That’s my fucking mom—-she’s okay now and bailing out the students who got arrested. I’m so proud

Philadelphia police dept declined to intervene at Penn because the situation could not be shown to be dangerous. 1) props where they're due, I guess. 2) seriously, Penn? I've made repeated trips to the encampment, and it occupies a tiny space--most don't even know it's there!

Just thinking about which acts of civil disobedience in this country are met with violent repression

This but it's not just Columbia, it's UCLA, it's everywhere

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Will do a longer thread tomorrow maybe but I wrote about the history of the Farm Bill, a policy 'iron triangle, and the prospects for effective climate-oriented ag policy. TLDR: we could really stand to reduce acreage in commodity crops and convert to forest to sequester carbon.

I'm curious how many of the academics who imagined the covid response to be an authoritarian police state are now complaining about the actual mass deployment of police to their workplaces

#ReportClimateCrisis
Extinction, Australia, May 2024

Biden is everyone MLK denounced in Letter from a Birmingham Jail

My lord he is even worse than I thought (and I did not think much of him to start with PLUS I am a skeptic on lab grown meat).

HT Dayton Martindale

This is what Dartmouth 🌲 administration brought onto campus. Fully peaceful, inclusive protest. Arrested students, faculty, reporters.

NEW: Just received footage of violence against student protesters at Dartmouth from Josh Paul, who quit the State Dept over Biden’s Gaza policy & the school invited to speak on a panel about dissent against US government policy tomorrow. He’s canceled his appearance, he told me.

A very timely paper in light of the ongoing H5N1 issues.
First authored by Yangchuan Wang