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Rhiannon12866

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Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:20 AM 8 hrs ago

Detained for dissent: Judge slams Trump's campus crackdown as 'authoritarian' - Velshi - MS NOW



A Reagan-appointed federal judge delivered a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists — calling it an “unconstitutional suppression of free speech.” In September after students and scholars were detained and nearly deported without being charged with crimes, Judge William G. Young warned the U.S. must not become a country that punishes dissent.

This week, he went even further, describing the administration’s actions as “authoritarian,” and an unconstitutional attempt to “pick off” people for their speech. Wesleyan University President Michael Roth weighs in, “this is an aberration, and we have to call it out and name it as such, because otherwise it gets normalized.” - Aired on 01/18/2026.

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Detained for dissent: Judge slams Trump's campus crackdown as 'authoritarian' - Velshi - MS NOW (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 8 hrs ago OP
these guys are all right with "authoritarians" rampartd 7 hrs ago #1

rampartd

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1. these guys are all right with "authoritarians"
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 03:30 AM
7 hrs ago

the "kirkpatrick doctrine" almost says that authoritarians are the good guys, unlike those evil commie totalitarians.

i expect a few things about the greenlanders to get magnified in the propaganda, their common ownership of land makes them prime prey for those who worship "private property." and of course they are non white.

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