NEW: Registered Republicans are donating to Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s campaign because of his stance on Israel theintercept.com/2024/04/19/joh…

UPDATE: Some state legislators sent a letter to SUNY Chancellor King asking for the expulsion of me and my fellow student government members.

BU administration has assured our student government that this will not happen, but it is still concerning nonetheless.

BREAKING: Over 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Tennessee just joined the UAW in a landslide.

They’re the first American workers to win a union at a non-union car company in decades.

This historic victory will change the auto industry, and the future of American labor.

I am enormously proud of my daughter isra hirsi.
She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walk out on the 20th anniversary of Columbine at the age of 15, to leading the biggest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16, and now

BREAKING: U.S. Department of Justice (citing Streetsblog reporting!) threatens to sue NYC over illegal parking by NYPD cops and other city workers: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/19/jus…

Sometime tonight we should knows results of the UAW's high-stakes effort to unionize a 4,000-worker Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. Here's why the union looks very likely to win, buoying a new wave of organizing in the auto industry and the US South: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

UAW Region 9A stands with Columbia students & workers facing unjust arrest for peacefully protesting the institution’s complicity in the atrocities in Gaza. This attack on our members' essential right to protest is an attack on all of us.

Join us & sign the solidarity pledge:

Eight down, two to go. All that's left is ELFA and state ops

After 16 years, it is with mixed emotions that I announce today is my last day Spectrum News NY1. It has been a privilege to deliver the news in the greatest city in the world. Huge thanks to our viewers and my amazing colleagues for your support over the years. More details to come!

Columbia administration is issuing new waves of suspensions to anyone that attempts to pick up their confiscated belongings. Many students including myself have laptops, medication, devices, and much more among these belongings. This is getting cartoonishly evil.

oh no

The great anthropologist Susan Slyomovics—known for her study of the Palestinian village of Ein Houd—on being arrested as a seventeen-year-old Barnard student in 1968.

the security guard yesterday asking why he had to “guard a bunch of nerds” bc so many students were doing homework 😭

The current expectation is New York lawmakers will vote on ELFA at some point today/this evening/early Saturday morning. One official told me they want to “power through” to finalize the state budget over the next 24 hours.

📢Press callout: I'm wondering there is anyone who has been arrested at a protest in New York City and charged with a hate crime at any point in the last year.

Have info? chris[@]nysfocus[.]com

In Manhattan criminal court arraignments today, where there are citywide administrative delays due to the number of NYPD officers involved in processing the hundreds of Columbia University students arrested on the direction of their own administration yesterday 👌🏼👍🏼

Great dispatch from the heart of the Columbia crisis by student journalist Lara-Nour Walton in The Nation today thenation.com/article/activi…

Gov. Hochul, the NY Senate, and a majority of Assembly Dems backed a plan to wean the state off natural gas this budget season — but under a fierce lobbying campaign from National Fuel, Assembly leadership shot down the measure with barely any discussion.

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New: Trump campaign denies press credentials for several journalists
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