First Amendment Institute at Columbia weighs in: University may have violated its own rules in engaging NYPD to crackdown on students, and correctly notes how bringing in riot gear (I.e. heavily armed) cops actually threatens campus safety and community.

My campus, my neighborhood- Columbia under police control today - sacrificing everything a university stands for to satisfy a bunch of right wing politicians.

Protest is not meant to be comfortable. You’re not meant to like protests, you’re not meant to find them convenient. It’s supposed to be uncomfortable—so uncomfortable that it forces the powers that be to listen and change.

NEW—A day after Rep. Ilhan Omar pressed Columbia administrators, the school suspended her daughter & 2 more students for involvement in a campus encampment of hundreds calling for divestment from Israel's violence in Palestine.

I spoke with the 3 students:theintercept.com/2024/04/18/col…

Truly obscene for Columbia to involve NYPD in this.

Baltimore’s DEI Mayor Brandon Scott. Duly Elected Incumbent. ✊🏾

This type of activism helped bring down apartheid South Africa. Shoutout to these brave and fearless Columbia students.

So cool that the NFL effectively blacklisted Colin Kaepernick for his racial justice stances. But Aaron Rodgers can spout reckless conspiracies about HIV, Sandy Hook, etc, and continue to be one of the highest-paid players in the league.

Great to have Eli Northrup join my class today at Columbia: chatting with students about law and organizing, and why we need to elect more public defenders to office!

Columbia University campus today with large #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow actions.

Loophole: using your UNLIMITED strikes, you can make sure you get zero jurors, and thus zero convictions. 😎

At a time when there are so few journalists left in Gaza, the U.S. media industry has chosen to sit & laugh with President Biden.

Palestinian journalists call on their colleagues with conscience to stand with them and boycott the White House Correspondents’ Dinner medium.com/@gazajournalis…

This is actual and insidious cancel culture.

Can’t imagine what would give him that impression

That isn’t what I said. OJ’s acquittal was correct and necessary because the police were caught lying and potentially planting evidence. Mark Furhman was a liar and a proven racist who PLEADED THE FIFTH when asked if he planted or manufactured evidence in the case. Finding him…

Signatures include Nancy Pelosi 👀

Why is NYC sending out frantic emergency alerts…40 minutes after the earthquake.

Geologist on The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast says this is the biggest earthquake ever recorded in NJ.

Me today: