Here at the new pro-Palestine Solidarity encampment at City College in Upper Manhattan. There’s a notable contingent of Orthodox Jews here in support.

hey, remember that whole 'turn empty hotels into the housing we need' thing?

Arun Venugopal with a good look at the one conversion actually happening over near Kennedy Airport
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Let's start with antisemitic hate crimes by Muslims or 'Islamists' as the ADL calls them.

Would you believe that since 2002, ADL records exactly 0 antisemitic hate crimes by Muslims.

ZERO.

Okay, but we know antisemitism among leftists is high, right? Let's see ADL data.

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My Columbia Journalism students are out reporting non-stop: working sources they've built over months, navigating the campus unlike any outsider, and adding much-needed context, humanity and depth to coverage.

If you're an editor looking to commission them, get in touch.

Strong condemnations by professors this afternoon Columbia University. Here’s a speech by Christopher Brown, a professor of history, who says the university and president Minouche Shafik made a mistake calling in NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian protestors last week 🧵

🚨We're so excited to announce the launch of “A Prison Writer’s Guide to Media Writing,” a first-of-its-kind journalism handbook for incarcerated writers.

prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/04/17/fir…

Our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia’s campus on Thursday & Friday. I want to clear some stuff up. I didn’t see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn or at the student encampment. The student-led protest was peaceful and often very quiet…

“Inconceivable Truth” is so good — playful, vulnerable, and in the hands of Matt Katz really quite profound. It’s also tearin up the charts!

For THE CITY, NYPD confirms 108 arrests thus far, Columbia says anyone who participated is suspended, though they haven't confirmed #'s. By 2pm police had cleared the lawn of protesters, though hundreds more have since set up in another portion of lawn.

thecity.nyc/2024/04/18/col…

Didn't realize they still write books like this.
'Based on a true story, this celebrated book follows Sophie's transformative journey to India, where she encounters the joy and gratitude of children living in a mud colony.'

Episode 4 of INCONCEIVABLE TRUTH, “More Of Us,” is in your podcast feeds right now:
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Code Switch has an excellent essay on the opinion piece about NPR making the rounds, noting it acts as if the existence of systemic racism is an open question, though NPR has reported on the extensive evidence which proves it absolutely exists. READ: loom.ly/SdKRJGc

As reported by Gothamist, WNYC 🎙, and @ArunNYC, this is a major win for the critical work Lawyers' Committee ☎️866-OUR-VOTE has been doing to protect our democracy. We remain committed to fighting illegal and discriminatory voter suppression and disinformation tactics that target Black voters.

Council overwhelmingly approved Willets Point redevelopment plan. Sole dissenter in 47-1 vote was Shekar Krishnan, who issued a scathing speech saying that stadium is 'controlled by one of the wealthiest men on the planet' but will still pay zero property taxes over 49-yr lease.

NYC cleared 8,000 homeless encampments in last 2 years with NYPD present nearly every time. Most happened in lower Manhattan -- one site was swept 199 times. Listen WNYC 🎙 to hear from those impacted by these sweeps gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

Episode 3 of Inconceivable Truth, out now.

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Loved seeing my story (and a pic of my late cat Shmelvis) in the Inquirer, the newspaper where I used to write other people's stories.

Thank you, Zoe.

To listen to my podcast, INCONCEIVABLE TRUTH: link.chtbl.com/inconceivablet…

Pair targeted NY's Black voters with disinformation in 2020. Now it'll cost them.

Story by Arun Venugopal

gothamist.com/news/pair-targ… via @gothamist

Geologist: “There probably will be others” in coming days. Likely less serious earthquakes.

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