don’t really see anyone talking about this but: arrestees at CUNY were charged with *felonies* while arrestees at Columbia were charged with misdemeanors. nobody should be charged with anything but it is a travesty that poorer & racialized students bear the brunt of this struggle

National media went wall-to-wall on the NYPD's raid on Columbia on Tuesday. Roughly 20 blocks north, Gaza solidarity protesters at City College faced their own massive police incursion.

A small, belated contribution to the historical record:
nysfocus.com/2024/05/02/new…

A thread about why the US medical profession urgently needs to face some hard truths about its ethical status and role in American society. Most doctors believe we belong to one of the most virtuous, caring, and progressive professions; reality has long been very different. 1/

A spokesperson for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg confirms that an NYPD officer fired a gun inside Hamilton Hall during Tuesday night’s raid at Columbia

This comes after rumors circulated on social media earlier this week about a gun being fired during the raid
thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nyp…

BREAKING -SEGM 'The most prominent of the pseudo-scientific organizations in the anti-trans space', met with US Department of Health in April 2022. The minutes of the meeting state SEGM's Richard Byng & Richard Stephens are members of the NHS Working Group on Gender Dysphoria 1/

New School encampment demands and posters

A new report found that 99% of campus protests over Palestine at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden characterizing such demonstrations as violent.

Gloria Oladipo reports on the latest data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project:
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

At The New School encampment, small group of counter protesters across the street

Belatedly posting: A few months ago I went to the Central African Republic, on what was supposed to be the first stop of a trip about small-time gold mining. This piece, out now in Granta, is about what ended up happening

granta.com/wagner-in-afri…

This is also an issue where I've flipped thanks to work of disability activists. The stories are out of Canada are harrowing, but it's not just there.
Sara Luterman in the US: thenation.com/article/societ…
Nora Loreto in Canada: thenation.com/article/societ…

BREAKING: The Department of Education has announced that Columbia University University is under federal investigation for anti-Palestinian discrimination and harassment. Palestine Legal is representing four Palestinian students and Columbia UniversitySJP.

The second police department I know of that's declined a request from a university to clear an encampment—after D.C. police and GW

Wow Mayor Eric Adams is spreading misinformation in the service of fear-mongering on @npr without any challenge from the host. My mother is not an “outside agitator.” She is a 63-year old retired teacher who stopped by to bear witness for 20 mins. What a sham.
npr.org/2024/05/02/124…

What's really important is that we condemn property damage at Columbia University.

UPDATE:

At least five people shot in the head with rubber bullets.

Cops deployed flash bangs directly into crowd.

132 arrests confirmed by CHP

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

The Mayor Eric Adams needs to immediately release these CCNY students. The Mayor’s over the top punishment of young people speaking their conscience where others won’t brings so much shame to our city.

I criticized CNN coverage yesterday but I'll praise it today.

Absolutely vital and strong reporting from Jeremy Diamond and CNN here:

it has been nearly 48 hours since Félix V. Matos Rodríguez disappeared CUNY students and faculty into the carceral system. almost none have been released yet. this is a profound and disgusting shame on The City University of New York leadership. evil evil evil.

The poetry of 'Locked the doors of Toni Morrison Hall.' Students and faculty at Princeton, which is especially targeting its own Af-Am Studies Dept, are truly 'playing in the dark' as they protest a genocide against today's preeminent object of racism: the Palestinian people.