“I want to get out. That’s the only thing you’re thinking of is getting out.”

EXCLUSIVE: Mario Torres, the Columbia custodian trapped by student protesters, sat down for his first on-camera interview with our own Francesca Block.

Full story: thefp.pub/3QyGIC7

What a paragraph

Interview with Mario Torres, the facilities worker who confronted and was trapped by the criminal mob at Columbia when they took over Hamilton Hall.

He says he no longer feels safe to go back to work and that the school failed him & his coworkers.

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This, from the incomparable David Sedaris in @thefp, is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. I loved his books. Now, I love his commentary on small talk - and DuoLingo, too.

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NEW: 13 federal judges say they will no longer hire clerks from Columbia Law School OR Columbia College after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building.

This is the first clerkship boycott to hit undergrads.🧵

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From the Columbia Law School chapter of the National Lawyers Guild:

'To the Jewish students, faculty, and trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone’s safety.'

'No Jew is safe until everyone is safe, and no Jew is free until Palestine is free.'

The fact that we get to publish new David Sedaris writing is still so wild to me. This week, it's on small talk: thefp.com/p/david-sedari…

Great advice.

“Among the public speakers I regard as veritable magicians, few have ever been as great as the magician William F. Buckley. The founder of the modern American conservative movement.”

Things Worth Remembering by Douglas Murray 🧵 thefp.pub/3xXW1xx

Publishing a new David Sedaris essay never gets old.
Here he is on the art of small talk in The Free Press:

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This by Jake Howland, provost of University of Austin, is the kind of clear statement on the nature of academic freedom that the presidents of established universities should be making: newsweek.com/universities-n…