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News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents

Added 2025-04-02 15:32:58 +0000 UTC

On this News Brief, we discuss the media and high-profile Democratic Party leaders and 'Free Speech' crowd's muted—or, in many cases, completely silent—response to perhaps the greatest attack on free speech in recent memory: Trump's kidnapping and disappearing of Palestinian solidarity students.

Show Notes

Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents

Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson | April 1, 2025 | In These Times

The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide

Moira Donegan | March 28, 2025 | The Guardian

Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave

Vimal Patel | March 28, 2025 | The New York Times

ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues

Patrick Smith | March 27, 2025 | NBC News

Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

Rumeysa Ozturk, Fatima Rahman, Genesis Perez and Nicholas Ambeliotis | March 26, 2024 | Tufts Daily

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