DoomsdaysCW<p>Private groups work to identify and report <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> for possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deportation</span></a></p><p>“Now they’re using tools of the state to actually go after people,” said a Columbia graduate student from South Asia who has been active in protests and spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing her visa. “We suddenly feel like we’re being forced to think about our survival.”</p><p>By ADAM GELLER, March 29, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online.</p><p>"'Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!' a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a> tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.</p><p>"She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> marches at U.S. colleges. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWingJewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RightWingJewish</span></a> group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in 'pro-jihadist' protests. </p><p>"Other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaza</span></a> to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-forei</span><span class="invisible">gn-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TurdReich</span></a></p>
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Geriatric Gardener<p>“WHY BEN SHAPIRO AND PRO-ISRAEL PUNDITS ARE MELTING DOWN OVER THE JFK FILES”</p><p>By Robert Inlakesh in Mint Press News </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> </p><p>“President Donald Trump’s decision to release previously classified JFK assassination files has sent pro-Israel conservative pundits into damage-control mode as renewed scrutiny falls on a potential Israeli motive in the killing of the 35th U.S. president”</p><p><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/why-ben-shapiro-and-pro-israel-pundits-are-melting-down-over-the-jfk-files/289321/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mintpressnews.com/why-ben-shap</span><span class="invisible">iro-and-pro-israel-pundits-are-melting-down-over-the-jfk-files/289321/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JFK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Classified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Classified</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Files" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Files</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MeltDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeltDown</span></a></p>
oatmeal<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Thelonious08" class="u-url mention">@<span>Thelonious08</span></a></span> Miller is truly a horrible person. His own family story is one of chain migration (from Belarus, if I recall correctly, following pogroms). If they hadn't ended up in the US, we probably wouldn't have to know anything about this disgusting piece of shit.</p><p>These rhetorical moves are meant to exploit human suffering to advance an anti-immigrant agenda, but most importantly, distract from domestic issues.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-and-stephen-miller-exploit-gaza-crisis-to-push-muslim-travel-ban/?form=FUNMTQNQPET" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/donald-t</span><span class="invisible">rump-and-stephen-miller-exploit-gaza-crisis-to-push-muslim-travel-ban/?form=FUNMTQNQPET</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">splcenter.org/resources/hate-w</span><span class="invisible">atch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChainMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChainMigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DHS</span></a> detains grad student who advocated for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palestine</span></a> and the "humanity of all people" </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, a student at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TuftsUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftsUniversity</span></a>, drew the attention of a pro-Israel group for co-authoring an op-ed<br /> <br />By Charles R. Davis<br />Published March 26, 2025 10:01AM Updated March 26, 2025 5:27PM (EDT)</p><p>"The Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for 'the equal dignity and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanity</span></a> of all people,' including Palestinians.</p><p>"Rumeysa Ozturk, a native of Turkey, was 'ambushed' late Tuesday outside her apartment, according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe. Neighbors had seen agents in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnmarkedCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UnmarkedCars</span></a> monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.</p><p>"'Her arrest comes after the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a> flagged Ozturk for having 'engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024.'"<br /> <br />Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detai</span><span class="invisible">ns-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BostonMA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
Columbus - Feeds<a href="https://www.thelantern.com/2025/03/letter-to-the-editor-an-open-letter-to-university-president-ted-carter-jr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Letter to the Editor: An open letter to university President Ted Carter Jr. - Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine</a>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> Bent Over Backward to Appease <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RightWing</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> Attacks — And <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> Still Cut <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FederalFunding</span></a> </p><p>Instead of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/outrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>outrage</span></a>, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown. </p><p>by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025</p><p>"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaza</span></a>.<br />In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GazaSolidarity</span></a> encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentsForJusticeInPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StudentsForJusticeInPalestine</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishVoiceForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JewishVoiceForPeace</span></a>. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.</p><p>"The crackdown was just getting started. </p><p>Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarnardCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BarnardCollege</span></a> one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech. </p><p>"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year. </p><p>"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>students</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>faculty</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a>, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RightWing</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety. </p><p>"For all Columbia’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/appeasement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>appeasement</span></a>, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FederalGrants</span></a> and contracts to the university.</p><p>"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/panopticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>panopticon</span></a>. And their funding was still cut.'</p><p>"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporatize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corporatize</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReWhiten" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReWhiten</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a>. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a>. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.</p><p>"There is no appeasing a political force like the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrumpianRight</span></a>, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Zionist</span></a> worldview that, defying reason, sees <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> in every call for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/03/08/co</span><span class="invisible">lumbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/jrNva" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/jrNva</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Appeasement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Appeasement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The War on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Masks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Masks</span></a> Has Taken on a New Meaning</p><p>This time, the masks have nothing to do with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COVID19</span></a>.</p><p>By Henry Grabar<br />Feb 05, 20254:57 PM </p><p>"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'</p><p>"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'</p><p>"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.</p><p>"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> advocates, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriminalJustice</span></a> reformers, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthCareWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HealthCareWorkers</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.</p><p>"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a> Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BanPublicFaceCoverings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BanPublicFaceCoverings</span></a>, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/felonies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>felonies</span></a>. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unmask" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unmask</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>protesters</span></a> this year.</p><p>"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthDirectives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HealthDirectives</span></a> and make it easier to arrest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/demonstrators" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>demonstrators</span></a> at the same time.</p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ohio</span></a> and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KuKluxKlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KuKluxKlan</span></a>, but had been ignored or suspended during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pandemic</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeFloydProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeorgeFloydProtests</span></a>. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaza</span></a> as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ADL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ADL</span></a>] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KKK</span></a> tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.</p><p>"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Philadelphia</span></a> banning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SkiMasks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SkiMasks</span></a> in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrianThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrianThompson</span></a> by a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskedAssassin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaskedAssassin</span></a>, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoFaceNoCase" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoFaceNoCase</span></a>.</p><p>"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.</p><p>"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceReformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceReformers</span></a> observed that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaskBans</span></a> have often been used for pretextual <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>policing</span></a> and racial profiling against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a>. (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AtlantaGeorgia</span></a> tabled a mask ban for that reason.)</p><p>"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a>, streaming video, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doxing</span></a>. Last year, the anonymous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> website the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a> posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.</p><p>"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be <br />'targets' for their alleged involvement in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DEI</span></a> initiatives at work.</p><p>"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"</p><p>Source:<br /><a href="https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/business/2025/02/mas</span><span class="invisible">k-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuthoritarianRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AuthoritarianRule</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>It's not over yet... A pox on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Harris</span></a> for not speaking out against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a> and alienating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabAmericans</span></a>! </p><p>House <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GOP</span></a> Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> Unilateral Power to Kill <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nonprofits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nonprofits</span></a></p><p>Dozens of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democrats</span></a> still support the bill — giving the Republican-controlled House plenty of breathing room to pass it next week.</p><p>Noah Hurowitz<br />November 15 2024</p><p>"A controversial '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> killer' bill is back on track after it was blocked earlier this week.</p><p>"A majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives rejected the bill on Tuesday out of fear that it could grant President-Elect Donald Trump legal tools with which to target his ideological foes, but Republicans are swiftly pressing ahead.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopTerrorFinancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopTerrorFinancing</span></a> and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which would empower the secretary of the Treasury to designate any <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> as a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>terrorist</span></a> supporting organization' and revoke its tax-exempt status, is set to go before the Committee on Rules on Monday for a hearing that could tee up the bill for a new floor vote.</p><p>"The hearing was announced Thursday evening, just two days after 144 Democrats and one Republican voted against the bill as part of a fast-track parliamentary procedure that required a two-thirds majority.</p><p>"The bill, also known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HR9495</span></a>, has come under withering criticism from a broad coalition of organizations that say its sponsors are pushing it as a means of cracking down on free speech — particularly speech in support of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palestine</span></a>. In a joint statement earlier this week, a coalition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabAmerican</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MuslimOrganizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MuslimOrganizations</span></a> pledged to continue to fight the bill.</p><p>"'This bill was designed to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>criminalize</span></a> organizations and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>activists</span></a> who oppose the U.S.’s unconditional support of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genocide</span></a> of Palestinians and the slaughter of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lebanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lebanese</span></a> civilians,' read the statement, which was signed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, American Muslims for Palestine, and others. 'We will continue to stand firm in protecting all organizations’ freedom to speak and operate without fear of political retribution.'</p><p>"Offices for the chair and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, through which the bill must pass, did not respond to requests for comment.</p><p>"With <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> groups lobbying for the bill, it gained popularity among House Democrats, in part due to a provision providing tax relief to Americans held hostage abroad.</p><p>"The reelection of Trump, however, galvanized opponents, including Rep. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LloydDoggett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LloydDoggett</span></a>, D-Texas, who led the charge to reject the bill on Tuesday. Doggett doubled down on Thursday after learning of the newly scheduled Rules Committee hearing.</p><p>"'In this mislabeled bill, House Republicans are hiding behind hostages,' Doggett said in a statement to The Intercept. 'Their rush to reconsider this bill is solely to offer Trump more and more power, while Trump’s nominees for key <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> posts this week indicate how he will be using it.'"</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2024/11/15/no</span><span class="invisible">nprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopHR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopHR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiWarActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AntiWarActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeaceActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeaceActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Protests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LebanonGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LebanonGenocide</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Heads up... The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> attackers are very active today. I just had to block one. Pretty much useless to report them 'cuz they are on m-social.<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeGaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CeasefireNow</span></a></p>
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