wrote about cz's four month sentence in @bw and why its both a vindication of binance's critics--and of the company's cynical go to market strategy bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Here is katie honan confronting Deputy Commissioner of Public Information with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that Columbia University itself sold to their students

Jonathan Chait The UCLA story looks pretty clear, based on LAT/student reporting — pro-Israel counter-protests showed up and started swinging. latimes.com/california/sto…

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

AP -- Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children (one aged 5 days old)
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Columbia faculty: We “have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored.”
Says administration + Trustees “will bear responsibility” for any injury that may occur in looming police action.

CNN's Miguel Marquez: 'I've covered lots of this sort of stuff around the world, and i've never seen this many police moving into one area.'

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Tune in to WKCR right now for immediate updates on the major developments on and around campus as we see a massive increase of NYPD while protesters continue to occupy Hamilton Hall.

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Police dispersing protesters on Amsterdam, outside @columbia gate.

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

One of the most shocking things from today’s student protest at UT Austin today was seeing state troopers brandishing automatic weapons on campus. Were handguns and batons not enough for a crowd of angry 19-year-olds???

so in summary: Paramount fired its CEO, then hosted an earnings call for only 9 minutes, refused to take any questions, and played the mission impossible song on a loop

Great story

This made a lot of sense nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opi…

The number of people shot in road rage incidents quadrupled between 2014 and 2023. Two of the three cities with the highest # of incidents are in Texas (Houston & San Antonio) thetrace.org/2024/04/road-r…