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I’m asking for your financial support following political repression. On April 8, 2025, I was detained and interrogated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Tampa airport after returning from a (fully legal) trip to Cuba. I am a U.S. citizen, but that didn’t stop federal Customs agents from telling me that “mostContinue reading “Help Musa Pay Legal Fees + Get a New Laptop | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising”

This case is not just about one deportation. It’s a blueprint for how to make anyone disappear. — Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-analysis-trump-black-sites.html

Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from a spring break trip with his family. — Read on http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

More than 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor in support of detained children, mother – syracuse.com — Read on http://www.syracuse.com/state/2025/04/more-than-1000-march-in-sackets-harbor-in-support-of-detained-children-mother.html

Federal Investigations of UC Faculty Members – The Council of UC Faculty Associations — Read on cucfa.org/2025/04/cucfa-letter-on-eeoc-investigation/

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. — Read on arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

Underneath the mirage, the reality of growing Chinese investment in Africa is not nearly so clear cut. — Read on spectrejournal.com/a-tale-of-two-ports/