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DoomsdaysCW<p>Private groups work to identify and report <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> for possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In case you didn’t get to see the op-ed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> co-authored w/ 3 others in 2024 here’s the link. </p><p><a href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/4ftk27sm6jkj</span></a></p><p>You don’t even have to read it just search it for the word “Hamas” — no results.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExtraordinaryRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryRendition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredAbduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredAbduction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Well said:</p><p>“Protesters, including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> groups, say the Trump admin conflates their criticism of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>'s assault on Gaza &amp; their advocacy for Palestinian rights with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> &amp; support for Hamas.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; the other Islamophobes can’t seem to get their mind around the idea that a person can think that both what <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> did Oct7 was wrong AND what Netanyahu is doing to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> is wrong.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> didn’t even mention Hamas in her op-ed.</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-halts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/legal/us-judge-hal</span><span class="invisible">ts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>🚨🚨NEW "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RümeysaÖztürk</span></a> v. Hyde"</p><p>Judge Denise J. Casper: the Court ORDERS Ozturk shall not be removed from the United States until further Order of this Court.</p><p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282503/gov.uscourts.mad.282503.16.0_3.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.mad.282503/gov.uscourts.mad.282503.16.0_3.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExtraordinaryRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryRendition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredAbduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredAbduction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DualState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Koen Hufkens, PhD<p>Today on the Belgian news, interviews with students in the US after the deportation of Rumeysa Ozturk.</p><p>An interviewee was pulled aside after calling emergency services for a friend. Police noticed his Dutch accent, and asked for papers "because he sounded foreign, and we can't have that here". 🙄 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a></p>
Catherine Morris<p>Andrew DeCort: ‘…citizens &amp; residents under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> regimes come to feel…they must insulate their consciousness behind a protective layer of fear, hyper-vigilance &amp; self-censorship. The regime creates this helmeted consciousness through acts that stoke public anxiety, insecurity &amp; terror. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArbitraryArrest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArbitraryArrest</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>…is an example... these lawless acts are meant to send…a clear &amp; potent message:“If you cross us we will punish you,with or without the law.‘ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16GuAE5oL8/?mibextid=wwXIfr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">facebook.com/share/p/16GuAE5oL</span><span class="invisible">8/?mibextid=wwXIfr</span></a></p>
tim d (he/him)<p>mayor of somerville's statement on the disappearing of Rumeysa Ozturk and other recent events...</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SomervilleMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SomervilleMA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.somervillema.gov/news/message-mayor-ballantyne-tufts-student-detainment-and-mass-deportation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">somervillema.gov/news/message-</span><span class="invisible">mayor-ballantyne-tufts-student-detainment-and-mass-deportation</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RümeysaÖztürk</span></a>'s filing contains a paragraph each on the similar treatment of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RanjaniSrinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RanjaniSrinivasan</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MahmoudKahlil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKahlil</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BadarKhanSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhanSuri</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a>. </p><p>It also quotes 🤬 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExtraordinaryRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryRendition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredAbduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredAbduction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViewPointDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RümeysaÖztürk</span></a>'s attorneys include in their filing that her arrest &amp; detention — without any notice — is not a necessary or usual part of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> revocation but an experience "designed to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/silence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silence</span></a> her, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/punish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punish</span></a> her for her <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a>, &amp; ensure that other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> will be chilled from expressing pro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> viewpoints."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredAbduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredAbduction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>New details of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RümeysaÖztürk</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredAbduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredAbduction</span></a>:</p><p>A rep of the Turkish consulate went looking for Öztürk at an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> office in suburban Massachusetts. Her lawyer called hospitals, worried she might have had a dangerous <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/asthma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asthma</span></a> attack. [anxiety can induce attacks &amp; no doubt they took her inhaler] &amp; of course, she did have an attack &amp; didn’t have her medication.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In an amended petition for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RümeysaÖztürk</span></a>'s attorneys—now including the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACLU</span></a>—describe her arrest &amp; detention as "part of a concerted &amp; systemic effort by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration officials to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/punish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punish</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> &amp; others identified with pro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> activism."</p><p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282503/gov.uscourts.mad.282503.12.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.mad.282503/gov.uscourts.mad.282503.12.0.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExtraordinaryRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryRendition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredAbduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredAbduction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViewPointDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a></p>
Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Skwawkbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skwawkbox</span></a> | Video: thousands gather at Tufts Uni to demand return of abducted student Rumeysa Ozturk</p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/27/video-thousands-gather-at-tufts-uni-to-demand-return-of-abducted-rumeysa-ozturk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/03/27/video</span><span class="invisible">-thousands-gather-at-tufts-uni-to-demand-return-of-abducted-rumeysa-ozturk/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In recent wks, federal authorities have detained a handful of other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/researchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>researchers</span></a> – including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a> holders – who have expressed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> solidarity amid <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s deadly war on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. Earlier this week, 30-yr-old <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, a Turkish doctoral student at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tufts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tufts</span></a> University, was detained by masked federal ofcls in dramatic footage that has caused widespread outrage.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p>The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement: Thursday: Protestors ask for the return of "detained" Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, a protest against <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a>, scenes from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a>, and more.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheContrarian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-contrarian-covers-the-citizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/the-</span><span class="invisible">contrarian-covers-the-citizens</span></a></p>
oldguy52 - resist, live, love<p>The arrest of Ms Ozturk is over the top crazy. This is a doctoral student, a Fulbright Scholar, here on an F-1 student visa to study who expressed an opinion. The Fulbright Program is a Department of State Program! A program designed to connect people, connect countries. I worked with Fulbright Scholars, they are amazing scholars and amazing people! </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75720q9d7lo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c75720q9</span><span class="invisible">d7lo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">foreign.fulbrightonline.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/fulbright-program-overview" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-</span><span class="invisible">fulbright/fulbright-program-overview</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FulbrightProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FulbrightProgram</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DepartmentOfState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentOfState</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RubioIsNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RubioIsNuts</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Outrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Outrage</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> was arrested on her way to Iftar dinner, sunset in Boston is ~7PM, so she was likely arrested ~6:30. The petition for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/habeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>habeas</span></a> was filed at 10PM &amp; Judge Talwani’s order to not remove her from Massachusetts was filed at 10:53PM the same day, ~4½hrs after her arrest.</p><p><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69790775/3/ozturk-v-hyde/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">courtlistener.com/docket/69790</span><span class="invisible">775/3/ozturk-v-hyde/</span></a></p><p>Asst US Atty Mark Sauter said Thurs that her transfer to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a>’s detention facility in Louisiana didn’t violate Talwani’s order because they relocated her before it was issued.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>NOT OK</p><p>A. There is NO evidence that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> did any of the things <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> said. She wrote an op-ed. That’s it.</p><p>B. Even if she had participated in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a>, what the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin did is NOT the process a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> holder goes through. Normally you receive a notice &amp; have a month. They arrested her on the street w/no notice, took her phone &amp; belongings, threw her in the back of a van, &amp; flew her to a detention center in a different state.</p><p>They may as well have black bagged her.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tufts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tufts</span></a> University sent an email to alumni on Thursday, detailing what school officials know about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, a Turkish graduate student who was detained by federal authorities.</p><p>"The university had no knowledge of this incident in advance, did not share any information with federal authorities prior to the event," the email to alumni says.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/tufts-says-it-had-no-prior-knowledge-of-plans-for-authorities-to-detain-student" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scrippsnews.com/politics/immig</span><span class="invisible">ration/tufts-says-it-had-no-prior-knowledge-of-plans-for-authorities-to-detain-student</span></a></p>
MissConstrue<p>The Stasi are here, they are operating with impunity, and any one of us could be disappeared next. </p><p>Will Bunch writes, You’ve probably seen something like this before — but only in a movie, and only in a film that was seeking to capture the horrors of daily life under Joseph Stalin at the peak of his 1930s purges across the USSR, or maybe a Gestapo thriller set in Nazi Germany.</p><p>At 5:30 p.m. on a spring day on an urban residential street, a young woman in a bright white coat, hajib, and sneakers, engrossed in her mobile phone, emerges from a residence. Within seconds, a gaggle of men in black, who’ve been waiting for hours in a car nearby, surround the startled pedestrian, as the apparent leader wrestles away her phone.</p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/rumeysa-ozturk-arrested-ice-tufts-20250327.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inquirer.com/opinion/rumeysa-o</span><span class="invisible">zturk-arrested-ice-tufts-20250327.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mefi.social/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/secretPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secretPolice</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a> [was]…transferred to the Central Louisiana <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Processing Center in Basile, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> spox said Wed.</p><p>It’s only been 8 weeks.</p><p>I cannot imagine what this country will look like in a year.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DualState</span></a></p>