Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
norden.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Moin! Dies ist die Mastodon-Instanz für Nordlichter, Schnacker und alles dazwischen. Folge dem Leuchtturm.

Administered by:

Server stats:

3.5K
active users

norden.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#freespeech

96 posts69 participants0 posts today
Public
Annabelle 🇬🇱🇨🇦🇺🇦

"Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians
UK schools are coming under pressure to remove titles from their shelves. It’s not coming from the place you might think
For all its talk of free speech, the Trump administration seems remarkably comfortable with censorship."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librariansBy Alison Hicks
#libraries#freespeech#censorship
Public
DrALJONES

Analysis: When geen-card holder, Mohsen Mahdawi, received an email from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, he suspected it was a trap to detain & deport him.

He had recently been targeted by Betar. And his hunch was correct.

juancole.com/2025/04/inhumane-

#fascism #freespeech #uspol #trump #illegaldetention #studentprotestors #columbia .

Informed Comment · 'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader at urging of Far Right Zionist Betar Org.'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech,' said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer. ( Common Dreams ) - A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group Betar named Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of Palestinian rights defenders, Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. Mahdawi, who had held a green card for 10 years,
Public
everton137

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare
archive.is/2025.04.15-130708/h

"So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.

Alternatively, you can try to negotiate with a mafia boss who wants to see you grovel. When these negotiations fail, as they inevitably will, it will be too late to ask for the public’s support."

#USA#USPol#university
Public
DrALJONES

Analysis:

When geen-card holder, Mohsen Mahdawi, received an email from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, he suspected it was a trap to detain & deport him.

He had recently been targeted by Betar. And his hunch was correct.

juancole.com/2025/04/inhumane-

#fascism #freespeech #uspol #trump #illegaldetention #studentprotestors #columbia .

Informed Comment · 'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader at urging of Far Right Zionist Betar Org.'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech,' said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer. ( Common Dreams ) - A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group Betar named Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of Palestinian rights defenders, Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. Mahdawi, who had held a green card for 10 years,
Continued thread
Public
Nonilex

Honestly, #Trump is sounding more & more deranged.

Ignoring the bizarre word salad “terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’”, what he is directing the #IRS / #DOJ to do to #Harvard in his post breaks SEVERAL laws.

He cannot direct either agency. It is outside his scope of power.

Congress has the power of the purse.

#AcademicFreedom is essential to the #Constitution’s guarantee of #FreeSpeech.

Trump post: “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status & be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, & terrorist inspired/supporting “Sickness?” Trump posted…. “Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!”
#law#authoritarianism#tyranny
Public
DoomsdaysCW

#Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by #ICE

A green card holder, #ColumbiaUniversity protest leader #MohsenMahdawi faced attacks from pro-#Israel activists.

By Akela Lacy, April 14, 2025

"Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in #ColchesterVT, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen.
Instead, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and began the process to deport him to the occupied West Bank. #Mahdawi, a leader of the campus protest movement against Israel’s war on Gaza, became yet another green card holder arrested and facing removal.

"'#MohsenMahdawi was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,' Mahdawi’s attorney Luna Droubi said in a statement to The Intercept. 'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.'

"Mahdawi’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on Monday morning challenging the legality of his detention, alleging the government was violating his statutory and #DueProcess rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel. The filing said it appears that Mahdawi was facing deportation under the obscure provision used in other recent cases that gives Secretary of State #MarcoRubio the right to unilaterally declare immigrants as threats to American foreign policy."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ic

Archived version:
archive.ph/Z0lNh

The Intercept · Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICEBy Akela Lacy
#FreeMahdawi#SilencingDissent#Authoritarianism
ExploreLive feeds
About