BREAKING: We, @aclu.org and CLEAR are joining Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after ICE unlawfully arrested and detained her in retaliation for her political speech. Speaking out against a war, a policy, or a government is not a crime.

The government must immediately release Ms. Öztürk.

5/ Each visa-holding student, every student of colour, they each need not one or two escorts, but a small army of protectors who won't let them be taken. #rumeysa

4/ If we had been dealing with ICE kidnappings, I feel like we would have created a nonviolent group of protectors who would not allow it to happen. Is this happening anywhere? #rumeysa

3/ We set up safe areas in our offices and the adjoining auditorium, and we accounted for everyone; Israeli and Palestinian students, Middle Eastern students, people of colour who were worried, visa holders of every stripe. If we had been dealing with ICE kidnappings.... #rumeysa

2/ When 9/11 happened, it didn't take five minutes for us to know who would be targeted. We sent emails, made phone calls, went around campus physically, and spread word to our international students, and the American students who supported and lived with them and loved them as family. #rumeysa

Where are my international affairs office colleagues? I no longer work in international affairs, but on 9/11, I was an administrator at such an office at a small liberal arts university in Indianapolis. We managed visas for international undergrads, grad students, Fulbright scholars, etc. #rumeysa

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

Reminds me, too, of the saying, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

Bigots will always be bigots.
No place in the world for bigots.
Why aren't they being rooted out and disgraced?

Wow! Just watched S6 E13 of Deep Space Nine, Far Beyond the Stars. It’s a tour de force from all involved. Simply one of finest episodes of storytelling in the entire Trek canon.
#bydhttmwfi

When laughing children chase after fireflies, they are not pursuing beetles but catching wonder. When wonder matures, it peels back experience to seek deeper layers of marvel below. This is science’s highest purpose.

The Forest Unseen. David George Haskell, 2012.

John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939.