Why isn't this getting maximum attention? MSNBC report that 300,000 Black women have left the workforce in the last three months--targeted by DOGE www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...

300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.

For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

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Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

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I'm now in CHEM 402 just 10 minutes before today's emergency faculty Senate meeting is scheduled it start. It appears as of right now that a number of Senators have arrived but there are a fair few faces I know that haven't quite yet arrived.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

The Trump admin argued that the judge's injunction "does not interfere" with authority to detain Khalil on other grounds.

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Freedom Flotilla Coalition update: "The [Madleen] volunteers are currently being held in a detention facility at Ben Gurion International Airport, where they are expected to face hearings before their deportation to their home countries."

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

Walid often sends me videos of his daughters. This morning he sent me this video of his daughters with a shell that didn’t kill them. Let’s help them survive another day. chuffed.org/project/1253...

Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza. Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel. It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.

Ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza attacked by drones, NGO says, and at risk of sinking after its generator targeted with 30 human rights activists on board www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza attacked by drones, NGO says

Ship issued SOS distress call after being hit 31.5km east of Malta

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Easter in the genocide. Again.

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.” A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment. ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever 🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

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AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

Columbia student: "How are we obstructing if this gate has been closed since the start of the semester?” Columbia admin: “Because if we were to open it, you would be obstructing that entrance."

Jewish pro-Palestinian protesters chain themselves to gates outside St. Paul’s Chapel and Earl Hall

<i>Updated April 2 at 4:38 p.m.</i>

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Crowd gathers downtown to protest detention of U of M student by ICE

Crowd gathers downtown to protest detention of U of M student by ICE

The student was reportedly arrested Thursday at an off-campus residence.

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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

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ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues

According to ICE records, Iranian national Alireza Doroudi is currently being held in a "detention facility" after he was recently detained.

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“I think pretty much every legislator in Olympia knows him. He’s a serious young man who really wants to fight for justice, and he knows how to express himself and he’s tireless. He is like 24/7 on immigrant rights and farmworker rights.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley

Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

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