to repeat: princeton university has arrested and evicted ONE THIRD of its graduating African American Studies majors. this is the most radical department at Princeton, and one of the only redeeming things about that place.

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

God this shit is gonna make me cry. Finding out that somewhere across the world the country arming your killers has many citizens who do not wish you dead and taking some small solace in that. Thanking them for not wanting you dead.

I will never work with Columbia affiliate on any academic project, collaboration, or research again. This is unconscionable. There should be a full academic boycott of Columbia until the board and president Minouche Shafik resign. This is a disgrace.

Rachel Corrie’s words have been beating in my mind like a constant drum this past week

A mural depicting George Floyd in Gaza City (photo from 2020).

As everyone is quick to denounce the supposed violence of building occupiers, militant anarchists, outside agitators, resistance fighters, etc., always remember: A normal day of empire is far bloodier than any revolt waged against it.

We teach our students that history is contingent. That the world can be otherwise. And then our employers send in the police to beat that lesson out of them.

Columbia are using the NYPD to place all of their students on house arrest. This is martial law being imposed on the people of New York for the benefit of a foreign government.

no legal observers, cherry-picked journalists, no faculty, no students not living in campus residences—columbia clearly means to keep the world from seeing the brutality they are about to unleash on their own students

The optics of this is wild

occasionally you're faced with how deep in the fascist state we already are and it's like oh cool resisting this is actually the only thing that matters

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A student confirmed some mice died immediately from the impact of being thrown at the camp. I can’t stop crying. Children, elders, world heritage sites, olive trees, tiny helpless lab mice — there is no monument or creature Zionists won’t slaughter to get their way.