there are few occasions where 'mainstream media' and 'right wing media' are so perfectly in sync but today is one of those times. CNN/MSNBC coverage is indistinguishable from Fox News or even Daily Wire pods

This May Day, we remember the Haymarket affair of 1886, where striking workers were massacred by police. Now, 138 years later, militarized police again brutalize those standing up for human rights and against injustice.

Need to be very clear about what happened here: NYPD went on Morning Joe and lied to Americans about Columbia University students in order to make it appear those students were working with organized, transnational terrorist organizations

i just think “cops in riot gear curb stomping college kids may hurt the election argument that youre our only hope to stop authoritarianism” is a pretty valid point

Here is katie honan confronting Deputy Commissioner of Public Information with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that Columbia University itself sold to their students

*looking at a protest movement that is directly inspired by prior civil rights, anti-war and divestment movements*

Actually, this time is different because I happen to be alive to disapprove of it

i really can't stress how useful it would be for people in political media to occasionally, from time to time, read a book

how do you play a character like katniss everdeen and then be a zionist? just stupid

they just… said it

i’m sorry did an email go out today telling every politician to lie about what’s going on at columbia?? the actual issue is that columbia is violently evicting students and the nypd is arresting them!!!! i am so tired of these loser politicians!!

This is a key point from Eric. We have to be able to recognize growing & actual antisemitism, anti-Jewish hate, of the type described below, & condemn+tackle it, while also recognizing, separately, how bogus antisemitism charges are used to smear pro-Palestine activists & chants.

Our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia’s campus on Thursday & Friday. I want to clear some stuff up. I didn’t see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn or at the student encampment. The student-led protest was peaceful and often very quiet…

*sips beer*

Personally if I were a university president committed to academic freedom and student safety I wouldn’t call the fucking NYPD to arrest my kids, but that’s why they don’t pay me the big bucks.