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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>How <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a>’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image</strong></p><p><em><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s demands.</em></p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheIntercept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheIntercept</span></a><br>Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes<br>August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m. </p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/08/07/co</span><span class="invisible">lumbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a><br><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>this is a repost of <a href="https://sociale.network/@gubi/115003955787654526" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sociale.network/@gubi/11500395</span><span class="invisible">5787654526</span></a><br>with alt text added to the pic, plus 2 groups and some hashtags <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Alt4You" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alt4You</span></a> </p><p>#################<br>If you want to protest in UK against a government that outlawed the pacifist organization "Palestine Action" with the anti-terrorism law, here is a plan for you:</p><p>1) Print the T-Shirt of the image below<br>2) Make a trip to UK<br>3) Wear the shirt at a public rally<br>4) Get unduly arrested under terrorism act for speaking the truth as nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian nature of regimes supporting ongoing genocide. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@lemmy.ml</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sociale.network/@gubi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gubi</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a><br><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@a.gup.pe</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></strong><br><em>Rashid Khalidi</em></p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a><br>Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Columbia’s capitulation has turned a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>, a crime in which <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a>’s leadership is now fully complicit.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal</strong></p><p><em><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/RashidKhalidi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RashidKhalidi</span></a>, in open letter published by <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a>, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement</em> </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a><br>Dani Anguiano<br>Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> has accepted by capitulating to the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.</p><p>Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> war, and threatened to pull significant funding. </p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-trump?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">ug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-trump?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a><br><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong><em>Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews</em></strong></p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WorldOutlook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldOutlook</span></a><br>July 23, 2025</p><p><strong>It’s Not Gaza Campus Protests That Endanger Jews, It’s Misguided Efforts to ‘Protect’ Them</strong></p><p><em>What truly poses a danger to <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> today is not young people demanding peace on campuses, it’s the way in which authorities, both university and governmental, but also the Jewish establishment, respond</em></p><p>article below was first published by Haaretz<br>July 22, 2025</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students.</p><p>Kahlenberg, who is <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a>, graduated this spring from the University of Texas, Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s genocidal war in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/those-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/t</span><span class="invisible">hose-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Freed from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> detention, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> files $20 million claim against Trump administration</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/APNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APNews</span></a><br>By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025</p><p>[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]</p><p>"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.</p><p>Meanwhile, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha</span><span class="invisible">lil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>‘Justice Will Prevail,’ <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> Says as He Goes Free on Bail</p><p>Mr. Khalil, a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> graduate, had been held in Louisiana for over three months as the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration sought to deport him. A judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> speech. </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.] </p><p>By Jonah E. Bromwich<br>June 20, 2025</p><p>"On Friday, Judge Farbiarz rebuked the government mildly, noting that it had offered no evidence to suggest that Mr. Khalil was a danger to his community. The administration’s claims about his links to, or even sympathies for, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> have not been substantiated in court.</p><p>“He is not a danger to the community, period, full stop,” the judge said."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-release-order.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.dMKz.RU9OBV-tBMhJ&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/20/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/mahmoud-khalil-release-order.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.dMKz.RU9OBV-tBMhJ&amp;smid=url-share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump</p><p>Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a><br>Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia<br>Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT </p><p>"“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-trump-military-parade?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">un/14/no-kings-protests-trump-military-parade?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoKingsProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKingsProtest</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br>USA <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> </p><p>A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> <br>By Jonah E. Bromwich<br>June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/o4Lvd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/o4Lvd</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/APNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APNews</span></a><br>By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration’s effort to deport <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> because of his pro-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> activism at <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> likely violates the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>.</p><p>In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement. </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-doj-dhs-columbia-university-f802564cf42c31b11fec99730d53ee5b?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha</span><span class="invisible">lil-doj-dhs-columbia-university-f802564cf42c31b11fec99730d53ee5b?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a>: <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>” as <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> Supporters </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a><br>Interview with-<br>Katie J.M. Baker<br>investigative reporter for The <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> </p><p>Stefanie Fox<br>executive director of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/JewishVoiceForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoiceForPeace</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/19/project_esther" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/5/19/pro</span><span class="invisible">ject_esther</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopGazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopGazaGenocide</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Freed from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/APNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APNews</span></a><br> By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025<br> <br>"NEW YORK (<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a>) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> activist <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MohsenMahdawi</span></a> strode across the graduation stage at <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> on Monday morning, savoring a moment the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration had fought to make impossible.</p><p>Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a>’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/columbia-un</span><span class="invisible">iversity-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement</p><p>Even before President <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> was re-elected, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a>, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> activism in the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>.</p><p>From <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheNewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheNewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[Gift article - expires in 30 days]<br>By Katie J.M. Baker</p><p>May 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET</p><p>Heritage officials said they did not know whether the White House, which has its own <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> task force, had used Project Esther as a guide. Administration officials declined to discuss it. But Robert Greenway, a Heritage national security director who coauthored <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a>, said it was “no coincidence that we called for a series of actions to take place privately and publicly, and they are now happening.”</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IE8.JoP3.DEy94beG0yWy&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/proj</span><span class="invisible">ect-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IE8.JoP3.DEy94beG0yWy&amp;smid=url-share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopGazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopGazaGenocide</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>In <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Graduation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Graduation</span></a> Speech, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYU</span></a> Student Condemns U.S.-backed <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> War in Gaza </p><p>University Withholds Student’s Diploma, in Latest Flashpoint over Free Speech on U.S. Campuses </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WorldOutlook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldOutlook</span></a> <br>May 16, 2025 </p><p>[contains transcript of his speech]</p><p>“We commend Logan for using this opportunity to demand an end to the bloodshed in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>,” said Afaf Nasher, executive director of CAIR-NY, a Muslim civil rights organization. “We demand that NYU formally release Logan’s diploma, which he rightfully earned, and suspend any disciplinary proceedings against him.”” </p><p><a href="https://world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/in-graduation-speech-nyu-student-condemns-u-s-backed-israeli-war-in-gaza/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/i</span><span class="invisible">n-graduation-speech-nyu-student-condemns-u-s-backed-israeli-war-in-gaza/</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopGazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopGazaGenocide</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Jimi Lend<p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Amazonwatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazonwatch</span></a> was in the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/courtroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courtroom</span></a> for the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/SLAPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPP</span></a> trial against <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>greenpeace</span></a></span> It was a sham: biased jurors, judicial misconduct, and <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/erasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erasure</span></a> of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/voices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voices</span></a>.<br>Read why this matters for us all.<br>👉 <a href="https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0403-big-oils-lawfare-attacks-on-advocacy-and-accountability" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0403</span><span class="invisible">-big-oils-lawfare-attacks-on-advocacy-and-accountability</span></a> <br><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a></p>