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Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025

"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.

Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."

apnews.com/article/columbia-un

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Israel says it will allow ‘basic’ aid into Gaza after nearly 3 months of blockade

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
Updated 5:30 PM EDT, May 18, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — #Israel announced Sunday it will allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into #Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade, days after global experts on food security warned of famine.
...
It was not immediately clear when aid would enter Gaza, or how. The #Israeli military body in charge of overseeing aid did not comment. Israel has been trying to impose a new aid system, despite objections by aid workers. #Netanyahu said Israel would work to ensure that aid does not reach militants.

apnews.com/article/mideast-war

#FoodAsWeapon
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Turkish #TuftsUniversity student released from Louisiana immigration detention center [#RümeysaÖztürk]

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By KATHY McCORMACK
Updated 8:33 PM EDT, May 9, 2025

'“Despite an 11th hour attempt to delay her freedom by trying to force her to wear an ankle monitor, Rumeysa is now free and is excited to return home, free of monitoring or restriction,” attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.'

apnews.com/article/ozturk-tuft

#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

#Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
Updated 9:21 PM EDT, May 9, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — #ColumbiaUniversity has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-#Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week, a school spokesperson said Friday.

The Ivy League institution in Manhattan placed more than 65 students on interim suspension and barred 33 others, including those from affiliated institutions such as Barnard College, from setting foot on campus.

apnews.com/article/columbia-pr

#DefendStudentProtesters
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

I wonder if #Reuters is worth subscribing to. #AP asks for donations but doesn’t require payment to see any of its content (I donate anyway.) But Reuters has a paywall for a fair amount of its content. I haven’t developed an opinion yet about Reuters, but neither have I seen any of the shenanigans that led me to cancel my NYT subscription (years ago, when they first helped Trump win the White House) and the Washington Post (this year, for obvious reasons). Does anyone on here subscribe to Reuters? BTW, they are asking for ¥600 per month, which seems pretty reasonable.

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Coda: The growth of BlueSky, and the novel features it launches with, point to a need for a 2.0 version of ActivityPub. One that fleshes out and updates the protocol based on dev experiences in the first decade of active use, and intentions going forward.

Ideally an AP 2.0 would include a formal mechanism for protocol extensions. One that learns from the experiences of the FEP process.

#ActivityPub#AP#AP2

While the world watches #Gaza, here is what’s happening in the West Bank

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JULIA FRANKEL, PHIL HOLM and JOSEF FEDERMAN
Published 1:02 AM EDT, April 25, 2025

"#Israel is staging a massive offensive across four major refugee camps in the north of the #WestBank. The raids, at their height, pushed 40,000 people from their homes. Many are now sheltering with relatives in neighboring villages, others racking up debt renting apartments while they wait to return.

#Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said those displaced will not be allowed to go back for at least a year."

apnews.com/article/while-the-w

#AllEyesOnWestBank
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#news #press @palestine @israel