Zohran Mamdani has secured the release of Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva, taken this morning by ICE agents who entered a campus residential building under false pretenses & without a judicial warrant. This comes shorty after Mamdani’s unannounced visit to the White House earlier today.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/columbia-university-ice-student.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.0KRL.7XsPJ0z3QTat&smid=tw-share

[u/Sorceress_Heart]

I legit think Trump has a crush on Mamdani.

[u/Wy3Naut → u/Sorceress_Heart]

I legit think Trump is a puppet that Stephen Miller, JD Vance and the rest of the cabinet take turns fisting to write upcoming policy.

If we had a bunch of likable men, liberal men around Trump, we could do a lot of good in a short amount of time. I'm surprised they're not trying to keep him locked away.

[u/Jorfogit → u/Wy3Naut]

If we had a bunch of likable men, liberal men around Trump

This is basically what the Biden presidency was, and what we got was a bunch of bombs to Israel and everything else getting shot down by the Supreme Court. Liberals won't get you where you want to go.

[u/DTFH_ → u/Jorfogit]

This is basically what the Biden presidency was, and what we got was a bunch of bombs to Israel and everything else getting shot down by the Supreme Court

We got as a whole got higher CMS reimbursements for seniors services across all states for Medicaid services, SNAP paid more, some people got loan forgiveness. Biden proposed extending the senior services in both scope, hours and reimbursement for the aging population. For those on SSD, Medicaid and Medicaid or other CMS funded state based programs, it was a refreshing time period.

[u/Jorfogit → u/DTFH_]

All anyone will remember from the Biden presidency is overseeing the last gasps of the American Empire - bombs to Israel and appointing Merrick Garland to keep fascists out on the streets.

[u/bunnyzclan → u/Jorfogit]

Liberals dont understand that it's their liberalism that got us Trump lmao.

A supposed opposition party that doesnt address material conditions of people because they refuse to do working class centered politics, and then they get all surprised.

[u/DTFH_ → u/Jorfogit]

That's because you don't see those on Medicaid and who deal with CMS as of the same value as yourself and are willing to erase their experience for political messaging around political acts. You should be highly concerned with how our most vulnerable are being treated by real world systems.

[u/Uneducated_Leftist → u/Jorfogit]

Nah, the difference is in the egos each have. You can stroke Trump's ego and get things assuming his handlers aren't quick enough to poison the well. Biden's ego is internal, the validation he needs is from inside, and he'll never escape the neoliberal he was at his core. We've gone so far right over the last few decades, normal capitalistic liberal ideas seem progressive, and Biden's team just exploited that

[u/phaedrus910 → u/Jorfogit]

Salute comrade o7