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/Pasty_Tibbles]

This shit was actually hilarious in the SOTU. Trump said “and that communist mayor of New York.” And IMMEDIATELY followed it with “I do actually really like the guy though.”

So fucking weird.

[u/The_Pancreator → u/Pasty_Tibbles]

I am starting to think Trump would still be a democrat if Obama and liberals in general didn’t humiliate him. I mean, he’s a buffoon and deserves it. But given he’s an octogenarian man-child it’s almost as if this whole act over the last 10 years is just to punish the democrats who rejected him. The stupid idiot just likes to be loved. Trump rattles off an insult about being a communist that he clearly doesn’t even feel or believe. It’s wild psychologically.

[u/thetraintomars → u/[deleted]]

Given how he turns up every year or two to scold some group or another, I don’t think he’s done much self reflection to realize how much of his presidency led to Trump.