Seen a lot of references to Kent State today, but not this angle:

So what're the theories on coordination mechanisms for these college responses?

Campus protests camps are a pretty standard/established tactic, which is part of why this uniform crackdown is so wild

Well...... Yes......

Grabbed this for $3 at Last Bookstore as a walking around book for my travel day in LA and it is ludicrously good

There are too many students. How many of these campuses have their own armored vehicles? I know Maryland has one...

It's astonishing how much of the anti-protestor discourse is bullshit. This is a bald example but much of it falls apart on close examination. But centrist liberals are going all in on this because it helps them evade the reality of what is happening in Gaza & West Bank.

A lot of people seem to think “If the protests are peaceful then why don’t I like them?” is a compelling argument.

Gerald Horne, Armed Struggle? Panthers and Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies-- coming soon!

it's basically a pre-professional program for Annapolis

I was a Government and Politics major at the University of Maryland College Park, so an annoying person you know trying to get elected to the state legislature is not new to me nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Rent control does what it’s supposed to do

This ecosystem that's been built on campus issues since ~2014 — right-wing outlets, social media randoms, and the mainstream press or those who came from it generating drama together — if you want to talk about channels of misinformation that have corroded American life, well...

I'd urge people to watch the linked video not just as an illustration of how these protests in particular are being covered, but of how events on campus are covered by the press generally speaking.

'Chang concluded that the U.S.’ attempt to onshore semiconductor manufacturing would be 'a very expensive exercise in futility.'' restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

I do think some people really believe it but I haven't figured out how they square it with the persistent presence of clearly identified groups of Jews within the pro-Palestine demos

I don't understand by what meaningful standard vocal support for Hamas is supposed to be incommensurable with support for the IDF. It's not even the case that one is a universally recognized state army and the other isn't; both countries have mixed recognition...