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While the abduction and attempts to deport every foreign student who participated in anti-genocide protests on American campuses are all important stories, I'm genuinely surprised Trump's targeting of Rumeysa Ozturk hasn't become a flashpoint in this larger story, the way the Abrego Garcia abduction has in the trafficking migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador scandal.

Frankly, demonizing anti-genocide protestors is a bipartisan sport in the American establishment, but the Ozturk abduction is unique in that she never participated in a protest; the regime is detaining and attempting to deport Ozturk because she wrote an op-ed calling for Tufts University to divest from Israel while it conducts a genocide, and the wrong people noticed. Specifically Canary Mission, a doxing group that specializes in harassing anti-genocide protestors in multiple Pig Empire nations. Soon after the group accused Ozturk of antisemitic activities; again, for writing an op-ed calling on Tufts to divest from Israel, she was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents in a video half the country watched and shared online.

This transcript of a recent interview with one of Ozturk's lawyers touched on the subject of the Trump regime obtaining target lists from an anonymous doxing group with unclear funding, and provides an update on Ozturk's legal fight; which appears to be going about as well as can be expected because all of this is fascist Calvinball bullshit designed to silence dissent and protect a genocide being conducted by an American client state.

democracynow.org/2025/4/22/rum

“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk

"JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And could you talk about the role of Canary Mission and others like it in, essentially, identifying for the government people that they should be deporting?

MUDASSAR TOPPA: Yeah, and, you know, I think at this point there’s been a clear connection that we can draw — right? — from the doxxing organizations, the pro-Israeli doxxing organizations. And there is a clear doxxing-to-deportation pipeline that’s taking place.

And in Ms. Öztürk’s case, it’s even more apparent, because Ms. Öztürk was not a known organizer or advocate for any cause, really. And Ms. Öztürk’s sole sort of publicly identifiable association to the movement against the genocide and the movement for Palestinian human rights was this co-authored op-ed in her school newspaper that was really just asking the university to respect the wishes and the vote of the student Senate. And, you know, all of the sudden, in February of 2025, almost a year after she’s written — she’s co-written this op-ed, Canary Mission publishes a page on her, doxxing her and alleging that she’s engaged in antisemitic behavior because of this co-authored op-ed. And less than a month later, she’s abducted by ICE.

And so, it’s very chilling that the government seems to be taking their marching orders from these private doxxing organizations with mysterious funding and backing. And I think it underscores why the government’s actions are simply unconscionable."

Democracy Now! · “The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa ÖztürkBy Democracy Now!

A little gem of an opening salvo from the "Learning #StandardML", #Tufts U Comp 105 course handout:

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For someone with a background in COMP 11 and COMP 15, the fastest and easiest way to learn Standard ML is to buy Ullman’s book and work through chapters 2, 3, 5, and 6. But many students choose not to buy Ullman—a move that saves money but costs time. You can recover some of the time by reading this guide; it enumerates the most important concepts, and it tells you where to find key information, not just in Ullman, but also in three other sources:

• Jeff Ullman’s "Elements of ML Programming" (ML’97 edition)
• Norman Ramsey’s "Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare"
• Mads Tofte’s “Tips for Computer Scientists on Standard ML" (Revised)
• Bob Harper’s draft "Programming in Standard ML"

Know your sources! Mads Tofte and Bob Harper both worked with Robin Milner on the design of Standard ML, and they helped write the Definition of Standard ML. They know what they’re talking about, and they have good taste—though Tofte’s use of the ML modules is considered idiosyncratic. Norman Ramsey at least knows some functional programming. Jeff Ullman, by contrast, got his start in the theory of formal languages and parsing, then switched to databases. He may like ML, but he doesn’t understand it the way the others do.
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I don't know any professors who teach at Tufts, but the word on the Web is that Ramsey is the author of this handout. Cheeky blighter!🤣

cs.tufts.edu/comp/105-2017f/re

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After interacting with people who support Trump's war on Yemen for days I can confidently say that none of them know why the war is happening. They think the Houthis just spontaneously started attacking ships for no reason, or because they are "pirates" or "terrorists".

x.com/caitoz/status/1907210815

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #yemen
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #tiktok #cdnpoli #tufts #columbiauniversity #canada #usa @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow

Idk if everyone else has already done this, but the OpEd written by #RumeysaOzturk & friends? Published in the Tufts Daily?

I just read it: tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03

It calls for Tufts president to reexamine & adopt 3 resolutions passed by Tufts student senate:
1) boycott Sabra foods
2) acknowledge genocide, apologize for prior hurtful remarks, & host an open meeting w/student groups
3) disclose & divest from Israeli investments w/Tufts $
#USpol #USpolitics #Tufts #SomervilleMA #MApoli

The Tufts DailyOp-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutionsThe independent student newspaper of Tufts University

I'm not sure if I'm up for live-tooting it, but if anyone else wants to listen, the #SomervilleMA city council meeting has started, and we are totes talking about ICE kidnapping #Rumeysa.

You might hear me speak later on tonight, if you stay on long enough. (This is gonna be a long night.)

somervillema.legistar.com/Meet

somervillema.legistar.comCity of Somerville, Massachusetts - Meeting of City Council on 3/27/2025 at 7:00 PM