ABC finally admits they can't ignore it.

"Huge crowds gather in 'Hands Off' rallies nationwide in protest of Trump admin"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/huge-crowds-gather-in-hands-off-rallies-nationwide-in-protest-of-trump-admin/ar-AA1CmJ6X

"Tens of thousands of protesters mustered in cities and towns across the country on Saturday to sound off against the Trump administration's cuts to the federal government and its polices. "

#HandsOff #media #Trump #USA #democracy #protest #indivisible #press

Alt...

"Huge crowds gather in 'Hands Off' rallies nationwide in protest of Trump admin"

@amalia22

I hope you're right, though the talking heads think he'll disappear from the TV screen but be as bad or worse "behind the curtain", like Oz.

To your point, I recall him saying he'd just plunk down millions and solve some things like world hunger,. "How'd that work out?"

Somehow, just like the Toddler King he bought, like "groceries"- he has fun with words, gimmicks, & false narratives on HIS #media and complicit MSM...

OK, I do believe I have a souvenir from the days of yore...

Alt...

8-frame cartoon "by Dumbass" 1. Title: The Three Musk-eteers (Ye, Elon, & Donald) 2. Elon, in a Musketeer outfit: "My fellow billionaires have been unfairly punished & exiled simply for their brave & outspoken nature!" 3. Elon steps forward towards employees, thrusting a sword": "En garde! I am taking over this platform through skill and cunning!" An employee replies, "Um, you *bought* it, sir!" 4. Scene change. Musk arrives at the bedside window of Trump, who presciently has boxes by his bedside labelled "Top Secret". Musk: "Mon Ami! I now welcome you back to Twitter!" Trump, phone in hand, replies: "You want me to tweet for free? You're nuts!" 5. Next Musk visits Ye. Just the two of them in frame. Musk: "Very well! Ye, you may return to Twitter and speak your peace [sic]" Ye: "I want to say, 'I like Hitler.'" Musk: "Then you shall! I am a free speech absolutist!" 6. A grey-suited Twitter exec comes over & speaks into Musk's ear: "Sir, advertisers are leaving & you're losing money!" Musk: "I've grown concerned about your speech, and you're out!" 7. Musk w/sword: "So I will wage this battle for civilization alone! I will make the world a better place by letting absolute free speech reign!" 8. Last frame: horizontal double-size. A mob w/swastikas, Q, & Trump signs. Staffer: "Sir, many people are criticizing you on Twitter!" Musk: "Then that's spam and a violation of terms of service! Kick them all out!!" End-caption: "All for Elon, and Elon for Himself!"

Even with zero #tariffs on #mairikkkan #dairy, no one in Canada would eat that shit, with the bovine growth hormone.

Why isn't #elmo in the #rosegarden?

UPDATE: #CBC said we do import heaps of USA dairy. Gross. 🤮 (But not above the quota that triggers tariffs.)

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bgh #elxn45 #freetrade #psychoticpeople #media #war #tradewar #trump #trade #protectionism #leon #musk #muskrat

…access is a standard way that autocrats use… You've got to play my tune or you're going to lose access. It would be great if the entire news media just cut that power off by saying we're all going to quit together.
—Jason Stanley
#media

…if anyone starts to use access as a weapon, they're no longer going to be giving access as a source of information, but rather as manipulation or spin. …access is just going to be a propaganda method.
—Jason Stanley
#media #journalism

I think we are facing an even more profound crisis than politics or the news. The very basis of empirical investigation, facts and evidence, that relates of course also to the rule of law, is coming under attack for the first time in our lifetime. And make no mistake, this threat, this onslaught is coming to Europe next.
—Chris Steele
#politics #media #truth

Game Informer Is Back
There's lots of things that have disappeared from the world in the 35 years the internet's been around, and very few of them ever come back. Anyone remember Happy Puppy? Midway Games? GameSetWatch?

One of those dead properties was Game Informer, a long-time video game publication that got its start as an official organ of the used game chain FuncoLand, whose ads used t
https://setsideb.com/game-informer-is-back/
#news #GameInformer #magazine #media #news #revival

One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation.

Investigating one of the deadliest moments of the war in Gaza.

from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [US]
Daniel Estrin, Daniel Wood, Abu Bakr Bashir, Anas Baba, Ahmad Abuhamda, Mahmoud Rehan, Connie Hanzhang Jin

March 24, 2025

An #Israeli strike on a #Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the #Israel-#Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead.

https://apps.npr.org/gaza-building-israel-strike-casualties/

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

My Glittering Media Career – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/my-glittering-media-career-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #CyberSecurityNews #SecurityBoulevard #Media

“First, They Came for #MahmoudKhalil”

Those close to him tell the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner.

from #DropSiteNews
Meghnad Bose
Mar 23, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-journey-refugee-syria-columbia-university?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine

Jewish Academics Slam Trump Attack On #Columbia

“The knock-on effects of this will be catastrophic,” one co-author told #huffpost

By Matt Shuham
Mar 19, 2025, 05:28 PM EDT

"Hundreds of #Jewish professors, scholars and students have signed a letter condemning the #Trump administration for canceling $400 million in federal funding to #ColumbiaUniversity and threatening other universities."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jewish-academics-trump-columbia-antisemitism_n_67db29a5e4b0abb74b13dbb7

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Why indie cinemas are embracing ‘No Other Land’ — even as US distributors are staying away

Though ‘#NoOtherLand’ has been ignored by mainstream distributors, small cinemas in the #US say that screening it has been a no-brainer

from #TheForward #Forward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]

By Olivia Haynie March 18, 2025

https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/705259/no-other-land-screening-indie-cinemas/

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

#Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by #ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

#BadarKhanSuri was detained by #DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-#Israel groups.

from #DropSiteNews
Archit and Murtaza Hussain
Mar 19

#Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, #MaphezeSaleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of #AhmedYousef, a former political advisor to the #Hamas-led government in the #Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. #Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-postdoc-the-latest-to?publication_id=2510348&post_id=159450359&isFreemail=true&r=fzerp&triedRedirect=true

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Days of Massacres Ravage #Syrian Coastal Areas

After botched uprising, gunmen murder hundreds of civilians in #Alawite-majority villages in sectarian killings.

from #DropSiteNews
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Murtaza Hussain
Mar 14, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/syria-latakia-alawite-massacre?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics #Syria #AlSharaa #Assad
#media #news #press @syria

Massacre at 2 A.M.: Israel Resumes Indiscriminate Attacks Against Gaza, Killing Over 400 People

#Israel says President #DonaldTrump green-lit a scorched-earth bombing of #Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other children.

[based on eyewitness coverage]

from #DropSiteNews
Abubaker Abed
and Jeremy Scahill
Mar 18, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-resumes-bombing-gaza-death-toll?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Israel launches deadly airstrikes on Gaza

from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [US]
Updated March 18, 20255:03 AM ET
By Anas Baba, Daniel Estrin, Kat Lonsdorf

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54401/israel-launches-deadly-series-of-attack-on-gaza?orgid=364

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Israel unleashes bloody Gaza bombardment, killing hundreds and breaking truce

Hospitals are overwhelmed with the dead and wounded as #Israeli jets bomb homes and schools across the enclave

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine and Sondos Asem and Rayhan Uddin in London
Published date: 18 March 2025 02:46 GMT

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-resumes-war-gaza-unilateral-end-ceasefire

#Israel killed more than 400 Palestinians, including over 100 children, in one of the bloodiest bombardments of the #Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, unilaterally ending its ceasefire with #Hamas.

Air strikes began hitting all five Gaza municipalities from north to south at around 3am local time (12am GMT) on the 18th day of the holy month of Ramadan.

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare

Opinion [re arrest of #MahmoudKhalil]
Michelle Goldberg
March 10, 2025

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

"“This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian Hauss, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s a direct attempt to punish speech because of the viewpoint it espouses.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.Y_fK.OGBIayggrMEg&smid=url-share

#ACLU #DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine

The US assault on free speech is not going to end with #MahmoudKhalil

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Arwa Mahdawi - Opinion
Sat 15 Mar 2025 09.00 EDT

"It should be clear by now that America is not exceptional; the constitution is not a magical document that will protect our freedoms simply by existing. We are sliding towards an authoritarian future at alarming speed and #Khalil’s detention is an important reminder that we can’t fight for our rights in isolation. All of our freedoms are intertwined."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech-civil-liberties?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine

How a #Columbia Student Activist Landed in Federal Detention

#MahmoudKhalil never shielded his face with a mask the way some protesters did. That made him a target when President #Trump decided to move aggressively against campus activists.

[Fairly sympathetic article from the #NYT.]

from #NewYorkTimes
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]

By Michael Wilson, Michael Rothfeld and Ana Ley
Published March 16, 2025
Updated March 17, 2025, 9:32 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.vTkh.2HsONdYfblV0&smid=em-share

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine

Trump administration issues nine demands to Columbia University to restore federal funding

The #WhiteHouse has demanded #Columbia reform its world-renowned Middle Eastern studies department and adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Areeb Ullah
Published date: 14 March 2025 13:31 GMT

"The university was also told to begin the process of placing Columbia's world-renowned Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership. This process requires an outside chair, who could be appointed by the government, to run the department for five years. "

"Other demands listed by the White House include a mask ban on campus, giving "full law enforcement authority" to campus security by allowing them to "arrest and remove agitators", and reforming the admissions process for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. "

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-trump-issues-nine-demands-restore-federal-funding

#Palestine #MiddleEast #politics
#USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine

#ColumbiaUniversity expels, suspends and revokes degrees of 22 students

The move comes after #Trump demanded several changes to be instituted at the university in return for federal funding

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 14 March 2025 19:58 GMT

"Columbia University leadership made a series of concessions to the Trump administration on Thursday following an extraordinary letter that listed nine demands it expected the university to make if it did not want its federal funding to be pulled.

On Thursday, the university announced it was expelling, suspending and revoking the degrees of 22 students following last year’s Hamilton Hall protest, fulfilling one of the nine demands issued in a letter from the Trump administration to Columbia."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/feds-appear-columbia-second-time-week-while-university-capitualates-government-ultimatum-0

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

BREAKING: #MahmoudKhalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention

#Khalil will likely stay at notorious #ICE facility in Louisiana until at least March 17.

from #DropSiteNews
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Jason Paladino
Mar 13, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-speaks-with-attorneys-ice-detention?r=fzerp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump #Rubio
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

UK: Pro-Palestine students face expulsion for sharing Middle East Eye posts

The University of Essex is investigating six students affiliated to the Palestine Society after Prevent flagged their social media posts

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Areeb Ullah
Published date: 12 March 2025 16:53 GMT

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-pro-palestine-students-face-expulsion-sharing-middle-east-eye-posts

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#media #news #press #UK #UKPolitics @palestine @israel

#Yale Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link

The deputy director of a liberal project at #YaleLawSchool was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to #Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

By Stephanie Saul
March 12, 2025 Updated 1:07 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/yale-suspends-scholar-terrorism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.VFme.ZrVrJQTmp5w2&smid=url-share

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine

see above article -
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention in Louisiana after first court hearing
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

@GottaLaff
Hi, thanks for posting this. I am going to add some tags and a Fediverse group so that more people see it.

Wife of #Columbia graduate student detained by #ICE speaks out about his arrest

#MahmoudKhalil was detained by Ice agents on Saturday, part of #Trump’s crackdown on pro- #Palestinian campus protesters

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Wed 12 Mar 2025 09.26 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-wife-statement

#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics #repression
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

#MahmoudKhalil Was Detained by ICE Agent Honored by #Trump at State of the Union

A federal judge has since blocked his potential deportation—for now

from #DropSiteNews
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Jason Paladino
Mar 10, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-detained-ice-agent-honored-trump?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#ProtestIsNotACrime
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#DefendFreeSpeech
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel