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At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.
Leonard Peltier talks freedom, future after nearly 50 years in prison
After spending most of his life behind bars, Leonard Peltier now lives in a home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. He says he has no regrets but still harbors…
www.mprnews.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
“I Am a Political Prisoner,” Writes Mahmoud Khalil From ICE Jail
In the weeks ahead, students, advocates and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org

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Image with yellow-underlined text reading Letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE Detention Swipe left Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention March 18, 2025 My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law. Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing. Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities. On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request. My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace. I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.
March 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention facility: "The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent."

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#Palestine #Israel
Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress...
mondoweiss.net
March 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
The point truly is they can get any one of us and all our universities will ask is where do I sign to condemn this person and what color ink do you want me to use
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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joshgerstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Pay attention folks.
adamhsays.com Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · Mar 7
that republicans were interested in finding a way to “destroy” Columbia—whether they complied w/ their demands or not—was no secret. they literally wrote about it.
From Max Eden’s story in the Washington Examiner: The most interesting actions, though, wouldn’t require Congress. To scare universities straight, McMahon should start by taking a prize scalp. She should simply destroy Columbia University. Columbia was, perhaps, the worst offender in indulging the pro-Hamas campus radicals. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights should initiate a compliance review of every single decision Columbia made. To do that, OCR would need the identities of every single foreign student who supported the protests, actions the Trump administration could deem material support of a terrorist organization. Border czar Tom Homan could then revoke every single one of the foreign protesting students’ visas. If Columbia doesn’t cooperate, McMahon could cut off its research grant funding. If they do cooperate, she’ll surely find the evidence necessary to cut off its Title IV funding. That would mean that Columbia would become ineligible to receive federal research grants and subsidized student loans, which would jeopardize nearly half of its revenue.
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
Considering how Columbia criminalized its students ad suppressed freedom of expression on its campus and still was targeted might be a lesson for other schools, (looking at University of Michigan) of course one they wont heed.
March 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Pitch perfect response from Georgetown Law reminding Ed Martin that it’s wildly inappropriate on both religious liberty and free speech grounds for him to attempt to use the power of his (interim) office to dictate what curriculum is “unacceptable” at the university.
joshchafetz.bsky.social Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · Mar 6
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
House just voted 224-198 to censure Rep. Al Green for interrupting Trump's speech, with the following 10 Democrats voting for his censure:
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Marcy Kaptur
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
March 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
Now here’s a reason to #hoyasaxa
katemcnamara.bsky.social Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · Feb 27
President Bob Groves' letter to the Georgetown community Who We Are & What We Stand For: freedom of thought & inquiry, valuing difference, public service, & respect for the dignity & welfare of all. "We do not conduct these activities alongside our mission; they are the essence of our mission."
March 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Ramadan Mubarak!
Song by the great Suad El-Amin
March 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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TODAY! JOIN US
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Graphic that describes event. Panel discussion at 11:30 AM Eastern standard time on February 28 with head shots of the speakers.
February 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
the most beautiful thing I’ve seen today. Reflecting on this photo I realize I’ve never seen a photo of him outside (save historical ones) my entire life. This is a beautiful thing. #leonardpeltier is FREE!!!
📸: NDN Collective
Photo of Leonard Peltier in red button down shirt with Indigenous design work. He is raising his fist and smiling. The sun is shining on him and there are trees and green grass in the background.
February 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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‘Jews Say No to Ethnic Cleansing’: Hundreds of rabbis and artists reject Trump's Gaza plan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jews-say-no-ethnic-cleansing-hundreds-rabbis-and-artists-reject-trump-gaza-plan
‘Jews Say No to Ethnic Cleansing’: Hundreds of rabbis and artists reject Trump's Gaza plan
Prominent Jewish figures published a full-page ad in The New York Times slamming US president’s bid to ‘take over’ enclave
www.middleeasteye.net
February 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
Whet are some of the terms that we should use to describe what is happening in the US government that accurately capture reality but are avoided by the mainstream ex. Facist or coup @ashoncrawley.bsky.social @chanda.bsky.social @zareenagrewal.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
every Donald Trump cycle:

TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny

FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny

TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies

TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*

NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head
February 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
Has a dis track ever won a Grammy before? #hiphop
February 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
So basically he wants to make el salvador the world’s prison?
February 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
drsuad.bsky.social
Dr. Michael Gomez keynote is starting now!
drsuad.bsky.social drsuad.bsky.social @drsuad.bsky.social · Jan 24
In this time of crisis manufactured by the madness of white supremacy and its kin it can be hard to keep doing the work but we keep on keeping on. So join us next week our next installment we dig deep and look back so we can continue to do the work!
bit.ly/plantationskeynote
bit.ly/plantationspanel
Beige colored social tile that reads JAN 31, 2025 Session II Plantations This two-part session will explore the plantation as a location where the economic, political, social, and affective orders that define modernity were made. What happens to our understanding of the plantation and modernity itself when we examine it as a space in which the Muslim, the African, and the Africana Muslim were racialized and resisted that racialization by imagining worlds otherwise? 12pm Keynote: Michael Gomez 130pm Panel: Margarita Rosa, Jason Young, Aliyah Khan, Nathaniel Matthews, and Michael Gomez

January 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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TODAY!
drsuad.bsky.social drsuad.bsky.social @drsuad.bsky.social · Jan 24
In this time of crisis manufactured by the madness of white supremacy and its kin it can be hard to keep doing the work but we keep on keeping on. So join us next week our next installment we dig deep and look back so we can continue to do the work!
bit.ly/plantationskeynote
bit.ly/plantationspanel
Beige colored social tile that reads JAN 31, 2025 Session II Plantations This two-part session will explore the plantation as a location where the economic, political, social, and affective orders that define modernity were made. What happens to our understanding of the plantation and modernity itself when we examine it as a space in which the Muslim, the African, and the Africana Muslim were racialized and resisted that racialization by imagining worlds otherwise? 12pm Keynote: Michael Gomez 130pm Panel: Margarita Rosa, Jason Young, Aliyah Khan, Nathaniel Matthews, and Michael Gomez

January 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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libyaliberty.bsky.social
The democrats knew all of this would happen to Americans and still risked it all to fund Israel’s genocide.
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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FRIDAY! Join us!
drsuad.bsky.social drsuad.bsky.social @drsuad.bsky.social · Jan 24
In this time of crisis manufactured by the madness of white supremacy and its kin it can be hard to keep doing the work but we keep on keeping on. So join us next week our next installment we dig deep and look back so we can continue to do the work!
bit.ly/plantationskeynote
bit.ly/plantationspanel
Beige colored social tile that reads JAN 31, 2025 Session II Plantations This two-part session will explore the plantation as a location where the economic, political, social, and affective orders that define modernity were made. What happens to our understanding of the plantation and modernity itself when we examine it as a space in which the Muslim, the African, and the Africana Muslim were racialized and resisted that racialization by imagining worlds otherwise? 12pm Keynote: Michael Gomez 130pm Panel: Margarita Rosa, Jason Young, Aliyah Khan, Nathaniel Matthews, and Michael Gomez

January 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
January 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
drsuad.bsky.social
In this time of crisis manufactured by the madness of white supremacy and its kin it can be hard to keep doing the work but we keep on keeping on. So join us next week our next installment we dig deep and look back so we can continue to do the work!
bit.ly/plantationskeynote
bit.ly/plantationspanel
Beige colored social tile that reads JAN 31, 2025 Session II Plantations This two-part session will explore the plantation as a location where the economic, political, social, and affective orders that define modernity were made. What happens to our understanding of the plantation and modernity itself when we examine it as a space in which the Muslim, the African, and the Africana Muslim were racialized and resisted that racialization by imagining worlds otherwise? 12pm Keynote: Michael Gomez 130pm Panel: Margarita Rosa, Jason Young, Aliyah Khan, Nathaniel Matthews, and Michael Gomez

January 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM