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Sahar Aziz
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Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School | Author of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” | Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) | Host, The Race and Rights Podcast | Views my own .. more

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Sahar F. Aziz is a professor of law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School. She is the founding director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights. Her book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom explains why Muslims experience discrimination that mirrors racism against racial minorities rather than religious freedom. .. more

Political science 55%
Sociology 27%
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Obama: "The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous ... the sort of behavior that we've seen in authoritarian countries and we've seen in dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Sahar F. Aziz, Olivier Mannoni

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1d
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies
The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.
www.chicagotribune.com

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 5d
On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries
On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries
Many people optimistically assume that popular revolutions against dictators will automatically establish democratic governments
dlvr.it

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 6d
NEW: House Democrats blasted both the MEGA and SAVE Acts — suppressive measures seeking to impose strict voter ID requirements to register to vote and cast a ballot — calling the proposals “the Trump election takeover bills.”

House Republicans are rushing to deliver the measures this week.
House Republicans further voter ID bills that would disenfranchise millions
“All these bills have the same outcome. They are the Trump election takeover bills,” Morelle said.
www.democracydocket.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com

Reposted by Sahar F. Aziz, Timothy D. McBride

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17d
At this point, is it just easier and quicker to publish lists of which powerful people do NOT appear in the Epstein files?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17d
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17d
Portland, Maine

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17d
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

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Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social · 22d
The term “domestic terrorist” has become a political rhetorical tool, not a term based in the facts and a legal definition.
mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

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Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social · 22d
Evidence of Cold blooded murder by government hired thugs. Reminds me of what we saw in the Arab Spring when Middle East dictators repressed nonviolent protests. Trump is our dictator.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22d
They counted the bullet holes instead of performing CPR

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d
Klobuchar: "When they're killing 2 constituents in my state, and they're taking 2 year olds our of the arms of their mom, and they're taking an elder Hmong man out of his house & putting him out there in his underwear & then figuring out the have the wrong man -- no, I'm not voting for this funding"

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Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social · 22d
Kash Patel is about to learn more about the power of the @thenrao.bsky.social
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Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22d
They counted the bullet holes instead of performing CPR

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22d
It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22d
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23d
So far in Minnesota

They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school.

Then Ice kidnapped a five year old.

Then ice kidnapped a two year old

Then border patrol murdered Va nurse.

Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23d
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23d
In this video, it appears Alex Pretti is trying to protect another protester from being assaulted by federal agents when he is sprayed in the face with some kind of substance and then shot to death:

www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...
From the minnesota community on Reddit: Another closer angle showing him trying to protect other protesters
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 23d
It is far beyond time to start charging ICE goon with assault and tossing them in jail for their attacks on peaceful Americans.
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Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters (Gift Article)
For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.
www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24d
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com