Columbia University hired private investigators to pursue pro-Palestine students. Vanderbilt University canceled a divestment vote, then expelled students after they protested. Pomona College sent police officers in riot gear to arrest 20 students.

Prem Thakker reports,…

This Ryan Moser piece, abt a trip to Miami after leaving prison, is stunning. Abt beauty of starting over, & the precious time/joys incarceration steals from people.

Via Prison Journalism Project. Part of new Condé Nast Traveler series abt travel after confinement
cntraveler.com/story/after-pr…

New: Dispatch from far-right rally at Columbia. MAGA pastor Sean Feucht, stoked for End Times, led Christian/Jewish zionist coalition in streets

3 arrests, 'Go back to Gaza' chants, & Feucht refusing to answer a q abt what happens to Jews during Rapture huffpost.com/entry/columbia…

New: The White House has issued a statement in response to this HuffPost video of pro-Israel demonstrators chanting 'go to Gaza!' at Columbia students huffpost.com/entry/columbia…

NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO.

We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and share the wealth with staff.

Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/bus…

I’m up near Columbia for a planned pro-Israel rally and march led by Christian Nationalist pastor Sean Feucht. Small crowd of counter protesters

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

PSA: Gavin McInnes (former Proud Boys leader) showing up to Columbia does not make the protest antisemitic. It makes him opportunistic (which we knew already). He's there to cash in on media exposure.

For additional context, Gavin is dressed as one of his radio show/content characters: 'Miles McInnes,' his imaginary leftist brother. He's there to cash in on the content mill this shitshow is providing.

me: what should i dooooo
nyt cooking: beany leeky greens with greeky rampy beans

Read it here first: Jacob Beacher, 24, has been arrested after vandalizing and breaking into the Center For Islamic Life At Rutgers University. He is being charged with a federal hate crime. Those details and more with Matt Shuham huffpost.com/entry/rutgers-…

The image of Yale branded shuttle buses literally being used by the state to arrest Yale students won’t go away anytime soon

I watched Flynn's new film so you wouldn't have to and wrote about it for RNS

'Flynn' is a 127-minute hagiography that chronicles his 'battle' against the 'Deep State'—which, to Flynn's followers, isn't just a political enemy but a spiritual one as well
religionnews.com/2024/04/19/fly…

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Being a journalist rules because you can email people who've spent 40 years studying April 1978 of the Carter administration or ''Nelly's 'Country Grammar' and the Black Midwestern diaspora' and be like 'explain this to me in 20 minutes like I'm the dumbest person to ever exist.'

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my therapist just told me that the NYT word games app is becoming a problem for many of her patients, including me

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