UCLA students for Palestine facing off with counter protesters waving Israeli flags. Demonstrators have created a makeshift perimeter around the encampment and are selectively letting people inside NBC News

& emotionally destroyed us all

me when i try to disassociate from working in news in my free time but still look at social media

these kids already lost HS graduation cause of covid, and now these universities are canceling their chance at college, too.

“Can you call the philosophy department and tell them I’ve been arrested?” is an all-time quote.

USC announces it is cancelling its main stage commencement ceremony. Comments shut off.

Brutal for the class of ‘24.
Likely didn’t get a high school graduation during COVID in 2020, and now won’t get a traditional college graduation.

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, USC cancels main commencement ceremony amid ongoing campus unrest

from Yashar Ali 🐘: 'The Islamic Republic in Iran Has Sentenced A Hero To Death'
thereset.news/p/the-islamic-…

TikTok has been having internal battles over twerking

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife to CA Gov Gavin Newsom who accused #HarveyWeinstein of rape & testified in the LA trial, says the 'bravery of the women who came forward' in LA 'ensures that regardless of what happens in New York, Weinstein will die in prison.'

Full statement here:

currently at Fordham College Lincoln Center where Students for Justice in Palestine — banned here 7 years ago, leading to landmark litigation — are calling for the instatement of the club and for the university to call for a ceasefire and to disclose and divest. police presence.

Among the many, many things wrong with this: the painful lack of regard for the survivors who will now have to re-traumatize themselves in another trial huffpost.com/entry/harvey-w…

NOW: UCLA pro-Palestinian students set up encampment in front of Royce Hall at 4 am today. They join 20+ other campuses that set up camps across the country in huge wave of protests and solidarity.

Absolutely wild story. A Baltimore County principal was seemingly caught on recorded audio making blatantly racist and anti-Semitic comments.

After investigation... the audio was fake. AI-generated, in a plot by the school's former athletic director. thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

Nearly a year ago Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. This week on All Things Considered we look at the aftermath. I spent time in one immigrant community where locals told me 30% have fled.

npr.org/2024/04/24/123…

thank you to everyone sending tips — I’m out at press conferences today but heard:

- Emerson (MA) students allege they’re being held in jail, some denied medical care, after their encampment was invaded last night
- footage of Emory (GA) students being beaten/gassed by police

paul mescal you are nothing

[after a 10-second lull in conversation at after-work drinks]

This is what remains of the USC protest.

Our Los Angeles Times coverage is being updated: latimes.com/california/sto…

LAPD arrests dozens at USC amid Israel-Hamas war protests. Dozens of protesters and onlookers were forced off campus, where the protest fizzled latimes.com/california/sto…