The Daily Populous Wednesday March 12nd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Silent-Resort-3076

“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump posted. “Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country—never to return again.”

Last week, Trump threatened to pull funding from schools that allow “illegal protests” and added that “agitators” would be “imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested.” Following this, the Trump administration canceled $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University for what it called “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

The president is making good on his threats and gloating about it, and the fact that Khalil is an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin suggests that the administration’s first targets may be ethnically motivated. Plus, it overlaps with Trump’s goal of mass deportations of immigrants, only in this case, the president is including legal immigrants in this attack on the First Amendment. Will Democrats stand up and demand free speech protections, or will they oppose pro-Palestinian protesters?

IgnatsHammerschlab on March 12nd, 2025 at 01:59 UTC »

I’m an Air Force veteran. I was an airborne Russian linguist during the Cold War. Back in the early 80s. My buddies and I are going to show up. We’re coming from three different states. We all swore enough to defend the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a traitor in the White House who led an insurrection. He has never been punished for that and through his actions has disqualified himself according to the 14th amendment.

This March is not just for veterans but for everyone and everyone is invited. Come join us at noon this Friday, March 14.

Every-Comfortable632 on March 12nd, 2025 at 01:05 UTC »

It's time to depose the Ketamine King. Puts on Tesla are working, now let's amp up the pressure in the streets!

Silent-Resort-3076 on March 12nd, 2025 at 00:59 UTC »

Article:

Video: Veteran locks self to sign post outside White House to protest VA cuts

“Allan said he and his fellow veterans “are marshaling on [March] 14th at noon and marching all over the country to say one simple thing: Veterans will not stand for this any longer.”

> **“**An 80-year-old (Vietnam) veteran chained himself to a sign near the White House Monday to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s massive cuts to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

> Richard Hobcraft Allan III, a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, locked himself to a metal post outside of the presidential building Monday morning, holding a pipe around his hands reading “King Trump and Pres Musk are killing veterans.”

> Allan said he and his fellow veterans “are marshaling on [March] 14th at noon and marching all over the country to say one simple thing: Veterans will not stand for this any longer.”

> “We believe that an unelected leader is killing our fellow veterans and something must be done. All over our country, people are standing up, making noise in the streets, and stating ‘we cannot go on as usual,’” Allan continued. He later joked with one of the Metropolitan Police officers who responded to the scene.

> “I’ve been told that some of you guys are real humane,” he said.

> “We try to be,” the officer replied.

> “If you could slip over here with just a shot of bourbon—” Allan said, causing the officer to laugh.

> Ultimately, police decided to leave Allan attached to the post.

> “My intention had been to be here until I was broken out of here and arrested, and I was proud to face arrest in the name of my fellow veterans,” Allan said, but would ultimately have to free himself, and called his small protest an “appetizer” for the larger veterans’ march on Saturday.”