Laura Royden
@lauraroyden.bsky.social
Getting a PhD in political science at Harvard studying antisemitism and Jewish politics in America. Mostly just a wife guy, dog mom, and WNBA fan.
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I’ve been trying to articulate to myself why I find the discourse around Mamdani so upsetting and I think beyond the fact that it is/encourages racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, it also makes a mockery of what I consider to be real issues, namely antisemitism and Jewish safety.
June 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’ve been trying to articulate to myself why I find the discourse around Mamdani so upsetting and I think beyond the fact that it is/encourages racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, it also makes a mockery of what I consider to be real issues, namely antisemitism and Jewish safety.
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If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.
April 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.
No one told me how much of grad school would involve days like today: brain MRI, FL-41 glasses, and desperately hoping something helps my migraines.
April 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
No one told me how much of grad school would involve days like today: brain MRI, FL-41 glasses, and desperately hoping something helps my migraines.
I would personally not be involved with this ever, but I would especially not do it right before my big holiday about celebrating freedom from oppression etc. Just another way Chaya and I see our Judaism differently I guess.
Libs of TikTok aka Chaya Raichik posts that she arrested “criminal illegal aliens” with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this morning.
In the photo on the left she appears to be wearing what is a vest with a patch on it made to look like an ICE badge.
In the photo on the left she appears to be wearing what is a vest with a patch on it made to look like an ICE badge.
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I would personally not be involved with this ever, but I would especially not do it right before my big holiday about celebrating freedom from oppression etc. Just another way Chaya and I see our Judaism differently I guess.
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Betar USA is the far-right organization giving the Trump administration names of pro-Palestine students to deport. Today they confirmed they are going after the “wrong sort of Jews” as well. It was always inevitable that this “anti-antisemitism” campaign would be turned against Jews on the left.
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Betar USA is the far-right organization giving the Trump administration names of pro-Palestine students to deport. Today they confirmed they are going after the “wrong sort of Jews” as well. It was always inevitable that this “anti-antisemitism” campaign would be turned against Jews on the left.
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Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
Roll Crimson, baby!!!
March 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Roll Crimson, baby!!!
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This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.
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Right-wing Jew Laura Loomer is attacking the wife of the judge who blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, herself the head of the Heschel School in NYC. This is blatant antisemitism, but Loomer is justifying it as only against "Marxist Jews" who "create antisemitism for the rest of the Jews."
March 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Right-wing Jew Laura Loomer is attacking the wife of the judge who blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, herself the head of the Heschel School in NYC. This is blatant antisemitism, but Loomer is justifying it as only against "Marxist Jews" who "create antisemitism for the rest of the Jews."
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How did Mahmoud Khalil become the first student targeted for deportation by the Trump administration?
He showed up at a protest last week without a mask.
"The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me.
forward.com/news/703018/...
He showed up at a protest last week without a mask.
"The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me.
forward.com/news/703018/...
Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.
forward.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
How did Mahmoud Khalil become the first student targeted for deportation by the Trump administration?
He showed up at a protest last week without a mask.
"The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me.
forward.com/news/703018/...
He showed up at a protest last week without a mask.
"The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me.
forward.com/news/703018/...
This makes me feel more unsafe than anything that has happened at Harvard since 10/7. Wondering if ICE is going to begin taking my peers is a much greater disruption to campus life for me than protests!
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 11:10 PM
This makes me feel more unsafe than anything that has happened at Harvard since 10/7. Wondering if ICE is going to begin taking my peers is a much greater disruption to campus life for me than protests!
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Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.
March 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.
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As far as I can tell, Khalil has still not been charged & his attorney/family still don’t know where he is.
Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves. Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.
Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves. Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.
The Trump admin is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to undercut democracy: from gutting education funding to deporting students to attacking diversity, equity, & inclusion.
As we’ve repeatedly said: this makes Jews - & so many others - less safe.
jewishpublicaffairs.org/news/jcpa-re...
As we’ve repeatedly said: this makes Jews - & so many others - less safe.
jewishpublicaffairs.org/news/jcpa-re...
JCPA Responds to Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Antisemitism - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s new executive order related to combatting antisemitism: “Rising antisemiti...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
As far as I can tell, Khalil has still not been charged & his attorney/family still don’t know where he is.
Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves. Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.
Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves. Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.
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What law is the ADL alleging Mahmoud broke? Is it against the law to criticize Israel? To speak to the press? To be Palestinian?
The ADL has now publicly *congratulated the Trump administration* for arresting green card holder Mahmoud Khalil
March 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
What law is the ADL alleging Mahmoud broke? Is it against the law to criticize Israel? To speak to the press? To be Palestinian?
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What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
March 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
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the problem with the "trans sports participation is a loser / 80-20 issue" framing is that it ignores how it got that way. it didn't just happen out of nowhere. It's been a 5+ year campaign by Republicans to make it an 80-20 issue, and noone fought back.
March 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
the problem with the "trans sports participation is a loser / 80-20 issue" framing is that it ignores how it got that way. it didn't just happen out of nowhere. It's been a 5+ year campaign by Republicans to make it an 80-20 issue, and noone fought back.
Again this is obviously in bad faith, but let's pretend like it's not. What part of culture is telling young men to cast their families aside...? Is the main cultural messaging not that men should provide for their families??
JD Vance: "Our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge ... my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person bc you're a man, bc you like to tell a joke, bc you like to have a beer with your friends."
February 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Again this is obviously in bad faith, but let's pretend like it's not. What part of culture is telling young men to cast their families aside...? Is the main cultural messaging not that men should provide for their families??
How is it their fault the NBA has a stupid loophole if you don’t make any of the 3s??? Bring back my kings.
Wemby and CP3 got disqualified from the Skills Challenge for doing this lol
February 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
How is it their fault the NBA has a stupid loophole if you don’t make any of the 3s??? Bring back my kings.
Oh wow, why would the defenders of women's sports do this?!
NEWS: Trump's Department of Education has rescinded the guidance saying Title IX, the statute governing gender equity in sports, applies to House v. NCAA revenue-sharing payments.
It's one of the expected but drastic shifts in Trump's Title IX application. frontofficesports.com/trump-biden-...
It's one of the expected but drastic shifts in Trump's Title IX application. frontofficesports.com/trump-biden-...
Trump Education Dept. Pulls Biden’s NIL Pay Equity Rule
It’s one of several Biden-era policies related to Title IX that the Trump administration has almost immediately reversed.
frontofficesports.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh wow, why would the defenders of women's sports do this?!
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This is simply excellent from start to finish.
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The spineless cowardice of the NCAA's anti-trans swerve
A decade ago, the NCAA stood up on trans issues. Now that trans people are under attack, they've given in to bigots.
rodgersherman.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is simply excellent from start to finish.
rodgersherman.substack.com/p/the-spinel...
rodgersherman.substack.com/p/the-spinel...
Very weird victim mentality in Vance's tweet that doesn't make any sense. It's not like liberals or reporters or cancel culture fired him. Your administration did! Nothing is stopping them from hiring him back if they want him back!
The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.”
February 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Very weird victim mentality in Vance's tweet that doesn't make any sense. It's not like liberals or reporters or cancel culture fired him. Your administration did! Nothing is stopping them from hiring him back if they want him back!
Exactly, and it's shameful.
There was a time when the NCAA was fearless in the face of bigotry. Oh, how times have changed. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Opinion: NCAA lacks reason, spine in ban of transgender women athletes
The NCAA will no longer allow transgender women to compete on women's teams, sacrificing already-vulnerable kids.
www.usatoday.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Exactly, and it's shameful.
This is maybe the fifth most important thing in this video, but it’s so clear none of these “women’s sports” defenders know anything about women’s sports. Banning men from women’s sports practice? Most women’s basketball teams practice against men!!
Tommy Tuberville: "There is no dictatorship here other than Donald Trump saying, 'this is not gonna happen.'"
February 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is maybe the fifth most important thing in this video, but it’s so clear none of these “women’s sports” defenders know anything about women’s sports. Banning men from women’s sports practice? Most women’s basketball teams practice against men!!