America Is Dead: The abduction of 30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk is living proof

Masked Men, Midnight Arrests, and a Vanishing Constitution: Trump’s America Is Now a Textbook Dictatorship

Mar 29, 2025

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On a chilly March evening in Somerville, Massachusetts, 30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk stepped out to meet friends for a Ramadan iftar dinner. She never made it. Security footage shows a group of plainclothes federal agents – their faces masked – swarming the Turkish PhD student on the sidewalk, snatching away her phone and handcuffing her before hauling he…

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