Oh, there are plenty of cops in sight. They just weren't wearing their uniforms.

Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers.
Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.

the spatial respect cars give you as a pedestrian carrying a brick >

You don’t have to be nice or civil about ending a genocide. The idea that people who are actively funding a genocide have any moral authority to demand civility is ridiculous. Civil people don’t create mass graves! Civil people don’t give weapons to those creating mass graves!

I've never seen a better summary of the NYPD then posting a picture of them giving a ticket to a bike when there's 8 illegally parked cars behind them, with 'NO PARKING' reflected in their windshields, with illegal license plates on them

it shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but it’s so wild to me that you don’t ever see a cop have a moral crisis on the riot line. there’s not a moment where they realize, i do not have to be here beating these people. they can set their baton down and walk away. but they never do.

Scratch a liberal and they order 300 national guard to come in wearing full storm trooper LARP gear and aim bean bag rounds at point blank range at people's eyeballs

Liberals: oh you care about palestine? stop tweeting and do something

*people organize nation-wide protests and actions at great personal risk*

Liberals: you swine. i hope the police beat you into a fine red paste. i hope they come after your families. how dare you

*permanently banned from campus*

Students across this country are putting their futures on the line to protest their institutions’ investments in the Israeli occupation & genocide of Palestinians.

People dismissing & ridiculing these students are people who’ve never stood for

btw, these campus encampment sweeps mirror what happens at encampment sweeps of unhoused folks. Tents trashed, rights violated, violently displaced, & criminalized.

As consciousness shifts re Gaza & state violence, folks ought to also be radicalized against sweeps.

Absolutely incredible to watch administration after administration, campus after campus, step witlessly into the same manure pile. Each one that calls the cops on their own students gives further corroboration of what the left has for years been saying about US higher education:

Classic 114th Precinct: ignoring the half dozen illegally parked cars belonging to MTA employees on the sidewalk (those red signs all say “no parking”) and ticketing a delivery worker instead. Driving on the sidewalk is dangerous and illegal.

You need to be dilettantemaxxing. You need to be dabbling in various fields and pursuits. Half-heartedly exploring beekeeping. Reading the first two chapters of a physics textbook. Knitting 2/3 of a glove. You need to be abandoning projects

It's kind of dizzying how fast these campuses are just throwing maximum cops at the encampments immediately, basically from jump

The CDC says you no longer have to wash your hands between cutting chili peppers and using the toilet

6 people with no medical experience wearing black bathrobes deciding if we can be turned away from life-saving healthcare

They’re normalizing making resistance to the state illegal and telling you that they’re fighting fascism.