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Julia Rose Kraut
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JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
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And ... THIS ⬇️

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Rep. Chris Deluzio & Rep. Pat Ryan on Stronger Dem Leadership & Supporting Veterans | The Daily Show
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November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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But at the same time, the Trump administration has proved skilled at exploiting the weak points of First Amendment law—a campaign most visible in the president’s attack on pro-Palestinian foreign students, such as Özturk. Although a 1945 precedent establishes that immigrants within the United States enjoy First Amendment protections for freedom of speech and of association, the government’s expansive powers of immigration enforcement have left noncitizens far more vulnerable to ideological scrutiny. In this sense, the Trump administration may have gone after noncitizen students with such force in significant part because they made for easy targets. Along similar lines, the Department of Homeland Security recently revoked the visa of Sami Hamdi, a British Muslim political commentator critical of Israel, and detained him for deportation—ostensibly for “supporting terrorism,” an allegation for which the government provided no evidence—while he was in the middle of a U.S. speaking tour.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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The first and the second Red Scares both drew their power from fear. Although President Woodrow Wilson ultimately was able to deport only a small portion of the noncitizens arrested during the first Red Scare, those numbers don’t capture the “intimidation resulting in self-censorship” that spread after the raids, Julia Rose Kraut explained to me; she is a legal historian and the author of Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States. In June 1917, in a precursor to the Trump administration’s furor over student protests at Columbia University, three students were prosecuted for printing anti-draft pamphlets. (My great-great-uncle was among them.) Then, as now, government harassment was a warning to others not to make too much noise. Similarly, in the second Red Scare, after a group of prominent screenwriters, producers, and directors—the “Hollywood Ten”—were questioned about suspected Communist sympathies by the House Un-American Activities Committee, the movie industry began quietly paring back film scripts to avoid anything too left-wing.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Good longer read on Justice Jackson’s response to a very tricky situation tonight from @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM