My In These Times story on the increasingly repressive measures being deployed to target protesters and social movements--from the anti-pipeline campaigns of the 2010s to Stop Cop City to mass action over the war in Gaza--comes out as Columbia Univ authorizes the NYPD to...

The DNC in Chicago this summer is going to be wild. You’re telling me the Dems are hosting it in a city at the epicenter of American social activism with a metro area that is home to some of the US’s largest Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities? Oh, they gon’ get so cooked!!

BREAKING: Miami University in Oxford, Ohio has launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

This is the third campus now holding an encampment, following the Columbia University encampment. It follows just an hour after the encampment launch at the University of North Carolina.

the security guard yesterday asking why he had to “guard a bunch of nerds” bc so many students were doing homework 😭

As a Barnard College graduate I am shocked & ashamed that it & Columbia University are violently crushing the right of students to peacefully protest.

This is not who we are. Both schools must immediately reinstate these students & protect their right to fight for a free Palestine.

I am really worried about the flotilla people. It is very clear that Israel will get away with massacring people indiscriminately, no matter what passport they hold. They are very brave people. May the force be with you #FreedomFlotilla

One of the most heartbreaking stories from Gaza was of 6-year-old Hind who was sole survivor when her vehicle was hit. Her rescuers were killed, and finally she died, too. Israel denied responsibility--but the The Washington Post lays it out. Great reporting. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

Huh—one of the Google workers arrested & fired for protesting Google's $1.2 billion contract with Israel says some of the 28 people who were fired were *not even involved* in the protest, and had just dropped by to chat

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Neon Husk Kate Willett And that's honestly the key.

People are rightfully worried about Project 2025 and screaming that we need to vote Biden to stop it, when we should be reminding people Project 2025 says it needs the House of Representatives in their control, and we can at least take that away.

.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s PAC spending on the air to defend Summer Lee youtu.be/Vu3YJ2Q3fFQ?si…

I would hope that Columbia Faculty see their admin arresting their own students for peaceful protest as a red line. These students are in our care. Our primary responsibility as academics is to nurture their minds and protect them from oppression. Faculty must walk out now.

Likely Trump will be notably worse both domestically and on Israel (there’s a reason Netanyahu is trying to get him elected) but people are totally not open to this msg. The rage at Biden can’t be talked away, only Biden himself could try to save his abysmal campaign.

I have never seen anything like this happen before at Columbia. There is no fear left among students. Organizers were arrested en masse & when I got out of jail, I was told students occupied another lawn on their own. Hundreds are willing to risk arrest. I am so filled with hope.

This is barbaric: Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom apnews.com/article/pregna…

I am sitting in my hotel room in Istanbul, making final preparations for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to confront the genocidal Israeli blockade of Gaza, and have been moved to tears by videos of the incredibly powerful student actions at Columbia

speaking of tortured poets, today seems like as good a day as any to read, really sit with, and (crucially) be inspired to action by the work of palestinian writers, who are being executed, imprisoned, starved, displaced, and *literally* tortured

Based on today's news--that it was a modest strike + Iran is playing it down--I wrote this too hastily. Perhaps the Biden folks worked successfully to ensure a limited Israeli response, and an Iranian non-reaction, which allows this frightening moment to pass. If so, they deserve…

I’m not sure what the Columbia students were arrested for, but I heard NYPD threatening trespass charges. Trespass is not a bail eligible offense under New York law thanks to bail reform, so make sure you all help us protect it!