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gtconway.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here.
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Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,
medicine.yale.edu
June 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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timinator.bsky.social
Halifax's mayor wants to pause bike infrastructure projects even those already approved and funded by council.

So a couple of hundred cyclists - me included - showed up at City Hall this morning to politely show our disagreement. Active mobility infrastructure helps traffic congestion.
June 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Read Rumeysa Ozturk’s amended habeas petition and complaint: www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
Case 1:25-cv-10695-DJC Document 12 Filed 03/28/25| Page 1 of 24 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS RÜMEYSA ÖZTURK, Petitioner, V. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; PATRICIA HYDE, in her official capacity as the New England Field Office Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; MICHAEL KROL, in his official capacity as HSI New England Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; TODD LYONS, in his official capacity as Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; and MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, Respondents. Case No. 1:25-cv-10695-DJC| FIRST AMENDED PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND COMPLAINT INTRODUCTION 1. Rümeysa Oztürk is an international PhD student who was arrested on March 25, 2025 when six plain-clothes federal officers surrounded her on the street just outside her home in Somerville, MA. Rümeysa screamed as a man in a hooded sweatshirt grabbed her. Several other officers encircled her and soon covered their faces with masks. Rümeysa was handcuffed and escorted with an officer holding each arm into an unmarked vehicle. For more than 20 hours, her friends, family and legal counsel could not locate or contact her. After an exhaustive search, they learned that she had ultimately been removed from Massachusetts and sent more than 1,300 miles away to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana. 1 2. Rümeysa has not been charged with any crime. Nor has there been any allegation that she is dangerous or a flight risk. Her arrest and detention appear to be based solely on her co-authorship of an op-ed in her school newspaper, The Tufts Daily, in March 2024. The piece criticized the University's dismissal of several resolutions that had been adopted by the undergraduate student Senate as "a sincere effort to hold Israel accountable for clear violations of international law." It articulated the goals of the resolutions and the disappointment of the authors before concluding with a request that the administration "trust in the Senate's rigorous and democratic process" and "meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Senate."' 3. Rümeysa's arrest and detention are designed to punish her speech and chill the speech of others. Indeed, her arrest and detention are part of a concerted and systemic effort by Trump administration officials to punish students and others identified with pro-Palestine activism. When asked about Rümeysa's case, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed revoking her visa, adding, "we gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses."? 4. The Department of Homeland Security's website informs international students and the schools that host them that the termination of student status may result in a requirement to immediately depart the United States and may lead ICE agents to investigate whether a student has in fact departed. It makes no mention of arresting or detaining students based solely 'Rümeysa Öztürk, et al., Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions, THE TUFTS DAILY (Mar. 26, 2024), www.tuftsdaily.com/ article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj. ¿ Secretary Rubio Defends Revoking Turkish Student's Visa, C-SPAN (Mar. 27, 2025), https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/secretary-rubio-defends-r… Case 1:25-cv-10695-DJC Document 12 Filed 03/28/25 Page 3 of 24 on the loss of status. In this case, however, DHS grabbed, arrested, and detained Rümeysa before she had received any notice of the revocation of her student visa or her student status. 5. Rümeysa's arrest and detention are not a necessary or usual consequence of the revocation of a visa. But like the revocation of her visa, her arrest and detention are designed to silence her, punish her for her speech, and ensure that other students will be chilled from expressing pro-Palestinian viewpoints. Her continued detention is therefore unlawful. Because the government's arrest and detention violate the First and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act, Rümeysa should be released. JURISDICTION 6. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (federal question); 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (habeas corpus); Art. I, § 9, cl. 2 of the United States Constitution (Suspension Clause); and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (declaratory judgment). Venue is proper because Petitioner had been detained in the District of Massachusetts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts and under the custody and control of ICE officials in Massachusetts at the time of the filing of this petition. Defendant Patricia Hyde is the Director of the Boston Field Office of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE ERO), with authority over ICE ERO's operations and detainees in New England. Additionally, Defendant Michael Krol is the Special Agent in Charge for the Boston office of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with authority over HSI operations and detainees in New England. At the time this petition was filed, and when the Court issued an order requiring notice prior to any transfer of the petitioner out of Massachusetts, ECF No. 3, Rümeysa had only recently been arrested in Massachusetts and had not left the custody 3 Case 1:25-cv-10695-DJC Document 12 Filed 03/28/25| Page 4 of 24 and control of Defendants Hyde and/or Krol in Massachusetts. Sometime after receiving that order, ICE officials transferred Rümeysa to Louisiana without notifying the Court, her counsel, or Department of Justice counsel on this case. Meanwhile, Respondents withheld information about Rümeysa's location from Petitioner's counsel (and apparently, from Department of Justice attorneys on this case) until nearly 24 hours after she had been detained. On information and belief, the movement of Petitioner to other states is consistent with, and part of, ICE's pattern and practice of moving people detained for their speech to distant locations incommunicado and in secret to frustrate the ability of counsel to file habeas petitions on their behalf. PARTIES 8. Petitioner Rümeysa Oztürk is a PhD student at Tufts University. She resides in Somerville, Massachusetts. Rümeysa entered the United States on an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa. 9. Respondent Donald J. Trump is named in his official capacity as the President of the United States. In this capacity, he is responsible for the policies and actions of the executive branch, including the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security. 10. Respondent Patricia Hyde is named in her official capacity as the New England Field Office Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 11. Respondent Michael Krol is named in his official capacity as the New England Special Agent in Charge for Homeland Security Investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 3 Counsel for the government has stated that he "has been informed that Petitioner was detained outside of Massachusetts at the time the Petition was filed," but has not provided evidence of Rümeysa's location at the time the petition was filed, or suggested that she was not in the custody and control of ICE officials in Massachusetts, ECF No. 9 at 1 n. 1. 4
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.

Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Something stinks on Canada’s largest Reddit forum.

It just banned journalist @lukelebrun.ca.

His crime? Asking why his scoop on an anti-LGBTQ activist ambushing Trudeau in B.C. was removed.

He’s not the first to notice something seriously fishy over there.

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January 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM