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Sophie Hurwitz
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I support LGBT: Lockheed Martin General Dynamics Boeing Texas Instruments (this is a meme, these are the names of various weapons manufacturers)
July 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Ben Packer, who reportedly sat on the board of Megamot Shalom — a shell organization for Canary Mission —boasts of his friendship with Stephen Miller. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Megamot Shalom has few known employees. But one individual deeply connected to far-right politics reportedly sat on its board. As of 2016, Rabbi Ben Packer was listed as a board member of Megamot Shalom on Israel’s public charity registry. Born in the United States, Packer—who says he was a “rabbi on campus” at Duke University and the University of North Carolina—now runs an ultranationalist youth hostel in Jerusalem and lives in a West Bank settlement. He has boasted of his friendship with Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser behind many of the president’s most controversial immigration policies. During a phone interview with Mother Jones, Packer denied involvement with Megamot Shalom. He said he has “nothing to do with” the organization, does not know what it is, and has “no recollection” of being affiliated with either Canary Mission or Megamot Shalom. Still, Packer defended Canary Mission’s actions. “I think they do great work,” he said. “If they’re getting people who are doing antisemitic things on campus deported, who aren’t citizens, I think that makes a lot of sense. I don’t think it’s at all weird.” Packer also confirmed his connection with Miller, who was an undergraduate at Duke when Packer claims to have worked there. At that time, Miller was active in campus pro-Israel politics. He wrote student newspaper columns inveighing against the school’s Palestine Solidarity Movement chapter and—as journalist Jean Guerrero reported—insisted to Duke administrators that there was “terrorist recruitment” happening at an on-campus Palestine Solidarity Movement conference. According to an administrator Guerrero interviewed, Miller was never able to provide proof. “I think he’s a great guy,” Packer said of Miller. “I think he means well, I think he works very hard, I think he has the interests of the American people and the Jewish people really close to his heart.”
July 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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From my Canary Mission writeup, published yesterday: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They asked me: ‘Have you ever participated in a protest? What are your opinions of violent protest? Have you ever participated in a protest that turned violent?’” said Kalman-Lamb, whose Canary Mission profile shows that over a year ago, he tweeted a selfie in support of a University of Toronto student encampment—an encampment the website refers to as “pro-Hamas.” “We have evidence that you’ve endorsed violent protest,” he remembered the officer saying. Kalman-Lamb’s Canary Mission profile characterizes the student encampments of spring 2024 as violent. “Then they asked me if I’d traveled to about a dozen countries,” he told Mother Jones. “They were all Muslim-majority nations, and Israel.” “I’m 99 percent sure it’s because of Canary Mission,” Kalman-Lamb said.
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This confirms what academics and students told me in this piece: it seemed clear to them, months ago, that the government was using Canary Mission.
“How A Shadowy Online Blacklist Became A Legal Threat to Pro-Palestinian Activists” — link in next tweet
July 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Breaking: Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace activists occupy the Manhattan corporate offices of Maersk, a global shipping conglomerate that transports F-35 parts for the IDF.
June 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Stopped by 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, where nightly anti-ICE protests are being held - couple hundred people chanting mostly on the sidewalk, people brought their kids and flags and signs, and the police brought their masks and riot gear
A line of police officers with zip tie cuffs, masks, helmets outside 26 federal plaza in NYC
June 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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my sibling is a better news source than most of you
Text reading: “the fact that a second signal group chat has literally hit the pentagon is unreal….”
April 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Withholding asthma medication is a violation of disability civil rights. Untreated asthma can lead to permanent airway damage, respiratory failure, and even death. Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts student detained by ICE, has been unable to access her inhaler for over a week.
ICE claims to follow Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which would require Öztürk to have the same access to medical care as everyone else. Denying Öztürk her medication could potentially impede her disability civil rights (failures to provide ICE detainees access to care have been the subject of complaints under Section 504 in the past).
April 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Published this piece on students detained across the country a few hours ago, and it could already stand updating:
Letter from the University of Minnesota President saying that on March 17th a UM grad student was detained by ICE
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Mahmoud Khalil spent the hours before his arrest trying to protect other students from ICE, his fellow activists told me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I left about 4 hours in. Students holding out behind fencing under the bright hot sun, police guarding Columbia’s perimeter like it’s a fortress—fences and checkpoints abound.
Police guard a checkpoint at Columbia’s entrance. Students in bright right “Jews say ICE OFF OUR CAMPUS” shirts sit behind barricades on the steps of Columbia’s library.
March 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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“The university is prohibiting Jewish students from accessing a public part of campus—in the name of antisemitism. Where is the office of institutional equity? Where’s the task force on antisemitism?”
March 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“Katrina Armstrong, what will your legacy be? The Jews demonstrating here today know what our legacy is…you will not make Jews on this campus safe by collaborating with Trump and his neo-nazi allies…Columbia’s duty is not to the fascist government—it is to its students.”
March 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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“We are here to show Columbia their students have a spine. You need to grow one.”
March 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Columbia students stage a protest to demand the release of grad Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained by ICE Saturday night. The school has not yet issued a statement about Khalil’s case.
March 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Meanwhile, in New York:
March 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The scale of this Manhattan march for the release of Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — organized only yesterday! — is hard to convey.
March 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This sign from tonight’s Manhattan protest more or less covers it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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On March 8th, Palestinian Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by DHS agents. Now, he is reportedly being held in a repurposed GEO-group jail in Louisiana. 2 days later, in downtown Manhattan, people have gathered to demand his release.
March 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🚨Inbox: Palestinian Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, a negotiator for the student encampment last spring, has been detained by DHS agents “without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”
March 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Came across some sort of ancient tome on the streets of crown heights
March 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Gf drew me. This is how it feels
February 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Cool
February 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I’m kind of like the USPS (neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stop me from posting)
February 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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If any puppygirl hackers want to send me data they found my signal is shurwitz.18
February 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM