DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@dmacphee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dmacphee</span></a></span> From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawrenceBritt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawrenceBritt</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <br>"11. Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a><br> Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/</span><span class="invisible">110832318168556366</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversityStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversityStudents</span></a> Chain Themselves to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> Fence to Protest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Khalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Khalil</span></a> Detention</p><p>"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a>, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a> in the world," said one <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protester</span></a>.</p><p>by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025</p><p>"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.</p><p>"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/columbia</span><span class="invisible">-student-protests</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlirezaDoroudi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlirezaDoroudi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KseniyaPetrova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KseniyaPetrova</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disappeared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disappeared</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MemoryHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MemoryHole</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishVoicesForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoicesForPeace</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Private groups work to identify and report <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> for possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a></p><p>“Now they’re using tools of the state to actually go after people,” said a Columbia graduate student from South Asia who has been active in protests and spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing her visa. “We suddenly feel like we’re being forced to think about our survival.”</p><p>By ADAM GELLER, March 29, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online.</p><p>"'Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!' a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a> tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.</p><p>"She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> marches at U.S. colleges. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWingJewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWingJewish</span></a> group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in 'pro-jihadist' protests. </p><p>"Other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-forei</span><span class="invisible">gn-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked</p><p>Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning</p><p>By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025</p><p>"Secretary of State <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a>, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a>.</p><p>"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholars</span></a> have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a>, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.</p><p>"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders. </p><p>"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation. </p><p>"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> and were suspended, expelled or jailed.</p><p>"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and to assemble, experts and advocates said."</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump</span><span class="invisible">-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Clampdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clampdown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToAssemble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToAssemble</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Got Warrants Under “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalsePretenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalsePretenses</span></a>,” Claims <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaStudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaStudent</span></a> Targeted Over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a></p><p>The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.</p><p>by Shawn Musgrave, March 28 2025</p><p>"Earlier this month, while hunting for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> students to deport over their ties to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> protests, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration convinced a federal judge to sign off on search warrants for two students’ dorm rooms — then raided the residences with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. </p><p>"As details about the warrants have emerged, however, so have allegations that federal agents misled the court and secured the warrants under 'false pretenses,' as one of the students whose room was searched, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, claimed in a lawsuit challenging her deportation. </p><p>"The warrants were predicated on probable cause that Columbia was 'harboring' students who were in the country illegally, court filings indicate. Chung, however, is a lawful permanent resident, notwithstanding the Trump administration’s efforts to deport her based on her arrest and citation at a Gaza sit-in. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old.</p><p>"'The basis for this entire operation is constitutionally invalid.'</p><p>"'The idea that they went before a federal magistrate judge and said, ‘We have to search Ms. Chung’s residence for evidence of Columbia harboring her’ — that shows they’re willing to lie to a judge,' said Nathan Yaffe, an immigration attorney.</p><p>"Yaffe represents both Chung and the other Columbia student who was targeted by the search warrants, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RanjaniSrinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RanjaniSrinivasan</span></a>, who left the country in mid-March.</p><p>"Most of the materials relating to the search warrants remain under seal in federal court, and Columbia declined to comment on them, citing student privacy protections. ICE did not respond to The Intercept’s questions about the warrants.</p><p>"'If the government falsified information to get the warrant, that is its own bundle of serious problems,' said Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, an attorney at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsFirst</span></a> who also represents Chung. 'But even if not, the basis for this entire operation is constitutionally invalid.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ice-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/ruFDs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/ruFDs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisconsin</span></a>: What to know about April's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterID</span></a> ballot referendum</p><p>By: Emilee Fannon, Mar 27, 2025 </p><p>MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- "Voters will not only have to present a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PhotoID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhotoID</span></a> to vote on April 1, but they'll also be asked about adding that requirement to the state constitution.</p><p>"It's part of a constitutional amendment that will appear on ballots across the state.</p><p>"The ballot referendum asks voters, 'shall section 1m of article III of the constitution be created to require that voters present valid photographic identification verifying their identity in order to vote in any election, subject to exceptions which may be established by law?'</p><p>"A 'yes' vote would enshrine Wisconsin's voter requirement in the state constitution, a move that would make it harder for a court to strike down the law or for lawmakers to repeal.</p><p>"Voting 'no' would not add the state's voter ID law to the constitution.</p><p>"If the ballot measure is approved or rejected, little would change for Wisconsin voters because the existing photo ID law has been on the books for nearly a decade, said Bryna Godar at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.</p><p>"However, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> lawmakers who authored the amendment say it's designed to protect the law from legal challenges in wake of the state Supreme Court gaining a 4-3 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiberalMajority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiberalMajority</span></a> in 2023."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.cbs58.com/news/what-to-know-about-aprils-voter-id-ballot-referendum" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbs58.com/news/what-to-know-ab</span><span class="invisible">out-aprils-voter-id-ballot-referendum</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WisconsinPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WisconsinPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsPutinsPuppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsPutinsPuppet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a><br>Are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTests</span></a> Next? <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> seeks to mandate proof of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterRegistration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterRegistration</span></a></p><p>"Only about half of Americans have a U.S. passport, and only five states currently offer enhanced driver's licenses that show proof of citizenship."</p><p>By Jude Joffe-Block, March 26, 20251:09 AM ET</p><p>Excerpt: "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> advocates, however, warn outdated databases can erroneously list naturalized citizens as noncitizens. Past efforts by states to purge noncitizens from voter rolls have sometimes swept up eligible U.S. citizens.</p><p>"The executive order also seeks to stop states from counting mail or absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after by withholding funding from states that allow such ballots to be counted.</p><p>"Proof of citizenship requirement</p><p>"Ahead of the 2024 election, Trump and his allies made baseless claims about the threat of noncitizens voting in large numbers.</p><p>"The current federal voter registration form asks registrants to swear, under penalty of perjury, that they are U.S. citizens and eligible to vote, and to provide a driver's license number, state ID number or Social Security number. Those who attempt to vote illegally can face prison time, fines or deportation. Past audits and studies have shown such cases are incredibly rare.</p><p>"Yet Republicans have made requiring documentary proof of citizenship a policy priority. The executive order borrows heavily from the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SAVEAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SAVEAct</span></a>, a Republican-backed bill. House Republicans have signaled that they intend to pass it in their chamber but it faces difficult odds in the Senate.</p><p>"The executive order shows <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> isn't waiting for Congress. But legal experts say that he does not have the authority through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> to make such changes, and the order conflicts with existing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalVotingLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalVotingLaw</span></a>.</p><p>"'It's illegal at many different levels,' said Sean Morales-Doyle, the voting rights director at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrennanCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrennanCenter</span></a> for Justice, a nonprofit that studies and advocates for voting rights. The order directs the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectionAssistanceCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionAssistanceCommission</span></a>, a small, independent bipartisan agency, to make various changes, including to the federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterRegistration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterRegistration</span></a> form, but Morales-Doyle said the president can't tell that commission what to do.</p><p>"Requiring documentary proof of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> would radically upend voter registration if such a mandate were to take effect.</p><p>"The order is explicit that applies to anyone who uses the federal voter registration form. What is less clear is if the order would also pressure states to require showing proof of citizenship with state registration forms, such as by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WithholdingFunds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WithholdingFunds</span></a>.</p><p>"The order only lists a limited number of ways to prove U.S. citizenship. The options given are a U.S. passport, an ID that complies with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RealIDAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RealIDAct</span></a> that shows citizenship or a military ID that shows citizenship. A fourth option is a valid government photo ID that 'indicates that the applicant is a United States citizen or if such identification is otherwise accompanied by proof of United States citizenship,' but does not say if a birth certificate would count."<br> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/g-s1-55927/trump-voting-citizenship-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/03/26/g-s1-55927/</span><span class="invisible">trump-voting-citizenship-executive-order</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsABully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsABully</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsPutinsPuppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsPutinsPuppet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DictatorInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictatorInChief</span></a> <br>Are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTests</span></a> Next? <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawrenceBritt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawrenceBritt</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p><p>11. Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a><br> "Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/</span><span class="invisible">110832318168556366</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UniversityOfToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfToronto</span></a> hires three prominent Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/professors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professors</span></a> worried about Trump </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> scholar <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JasonStanley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JasonStanley</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historians</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarciShore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarciShore</span></a> have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration</p><p>by Allison Smith, Mar 26, 2025</p><p>"U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection has spurred several high-profile Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/professors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professors</span></a> to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto. </p><p>"Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.</p><p>"Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy this fall. </p><p>"Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT 'for the long-term.' </p><p>"Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OnTyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnTyranny</span></a> and The Road to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Unfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unfreedom</span></a>, and an outspoken critic of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration. </p><p>"UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, Shore said, 'and we were seriously considering the offers long before the November 2024 presidential elections.'</p><p>"'Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves, even bracketing the American descent into fascism,' she said in an email.</p><p>"'All that said, yes, of course our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCatastrophe</span></a> played a role in our final decision.'"</p><p>Rea more:<br><a href="https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/education/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">torontotoday.ca/local/educatio</span><span class="invisible">n/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UofT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UofT</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PineAndRoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PineAndRoses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewEngland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a> protests <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a></p><p>Posted by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDSA</span></a> and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025 </p><p>"Last week, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineCoalitionForPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineCoalitionForPalestine</span></a> organized a protest of ICE detention of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> student leader <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a>. Since then, ICE has operated as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Administration’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SecretPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecretPolice</span></a>, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and protesting the U.S.-sponsored <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. The list includes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RanjaniSrinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RanjaniSrinivasan</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmworker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farmworker</span></a> organizer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlfredoJuarezZerefino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredoJuarezZerefino</span></a>. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesPelletier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesPelletier</span></a> spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.</p><p>New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk</p><p>"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts. </p><p>"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> in Massachusetts, as well as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doxxing</span></a> of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a>. </p><p>"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalActivists</span></a> or undocumented <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> seeking safety, jobs, and a better life. </p><p>"We must stand up against this brazen attack on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a>, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a>.</p><p>"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a>. </p><p>"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights. </p><p>In Solidarity,</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BerkshiresDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BerkshiresDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonUniversityYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonUniversityYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeCodDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapeCodDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConnecticutDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConnecticutDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NortheasternYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NortheasternYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverValleyDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverValleyDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SimmonsYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimmonsYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernNewHampshireDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernNewHampshireDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UpperValleyDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UpperValleyDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorcesterDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorcesterDSA</span></a>"</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pineandroses.org/news/new-engl</span><span class="invisible">and-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>District13</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13Resists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>District13Resists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurReich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawrenceBritt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawrenceBritt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> Numbers 1 and 11...</p><p>1. Powerful and Continuing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nationalism</span></a><br> Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/patriotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patriotic</span></a> mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Flags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flags</span></a> are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.</p><p>11. Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a><br> Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.</p><p>Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums</p><p>by Max Matza, 3/27/2025</p><p>"US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.</p><p>"The order directs the vice-president to 'eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology' from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.</p><p>"It also directs the interior secretary to restore federal properties, including parks, memorials and statues, which 'have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history'.</p><p>"The move is part of Trump's effort to shape American culture, in addition to politics."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmv</span><span class="invisible">vwzo</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration targets <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> again, this time on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> policy in schools </p><p>The U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepartmentOfEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentOfEducation</span></a>. which Trump wants to abolish, is investigating whether dozens of Maine school districts are violating or misusing federal privacy laws and infringing on parents’ rights.<br> <br>by Eric Russell, March 28, 2025</p><p>"The Trump administration is once again targeting Maine over its policies on transgender youth.</p><p>"The U.S. Department of Education – an agency the president is trying to abolish – announced Friday it has initiated an investigation into Maine’s Department of Education over allegations that school districts in the state are violating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FERPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FERPA</span></a>).</p><p>"Specifically, the federal agency says school districts are allowing officials to create 'gender plans' that support a transgender student’s identity but then not making those plans available to parents. </p><p>"A similar investigation was launched in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> this week.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Schools in Maine have been caught in a legal gray area between respecting student privacy and parents’ rights to be informed when it comes to children’s expression of gender identity while at school. Many youth live in families whose members might not be supportive of their gender identity.</p><p>"The Trump administration already has been investigating Maine for allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransgenderAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderAthletes</span></a> to compete, something that is allowed under the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineHumanRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineHumanRightsAct</span></a> but defies an executive order the president signed in February. This month, the administration found that Maine violated the federal law known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TitleIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TitleIX</span></a> and warned that if the state didn’t make changes, it would risk referral to the U.S. Department of Justice and the potential loss of tens of millions of dollars in federal funding. </p><p>"The announcement from the U.S. Department of Education this week also warns that if any Maine district is found in violation of the federal privacy act, it could lose federal funding. It’s unclear how that will play out, though, because Trump is trying to eliminate the education department at the federal level. </p><p>"A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education did not immediately respond Friday to questions about the investigation. A spokesperson for the Maine Attorney General’s Office declined to comment.</p><p>"Trump and his supporters have elevated transgender rights as the biggest battle in the country’s culture war and believe their messaging is a political winner, even beyond traditional party lines.</p><p>"In addition to his executive order barring transgender girls or women from competing in athletics, Trump signed another that says the federal government would only recognize two genders, male and female, a move some advocates said was designed to erase transgender individuals from existence.</p><p>"Many states, Maine included, have strong protections for transgender individuals."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/28/trump-administration-targets-maine-again-this-time-on-transgender-policy-in-schools/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressherald.com/2025/03/28/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-administration-targets-maine-again-this-time-on-transgender-policy-in-schools/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.md/b6gpf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/b6gpf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MainePol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineResists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTransYouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTransYouth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsABully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsABully</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> detains grad student who advocated for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> and the "humanity of all people" </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, a student at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TuftsUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftsUniversity</span></a>, drew the attention of a pro-Israel group for co-authoring an op-ed<br> <br>By Charles R. Davis<br>Published March 26, 2025 10:01AM Updated March 26, 2025 5:27PM (EDT)</p><p>"The Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for 'the equal dignity and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> of all people,' including Palestinians.</p><p>"Rumeysa Ozturk, a native of Turkey, was 'ambushed' late Tuesday outside her apartment, according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe. Neighbors had seen agents in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnmarkedCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnmarkedCars</span></a> monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.</p><p>"'Her arrest comes after the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a> flagged Ozturk for having 'engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024.'"<br> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detai</span><span class="invisible">ns-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonMA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@ryansingel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ryansingel</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetentionClause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndefiniteDetentionClause</span></a> -- tools that were put in place before Cheeto.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> 14. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FraudulentElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FraudulentElections</span></a><br> Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmearCampaigns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmearCampaigns</span></a> against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> </p><p> By ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, March 25, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.</p><p>"The order says the U.S. has failed 'to enforce basic and necessary election protections' and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to pull federal funding from states where election officials don’t comply."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/voting-elec</span><span class="invisible">tions-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BullyInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BullyInChief</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectionBarriers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionBarriers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransgenderRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderRights</span></a> rollbacks prompt allies to adjust travel warnings</p><p>by Avery Lotz, March 23, 2025</p><p>"Several European countries have adjusted travel guidelines for citizens seeking to enter the U.S. as the Trump administration has implemented several rollbacks on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> rights.</p><p>"The big picture: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denmark</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> urged cautionary planning for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> travelers seeking to enter the U.S. following an executive order requiring the federal government to recognize only two sexes: male and female.</p><p> - The advisory changes come as citizens from several European countries and beyond have been detained by U.S. immigration authorities over issues with travel visas. </p><p>[...] </p><p>"The Trump administration has made rolling back rights for transgender Americans a key priority of its early days in office, targeting military service, gender-affirming care, sports participation, federal recognition and other aspects of everyday life.</p><p> - References to trans Americans — and other minority groups — have been wiped across federal websites.<br> - However, many of the administration's measures have hit legal barriers in court."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/allies-issue-usa-travel-guidlines-transgender?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2025/03/23/allies-is</span><span class="invisible">sue-usa-travel-guidlines-transgender?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>American Association of University Professors [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AAUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AAUP</span></a>] v. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rubio</span></a></p><p>A case challenging the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration’s policy of ideological deportation.</p><p>"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYU</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rutgers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rutgers</span></a> campus chapters, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiddleEastStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEastStudies</span></a> Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.</p><p>"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> advocacy, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a>, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a>, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.</p><p>"The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."</p><p>Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.</p><p>Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).</p><p><a href="https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-</span><span class="invisible">v-rubio</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AAUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AAUP</span></a>, Allies Sue over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Students</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Faculty</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawfulSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawfulSpeech</span></a></p><p>"The national AAUP; chapters at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rutgers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rutgers</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYU</span></a>; and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiddleEastStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEastStudies</span></a> Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> and other protected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> activities. </p><p>"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AhilanArulanantham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AhilanArulanantham</span></a>, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.</p><p>"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association. </p><p>"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> and intense fear on university <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/campuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>campuses</span></a>, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'</p><p>"'The Trump administration is going after international <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholars</span></a> and students who speak their minds about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> or who provide <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderAffirming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderAffirming</span></a> health care or who research <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson. </p><p>"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JameelJaffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JameelJaffer</span></a>, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-</span><span class="invisible">over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Like I said before, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> will use ANY excuse to withhold funding. And he has NOT restored <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a>'s funding yet, despite their caving to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BullyInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BullyInChief</span></a>'s demands! Today, it's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransgenderAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderAthletes</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protestors</span></a>. Tomorrow it will be...? The capitulation has to stop NOW!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> Confronts a Watershed Moment at Columbia, and the Right Revels </p><p>Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.</p><p>"The end is not clear. Columbia’s moves on Friday — revealed in a letter to the campus from the interim president, Dr. Katrina A. Armstrong — were essentially an opening bid in negotiations with the federal government to let the $400 million flow again. But the Trump administration has not publicly said what other concessions it might seek from Columbia or the dozens of other universities, from Hawaii to Harvard, that it has started to scrutinize since taking power on Jan. 20."</p><p>by Troy Closson, Alan Blinder and Katherine Rosman, March 22, 2025</p><p>"Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university.</p><p>"Columbia University’s concession on Friday to a roster of government demands as it sought to restore about $400 million in federal funding is being widely viewed as a watershed in Washington’s relationships with the nation’s colleges.</p><p>"By design, the consequences will be felt immediately on Columbia’s campus, where, for example, some security personnel will soon have arrest powers and an academic department that had drawn conservative scrutiny is expected to face stringent oversight. But they also stand to shape colleges far from Manhattan. </p><p>"'Columbia is folding and the other universities will follow suit,' Christopher Rufo, an activist and senior fellow at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManhattanInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanInstitute</span></a>, a conservative think tank, wrote on social media after the university’s announcement on Friday."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Many worry that the administration’s pursuit of Columbia was a test drive — a way to gauge public reaction, assess the prospects of legal pushback and develop a precedent. On Wednesday, the administration seemed to bring another test case, saying it would withhold about $175 million from Penn because the university had allowed an openly transgender woman on its women’s swim team in 2022."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/nyregion/columbia-trump-concessions-watershed.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/22/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/columbia-trump-concessions-watershed.html</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/xQeLn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/xQeLn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingUsDown</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> student sues <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration over threatened deportation</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old </p><p>Mar 24, 2025 </p><p>"A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed.</p><p>"Yunseo Chung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was seven, but her legal team was informed two weeks ago that her lawful permanent resident status was being revoked, according to the court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.</p><p>"The Trump administration says her U.S. presence hinders its foreign policy agenda, according to the lawsuit. Chung has not yet been arrested. Immigration agents have made multiple visits to her residences looking for her."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/columbia-student-deportation-trump-lawsuit-1.7492419" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/world/columbia-stu</span><span class="invisible">dent-deportation-trump-lawsuit-1.7492419</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a></p>
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