Federal agents release #ColumbiaU student after university says they used false pretenses to enter building & detain her

#ICE gained entry by lying., pretending they were local police looking for a missing person.

Lucky for her, #Mamdani intervened.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/us/columbia-university-student-detained-ice

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes back historian #RashidKhalidi to talk about #ColumbiaUniversity's entente with the #Trump Administration, #Columbia's measures to bring in "outside monitors," and how powerful donors and neoliberal management models are affecting humanities departments and #MiddleEastStudies.

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e223-columbia-trump-and-the-palestine-exception-w-rashid-khalidi

#studentProtests #ColumbiaU #academicFreedom #campusActivism #stateRepression #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #USpolitics #UShigherEd @palestine @israel

"At a moment when protest leader Mahmoud Khalil has been returned from the Trump administration’s brutal and unwarranted effort to deport him—and announced his own lawsuit stemming from his detention and rendition—Shipman’s ritual banishment of other anti-war activists signaled to the White House that #Columbia will be an eager partner in the many moral panics it will continue throwing together on the fly."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-trump-settlement/

#ColumbiaU #USpol #UShigherEd #PalestineSolidarity @palestine

#Jadaliyya's streaming of #TheEncampments (2025), directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker, the 1st of 4 streamings/screenings in a mini-film festival on #Palestine

discussant: Anna Feder
moderator: Bassam Haddad

https://youtu.be/Vo_JNK8neZ8

#Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #GazaSolidarityEncampments #StudentProtests #ColumbiaU #USpol #USpolitics #activism #cinema #documentary @palestine @film

PhD Timeline: Trump2-amended
https://xkcd.com/3081/

Diamond: Harvard for standing up for academic freedom

Coal: Trump sycophants/cowards/ICE-abetting domestic terrorist organization Columbia University

🇺🇲 #Trump #Christofascism #transgenocide

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#academia #AcademicFreedom #Harvard #ColumbiaU #ColumbiaUniversity #DomesticTerrorism

> This is a BIG deal

>> "Every inch we give is an inch we don't get back."

Also: "Who wants to hire a lawyer who's known for being a fucking weasel?!" 😂

#PodSaveAmerica
#ColumbiaU
#Harvard
#NoKings

https://youtube.com/shorts/c_MUJRL-5Dw

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian Columbia student who was detained by ICE on the way to his citizenship interview, was nabbed essentially on the order of the Zionist organisation Betar. They expect the Trump regime to act against their other targets, as well.

> “We confirm having repeatedly provided information on Mohaen Mahdawi,” the group said in an email in response to HuffPost’s questions Monday, apparently misspelling Mahdawi’s first name. Betar said it expected the other person it named in its March email, as well as “multiple U mass Amherst staff and students,” would soon be arrested as well, “we believe.”

> The group said, “We have nothing to apologize for,” adding: “As the forefather of Zionism, Ze’ev Jabotinsky said in 1911, No Apologies.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mohsen-mahdawi-arrested-citizenship-interview_n_67fd60b1e4b09c14eff576a0?d_id=8954963&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000046&utm #Zionism #Israel #Trump #Fascism #ColumbiaU #USPoli

🗣 Columbia U has a $15 BILLION ENDOWMENT
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114316643994677511

this attack on #ColumbiaU is a HOSTILE TAKEOVER not of a private university, but an investment fund.

the ponzillionaire banksters paying Trump to do this, only care about those $15 billion.

really don’t care about all the white supremacist Ivies sitting on billions of endowments; but these sociopaths won’t stop at one university.

if fascists succeed, they’ll go after any money in USA banks. and i mean ALL OF IT.

Rick Stengel on Deadline WH today w/a note of relevant history re Trump's w/holding off $400M from #ColumbiaU:

Trump is still angry w/ Columbia for not buying a $400M parcel of land he wanted to sell them.
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It's true (sorry, I've met my monthly quota for gift articles):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-university-400-million.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

See also: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/24/katherine_franke_columbia_university

Odd coincidence?

O/c not.