She Stepped Onto a Sidewalk in Boston -- and Vanished Into Trump's Shadow State -- Thom Hartmann [View all]
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She Stepped Onto a Sidewalk in Boston and Vanished Into Trumps Shadow State
Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalins Russia. This isnt speculative fiction. Its happening right now, in America
This is how it begins.
Tuesday night, Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was going out to a restaurant to meet friends when masked federal ICE agents dressed in street clothes seized her off a public sidewalk and disappeared her. Her apparent crime was co-authoring an op-ed critical of Trump and Netanyahu.
Where is she now? At first, nobody knew. As her attorney told The New York Times:
We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her.
Then it was revealed last night as the video of her kidnapping went viral that shes been transported to a violent ICE facility in Louisiana. Yeah, that place. Without any legal due process that anybody can identify.
Meanwhile, Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil remains in the hellhole of a notoriously brutal private prison in Louisiana for daring to speak out against the Israeli slaughter of Gazans.
And Columbia student Yunseo Chung, whos been a legal permanent resident of the US since she was 7 years old, is in hiding while her lawyers sue to prevent her arrest for also speaking up about the violence Netanyahu is inflicting on people in Gaza.
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