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#EmilBove insisted that the #Instagram account in question had been used to make a threat, while line prosecutors said the statement at issue did not meet the #legal definition of a #threat. In late March, the #SocialMedia company suspended the group’s account for failing to meet its “community standards.”
#law #ethics #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #immigration #dissent #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #Gestapo #ThoughtPolice #Trump
Orders to Investigate #Columbia #Protesters Raised Alarms in #DOJ
Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a #list of #activists & investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.
#law #ethics #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #dissent #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #Gestapo #ThoughtPolice #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/columbia-protests-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1E34655C-2935-4980-93C4-2712A89B06D8
Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed…
The New York Times
@severud@infosec.exchangeMarco Rubio deporting people for thought crimes. That was quick.
#nineteen_eighty_four #Ingsoc #thoughtPolice 1984
Life imitating art again.
The first time I encountered this it was expressed as the "thought police" in George Orwell's 1984.
#repression #1984 #ThoughtPolice #dystopia #Orwell #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #FirstAmmendment #FreedomOfSpeech
#Trump admin lays out its *evidence* for deporting activist #MahmoudKhalil
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25894225/dhs-documents-mahmoud-khalil.pdf
When pressed for evidence about why activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by #immigration authorities last month, #DHS shared a 2-pg letter from Secy of #State #MarcoRubio that accuses the #ColumbiaUniversity grad student of participating in "antisemitic protests & disruptive activities."
#law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #dissent
"The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it would begin screening the social media accounts of migrants applying for permanent resident status, as well as foreign students and aliens affiliated with academic institutions, for 'antisemitic activity' to determine if those individuals qualify for benefit consideration."
#ThoughtPolice
#ThisIsWhatDictatorsDo
Homeland Security to screen immigrants’ social media for antisemitic activity
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/09/dhs-screening-immigrants-social-media-antisemitic-activity/
The Department of Homeland Security will begin screening…
New York Daily NewsWhen reading this remember #Trump conflates #humanitarian concerns for #Palestinians living in #Gaza with constant #Israel attacks while facing starvation & disease as #antisemitism.
#DHS to Begin Screening *Aliens’* #SocialMedia Activity for Antisemitism
#immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)…
USCISThe #Trump admin has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for #Cornell & $790 million for #Northwestern amid *#CivilRights* [white man sad] investigations into both schools.
The #funding pause involves mostly grants & contracts with the depts of #Agriculture [HUGE school at Cornell], #Defense, #Education & #Health & Human Services.
#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education
I’m an alum, so… 
#Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for #CornellUniversity & $790 Million for #NorthwesternUniversity
The funding pause amid *#CivilRights* investigations into both #universities sharply escalates the Trump admin’s campaign against elite #colleges.
#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education #Cornell
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0C341DDC-17F7-403A-A100-B68F51396C05
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations…
The New York Times#OTD in 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four about the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation begins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
#BigBrother #NewSpeak #ThoughtPolice #Surveillance
#Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked
Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning
By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025
"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more #StudentVisas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be #activism.
"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, #scholars have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in #DetentionCenters, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.
"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders.
"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation.
"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus #protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.
"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to #FreeSpeech and to assemble, experts and advocates said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Clampdown #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #RightToAssemble #FirstAmendment #USPol
The Trump administration has been targeting foreign-born…
NBC NewsHere is the text of the email sent to hundreds of international #students telling them that
their #visas have been revoked due to #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
![[first paragraph] “On behalf of the United States Department of State, the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office hereby informs you that additional information became available after your visa was issued. As a result, your F-1 visa with expiration date XXXXX was revoked in accordance with Section 221(i) of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended."](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/247/830/669/610/776/original/dfac7d2fb1ec8a04.png "[first paragraph] “On behalf of the United States Department of State, the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office hereby informs you that additional information became available after your visa was issued. As a result, your F-1 visa with expiration date XXXXX was revoked in accordance with Section 221(i) of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended.\"")
*** This report may not be accurate. Times of India is the only outlet reporting it. ***
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
US News: The US Department of State has asked hundreds…
The Times of India2 days before Columbia announced its decision, the #Trump admin said it would withhold about $175M in funding to the University of #Pennsylvania because the school allowed a #transgender woman to be a member of its women’s swim team in 2022.
#education #law #USpol #extortion #MafiaState #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #CivilRights #Constitution #ThoughtPolice
#Columbia’s acquiescence drew significant condemnation on the campus & beyond. Other higher #education leaders watched nervously, fearing that the university’s decision, w/o mounting a court challenge that many felt stood a reasonable chance of success, would provoke the #Trump admin to target other #universities.
#education #law #USpol #extortion #MafiaState #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #CivilRights #Constitution #ThoughtPolice
#Columbia President Is Replaced as #Trump Threatens University’s Funding
Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.
#education #law #USpol #extortion #MafiaState #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #CivilRights #Constitution #ThoughtPolice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-universitys-president-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=404E7892-C925-4B3E-8805-4DB6629DBFDD
Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after…
The New York TimesAs the #Trump admin escalates its attack on universities, three #fascism scholars & vocal Trump critics are leaving Yale University for the University of Toronto. But their given reasons for crossing the border vary.
#tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #ThoughtPolice #dissent #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/03/26/fascism-scholars-trump-critics-leave-yale-canada
Jason Stanley, decrying Columbia University’s capitulation…
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and JobsOMG
#TimothySnyder left the country for #Canada
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, along with Yale history professors Marci Shore & her husband Timothy Snyder, are taking their teaching to the University of Toronto to advocate for #democracy, speak out against #fascism & teach without fear of #academic capitulation to the #Trump White House, they say.
#tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #ThoughtPolice #dissent #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html