Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> ofcls also detained <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> activist & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> graduate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> – a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a> holder – earlier this month in front of his pregnant wife, Noor, a US citizen. Other students detained by immigration ofcls include <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BadarSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadarSuri</span></a>, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Georgetown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgetown</span></a> University, after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> accused him of having ties to Hamas.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DualState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴<p>From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beta.mstdn.cf/users/nycsouthpaw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nycsouthpaw</span></a></span> on 🦋:</p><p>Hopefully the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> schools have more fight in them than <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a>.<br>___<br>Hashtags mine</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"And he believes that Columbia University in New York City and other colleges are making a huge mistake by capitulating to Trump rather than fighting back against his war on academia."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a><br>/10</p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"Columbia student <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> remains in the hellhole of a notoriously brutal private prison in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> for daring to speak out against the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> slaughter of Gazans.</p><p>And <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> student <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, who’s been a legal permanent resident of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> since she was 7 years old, is in hiding while her lawyers sue to prevent her arrest for also speaking up about the violence <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> is inflicting on people in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>."<br><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepp</span><span class="invisible">ed-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p>Rachel Leingang: Yale professor who studies <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> fleeing US to work in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>: Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JasonStanley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JasonStanley</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yale</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/JewishCurrents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishCurrents</span></a> | <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ColumbiaU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaU</span></a>'s surrender </p><p>"<a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PeterBeinart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterBeinart</span></a> and <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> professor <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NadiaAbuElHaj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NadiaAbuElHaj</span></a>, who also serves as the co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies, spoke just hours before this shocking development, but their conversation probes what’s been happening at Columbia and <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Barnard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barnard</span></a>, and what’s at stake—both for the study of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> / <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> and for the future of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/higherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>higherEd</span></a>." </p><p><a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/higher-ed-under-attack" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishcurrents.org/higher-ed-u</span><span class="invisible">nder-attack</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PalestineSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineSolidarity</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/StateRepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateRepression</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/StudentProstests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProstests</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>On March 24th, we learned of another student demonstrator targeted by the Trump regime for anti-genocide protest, when a junior at Columbia University, Yunseo Chung, sued numerous administration officials seeking a temporary restraining order "barring the government from detaining her based on her protected speech and in the absence of independent, legitimate grounds." Cheung, a legal permanent resident who has been living in the US since she was 7 years old, was targeted for helping set up a protest encampment on campus, handing out some fliers, and her mere participation in a sit-in at Bernard College to protest the expulsion of students who participated in the anti-genocide campus protests last year.</p><p>1) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/yunseo-chung" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/yunseo-c</span><span class="invisible">hung</span></a></p><p>Another Columbia Protester Targeted for Deportation Sues Trump</p><p>"The 21-year-old, who moved from South Korea to the United States with her family at age 7, participated in some student protests on Columbia's campus "related to Israel's military campaign in Gaza and the devastating toll it has taken on Palestinian civilians," states the complaint. "Chung has not made public statements to the press or otherwise assumed a high-profile role in these protests. She was, rather, one of a large group of college students raising, expressing, and discussing shared concerns."</p><p>Earlier this month, she was arrested by the New York Police Department at a student sit-in "to protest what she believed to be the excessive punishments meted out by the Columbia administration to student protesters facing campus disciplinary proceedings," the document details. "Mere days later... the federal government began a series of unlawful efforts to arrest, detain, and remove Ms. Chung from the country because of her protected speech."</p><p>The suit asserts that Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) "shocking actions against Ms. Chung form part of a larger pattern of attempted U.S. government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech," specifically, "university students who speak out in solidarity with Palestinians and who are critical of the Israeli government's ongoing military campaign in Gaza or the pro-Israeli policies of the U.S. government and other U.S. institutions."</p><p>Yeung, who went into hiding to avoid ICE detention as part of a regime act of blatantly unconstitutional ideological policing, was ultimately able to secure a restraining order to prevent her arrest while she continues to fight deportation attempts despite her status as a legal permanent resident.</p><p>2) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit</span></a></p><p>Student who sued Trump takes powerful stand against ‘constant dread’ of deportation threats</p><p>"On 5 March, Chung – a 21-year-old student at Columbia University – attended a sit-in to protest the expulsion of several students involved in pro-Palestinian activism at the famed New York university. Four days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents showed up at her parents’ home.</p><p>When they couldn’t find her there, Ice sought help from federal prosecutors and searched her dormitory – using a warrant that cited a criminal law against “harboring noncitizens”. They revoked her green card and accused her of posing a threat to US foreign policy interests.</p><p>On Monday, Chung sued Donald Trump and other high-ranking administrations to stop their targeting of her and other students. And on Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to halt its efforts to arrest and deport Chung, saying “nothing in the record” indicated that Chung posed a danger to the community."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CampusProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CampusProtests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>As this March 19th article from the Guardian illustrates, the Trump regime's attempts to terrorize and intimidate international students attending Columbia was immediately having the desired (fascist) effect:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/international-students-columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/19/international-students-columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil</span></a></p><p>‘I could be next’: international students at Columbia University feel ‘targeted’ after Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest</p><p>"Now, Columbia students who are not US citizens, some who have vocally supported Palestinian rights, told the Guardian they feel they must be careful who they speak to and censor what they say. They fear being questioned by Ice agents, having their visas revoked or being arrested and detained. Some feel like they are being watched while walking around Morningside Heights and on campus, while others are reluctant to visit family or friends overseas in case they are not permitted back in the country.</p><p>“When I leave my apartment, when I go out, I’m just so much more aware and cautious of who’s around me,” said Seher Ahmed, a psychology master’s student from Pakistan. “I went for a run this morning, and I’ve never felt this way before, but I felt like everyone was, like, looking at me.”</p><p>Another student who arrived at Columbia in August last year to study journalism had been inspired by student reporters’ coverage of campus protests. She photographed a vigil where journalism school students recited names of the more than 100 Palestinian and Lebanese journalists killed in Gaza. For a reporting class, the 21-year-old wrote about an anti-Trump rally on election night that called for an end to the Israel-Gaza war. She posted her work and discussed related issues on Instagram and X.</p><p>But just days away from applying for a year-long work visa that would follow her expected graduation this May, she stopped posting her opinions and made her accounts private. She is reconsidering attending a friend’s wedding overseas in case she is not allowed back in the country. “I feel like I’m being paranoid, but I’m really scared,” she said."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Soon after the regime's ICE abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, news broke that Trump's DHS had targeted two other students who had protested or spoken out online against Israel's genocide in Gaza and attended Columbia university; arresting Leqaa Kordia for overstaying her student visa, and revoking the visa of PhD candidate Ranjani Srinivasan, who ultimately self-deported (so, fled) to Canada. At roughly the same time, it was reported that DHS had executed two search warrants for rooms on the Columbia campus.</p><p>1) <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4ye5zo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4y</span><span class="invisible">e5zo</span></a></p><p>US arrests second pro-Palestinian Columbia University protester</p><p>"US immigration authorities have announced the arrest of a second activist who participated in pro-Palestinian protests last spring at Columbia University in New York City.</p><p>Leqaa Kordia, who is a Palestinian and from the West Bank, was arrested in New Jersey, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Friday.</p><p>The statement said another student, Ranjani Srinivasani, who has Indian citizenship, chose to "self-deport" by leaving the US earlier this week.</p><p>This follows the arrest of Columbia campus activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday in New York before being flown to a jail in Louisiana."</p><p>2) <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/27/columbia-let-me-down-how-indian-scholar-expelled-by-trump-fled-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/</span><span class="invisible">27/columbia-let-me-down-how-indian-scholar-expelled-by-trump-fled-the-us</span></a></p><p>‘Columbia let me down’: How Indian scholar expelled by Trump fled the US</p><p>"It was the start of 10 days of confusion and fear for Srinivasan that culminated in her name and grainy airport camera image making global headlines after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused her of being a “terrorist sympathiser” on X.</p><p>By then, Srinivasan was in Canada, staying with friends and family, having flown out of New York on March 11, four days before Noem’s post, after concluding that she could be arrested – even though the US government has still not made clear whether she is accused of any crime. She rejects the suggestion that she is supportive of terrorists, but assumes her visa was revoked because of online support for Palestine as Israel’s brutal war on Gaza continues."</p><p>3) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/homeland-security-search-columbia-students" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/14/homeland-security-search-columbia-students</span></a></p><p>Homeland security agents search two Columbia University students’ rooms</p><p>"Agents from the Department of Homeland Security conducted searches in two Columbia University students’ rooms on Thursday night, marking the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on some American universities.</p><p>Also marking that escalation: Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, said on Friday that the federal justice department would examine whether last year’s student protests at Columbia over Israel’s military strikes on Gaza violated terrorism laws. Blanche also said the justice department would examine whether Columbia’s handling of the demonstrations violated civil rights law as Donald Trump’s White House follows through on its self-stated “mission to end antisemitism in this country”.</p><p>The university’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, addressed the school community in a statement, saying she was “heartbroken” to inform them that “there were federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences” on Thursday night.</p><p>Armstrong confirmed that no arrests were made, no items were removed and no further action was taken at the private Ivy League college in New York."</p><p>Please not that while Kordia's student visa had indeed expired, and the warrants executed at the Columbia residences were signed by a judge, the larger pattern of using DHS, ICE, and the regime's immigration powers to suppress civil rights, terrorize the students of Columbia, and target international students protesting a US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, was already quite obvious by this point; a fact that the Trump administration didn't deny, but instead bragged about. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CampusProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CampusProtests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LeqaaKordia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeqaaKordia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RanjaniSrinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RanjaniSrinivasan</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Student Workers of Columbia - UAW Local 2710</p><p>🪧 Join UAW locals for a rally as we stand up to defend against this unprecedented attack on our university, and on civil rights everywhere.</p><p>📍12 pm rally at Low Steps<br>📍1 pm community rally and press conference at Earl Gate (near 116th and Broadway)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/educationworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>educationworkers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labormovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labormovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Interview: Columbia is Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom note"</p><p>Trump's demands include banning face masks, power to arrest students, & appointing an overseer of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African & Palestine Studies.</p><p>“We have no idea what comes next, but groveling before a bully, we all know, just encourages the bully."</p><p>~Katherine Franke, former professor at Columbia Law School.</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/24/katherine_franke_columbia_university" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/24/kat</span><span class="invisible">herine_franke_columbia_university</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/studentprotests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>studentprotests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> .</p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AxXvPpDe2I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=6AxXvPpDe2</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Valedictorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Valedictorian</span></a> HUNTED by <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> for ...wait for it... criticising <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ApartheidIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApartheidIsrael</span></a> 🚨 </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> student <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> is a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old. after participating in pro-Palestinian demostrations, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> agents visited residences looking for her. </p><p>HEY! THIS IS NOT NORMAL!</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/STOPDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STOPDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FascistUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistUSA</span></a></p>
oatmeal<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> / ICE targets immigrant students of color over pro-Palestine protests</p><p>Immigration authorities are detaining and threatening deportation of non-white student activists while leaving white protesters largely untouched. Legal experts call this unprecedented attack on First Amendment rights a "warning for students of color." At least five academics face deportation, including a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> student now in hiding and a Palestinian activist detained in Louisiana. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trmp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trmp</span></a> administration justifies these actions as national security measures, while universities that once claimed to protect free speech are "buckling under pressure."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/us-universities-students-israel-palestine-protests" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/26/us-universities-students-israel-palestine-protests</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USfascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USfascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trumpism</span></a></p>
Blast Info<p>[Article] L’étrange défaite des universités américaines</p><p>Le vendredi 21 mars – soit deux semaines après la détention par les autorités migratoires de Mahmoud Khalil, un étudiant palestinien originaire d’un camp de réfugiés en Syrie ; une semaine après la fuite au Canada de Ranjani Srinivasan, une étudiante de troisième cycle indienne qui voulait éviter…<br><a href="https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2025/letrange-defaite-des-universites-americaines-UXUozFEVTMyFzUtflUC9kg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">blast-info.fr/articles/2025/le</span><span class="invisible">trange-defaite-des-universites-americaines-UXUozFEVTMyFzUtflUC9kg</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a></p>
anelki<p>hot take:</p><p>rolling over to please fascist bullies is a bad idea and never works.</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/sGahL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/sGahL</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Good news (for now)</p><p>Judge Orders <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> to Stop Attempts to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deport</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> Undergrad</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin had been seeking to arrest & deport <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, who immigrated from South Korea as a child & is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a> holder, after she participated in a pro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> sit-in.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5C6C987B-9585-4051-BA86-E26F1D77E60C" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5C6C987B-9585-4051-BA86-E26F1D77E60C</span></a></p>
aadmaa<p>Charlie Eaton's piece today - gift link -- this is the way. We don't have to roll over and play dead. Students, faculty: demand THIS.</p><p>"Top universities must instead exercise the financial independence afforded by their endowments, which are commonly valued in the tens of billions. Their leaders should collectively declare they will not suppress lawful free speech, diversity programs or campus research to appease any president. The wealthiest universities, in particular, must pledge to use all available endowment funds as a backstop for any federal funding cuts to research, educational programs or student financial aid at their schools, barring any donor restrictions. Endowments could even fund legal defense for students and scholars who are threatened with deportation."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/trump-university-endowment-spending.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k4.2fyI.xK7bfka_rP3S&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-university-endowment-spending.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k4.2fyI.xK7bfka_rP3S&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>columbia</span></a></p>
Scott Campbell<p>Rashid Khalidi shares thoughts on his employer: </p><p>"Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson"</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/does-columbia-merit-the-name-of-university" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/25/does-columbia-merit-the-name-of-university</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Interview: Columbia is Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom note"</p><p>Trump's demands include banning face masks, power to arrest students, & appointing an overseer of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African & Palestine Studies.</p><p>“We have no idea what comes next, but groveling before a bully, we all know, just encourages the bully."</p><p>~Katherine Franke, former professor at Columbia Law School.</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/24/katherine_franke_columbia_university" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/24/kat</span><span class="invisible">herine_franke_columbia_university</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/studentprotests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>studentprotests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> .</p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Surrendering to Authoritarianism”</p><p>by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack </p><p>“Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/surrendering-to-authoritarianism?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/chrished</span><span class="invisible">ges/p/surrendering-to-authoritarianism?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Autocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocrats</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Surrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surrender</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Princeton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Princeton</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yale</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indoctrination</span></a></p>
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