Mark D
@drurydrury.bsky.social
anthro, surveillance, hr, pol conflict, decol Maghrib | member - Intl Academic Observatory on Western Sahara | cats
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
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ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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We're closing in on having a trillionaire and the government remains shut down and food assistance is being withheld largely because it might result in public details about our current president's connection to a sex trafficker. Did I miss any of the high points?
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We're closing in on having a trillionaire and the government remains shut down and food assistance is being withheld largely because it might result in public details about our current president's connection to a sex trafficker. Did I miss any of the high points?
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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📌 New study shows the #EU’s legal ambiguity over occupied #WesternSahara is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for the #Saharawi people, as their rights continue to be ignored in EU‐Morocco agreements despite mounting legal precedents.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows
The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the no...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📌 New study shows the #EU’s legal ambiguity over occupied #WesternSahara is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for the #Saharawi people, as their rights continue to be ignored in EU‐Morocco agreements despite mounting legal precedents.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
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Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.
They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.
They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.
October 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.
They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.
They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.
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My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.
Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.
This is not okay.
Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.
This is not okay.
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.
Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.
This is not okay.
Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.
This is not okay.
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Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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christian zionists not only outnumber jewish ones 10 to 1, theyre a hell of a lot more powerful in the US right now
Important line in the story, of the US president: "...[H]is pro-Israel message sometimes appears aimed more at his conservative and evangelical Christian supporters than at American Jews, who he has complained are insufficiently appreciative of his positions on the Middle East."
wapo.st/42q0h5z
wapo.st/42q0h5z
Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
wapo.st
October 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
christian zionists not only outnumber jewish ones 10 to 1, theyre a hell of a lot more powerful in the US right now
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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They just can’t absorb the fact that we’ve already heard their ideas, considered them well in the scope of history, and determined that they’re bad. Bringing in reactionary speakers would be like bringing in a phlogiston theorist to a physics class, or a flat-earther to a geography class.
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
They just can’t absorb the fact that we’ve already heard their ideas, considered them well in the scope of history, and determined that they’re bad. Bringing in reactionary speakers would be like bringing in a phlogiston theorist to a physics class, or a flat-earther to a geography class.
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Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water.
These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.
They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.
They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water.
These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.
They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.
They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
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‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,’ says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.
US vetoes UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire demand for sixth time
‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,’ says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,’ says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.
Jurors acquit anti-ICE protester accused of assaulting federal officer in Paramount
Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first of immigration protestors to go to trial in Los Angeles federal court.
www.dailynews.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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Jay Jacob’s is a big part of the reason the Republicans hold the house. His resignation would be a blessing to the nation and the world
September 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Jay Jacob’s is a big part of the reason the Republicans hold the house. His resignation would be a blessing to the nation and the world
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200,000 Palestinians wounded or killed *so far* in the Gaza by an Israeli military exercising no legal restraint. This is an Israeli general admitting this. How anyone can justify this genocidal rampage is beyond me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
200,000 Palestinians wounded or killed *so far* in the Gaza by an Israeli military exercising no legal restraint. This is an Israeli general admitting this. How anyone can justify this genocidal rampage is beyond me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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god i wish this guy could be president
EXCLUSIVE: New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is calling on FIFA to end dynamic pricing on World Cup tickets.
His petition “Game Over Greed” also demands that FIFA reinstates a cap on ticket resales and sets aside 15 percent of tickets for local residents at a discount.
His petition “Game Over Greed” also demands that FIFA reinstates a cap on ticket resales and sets aside 15 percent of tickets for local residents at a discount.
September 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
god i wish this guy could be president
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the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
September 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...