I’m reporting tonight for Los Angeles Times from inside the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA. Most outsiders including media currently being kept out by both protesters and police. Follow this thread for updates.

At least 20 people were arrested on the University of Texas at Dallas campus Wednesday after a student-led encampment in support of Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza.

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attack on Daily Bruin reporters & editors was targeted;

'As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.'

#BREAKING : The House approved a bill that seeks to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses, a measure that hit the floor as pro-Palestinian protests roil universities across the country.

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4.3 magnitude #earthquake . 9 km from #Corona , CA, #UnitedStates earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2024-05…

Once again, I didn't feel the earthquake.

The NewsGuild-CWA stands with student journalists.

We call on universities and law enforcement to respect press freedom.

Full statement:
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It’s that time of year

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video:

Stunning violence last night at UCLA after pro-Israel mob attacks pro-Palestinian encampment. Several injuries reported. Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal rushed to the scene with eyewitness reports. latimes.com/california/sto…

Either this is what the mayor of LA wants to happen or the electeds who ostensibly run the department have no control over the 8,000+ armed cops of the LAPD.

He wanted body tea. And i was the fkcing me espresso

according to WKCR the NYPD threatened to arrest jelani cobb -- the dean of the journalism school -- if he left the j-school building.

Pretty wild. April 30, 1968 - NYPD bust of Hamilton Hall protestors at Columbia University.

April 30, 2024 - NYPD bust of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
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#BREAKING : Hundreds of New York Police Department officers, many with batons and in riot gear, moved onto Columbia University’s campus as student protesters continued a largely peaceful occupation of a campus building in protest of the Israel-Hamas war.

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Why I Stopped Saying 'Sorry' and Started Saying 'That's That Me Espresso': ow.ly/rTWv50Rrc0J

Officials attributed the rise — to 39,128,162 individuals as of Jan. 1 — to an improvement in legal foreign immigration policies, a growth in the natural population and the return of mortality rates to long-term trends. trib.al/XlJZS2l

Oh hell yeah. Finally. My third eye has opened.