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In Trump's America, authoritarianism is a feature not a bug.

An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, according to the university’s president and an attorney representing the student.

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, had a valid student visa as a doctoral student at Tufts, according to a statement from her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai. Ms. Ozturk, who is Muslim, was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends Tuesday night when she was detained by agents from the Department of Homeland Security near her apartment in Somerville, Mass., Ms. Khanbabai said.

“We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her,” the lawyer said. “No charges have been filed against Rumeysa to date that we are aware of.”

The agent's were not uniformed officers but wore hoodies or masks. There's video in a link below.

Ozturk's crime? She wrote an op-ed.

This is some serious Nazi sh!t.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-st...

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/p...

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