Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed.

 

 

I was not going to post again tonight, and in fact had thought to place some videos in a scheduled post for tomorrow.   But this is FAR TOO IMPORTANT TO WAIT!  When I told Ron about this, he remembered the Portland protests where tRump had security from prisons in unmarked vans and blacked out uniforms snatch people from the street.  Is this them.  Or as Ron asked me, is this just his brown shirt thugs trying to enforce his positions on the street?  How to know because he sent them after drag queens and drag queen story hours.   How far down the authoritarian road have we traveled already?  How much farther before we can’t come back.  Want to know her crime.  She is a legal student here from Turkey and she wrote a pro-Palestinian op-ed.  For that she got black bagged and sent to a location no one can contact her as even her lawyer says he has heard nothing and has no way to contact her.  Even after a judge told ICE / tRump not to do this, they did it.   Oh and why are they snatching these students and others then sending them to Louisiana?  The appeals court for that area is notoriously right wing.  They want as much good press and legal writing as they can get before it hits the SCOTUS.  Even if a judge in the proper district tells them to do something they don’t want they just ignore it trying to force the judge to sanction tRump and his administration for using his core power which the SCOTUS tRump seems to feel has made him immune from any consequences of even an illegal act.  We will soon see if he is correct.  Seems Justice Sotomayor was correct.   Hugs. Hugs


 

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T17:41:56.037Z

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T17:34:18.672Z

 

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T17:47:08.918Z

A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T05:00:39.382Z

 

"An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities."

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T20:31:42.369Z

 

She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T21:18:38.788Z

A rally for Rumeysa Ozturk after she was arrested by U.S. secret police and flown to Louisiana, apparently for writing a pro-Palestine op-ed.

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T22:48:30.077Z

 

 

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