🚨🚔 POLICE STATE IN CHICAGO
Pussy Riot's founder @nadyariot takes over the theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for 5 days
Nov 25–26 & 28–30 • Artist will be present during working hours of the museum
POLICE STATE builds a world that confronts surveillance, apathy, control 🩸
I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home, and denied the dignity, medical care, and due process they deserve.
This is not normal. No part of this is legal or just. My constituents deserve to live free from fear. Our freedoms and our destinies are tied.
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
@SenWarren, @SenMarkey, and I demand that DHS immediately provide her access to the care she needs, restore her visa, and release her.
Every minute she remains in custody is another minute her health and rights are at risk.
We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We've got our eyes on the prize.
And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.
The time to organize is now.
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This is a horrifying violation of Rumeysa's constitutional rights to due process and free speech.
She must be immediately released.
And we won't stand by while the Trump Administration continues to abduct students with legal status and attack our fundamental freedoms.
The American people aren't stupid. Pete Hegseth disclosed sensitive information, put our troops at risk, and then lied about it.
Trump must fire Hegseth.
Rumeysa was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to.
She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process.
Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now.
Donald Trump is trying to dismantle public education in America.
To every public school student, teacher, and parent: this is our moment to stick together and fight back.
It’s only “free speech” if you agree with them.
Everyone else gets stripped from their community’s town hall.
The fact is, we work for everybody. If Republican politicians can’t get that we work for the public, then the public should give them the boot. 🥾🗳️
A President who detains a protestor and revokes their legal status can only be called one thing:
A dictator.
Silencing dissent is unlawful, unjust, and authoritarian through and through.
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Literally. 😂 Right wingers have been trolling me and disrupting our town halls for years.
Anyone who lets this stuff be an excuse to hide from the public and stop doing town halls is not cut out for the job.
Criticism is part of the gig. Take it on the chin and move on.