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me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
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NEW from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Noor:
“This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him”
Says they didn’t know where he was for 38 hours
“This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him”
Says they didn’t know where he was for 38 hours
March 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Noor:
“This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him”
Says they didn’t know where he was for 38 hours
“This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him”
Says they didn’t know where he was for 38 hours
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Beneath your feet is a complex network of fungal trade routes carrying essential nutrients from the soil to the roots of plants.
Dr. @tobykiers.bsky.social joins us to talk about how these complex networks form.
Dr. @tobykiers.bsky.social joins us to talk about how these complex networks form.
Scientists Observe Fungi Creating Complex Supply Chains
Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?
www.sciencefriday.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Beneath your feet is a complex network of fungal trade routes carrying essential nutrients from the soil to the roots of plants.
Dr. @tobykiers.bsky.social joins us to talk about how these complex networks form.
Dr. @tobykiers.bsky.social joins us to talk about how these complex networks form.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Literally Germany in 1933
So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Literally Germany in 1933
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The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers.
Trump and GOP Attack Children’s Food Aid in Order to Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich
This comes as roughly 14 million children in the US are already food insecure.
truthout.org
March 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers.
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"Different kinds of pressure—most dramatic, but some ordinary—yield a desire to get a message across, to have someone listen, to know what life was like, that life has meaning, that a life mattered, no matter how inconsequential it might appear to others."
Write your stories, homies. We need them.
Write your stories, homies. We need them.
“Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism
Perhaps poetry is best minted under pressure. Poetry that lasts. George Herbert at Bemerton with consumption. Anna Akhmatova under Stalin. John Keats’ blood on his pillow. Philip Larkin washing dis…
lithub.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"Different kinds of pressure—most dramatic, but some ordinary—yield a desire to get a message across, to have someone listen, to know what life was like, that life has meaning, that a life mattered, no matter how inconsequential it might appear to others."
Write your stories, homies. We need them.
Write your stories, homies. We need them.
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I completely forgot to make the connection that the protesters were from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the student group for whom Mahmoud Khalil was a leader.
A reminder that a pro-Israel agitator drove his car into a line of Columbia student protesters last May and hit one of the people there to protect them.
The charges against him were dropped.
The charges against him were dropped.
“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car
A student eyewitness tells The Handbasket what he saw.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I completely forgot to make the connection that the protesters were from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the student group for whom Mahmoud Khalil was a leader.
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We’re still not shopping at Target.
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We’re still not shopping at Target.
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abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”
I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
March 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife:
"I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."
"I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
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Same same same
the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain
March 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Same same same
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the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
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Less than a week ago, Trump said he "brought back free speech." Tell that to Mahmoud Khalil, currently in ICE detention.
Read more: interc.pt/3Dvhxgk
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✍️ @natashalennard.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Less than a week ago, Trump said he "brought back free speech." Tell that to Mahmoud Khalil, currently in ICE detention.
Read more: interc.pt/3Dvhxgk
✍️ @natashalennard.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
Read more: interc.pt/3Dvhxgk
✍️ @natashalennard.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
"putting the students in harms way" is what is meant for us all. may we be brave and steadfast and spirit-led together against those who do not care. we care. we care about our collective survival
“These universities have been laying the groundwork for whatever Trump wants to do. This targeting of the students did not begin once he was inaugurated. This began last year…when they started targeting students, calling law enforcement and police to campuses and putting the students in harm’s way.”
ICYMI: In February, we reported that some members of the Columbia Alumni for Israel Whatsapp group leapt at the chance to get young people they claim are “supporters of Hamas” detained and deported.
March 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"putting the students in harms way" is what is meant for us all. may we be brave and steadfast and spirit-led together against those who do not care. we care. we care about our collective survival
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Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
March 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
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A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn't be deported without a court order.
Court Temporarily Halts Columbia Activist’s Deportation
The Palestinian Columbia graduate was nabbed by ICE, sparking outrage that his due process and First Amendment rights had been violated.
interc.pt
March 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn't be deported without a court order.
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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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In some ways we have been here before & can draw on strategies from our histories & lineages AND current political conditions are starkly different & require us to significantly level up our commitment to community defense.
We need to pull out all the stops in defense of students - we're all next
We need to pull out all the stops in defense of students - we're all next
I was reflecting with a CUNY Palestine solidarity organizer today that not ONCE during my entire 4 years of anti-apartheid struggle on campus was my immigration status (student visa at the time) ever threatened, much less was anyone I protested with kidnapped from university housing by immigration.
March 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In some ways we have been here before & can draw on strategies from our histories & lineages AND current political conditions are starkly different & require us to significantly level up our commitment to community defense.
We need to pull out all the stops in defense of students - we're all next
We need to pull out all the stops in defense of students - we're all next
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A reminder that a pro-Israel agitator drove his car into a line of Columbia student protesters last May and hit one of the people there to protect them.
The charges against him were dropped.
The charges against him were dropped.
“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car
A student eyewitness tells The Handbasket what he saw.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A reminder that a pro-Israel agitator drove his car into a line of Columbia student protesters last May and hit one of the people there to protect them.
The charges against him were dropped.
The charges against him were dropped.