Keith Zerfas
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6. Öztürk was later ordered released by a federal judge who found there was substantial evidence that her 1st Amendment rights were being violated and the evidence was woefully insufficient to justify her continued detention
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
6. Öztürk was later ordered released by a federal judge who found there was substantial evidence that her 1st Amendment rights were being violated and the evidence was woefully insufficient to justify her continued detention
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5. Ashworth infamously denied bail to Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts university student, claiming she was “both a flight risk and a danger to the community.”
The only evidence presented by the gov't against Öztürk was that she co-wrote a student op-ed criticizing the university's stance on Israel.
The only evidence presented by the gov't against Öztürk was that she co-wrote a student op-ed criticizing the university's stance on Israel.
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
5. Ashworth infamously denied bail to Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts university student, claiming she was “both a flight risk and a danger to the community.”
The only evidence presented by the gov't against Öztürk was that she co-wrote a student op-ed criticizing the university's stance on Israel.
The only evidence presented by the gov't against Öztürk was that she co-wrote a student op-ed criticizing the university's stance on Israel.
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The underlying dynamic is that for Jeff Bezos and the other media oligarchs, their news business is a tiny fraction of their overall business holdings and they are willing to sacrifice it to appease Trump. They resisted in term one; this time, they capitulated. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/year-med...
The year the media oligarchs bowed to Trump
We warned last year that Donald Trump’s second term as president would turbo-charge the political right’s burgeoning media-intimidation complex. Republican officials and right-wing billionaires were a...
www.mediamatters.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The underlying dynamic is that for Jeff Bezos and the other media oligarchs, their news business is a tiny fraction of their overall business holdings and they are willing to sacrifice it to appease Trump. They resisted in term one; this time, they capitulated. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/year-med...