https://bsky.app/profile/chenoweth.bsky.social/post/3lkqrdxha3k25

https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter_from_a_Palestinian_Political_Prisoner_in_Louisiana_March_18,_2025.pdf

The letter reads as follows:

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention March 18, 2025

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.

Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.

On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.

My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.

I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.

I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.

While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation — to go unchecked.

Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due process and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration's latest threats. My arrest, the expulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees just weeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contract negotiations, are clear examples.

If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.

The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.

Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.

• Tesla is already one of the most expensive automotive brands to insure.
• Insurers warn that rates could soon go up as activists are vandalizing Teslas over CEO Elon Musk's political meddling.
• Owners have no recourse short of selling their cars.

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Link to find direct numbers your senators

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121

Link to find direct numbers your senators

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121

Tell them no on cloture and no on the bill itself

Post link

https://bsky.app/profile/bkindivisible.bsky.social/post/3lkdms4t4wc24

House dems are PISSED at what Schumer just did. This is the case where outside voices are maximally helpful - when people on the inside of the party want him out. Let's build continued pressure. This will not happen overnight, it will happened when we keep the pressure consistently high

To start, I use this account (almost) solely for current events, gathering protest information etc. Apparently, the link to my DC list of protests consistently gets removed from r/washingtondc.

While the original post I made there got some traction, it seems that several, possibly all comments I've made there with the link have been removed (even though I can still see them). It also seems like mentions of r/vetsagainsttyranny /Sons of Liberty also get blocked regardless of what subreddit I post them in. This has happened in r/50501 and r/ProtestFinderUSA.

Keep sharing these links and groups. Apparently we need to find a way around these walls. I'm really curious how this post will do. It seems as though it mostly applies to comments, however.

EDIT: I discovered how to see all past comments through reveddit, and I can now confirm that all comments in r/washingtondc with the link were deleted except ONE. It seems that the subreddit is heavily censored. In addition to the link, any mention of r/50501 was also deleted, as well as mentions of Proton, a google alternative that I use for the list. One mention of r/50501 was also censored in r/genz.

If you are remotely nervous about tomorrow.. (continuing resolution being voted on to either shutdown or continue the government—we need shutdown to stop the madness and we need Dems to vote no on the bill!)

Sen. Rosen (NV): No public position

Sen. Warnock (GA): No public positon

Sen. Ossoff (GA): No public position

Sen. Booker (NJ): No public position; Video says he’s No but no mention of cloture

Sen. Smith (MN): No public position

Sen. Wyden (OR): No public position; Bluesky tweet says no only on CR

Sen. King (ME): No public position

Sen. Murphy (CT): No public position

Sen. Blumenthal (CT): No public position

Sen. Warren (MA): No public position

Sen. Markey (MA): No public position

Sen. Klobuchar (MN): No public position

Sen. Bennett (CO): No public position

Sen. King (ME)

CALL THESE PEOPLE

(202) 224-3121

https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

https://5calls.org/issue/cr-continuing-resolution-doge-musk/ (just plug in your location!)

Cloture meaning: https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm

So far, my city doesn't seem to have a local protestor group and I was wondering how to find one. At the least, I want to be in contact with one.

Pack up your bags, Tesla is woke. You heard it from Elon Musk himself.

Taken from the 50501 reddit...

US : Request your private data obtained by DOGEUS News (self.50501) submitted 8 hours ago * by Vivid_Midnight_1066

Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act. This law encompasses the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, which entitles any citizen to access personal information held in any U.S. government records system.

https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

Please spread the word so we can inundate DOGE with requests for our personal data.

Edited to add a direct link to the form letter: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/images/Raskin_DOGE_Privacy_Request.pdf