The imminent recession economists were unanimously predicting has featured 27 straight months of sub 4% unemployment—the longest stretch in more than 50 years—and wages rising substantially faster than prices, especially for middle- and lower-income people.

SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.

thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nyp…

NEW: Seven months into the Israel-Gaza war, US and Israel are further apart than ever on visions for how the war ends. Biden and Blinken focus on the hostages, a ceasefire and a Palestinian state. Netanyahu wants a major assault on Rafah. w/ Isabel Kershner. nytimes.com/2024/05/02/wor…

WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

WATCH-- Chris Hayes on the Trump immunity argument:

'It's the ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ legal defense. When Trump is impeached, he says wait for criminal charges. When Trump is criminally charged, he says the time to act was back when he was impeached.'

Clarke said she was subjected to years of abuse by her ex-husband — and her arrest for slashing his finger was expunged…

She said she’s still ‘terrorized and traumatized’

The senator, who initially presented this incident without that context now makes this statement —>

ICYMI: Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, joined #WITHpod with Chris Hayes to talk about this moment in tech, her thoughts on proposed TikTok bans and more.

Hear the full convo wherever you get your pods: link.chtbl.com/withpod_x

I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that 'occupying buildings on campus' is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Weiner now says the unidentified wife of a man convicted of terrorism wasn't actually part of last night's protests.

She says the woman was on the Columbia campus last week, and that 'we have no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on her part.'

Striking: A plurality of #Israelis , almost half, support release of all hostages in return for *complete end of the war* & 'release of thousands of terrorists' - poll commmissioned by Kan | News , Isrl's public broadcaster. Nearly 1/3 oppose & 1/5 don't know.

One of the most frustrating nights for press access i’ve experienced as a reporter. At Columbia & CCNY, police barricaded public streets for blocks, obstructing journalists from seeing what was happening even from a distance. A policy of exclusion cheered on by Eric Adams’ staff

Student journalists at WKCR-FM NY reporting that NYPD threatened arrest of student journalists and Columbia Journalism School Dean jelani cobb for leaving the Pulitzer Hall journalism department building for a better view of activity on the campus lawn

WKCR, Columbia U’s station, reports such a surge in listeners tuning in on line to their terrific live coverage that they had to go off air for a sec to switch to lower sound quality to accomodate the demand on the stream. If you can switch to FM signal, they recommend it: 89.9

.Chris Hayes: Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago on April 30, 2020?

Trump's advisers keep downplaying the extent of his tariff proposals -- saying this 10% idea is just one more extreme idea among many -- but then Trump himself keeps suggesting he would actually like to be *more* aggressive

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

“No.”

time.com/6972022/donald…

Here’s the story of how Tesla went from mega success story to shitshow implosion — and what it reveals about the company’s true nature

Had a blast reporting this episode of my new weekly podcast with Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan, How We Got Here. Subscribe!

crooked.com/podcast/why-te…