Israel’s War on Gaza
Universities Told Students to Leave the Country. ICE Just Said They Didn’t Actually Have To.
In their haste to comply with apparent directives from Trump, universities became unwitting handmaidens of the deportation machine.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Mahmoud Khalil and the Necropolitics of Trump’s Deportation Regime
Death is the point.
Israel’s War on Gaza
This College Staffer Lost Her Job After Showing a Film Critical of Israel. Now She’s Suing Over Free Speech.
She lost her job at Emerson College after screening a film critical of Israel. Her lawsuit seeks to leverage an unusual Massachusetts free speech law.
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Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers
The arrest of a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions is the latest attack on reproductive care.
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If Trump Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil, Freedom of Speech Is Dead
It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.
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Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal Funding
Instead of outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
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Gavin Newsom’s Cynical Embrace of the Anti-Trans Agenda
By abandoning trans rights and praising Reagan, Democrats embrace a fangless politics with a track record of electoral failure.
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Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections for Trans People
GOP lawmakers said that they couldn’t enforce bathroom bans with the civil rights protections on the books.
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Grow a Spine: Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From the German Left
The German elections show we don’t need to moderate fascism, we need to oppose it.
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Trump and Musk Delight in the Sounds of Human Suffering With Sick “ASMR” Immigrant Video
The video might bring pleasure to their supporters, but for us it is a call to shut down their fascist deportation machine.