Jewish Insider can confirm that Columbia has banned Khymani James from campus

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If you're chanting 'we don't want two states, we're taking back '48' that's free speech. It's not anti-semitism and even if it is anti-semitism you should be allowed to say things.

But it's a call for war not for peace.

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New this morning for @POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. tinyurl.com/2f37xn7y

I’ve seen enough: Rep. Summer Lee (D) defeats Bhavini Patel (D) in the #PA12 Dem primary.

A great David Weigel story on a new phenomenon in plain sight: masked protesters semafor.com/article/04/23/…

RIP Dickey Betts. This ⁦The Philadelphia Inquirer⁩ interview with him is from 2018. inquirer.com/philly/enterta…

NEW - The promise of an onslaught of spending from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has loomed over Democratic primaries for months — but it hasn’t yet materialized.

That’s not stopping progressives from using it as a foil
w/ Madison Fernandez
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I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

Tim Sheehy builds his Senate campaign in Montana on once-secret Navy exploits washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… w/Beth Reinhard Liz Goodwin

Remember Cuomo’s “Progressives for Israel”advocacy group? Now it’s called “Never Again, Now!” and he’s pitching it at a gathering at billionaire Barry Rosenstein’s place.
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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 Everyone can and should request their own FBI file:

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NEW: Our report tonight: The RNC last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election. The latest example of how the new RNC is perpetuating lies about the 2020 election.

and often promoted by people whose business models depend on cooking up fresh rage every day

“The Last Tenured Jazz Critic: As Kevin Whitehead leaves Fresh Air, the door closes on an era” thegig.substack.com/p/the-last-ten…

“Eyebrows as up-yanked drawbridge, forehead creases as lasagna of vexation.” nytimes.com/2024/04/05/mag…

“Guernica’s commitment to writing on war, injustice, and oppression has evolved. The magazine stands by its retraction of the work; I do not.”

Fetterman talked about “leaning in” to support Israel during the 2022 primary. It wasn’t a secret, it just didn’t become an issue in the race; no war in 2022, Netanyahu hadn’t come back to power yet, opponents never brought it up. jewishinsider.com/2022/04/john-f…

If you happen to have $22 burning a hole in your pocket & a hankering to learn more about #ncpol , my book, Anatomy of a Purple State: A NC Politics Primer (UNC Press), is now available for pre-order at that mom & pop store, Amazon dot com ⬇️

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Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it. nytimes.com/2024/04/05/you…