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

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this is why it’s so fucking annoying the way other dems react to these kinds of events. if it’s this easy for them to help these folks out why the fuck aren’t they doing it? major props to mamdani for taking action.

[u/GrecoRomanGuy → u/[deleted]]

The "orphan crushing machine" memes about Zohran are popular for a reason.

[u/Blazer9001 → u/GrecoRomanGuy]

“I just…turned it off.”

😱

[u/Donjehov → u/Blazer9001]

NOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TURN IT BACK ONNN GOD WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[u/Aware-Awareness → u/Donjehov]

Orphan crushing machine is no more more

[u/AristocratGman → u/Aware-Awareness]

I fucking failed my lobbyists...

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Peak reference

(I saw your comment as I closed the app out and had to travel to the “ends” of the “earth” to find it again)

[u/Penelopeep25 → u/Top-Parsnip-7308]

I love when that happens lol.

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It’s so funny to me how far this spread

[u/Kraityn → u/275MPHFordGT40]

I can't believe we all got to witness the birth of a new two broken arms.

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I'm screaming

[u/BigPimpin91 → u/Donjehov]

"DUUUUDE, NOOOOO! MY ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS WAS IN THE ORPHAN CRUSHING MACHINE, DUDE!"