by Blanca Missé | Mar 11, 2026 | academic freedom, Activism, Criminalization, criminalization of dissent, Dissent, free speech, history, ICE, labor, Op-Ed, Organizing, palestine solidarity, protest, Red Scare, The Red Scare, Trump Administration, Unions
On July 10, 2025, as federal agents stormed cannabis farms in Ventura County, California, community members rushed to protest what they saw as yet another sweeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Among them was Jonathan Caravello, a 37-year-old philosophy lecturer at California State University Channel Islands. Today, he faces a federal felony charge that could send him to prison…
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by Sharon Zhang | Nov 19, 2025 | Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, far right, free speech, J.D. Vance, McCarthyism, News, Red Scare
Hundreds of Americans lost their jobs or faced discipline at work for making comments about far right activist Charlie Kirk after his death in September, new reporting finds, as the Trump administration whipped up a frenzied crackdown against Kirk’s critics. According to an investigation by Reuters, at least 600 Americans were fired, suspended, placed under investigation…
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