yes it’s an insane rate but here’s the thing!!! she regularly wrote a front of book piece for the magazine, those things run at 300–600 words at most, and her first article was 200 words; she was absolutely not in there writing cover stories, Enid would have rather died lmaoooo

Columbia U. Newspaper Students Working ‘Overtime’ to Get Protests Right thedailybeast.com/columbia-u-new…

if any journalist of color I knew tweeted the same thing about the NYPD and university faculty, they would immediately be fired

Thinking about this Ethan Hawke interview

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.

NYU released a statement explaining that because a bunch of people stood in an open plaza without asking for permission, the school had no choice but to call the cops who in riot gear maced, beat, and violently mass arrested people.

nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

It feels worth pointing out that 3 of the 4 anti-war protestors who were killed by the National Guard in the 1970 Kent State massacre were Jewish students.

Spent six hours on ⁦⁦Columbia University⁩’s campus reporting on the multiple demonstrations that took place today even despite the hundreds of arrests that happened last week. w/ ⁦Ramsey Khalifeh رمزي خليفة⁩ + ⁦Bahar Ostadan⁩ gothamist.com/news/columbia-…

Hats off to Columbia Daily Spectator, Bwog & Columbia Journalism students reporting for various media for telling the world what is going on @columbia.

New statement from Columbia student protestors:
'We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us…Our members have been misidentified by a politically motivated mob.'

'We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry…'

After Jake Tapper's misleading post this morning, his colleagues at CNN reached out to more accurately represent the situation on the ground at Columbia. Grateful for the due diligence here.

cnn.com/2024/04/21/us/…

This moment from the new Steve Martin documentary where he’s remembering John Candy…damn man.

26 billion dollars could fund a lot of healthcare, schools, teachers, and public transportation

I do remember. The last PM to balance a budget was Liberal Paul Martin, who handed Harper a $13.5 billion surplus. Harper squandered it and ran deficits every year. In his last year he tried to fake a surplus by selling off CDN assets and slashing services.

Good succinct summary of the microplastic mess. Recent evidence of presence in arteries, clots, and GI tract and correlation with adverse health outcomes
nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine

Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary president, criticized University President Minouche Shafik’s decision to order the New York Police Department to conduct a sweep of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in a Thursday statement.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/2…