‼️ BREAKING: USC just canceled their entire commencement ceremony under pressure to reinstate Asna Tabussum as commencement speaker:

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. Atlanta News First

Authorities seen making arrests, firing pepper balls and forcing students out at Emory University in Georgia instagram.com/reel/C6MB0CIu1…

NYU now painting the wall surrounding Gould Plaza (as of 10:45 am)

Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. 'The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies,' he says.

It was an honor to work on this story with the amazing Lujayn & her family, who are sheltering in Rafah now. When I told Lujayn her story would be published in The Nation she said: 'Tell your audience that I don't speak about myself only. I speak of my entire generation in Gaza'

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Over 50 protestors have been arrested at USC and are now being taken to 77th St Station and Metro Detention Center.

Head over there now and demand that LAPD release them ALL!

There’s a whole chapter of Resurrecting the Black Body dedicated to Tupac that frames both why Drake is deadass wrong for this and why it’s not surprising … at all.

On May 14, Jeff Halper, Lucy Suchman, and Helga Tawil-Souri will discuss “how artificial intelligence and other network-centric technologies of surveillance and warfare fit into the longer history of Israel’s military-industrial complex”
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Statement from Concerned Faculty at UT

You might wonder why university presidents would keep calling in police on students even though it is by now patently clear that doing so simply provokes more protests. The reason lies in the trustees who decide who gets to be the president. teenvogue.com/story/campus-c…

Truly a “campus without walls” 🙃

50+ arrests. More coming now that university has declared evacuation. Please boost and donate.

Sometimes I want to take a copy of Andrew Ross's No Collar and chuck it at the AI hype crew and at least some of Responsible AI, too

📣New! Edited by Ranjit Singh, Jenna Burrell, PhD, and Patrick Davison, “Keywords of the Datafied State” is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between the government, technology, and data. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/keywor…

The ‘NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition’ will be having a strike and walkout at 1pm today in Washington Square Park

Last night NYPD, at the request of NYU, swept the ‘Liberated Zone’ in Gould Plaza, arresting dozens of students and faculty members

“Just as our movement is led by students, at the seder, it is the youngest who ask the hard questions and demand answers.”

Mood

I thought I was stepping on a green plastic toy but it was in fact a large blade of grass that the dog had regurgitated, surrounded by a nice pool of bile

'Tech companies are shopping for nuclear power to run new data centers'

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