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It's usually an atmosphere I enjoy, but as I attended events, moderated sessions and listened to speakers, it bothered me that an urgent issue听went mostly unaddressed.

People听are being arrested for their speech in America and targeted for their dissent.

Although听several听did touch on this in sessions I missed, it wasn't until the last hour, late Sunday afternoon, that I heard speakers point out the elephant striding unnoticed down the U of A Mall. , the author of a "boyhood memoir" of growing up trans in a 蜜柚直播-area RV park, and , author of his own trans memoir, assumed the challenge.

"I've made it my mission to not be quiet and to speak up," said Bossiere, whose poignant book is called "Whether you're trans or not, you have something to lose."

So far, the Trump administration has targeted mostly outgroups like trans people and foreigners.

is a Columbia University graduate and a green-card-holding activist of Palestinian origin, now detained for deportation. Not like you or me, probably.

The without due process came to our country听recently and , . Not like you or me, probably.

The leaders of t are mostly D.C. Democratic bigwigs. Not like you or me, probably.

The , or to m are big-money academic executives. Not like you or me, probably.

But as Bossiere and Radclyffe made clear, you shouldn't take any comfort if you haven't been targeted yet by regime efforts to fire, deport, harass or extort undesirables. If you're not a Trump supporter, your turn, our turn, will undoubtedly come.

The moves of the last few weeks have shown this Trump administration is nothing like the hapless first one. They have skillfully targeted outgroups and disloyal elites as they clamp down on dissent and gather power, testing its limits like no administration before.听

"I do think that this administration is trying to consolidate as much power (as possible) for the executive and for Donald Trump," Democratic U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego told me in an interview Thursday, citing efforts such as the attempted abolition of the Department of Education without Congressional approval. "These are actions that can lead to an autocracy, and we have to find ways, where we can, to stop them and try to hold power and hold them accountable."

Under pressure to fold

The first step is not folding. People at universities such as the U of A and ASU are under special pressure to fold. The Trump administration has targeted campuses, which are , for a crackdown on dissent and funding.听

The administration has cut funding for research, the lifeblood of many universities, required an end to diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and labeled people who protest Israel's actions in Gaza as terrorist sympathizers carrying out "illegal protests."

has been a crucial tool. Trump has used it against , expelled three this month, fired and forced out two professors and banned student groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.听

After all that, on March 7, the Trump administration canceled $400 million in federal grants to Columbia researchers, accusing them of "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students," without offering any fresh evidence. The administration then demanded nine concessions, including expulsion or multi-year suspensions for those who participated in the occupation of a campus building or participated in protest camps.听

Despite having an endowment of almost $15 billion, Columbia folded this week and accepted the Trump demands.听

Paul Weiss, a big Democratic-oriented law firm, could have fought the Trump administration's effort to blackball it. The firm has the money and the lawyers. and agreed to donate legal services to efforts such as fighting antisemitism, which could put them in the vanguard of fighting free speech on campus.听

The University of 蜜柚直播 hasn't been singled out yet. Trump's administration has targeted more elite universities for special scrutiny so far. But ASU is on a list of 45 universities being investigated for alleged race-based discrimination against white and Asian-descended students in graduate programs.听

And the UA showed a disturbing willingness to give in when it removed the words "committed to diversity and inclusion" from its land acknowledgment this year without even being asked.

Campus speech protected

蜜柚直播's university campuses should be protected bastions of free speech, thanks to the Goldwater Institute and Republican legislators seeking to protect campus speech for conservatives. In 2016 and 2018, the GOP-led Legislature passed that offers strong protections.听

"It is not the proper role of an institution of higher education to shield individuals from speech protected by the First Amendment, including, without limitation, ideas and opinions that may be unwelcome, disagreeable or deeply offensive," .

, "A person who is lawfully present on a university or community college campus may engage in expressive activity, including a protest or demonstration, in any area where the person is lawfully present. Individual conduct that materially and substantially infringes on the rights of other persons to engage in or listen to expressive activity is not allowed and is subject to sanction."

People whose free-speech rights are infringed by the universities or community colleges are given the right to sue them and collect damages.

When I asked Gallego about Khalil, the former Columbia student activist detained for deportation, the senator put his position this way: "If you're on a student visa, if you're here as a permanent resident, and you're using our nation's First Amendment rights to sustain an opinion, then it shouldn't be something that's used against you."

He qualified that by saying people shouldn't be allowed to encourage violence or make it threatening for fellow students to cross campus because of their identities. But the Trump administration has brought no evidence that Khalil did that.听

Not cowed by threats

The threats aren't stopping people like Jocelyn Garcia. She is a third-year law student and president of Students for Socialism. Garcia, 24, is also affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine. She's pretty much the campus radical people like Trump are warning about and targeting.听

She and more than 50 others attended a demonstration Tuesday off-campus at Main Gate Square, protesting Israel's breaking of the ceasefire in Gaza that has killed hundreds of people over the last week.

We met Friday, and I asked if she's worried about herself in this new era of campus crackdowns by the federal government, with the accompanying pressure on university administrations to sanction people like her.听

"I'm cautious but not afraid," she said. "Who does it serve if I'm repressing myself? I'm doing the work for them."

Oliver Radclyffe, the author of is carrying the same spirit. A U.S. citizen originally from England, Radclyffe says, he's anxious when he returns to the USA because of the "M" for male on his passport. He used to be female.听

"Every time I come back, I听worry they won't let me back in," he said.听

But he sees no long-term advantage to scuttling around in fear and accommodation of people who want his existence erased by executive order.

"Like Zoe, I'm going to be as loud as possible," Radclyffe went on. "I'm going to keep writing and keep writing till they take me away in handcuffs."