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This is a very long thread, reporting on a hearing for Rümeysa Öztürk, the college student who was snatched by ICE on video.

I understand only some of it. What’s important here is that there’s a glimmer of hope. The ACLU is fighting for her, and the judge is listening. That’s monumental in the fight against fascism.

#RümeysaÖztürk #ACLU #ICE #Palestine #OpEd #Xenophobia #Hearing
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3lmroutlt322t

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻1d ago

Day 16 cont 🏡🏠🏚️🏚️🏡🏡🏠🏠🏡

“One is left to wonder, why do parties of both major #political persuasions keep doing things which they know will put upward pressure on #house #prices, and thus exacerbate the #problem they say they are trying to solve?

It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the reason is that they know there are only about 110,000 people who each year succeed in becoming first home buyers. And even if you assume that for every one who does, there are five or six who don’t, that’s still only 700,000 or so votes, tops, for policies that might restrain the rate of house price inflation or halt it altogether.

Politicians also know that at any point in time there are more than 11 million voters who own their own homes, and more than 2.25 million who own at least one investment property. The last thing those 11 million to 13 million voters want is anything that might restrain – let alone halt – the rate of property price #inflation.” — #SaulEslake

#AusPol / #OpEd / #housing / #Australia / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals / #Labor <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/14/the-housing-policies-of-both-major-parties-are-bad-for-aspiring-home-buyers>

The housing policies of both major parties are bad for Australia’s aspiring homebuyers

The plans would exacerbate the problem they say they are trying to solve – rising property prices

The Guardian

Susan Ville 2d ago

"Israel is now engaged in nothing short of a deliberate plan to exterminate the Palestinian people in Gaza", writes Hussein Haridi in his #oped for Al Ahram Weekly

#palestine #genocide #icj #icc #un #mena

📰 Full article APR-13 👇🏽

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/544219.aspx

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻2d ago

Day 15 #OpEd reminder of who benefits from #LNP ☢️ policy

Thu 31 Oct, 2024.

“#PeterDutton says his office asked whether billionaire (Oligarch) #GinaRinehart's jet was available for event: #OppositionLeader Peter Dutton has admitted his own error after saying he had never requested access to billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart's #PrivateJet in his travels.”

Mr Dutton has previously #declared flights provided by #HancockProspecting, owned by Ms #Rinehart, but on Tuesday said "no" when asked if he had ever personally asked to be flown courtesy of the nation's #richest woman.

#LNP / #Nationals / #Liberals / #Oligharchs / #Corporations / #MultiNationals / #Nuclear ☢️ / #NuclearWaste ☢️ / #NuclearPower ☢️ <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-31/liberal-mp-adds-undisclosed-flight-upgrades/104543154>

Peter Dutton says his office asked whether billionaire Gina Rinehart's jet was available for event

Peter Dutton says his office did ask billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart "whether the plane might be available" to attend a memorial service, after the government did not provide a RAAF flight for him.

ABC News

Lucire 3d ago

Are we living in the era of Andrew Niccol’s #Simone?

https://lucire.com/insider/20250412/are-we-living-in-the-era-of-andrew-niccols-simone/ #film #AI #AndrewNiccol #technology #ethics #BigTech #OpEd

Are we living in the era of Andrew Niccol's Simone?

The 2002 film Simone was about a digital actress who people think is real, causing a global phenomenon. Jack Yan wonders if we have arrived at this technological point

Lucire

Susan Ville 5d ago

#germany #keinemusik #dj #music #ethics #SaudiArabia #musicbusiness #edm

"A video showed scenes of unbridled hedonism, dancing and what looks like a pop #festival taking place just a few hundred miles away from Hellfire missiles raining down on tented refugee camps and engulfing Palestinian #journalists in flames." (...)

📰 #oped by Yvonne Ridley for MEMO

Bin Salman’s shame as Arabs dance while #gaza burns

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250410-bin-salmans-shame-as-arabs-dance-while-gaza-burns/

Susan Ville 5d ago

❕ Special recommendation for readers in #germany

The basic definition of “concentration camp” is simple: a place where a large group of people, usually civilians, are imprisoned without due process. There are various reasons as to why they are kept in confinement, including their ethnicity, religion or because they oppose the authorities ordering their imprisonment.

#gaza #westbank #palestine

#CrimesAgainstHumanity

📰 #oped by Dr Mustafa Fetouri for MEMO 👇🏽

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250410-israel-has-turned-gaza-into-a-21st-century-concentration-camp/

Susan Ville 5d ago

📰 #oped The war on student activists and the disappearance of academic freedom in the #us

By Barry Trachtenberg* for Anadolu

*The author serves on the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. He holds the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA

#academicfreedom #freedomofspeech
#protest

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/opinion-the-war-on-student-activists-and-the-disappearance-of-academic-freedom-in-the-us/3532523

OPINION - The war on student activists and the disappearance of academic freedom in the US

By focusing on suppressing pro-Palestinian activism rather than addressing actual antisemitic threats, Project Esther leaves Jewish communities more vulnerable while simultaneously eroding civil liberties and academic freedom - Anadolu Ajansı