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Sarah A. Fox
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Historian, folklorist, author of Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West. Working on a new project about waste plumes. Settler on Duwamish land, antizionist descendant of the Jewish diaspora. #FreePalestine
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On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.
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Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
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I'm going one by one, BUT if you know anything let me know!

We're gonna open up to volunteers for research and curation soon, promise. I'm just working on the data model right now with @moacir.com and @lindsaythomas.net and there's no better way to do a model than fighting data points 1 by 1.
Universities where we know visas have been revoked, but where don’t know the exact numbers:

Babson College
Boston University
Brown University
California State University, Sacramento
Campbellsville University
George Washington University
Illinois State University
Indiana University Bloomington
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Can anyone match my 10$ donation to this worthy fundraiser?

#letPalestinelive
It would be great if academic bsky chipped in to help our colleague and her kids facing apocalyptic conditions!!!

tinyurl.com/HelpZiadJulia cc #AcademicChatter 🧪
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maybe we start clicker-training dems. give them a little treat any time someone says the word impeach and just see how long it takes
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RIP my mentions but it’s so fascinating how the “you Palestine movement people cost Harris the election” crowd never ever talks about how undecided voters don’t seem to have been especially impressed by a leadership that spent billions on genocide while the cost of housing went through the roof
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Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation
Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate’s release
www.theguardian.com
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This is incredibly bad. What the IRS would be saying to millions of people, if they cave to Trump’s extraordinary demands, is “don’t file your taxes, because if you do, we’ll use it against you.”

It would undermine and blow up generations of trust-building. It’s madness.
🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
www.washingtonpost.com
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It doesn't take much to fund a humanities scholar's research, yet even that has ended.
If the rumored gutting of the NEH is indeed happening (and I wouldn’t be surprised- it felt inevitable in the last few weeks) it will mean that an already deeply inadequate funding situation for the humanities will become reduced to almost nothing
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This has been a discussion among many of us for years now. Funding for Humanities was already grossly inadequate; we never had anything to compare to the NSF and NIH. We had a little from NEH, a little from ACLS, but most of us were producing our scholarship with next to no resources. 1/2
If the rumored gutting of the NEH is indeed happening (and I wouldn’t be surprised- it felt inevitable in the last few weeks) it will mean that an already deeply inadequate funding situation for the humanities will become reduced to almost nothing
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We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has now recovered the bodies of 14 Gaza health workers. Five Civil Defense personnel and one UN employee were among the 14 bodies, PRCS said.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/fe7ehn
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Just €35 towards this short goal so far. Please share if you can see this and consider matching my €10 (even with a 5)

tiny.cc/HelpAkram
For 48 hours, our drive is to help the Abdelwahed family survive.

These siblings need our help to eat. Goods are being marked up every day and disappearing—Sarah has been without lupus care for a year & nutrition is essential.

Our short goal is €319. Match my 10? tiny.cc/HelpAkram
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Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza — and Western media’s silence enables it.

On March 24, Israel killed two more reporters: Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour.

This isn’t “crossfire.” This is a kill list. 🧵