should we be concerned that the professors who are taking on the greatest risk of being beaten and arrested seem to be mostly historians

Daily Beast reporters aren't thrilled with new boss Joanna Coles's story ideas, including:

-An investigation of Trump's “stress farts or sleep farts.”
-“Is Protesting the New Sex for Gen Z?”
-Are the campus protests astroturfed?

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Gail: It's great to spend some proper time with you, Jeremy. When I first met you, I thought you were a bit of a loser.

Reviewing job applicant: *sees Ivy League degree conferred in 2024, arrest record coming up blank* Care to explain the gap on your resume?

New: Pomona *faculty* vote 64% - 28% in favor of divestment from companies complicit in Israeli government human rights violations.
Among the first university faculties to do so.

Resolution asks school to begin with 11 firms including Barclays, Chevron, Elbit Systems, and more.

If this is true, I'm speechless. The protesters were still negotiating w/ the administration when Shafik called in the cops, yet the university chose, as it has at every other juncture, to escalate. There was no public safety emergency that justified the violence we saw.

All for all.

SHEIN has quickly become a juggernaut in the world of fast fashion, but it’s also worsened its environmental and labor issues.

This week Nicole Lipman joins Paris Marx to discuss how SHEIN became so big and how its issues should be addressed.

Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…

“They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.”

Bernie Sanders discusses the student anti-war protests sweeping colleges in America.…

Just to take stock of where we're at: in coalition with the right, a Democratic president is backing a violent crackdown on freedom of speech that will split the coalition that narrowly elected him in support of another state's right to kill and destroy with total impunity.

When you’re trying to stop antisemitism and end up banning the Chair of Jewish Studies from your Ivy League campus for protecting her students.

The Los Angeles public defenders' union called the UCLA arrests 'shameful and a complete failure of leadership' and said it is ready to 'represent every person facing charges.'

One way to describe Nellie Bowles' 'German great-great-great-grandfather' is as a San Francisco butcher.

Another is as the 'the Cattle King of California,' the largest landowner in the U.S., and founder of a family fortune that's lasted six generations.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The thing is that ppl who experienced the 2020 uprisings during a critical time in their political development can’t be fooled into believing that students who are protesting mass slaughter by going into a building are nearly as violent as the armed forces that pulled them out

(while beating you with a hammer) imagine if it was the other guy. he has a bigger hammer

Just give Biden 20 years on Gaza. He's been wrong about every major issue at the time (Vietnam, crime bill, Iraq, etc) but usually comes around within a few decades.

This was Biden’s perspective during the anti-war protests for Vietnam.

This could’ve been written about his position on Gaza - he is simply being consistent.

h/t jeremy scahill