This is for the police, not campus security, and they should have been called.

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an

My first piece for The Atlantic I loved President Ford and know that he would’ve had Liz Cheney’s back. Time for quiet Republicans to step up and make some noise for democracy. George Conway Mike Barnicle Ronald Brownstein Ron Filipkowski Jonathan Reiner Joe Scarborough theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Meanwhile, in a different kind of public protest, Georgians march for their own basic freedoms, including the right to peaceful assembly in public.

'Until yesterday, Republicans were the harshest critics of lack of free speech on campus. Now they want to stamp it out. Hypocrisy is too mild a word to capture such a switch'. Me on why adults, not students, are America's problem. ft.com/content/198902…

Putting ideologies momentarily aside, one major difference between the far right and far left is that the far right is like, 'We've got zip ties and assault rifles' and the far left is like, 'We forgot to bring snacks.'

On May 1, a new six-week abortion law will go into effect in Florida. It’s left providers there scrambling—and clinics in other states are preparing for a crush of new patients, Elaine Godfrey writes in The Atlantic Daily: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Same

Yeah, that’s right, man. I was THERE. I was in the SHIT, bro.

Tom Nichols It’s like the Death of Expertise and Our Own Worst Enemy rolled into one protest movement

Meanwhile in Russia: host of Solovyov Live Yulia Vityazeva admits that very few Ukrainians are waiting for Russia to 'liberate them.' She says that it does not matter, since it's just a land grab — Moscow is in it merely 'to take back what is theirs.'
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Columbia revolutionary students push limits of satire in demand for humanitarian fooddrops of sushi, acai,electrolyte water & glutefree croissants fr uni.

‘This is crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus but this is, like, basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for’.

Well, aside from the obvious - it's not a genocide - the will of the voters was just expressed in a bipartisan vote and a bill signed by the President.
I wonder if there are other groups in America who refuse to accept it when votes don't go their way

Democracy is hanging by a thread in America, and instead of mobilizing to save it, prestigious U.S. campuses are in disarray about a brutal war being conducted by another country against a ghastly terrorist organization in a conflict that began before most students were born.

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 We can solve a millennia of conflict in the Middle East with our camps and protests! Also, don’t hump your tent mate🤷

We routinely executed two or three faculty every year, mostly as a warning to the others

The Boomer nostalgia parade marches on

Chuck Schumer on Columbia University protests:

'Smashing windows with hammers and taking over university buildings is not free speech.

It is lawlessness.

And those who did it should promptly face the consequences that are not merely a slap on the wrist.'

Tom Tell Tom Nichols Mary-Elizabeth Pross You have to admire how these university protesters have zero self-awareness. They send out a representative to speak for them and it’s so humiliating that they’ve defined themselves as toddlers angry that they are not getting their snack on time.

I think it's kind of awesome, in a Monty Python sort of way