The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean | CNN

The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission o...

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PSA to journalists: 1. Lethal strikes in the Caribbean are not “war crimes” because, despite what the president says, the US is not at war there. The existence of war is a legal determination based on facts about the armed engagement. Just because a president says “war” does not make it so.

“We took the freedom of speech away”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

That's because these were never good faith critiques.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · last yr.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Klein's argument here seems to be radical acceptance of the status quo, without meaningful vision for change. Is the real question to be asking here: what is the society we live in? Or is it what is the society we want to live in? For our children to grow up in?

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · last yr.

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

To say that immigrants don't have the right to speak is also to say that the rest of us don't have the right to hear what they have to say. Trump is curtailing the First Amendment rights of citizens, not just of immigrants. (Not that crushing immigrants' rights isn't a terrible thing in itself!)

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · last yr.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

Now @justsecurity.org I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action. Time has run out www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative

It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

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Yep.

Scott Shapiro@scottjshapiro.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

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It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.

"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

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Incredible but true--the universities haven't made any joint statement. 80 institutions did join an important brief last week in support of the plaintiffs in AAUP v. Rubio, but the country's largest universities weren't among the signatories. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson told The Daily.

U.S. government terminates “limited number” of NU student visas

Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson confirmed to The Daily. The spokesperson said the Univers...

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Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber is right in the money about this moment. We need more of this thinking and action from our leadership www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

The University President Willing to Fight Trump

Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

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So proud of my colleagues at the clinic for standing up to the fascist attacks on the rule of law and freedom of speech www.courtlistener.com/docket/69866...

Bedi v. The United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce, 1:25-cv-03837 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Bedi v. The United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce, 1:25-cv-03837 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality ...

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Simply put. A Must Read. By @bechamilton.bsky.social

The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media

Author argues that Trump administration's unconstitutional actions against universities, law firms, and independent media requires collective responses.

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I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Universities have to recognize that these actions pose an existential threat. They need to make clear, through action, that they won’t sit on the sidelines as the Trump administration terrorizes students and faculty alike and runs roughshod over individual rights and the rule of law.

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data

EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...

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