The velvet gloves are off. On March 25, in Somerville, Massachusetts, six masked federal agents kidnapped Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Fulbright scholar and doctoral student at Tufts University. She wasn’t armed. She wasn’t hiding. She was walking in broad daylight, wearing a hijab, when she was abducted like a political prisoner in Erdoğan’s Turkey. Let that sink in: This isn’t Tehran. This is Massachusetts, 2025, under the Trump-Musk security state. And Ozturk’s crime? Writing an op-ed critical of Israel’s genocidal policies in Gaza. Not Hamas. Not terrorism. An op-ed. The Trump regime ignored a federal court order and dragged her across state lines like she was El Chapo. Vanished into the detention gulag of Louisiana—ironically, a red-state stronghold where liberty…
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