-Story gets out that Blinken is ignoring Israeli human rights abuses
-PR story appears that Biden admin is going to do something
-Israel publicly acts outraged that laws may apply to them
-Biden admin quietly decides to do nothing

What a perfect summary of this admin

'EMS workers...can simply become an extension of the police’s handcuffs, of their weapons, of their nightsticks.'

HUGE thanks to Carla K. Johnson for pushing hard over many months to get this story out there. I'm so proud to be a tiny part of it. bit.ly/3xWh2c8

The repressive violence across US campuses is making exceptionally clear that defunding the American police state and defunding the genocidal apartheid Israeli state are necessarily part of the same project. Defund state violence everywhere.

The bizarre thing is that all of these schools could have just talked to their students like this and everyone would have gone home for the summer on a couple of weeks. Their need for absolute control has raised exactly the protest movement they wanted to stop.

Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.
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Let's dispense with the notion that this coordinated wave of state violence against the pro-Palestine movement is on behalf of a foreign government. It is on behalf of the structure of US empire, of which Israel forms a crucial node. But the call is coming from inside the house.

BREAKING: UNC students and community members have begun a tent encampment on Polk Place this morning, joining the pro-Palestine encampments happening at universities across the country.
 
This is Emmy Martin with live updates.

the full video is even more shocking. then you learn they charged her with disorderly conduct and simple battery on a police officer 🙃

anyway you know you’ve lost control of the narrative when your white middle-aged tenured faculty are being treated like black teens on camera.

It has to become a social taboo to become a cop in the United States. It's got to be something that is so socially unacceptable there's a perpetually shrinking pool of people who sign up for it out of fear of being ostracized by their friends and families.

How is this our reality right now.....

Remember that the alternative that anti-trans obsessives offer here is not a different treatment better supported by the evidence, it is quite literally 'get over it'

this is exactly why every struggle for love, freedom, and justice has to also be an abolitionist struggle: the cops will be called in against you. This is what it means to fund the police

It is wild to me how anyone can look at campuses of students protesting a genocide, thousands from all different backgrounds, and understand THEM as oppressors. As they face off against police of all forms, sent by admin funded, like the genocide, by the world’s wealthiest state.

Once again, we see that the greatest peddlers of antisemitism are white nationalists motivated by Christian fundamentalism and a desire to maintain western dominance over the Arab world. They are simply using Israel as a means to that end, and they are no friends to Judaism

wow wait until the judges on the supreme court learn how criminal trials work for literally everyone everywhere all the time, theyre going to be furious

Today marks 10 years since the start of the Flint Water Crisis.

A decade later, kids are still sick, the city is not done replacing lead pipes and families still haven’t seen a cent from settlement funds theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Crazy. I wonder if it has something to do with rent being unaffordable, food being unaffordable, insurance being unaffordable, daycare being unaffordable, college being unaffordable, home owning being unaffordable, medical care being unaffordable, and a pandemic.

BREAKING via WSJ

The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into consulting firm McKinsey related to its past role in advising some of the nation's largest opioid manufacturers on how to boost sales.

Federal prosecutors are also probing whether McKinsey or…

So far today Princeton, Cornell, George Washington University, City College of New York (slash CUNY), and UCLA have launched Gaza Solidarity Encampments.

Today marks 1 week since NYPD swept the Columbia University GSE. All call for their universities to divest from genocide.