I know this is being normalized extremely quickly, but let’s take a step back, put political analysis aside, and think about how insane this is. Students across the country are being arrested by actual police for sitting on the lawns of their universities with tents and signs.

If you’re involved in any of these anti-genocide actions at universities, please make sure to save your emails, flyers and other papers so that in 50 years your university can proudly display them as part of their special collections

The Justice Department never even apologized to the Epstein victims. We now know there were almost 200 of them.

NEWS: Status Coup News will be premiering our #FlintFatigue documentary in Flint on the decade anniversary of the ONGOING #FlintWaterCrisis . Premieres online on Sunday. flintfatigue.com

“[Mehdi] was a star in the making on October 6, because he had taken down Ramaswamy,” says one of his former colleagues. “On October 8, he was a villain.”

Lengthy piece on Mehdi's new venture Zeteo and why MSNBC canceled their best interviewer 1/

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

And here’s Columbia’s website, boasting about the student radicalism of 1968 and promising that the university is “a far different place today.” It notes that the fallout of calling the cops on students “dogged Columbia for years.” How prescient.

news.columbia.edu/content/new-pe…

Here’s this from NYU’s website, promising students “a world of activism opportunities” and talking about the university’s rich history of student radicalism. Just nauseating, incandescent levels of hypocrisy and cynicism. 4/

meet.nyu.edu/life/student-a…

Tbh, as I sit here in *Guantanamo Bay* attending legal meetings in a former black site while a fourth US admin fights to use torture evidence in a “court” built for summary executions — the past months feel like a revival of the worst excesses of the past two decades.
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FIRE wrote Harvard just last month explaining that this collaboration policy broadly violates the expressive and associational rights Harvard clearly promises. We warned them it could be easily abused to punish controversial speech or groups.

Don’t usually do *this* but, thread: Monday, SCOTUS debates the criminalization of homelessness. That means many folks are sounding off on the topic. I’ve spent 4 yrs covering this for The Washington Post, and need to reality-check assumptions getting thrown around this week (1/x)

Thanks for this “diverse viewpoint” NYT, something I can’t get anywhere else (besides the White House, most of Congress and the entire intelligence community)

Amazing headline to see just hours after congress voted for 90 billion in foreign aid

I think it’s really sad and ugly how all the students involved in this are effectively being smeared by politicians who find it easier to miss what they’re saying than to address what they’re saying.

This is the heckler’s veto, a popular tactic for shutting down civil rights events. “WE have nothing against the speaker, but we feared troublemakers might protest her so we preemptively shut her down…for her own sake! (wink wink)”

It has everything to do with free speech.

feeling uncomfortable is not the same as actually being unsafe

They’re going back to the basics huh

Phil Ochs — I’m Going to Say It Now youtu.be/TU_jDp5ytLc?si…

I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence #ColumbiaUniversity which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..

You’d be forgiven after reading this for not realizing that the people actually threatening a “normal graduation” are the administrators canceling graduation speeches and arresting their own students, not those boycotting the events because they refuse to close their eyes to it.