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Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. He was detained by Homeland Security agents when he went...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
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AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
April 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
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I kind of want to go
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I kind of want to go
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Find your preferred location www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
www.mobilize.us
April 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Find your preferred location www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Yes, Trump *is* a businessman, but unfortunately, a *terrible* one.
April 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes, Trump *is* a businessman, but unfortunately, a *terrible* one.
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They have our business!
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
They have our business!
For Game of Thrones fans.
An economic “Red Wedding” and the doors are still locked
April 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For Game of Thrones fans.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court was not for sale.
April 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Wisconsin Supreme Court was not for sale.
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Heyo! In case you missed my seminar on Radical Municipalism, you can check out the recording here: slublog.org/2025/03/31/1...
This was a great group of folks and I came away feeling deeply inspired about the possibilties for transformation today with so many talented peope around.
This was a great group of folks and I came away feeling deeply inspired about the possibilties for transformation today with so many talented peope around.
Radical Municipalism | SLU Blog
On March 13, 2025 Eleanor Finley visited our Urban Studies class Delivery of Urban Public Services so we could explore possibilities and solutions through Municipalism.
slublog.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Heyo! In case you missed my seminar on Radical Municipalism, you can check out the recording here: slublog.org/2025/03/31/1...
This was a great group of folks and I came away feeling deeply inspired about the possibilties for transformation today with so many talented peope around.
This was a great group of folks and I came away feeling deeply inspired about the possibilties for transformation today with so many talented peope around.
Trump:
Making Stagflation Great Again!
Making Stagflation Great Again!
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump:
Making Stagflation Great Again!
Making Stagflation Great Again!
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So it’s going well!
April 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
So it’s going well!
“A Maryland man who was in the United States legally was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there because of an “administrative error,” Trump administration officials said in a court filing on Monday, adding that American courts lacked the jurisdiction to have him released.”
-NY Times 4-1-25
-NY Times 4-1-25
April 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“A Maryland man who was in the United States legally was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there because of an “administrative error,” Trump administration officials said in a court filing on Monday, adding that American courts lacked the jurisdiction to have him released.”
-NY Times 4-1-25
-NY Times 4-1-25
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“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture propaganda for her regime.
We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This Is the Land of Wolves Now
Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture propaganda for her regime.
We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
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An undercover cop is there is incite violence so his cop friends can arrest you, be aware and don’t let them get you riled up
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
An undercover cop is there is incite violence so his cop friends can arrest you, be aware and don’t let them get you riled up
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“I do believe the target here was not my colleague, Badar Khan Suri, but..his wife, who’s a Palestinian from Gaza. They couldn’t arrest her, because she’s a U.S. citizen, so they went after the easier target, her husband, who, of course, you know, has committed no crime. He was just doing his work”
Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
Badar Khan Suri is one of the many pro-Palestine scholars being targeted by the Trump administration. Suri, originally from India, is a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar on reli...
www.democracynow.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“I do believe the target here was not my colleague, Badar Khan Suri, but..his wife, who’s a Palestinian from Gaza. They couldn’t arrest her, because she’s a U.S. citizen, so they went after the easier target, her husband, who, of course, you know, has committed no crime. He was just doing his work”
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Psst… take 12 seconds away from doom scrolling, to take a deep breath and relax with these sweet otters 🦦
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🎥Nature
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March 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Psst… take 12 seconds away from doom scrolling, to take a deep breath and relax with these sweet otters 🦦
🔊
🎥Nature
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🎥Nature
Authoritarianism has arrived in the U.S.
Trump threatens to send US citizens to a maximum security prison in El Salvador for vandalizing Tesla vehicles.
"I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Maybe they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador!"
"I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Maybe they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador!"
Trump threatens to send American citizens to El Salvador prison
Authorities in Ontario, Canada claimed to have found more than 80 Tesla vehicles vandalized in a showroom, later marking the incident the the largest vandalism instance in Canada against a US-based ca...
www.irishstar.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Authoritarianism has arrived in the U.S.