On World Press Freedom Day, I invite you to read my op-ed in The Hill, where I  draw attention to a troubling trend: Journalists, and by extension JOURNALISM, being driven into exile and killed: thehill.com/opinion/intern…

If you wanted to know how crazy things are remember that Rashid Khalidi, doyen of Palestinian history, is renounced as “Zionist” by some. Ramy says it publicly, many more privately

For context, this image is from the ongoing anti-government protests in Tbilisi, Georgia, and unrelated to pro-Palestinian rallies at US college campuses.

An officer for the New York Police Department discharged their gun during the raid of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on Tuesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Daily Beast.
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This is bullshit, it's documented fact after Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettis bridge President Johnson said fuck it and signed the Civil Rights Act after Congress passed the law. Dr. King was at the signing and got a pen used by Johnson. Dafuq?!

A top Kennedy operative was reportedly arrested this weekend on allegations he choked and punched a woman in New York City. trib.al/Hx3phgW

Have to say, the most impressive Art Deco interior I've seen is at the Guardian Building in Detroit. Beautiful fusion of American Indian motifs with the vaulted ceilings and stained glass of the Catholic Church

Hong Kong, a mere 5 years ago, was likely the largest protest by proportion of the population in modern history (I mean, 2 million out of a 7.3 million population in the streets?) Westerners, profoundly insular to the world apart from certain exceptions--Palestine apparently one

These are pro-democracy protesters in Georgia, the country, not Georgia the American state.

We give 'activist speak' grief, but every time I interact with people who have 'Director' or 'VP' titles, I wonder if they're trained to only speak in buzzwords.

Today, someone said he'd 'kickstart the process' (of sending a Slack invite).

Who talks like this?

EXCLUSIVE: Not only was Allen Weisselberg handling the Trump Org’s books, he was also advising the former president’s campaign 2016 campaign, documents obtained by The Daily Beast suggest.
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And an important note on the language being used by NYPD - “affiliated doesn’t mean current OR full time student”

The NYPD determined the data by cross checking records with the schools, the official said.

Broken down by school the numbers skew a bit differently - 80 people arrested at Columbia did “have an affiliation” with the university, while only 32 did not, according to the official.

New: Of the 282 arrested at Columbia University and City College of NY, 134 were not “affiliated” with either school.

The remaining 148 did have an affiliation, according to a NYPD official who shared the breakdown with CNN.

Generation Z is taking over. And in financial terms, these young people are doing extraordinarily well. Zoomers are much better off than millennials were at the same age, as well as the other preceding generations. What does this wealth mean? econ.st/3UF9kvE

Ridership continued to tick up in 2023, but remains behind 2019 levels in all major urban areas, US & Canada.

Per-capita, large Canadian urban areas continue to outperform US equivalents.

EXCLUSIVE: The firm that has repped ex-President Donald Trump and his campaign in multiple battles with high-profile women has asked a federal judge to let them abandon the embattled politician in a sex discrimination suit by a former female adviser.
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George Galloway has always been a crank and I'm glad more people are waking up to this fact