As public support swings to student protesters getting brutalized and arrested (support goes up when public sees state suppression), the ‘outside agitators’ narrative will get deployed across the country as it was at Columbia. The story will be ‘it’s not these college kids…’

My statement on voting against H.R. 6090:

this May Day, please consider the millionaires

Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

the student uprisings of the 1960s were considerably more violent than anything you are seeing today. it is not close. students at kent state burned the ROTC building to the ground. when black students took over a building at cornell in 1969, they did it **with guns**

Someone from Piers Morgan's staff asked if I would like to come onto Pier's show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to talk about the state of his attire. Since he invited feedback, I thought I'd do a thread comparing his style to menswear icon Kermit the Frog. 🧵

The fourth estate everyone

Some effects and likely consequences of the student protests:
A. Free speech has been long coopted by the Right. But thanks to Minouche, a new line has been drawn, putting many core democratic American values firmly on the same side as Palestinian rights & liberation.

14 percent of WBUR staff gone. Devastating. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/bus…

I have heard it the other way around, and get that. But when Coach Joe says offense can turn into defense, what could that possibly mean? John Karalis 🇬🇷🇺🇦