Here is the opinion piece she co-authored with a number of other Tufts students:
Perhaps someone could go through and analyze it for us?
Well they have said she is suspected of supporting Hamas but of course zero evidence has been produced of this, and I would willingly bet money that none ever will be. As with the other deportations.
They believe their own talking point, that any criticism of what Israel is doing in Gaza must mean you support Hamas.
And thereby, there is evidence.
It should never be too far from the top of our minds that Trump pardoned domestic terrorists and may be considering using taxpayer money as a GoFundMe for the benighted souls’ lost wages.
Which – IMHO – is quite separate and distinct from somebody holding views, espousing those views peacefully – even if those views are anathema to some – or publishing those views in an Op-Ed piece.
The unending gaslighting, projection, and hypocrisy quite literally defy description and quantification.
Characteristic #3 of Fascism (Lawrence Britt)
Identification of enemies/scape-goats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people’s attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice—relentless propaganda and disinformation—were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite “spontaneous” acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and “terrorists.” Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.
I’ve worked in the US for a while, and I would have been on this list. I do condemn what Israel is doing (and what Hamas did, and is doing), and I have brown skin.
Right.
I am pleased whenever there’s any pushback on this admin, but I’ve been surprised that things like “signalgate” have got traction, and the end of free speech and the rule of law has been a relative footnote.
Revoking the visas of foreign students for speaking out is a mistake. It discourages the best and the brightest around the world from wanting to come to the United States for study. We need and want these students to come here. For one thing they pay the tuition. Second some stay in this country and create jobs.
… But they’re brown and talk funny.
On the side of the print news, it’s hard to say whether the headlines that we see are the ones that get the most clicks, or if the journalists and editors are focusing on the wrong things.
On the side of Congress, the Democrats certainly seem to be more focused on the loss of government services and Signal, than they are on rule of law. (Not to say that the loss of government services is being undertaken in a lawful way, just that it’s neither the most extreme form of lawbreaking nor the most clean cut since there is a reasonable Constitutional argument that Congress is overstepping its authority by trying to legislate the Executive’s firing ability.)
Given the latter, I am inclined to think that the same political views that inform the politicians are also informing the press.
Yes and I should be clear, it’s not that I think signalgate should not have got traction, just I’m surprised how hard it’s landed compared to people being dragged off the streets and, without charges even being filed, being deported or being sent to supermax prisons.
But I’ve had the same feeling with Trump several times.
I guess it comes down to culture. I’m British, and although the “anglosphere” is a shared culture in many ways, there are key differences and it shouldn’t be surprising that some kinds of scandal land differently. (Although, if signalgate had happened in the UK there would have been at least one resignation. It’s definitely a big enough scandal to claim at least one scalp)
And for something different other than the pro-Palestinian supporters:
A 30-year-old Harvard researcher from Russia has been held for more than a month at a private detention center in Louisiana where federal immigration officers are sending a growing number of international students with lives here suddenly in jeopardy.
Unlike others, Kseniia Petrova is not accused of publicly opposing Israel’s war in Gaza or U.S. support for Israel. She was pulled aside as she returned from Paris on Feb. 16 after failing to tell customs agents at Boston’s Logan International Airport that she was bringing back frog embryos for scientific work her mentor is pursuing.
Should she lose her fight to retain her visa and stay in this country, her university supervisor, friends and lawyer worry that she would be deported to Russia. Given her past involvement in protests against that country’s invasion of Ukraine, they fear she could be imprisoned for years.
ICE detains Harvard researcher from Russia who protested Ukraine war
That’s already happening. Many countries are putting up travel alerts for their citizens who are considering travel to the US.
Message received: we’re not welcome in the US.
My wife saw Kristi ‘Puppy Killer’ Noem’s warning commercial to undocumented immigrants for the first time this morning. She was appalled.
That one has been running for a couple of weeks.
It has. But today was the first time she saw it. I’ve seen it before, as it usually plays once during the morning news.
It’s weird to run a commercial in which a Cabinet secretary thanks the president who appointed her. Any other time, I would be complaining about the wasted expense.
One must always express admiration for the Führer.
♫ Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer’s face ♫
Sooner or later they have to realize that they will never deport millions. Even if they all stood curbside waiting for the ICE bus to take them to camp it would take forever, especially if they’re going to have to honor their basic civil rights.
As an aside, who does Tom Homan look like? If seen that scowling face in some old movie or tv show.
Let’s say Uncle Fester got ripped off by a malign business manager, lost everything, and then developed a wicked drug problem.
Homan:
