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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

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Historian Ilan Pappe was detained in Detroit airport on Monday and asked if he was a Hamas supporter, whether he views Israeli action in Gaza as genocide, who his Arab and Muslim friends are in America, and what his solution is to the “conflict.” He is 70.

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Julian (They/Them) 's avatar Julian (They/Them) @dazerla.bsky.social
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Carol Roper's avatar Carol Roper @unrulywomenfiction.bsky.social
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This is the USA patriot act in action. It expanded search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, statutes related to telephone privacy and electronic communications, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

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Megan Dosher Hansen's avatar Megan Dosher Hansen @megateer.bsky.social
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As if the people asking these questions could understand the nuance of answers involved.

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Rev. Magdalen's avatar Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social
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Because we all know that terrorism has an age limit and people of the age of 70 can't even use weapons at all.

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hand_to_eye's avatar hand_to_eye @delightw2023.bsky.social
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McCarthyism is alive and well.

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Gome Ravid's avatar Gome Ravid @gomeravid.bsky.social
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Cancel culture?

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CKJohnsonBK's avatar CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
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I feel like I am missing a big piece of this. Why is American law enforcement so invested in Israel crushing Palestinians?

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Jacob 's avatar Jacob @raoulduke1976.bsky.social
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He’s right. None of this is good for Israel. They have to know this?

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Tom's avatar Tom @stealthisbook.bsky.social
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How in the fuck was some TSA hourly employee asking these questions? Were they personally Fox News fans swinging their big authority dicks around, or was it a script from someone given a government directive?

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This guy is really a mensch. Love him.

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muad’dweeb's avatar muad’dweeb @richored.bsky.social
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this is atrocious, but it is also based as hell to just say 'read my books' when asked these ridiculous questions

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🇵🇸Lisa-Is-Not-Here-To-F🕷ck-Spiders-BLM🇵🇸's avatar 🇵🇸Lisa-Is-Not-Here-To-F🕷ck-Spiders-BLM🇵🇸 @angelcomrade.bsky.social
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Detaining a Jewish academic for questioning Really really really bad look for a swing state to be doing this shit

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War Hater's avatar War Hater @rainbowbody.bsky.social
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I would never talk to cops in this situation because my "Here is my list of people to drone" would be problematic

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Alice in Keynes's avatar Alice in Keynes @aliceinkeynes.bsky.social
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"He is 70."

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Jay Schiavone's avatar Jay Schiavone @jaytingle.bsky.social
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People in airports must be very curious about Gaza.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)'s avatar Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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Some of our Chinese national grad students have been subjected to similarly horrifying questioning by these fascist goons.

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vote for biden so this thing doesn't happen

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