A great question. President Folt? Hello?

USC. Last week the site of the Festival of Books. Tonight the site of a police occupation.

#USC
#LAPD
#occupation
#festivalofbooks

Bearing witness to LAPD arresting students at USC right now.

USC SENDING IN HUNDREDS OF LAPD COPS TO ARREST COLLEGE STUDENTS ON THEIR OWN CAMPUS.

This is the state of higher education in America.

My ⁦USC⁩ students are holding it down in the face of the administration’s heavy-handed overreaction to them exercising their free speech rights.

This, from Moby-Dick

Proud to see The Cornell Sun (of which I was the editor-in-chief) and The Daily Trojan at USC (where I'm now a professor) coming out strongly in favor of academic freedom in the face of what The Sun terms 'conservative donors and congressional crooks.'

nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/…

A happy belated birthday to Charles Mingus: composer musician, genius.

Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #15. 'When you seize Columbia...'

The day the baroness who was a president
called the mayor who was a cop
to save the school that was a hedge fund
from the students

Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.

Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.

April 22, 1969.

Theodor Adorno's Aesthetics class at the Goethe University in Frankfurt

Women engage in “Busenaktion.” Protestors confront Adorno, Adorno calls the police. Students chant: “If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease!”

Mike Pence's NYT op-ed is a perfect example of why I publish Abortion, Every Day: His column uses pretty much every language trick I've warned about for the last two years.

He also repeats debunked lies about abortion that I sort of can't believe made it past a fact-checker

I shared some thoughts on being Jewish Columbia University in this moment, and how my Jewishness is being weaponized by those aligned with, well.... bwog.com/2024/04/live-u…

“Reading Cavafy for the first time I saw the infinity I knew about, an immense vista of silence between one line and the next: eros was that interval, not the action of the sentence. Or perhaps…I responded to the atmosphere of fated submission.”

– Louise Glück, born #OTD 1943

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