Nina Alvarez

Mom, journalist, doc filmmaker, prof @columbiajourn.

[CNN @CNN]

An immigration judge terminated removal proceedings against Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was detained for over a month last year as part of the Trump administration's effort to target and deport international students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy, her lawyers said. https://t.co/Sy1kUn4qxN

[Meghnad Bose @MeghnadBose93]

⚡NEW: A ‘Career Design Lab’ at Columbia University is platforming details of, and thereby directing students towards, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Virtual Career Expo that calls on people to “Help Defend the Homeland”.

Columbia faculty members have begun emailing university authorities to register their displeasure against the university platforming the CBP recruitment event.

A coalition of concerned faculty members said, “At a moment of intensified immigration enforcement, racial profiling, and documented violence by these agencies, hosting their recruitment risks causing real harm to members of our community—particularly immigrant students, staff, and families, and it signals institutional endorsement of these practices. Other universities are already seeing protests and withdrawals over similar events following faculty and student pressure.”

The statement added that this “further damages Columbia’s public standing by reinforcing the view that we are complicit in the turn towards authoritarianism.”

Columbia has a banner on the site that says “External events listed on this site are not sponsored or hosted by SPS.” A faculty member said that it was added seemingly in response to the complaints. The details of the CBP event are still up on the Columbia site.

The faculty member told me, “I'm disgusted that in this moment when ICE and DHS is committing so much violence, ripping apart communities, murdering people on the street and holding children in concentration camps, Columbia would promote the agency to its students."

@DropSiteNews

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to betray MS-13 informants in exchange for access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison.

Justice Department officials say Rubio threatened to undercut years of work to secure the cooperation of high-ranking gang members. https://t.co/pWlOfgBIsk

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

@columbiajourn Allow international journalists to report in Gaza.

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

A statement that begs the question- why has the Trump administration terminated the protective status of Cubans, proceeding to detain and deport them?

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

The Cuban regime's malice and cowardice knows no limits.  On Cuba’s Independence Day, we honor the sacrifice, courage, and resilience of all those who have stood up to this brutal regime.

[layla, lmsw @itslaylas]

Over ten Columbia University public safety officers place a student into a chokehold, tackling him to the ground. He was screaming from pain and was denied medical attention. Public safety officers surrounded a Jewish student, forming a physical barrier to prevent recording.

[Nausicaa Renner 🍷🌑🌊 @nausjcaa]

Sewell Chan says in his statement that one of his fellows was “passionate about Gaza” and operating on conflict of interest. This is actually a dangerous statement to make in the current climate.

It concerns a CJR fellow who wrote a profile of @DropSiteNews and then later wrote a piece for us about Mahmoud Khalil. It wasn’t a conflict of interest—it would have been if he had pitched positive coverage of us after working with us. But as far as I know the point of a fellowship is to introduce you to people and topics you are curious about in the field.

Also, from working with him, the fellow is one of the more professional journalists I’ve encountered and is not a campus activist. If I had to guess I think Chan’s statement references Gaza because he thinks it will benefit him; which if true is frankly gross.

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

WATCH WHY Phil Williams is being honored with The Chancellor Award!

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Thank you! What an incredible shout-out from @iamjohnoliver and @LastWeekTonight! If you haven’t seen it, here are excerpts. Find the full episode at https://t.co/BKtDAy4v4I. (Language warning)

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Thank you! What an incredible shout-out from @iamjohnoliver and @LastWeekTonight! If you haven’t seen it, here are excerpts. Find the full episode at https://t.co/BKtDAy4v4I. (Language warning)

[Columbia Journalism School @columbiajourn]

2023 duPont winners @ScottNBC5 @ParksDigsIn @nbcdfw pushed lawmakers to close a scary Texas loophole: paper license plates used to create untraceable "ghost cars." Think you've got a winning project? The deadline to submit is only two days away https://t.co/nDaBiucF9K

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

If you cannot accept the results of an election, why participate at all?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

A Black professor who studies housing discrimination had his house appraised: $472,000.
He then did a “whitewashing experiment,” removing indications of Blackness, and had a white colleague — another professor — stand in.
The appraisal? $750,000. https://t.co/4nR0rZiMl2

[Rahna Epting @rahnamepting]

Today 6 SCOTUS justices who go to work every day in one of the most well-guarded buildings in the country ruled against commonsense gun control laws to protect students, teachers, grocery store clerks, and doctors that go to school and work every day without such a privilege.

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

@DannyPA @ellie__miles No- because at an event, you would not have a camera sitting on your lap sneaking pictures. People can have a reasonable expectation that there will be cameras at any newsworthy event.

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

Colleagues and freelancers complained for years of abusive behavior by @nytimes international picture editor David Furst. So his quiet exit brought relief—but also anger the paper took so long to take action.

I spoke to 39 people for my latest in @CJR
https://t.co/wnwuofKxJC

[Katie Phang @KatiePhang]

“One trooper yelled at Sung, ‘Do you speak English?’” 😡😡😡

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

@DanielGAlarcon @nuncaduermo AAAAAJJJJAAAAAJAJAAAAA - que buena! Don't mess with @nuncaduermo!

[Marcela Valdes @valdesmarcela]

I began work on this⁩ article in 2019. It took 18 months and 40+ interviews to get it right. A huge thank you to my incredible editors at ⁦@NYTmag⁩ for supporting—and pushing!—me through that long process. https://t.co/V0lChrdNnL

[Nina Alvarez @ZocaloHarlem]

@valdesmarcela @NYTmag Epic story so well told.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Attention everyone, another young Black woman is MISSING with no news coverage. Her name is Nyrah Barner Curry.

Please share. Please repost. Please help find her.