirit animal.

Surreal to see Syrians breathing winds of freedom for the first time in the 24-year brutal authoritarianism of Bashar-al-Assad. I took this video in 2018 when I went to cover Assad’s war on Syrians. This Syrian boy was so traumatized he stopped talking. Until this serendipitous moment with Mohamed

South Koreans taught us what it looks like when you refuse to obey in advance even when their president unleashed the military on them

Pro-democracy coalition of 190 South Korean lawmakers, mass mobilization of people held the line against craven authoritarianism

Lessons for us if we learn from it