@priyankam.bsky.social
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To be clear, the President has been summarily executing suspected members of “cartels” on his say-so, on the basis of a secret legal memo from Bondi’s DOJ.
Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
To be clear, the President has been summarily executing suspected members of “cartels” on his say-so, on the basis of a secret legal memo from Bondi’s DOJ.
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“We took the freedom of speech away”
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“We took the freedom of speech away”
That's because these were never good faith critiques.
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
That's because these were never good faith critiques.
Klein's argument here seems to be radical acceptance of the status quo, without meaningful vision for change. Is the real question to be asking here: what is the society we live in?
Or is it what is the society we want to live in? For our children to grow up in?
Or is it what is the society we want to live in? For our children to grow up in?
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Klein's argument here seems to be radical acceptance of the status quo, without meaningful vision for change. Is the real question to be asking here: what is the society we live in?
Or is it what is the society we want to live in? For our children to grow up in?
Or is it what is the society we want to live in? For our children to grow up in?
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To say that immigrants don't have the right to speak is also to say that the rest of us don't have the right to hear what they have to say. Trump is curtailing the First Amendment rights of citizens, not just of immigrants. (Not that crushing immigrants' rights isn't a terrible thing in itself!)
pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...
State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.
www.axios.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
To say that immigrants don't have the right to speak is also to say that the rest of us don't have the right to hear what they have to say. Trump is curtailing the First Amendment rights of citizens, not just of immigrants. (Not that crushing immigrants' rights isn't a terrible thing in itself!)
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Now @justsecurity.org
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
www.justsecurity.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Now @justsecurity.org
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Yep.
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Yep.
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If you're curious
It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.
"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...
www.niemanlab.org
June 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If you're curious
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Incredible but true--the universities haven't made any joint statement. 80 institutions did join an important brief last week in support of the plaintiffs in AAUP v. Rubio, but the country's largest universities weren't among the signatories. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
April 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Incredible but true--the universities haven't made any joint statement. 80 institutions did join an important brief last week in support of the plaintiffs in AAUP v. Rubio, but the country's largest universities weren't among the signatories. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson told The Daily.
U.S. government terminates “limited number” of NU student visas
Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson confirmed to The Daily. The spokesperson said the Univers...
dailynorthwestern.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson told The Daily.
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Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...
April 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...
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Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber is right in the money about this moment. We need more of this thinking and action from our leadership
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber is right in the money about this moment. We need more of this thinking and action from our leadership
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
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So proud of my colleagues at the clinic for standing up to the fascist attacks on the rule of law and freedom of speech
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69866...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69866...
Bedi v. The United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce, 1:25-cv-03837 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Bedi v. The United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce, 1:25-cv-03837 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality ...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So proud of my colleagues at the clinic for standing up to the fascist attacks on the rule of law and freedom of speech
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69866...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69866...
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I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Universities have to recognize that these actions pose an existential threat. They need to make clear, through action, that they won’t sit on the sidelines as the Trump administration terrorizes students and faculty alike and runs roughshod over individual rights and the rule of law.
March 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Universities have to recognize that these actions pose an existential threat. They need to make clear, through action, that they won’t sit on the sidelines as the Trump administration terrorizes students and faculty alike and runs roughshod over individual rights and the rule of law.
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Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/
March 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/
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None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
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BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...
www.eff.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.