A prominent donor family, including a trustee, of Kean University in New Jersey continues to own a warehouse used to house detained migrants. The warehouse, located in Elizabeth, is the closest detention center to New York City. Given the Trump administration’s plans to use the military for mass deportations, deport naturalized citizens, and ignore birthright citizenship, the Kean University community should be concerned about the university’s role in this crisis.
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Bluesky, a young social media platform, has rapidly grown during the last week. Many left-leaning users of “X” (formerly called Twitter) have been departing the platform for Bluesky in a movement dubbed “X-odus.” The movement comes after the owner of X, Elon Musk, helped Donald Trump regain the presidency. Musk’s efforts to support Donald Trump were most plainly displayed in the large amount of financial support personally put into America PAC, the super PAC created by Musk that spent about $200 million to help Trump’s election efforts. More discretely, Musk allowed and pushed disinformation on X that benefited Trump, a fellow disseminator of disinformation who owns the social media site Truth Social. Now, disinformation is spreading on Bluesky, and it’s not coming from Musk or Trump.
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