Politicians claim John Lewis and valorize his “Good Trouble”
The March across Edmund Pettus Bridge was the height of trespassing, and disorder. Even Dr King was reluctant to support it. After the violence of Bloody Sunday policy changed.
Every yr all now reenact the theater of it

Jewish Rep. Sara Jacobs said she voted against the bill that would crack down on antisemitism on college campuses because anti-Zionism is not “inherently” antisemitism, and the measure that passed through the House would “stifle” free speech rights. trib.al/FigAQMo

If the NYPD’s large counterintelligence bureau can’t determine who is a student vs who is not after they repeatedly said they had evidence of non-students infiltrating the protests, that seems like a problem

.UAW President Shawn Fain: 'This war is wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong.'

The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

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.'

NYPD officials have spoken often recently of their intent to “control the narrarive” by building out their own media apparatus. In practice, that looks like barring reporters from public streets adjacent to a mass arrest action, then posting videos like this

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

.Benny Polatseck, a staffer in Mayor Adams' office, has deleted this tweet.

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.'

If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor and univ presidents.

Other leaders and schools have found a safe, de-escalatory path. This is the opposite of leadership and endangers public safety. A nightmare in the making.

I urge the Mayor to reverse course.

Powerful thread from Summer Lee on how she defeated AIPAC and took head-on the pro-insurrectionist, Republican influence they seek to have in Congress and on the Democratic party.

AOC: Oil and gas already enjoy an obscene wealth of tax giveaways in this country. But we’re supposed to believe if we let them drill just a little bit more, that they will finally lower their prices. This is all trickle down nonsense

This is not a drill. He’s pledging it loudly and proudly. If you’re still voting for Trump after all of this, be clear: you’re voting for fascism and the end of American democracy as we know it. That’s not hyperbole - that’s simply paying attention to his own promises and plans:

We can’t normalize this. This isn’t normal. A group of students were sitting on the lawn of their own school. Daring to ask for peace in Gaza.

AOC: I find it interesting that there is this concern about Chinese ownership of minerals… however the response seems to be deregulation for companies that are Chinese owned here in the US. These are not American owned companies that American mined minerals would be going to.

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

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The status quo cannot continue in Gaza. Famine is imminent. I joined 50 NGO leaders to call on President Biden to use all leverage, including security assistance, to secure a series of steps that would help address this humanitarian catastrophe: rescue.org/press-release/…

WATCH: I just spoke to UT students protesting for peace in Gaza.

'We must continue raising our voices, because no matter what Greg Abbott says, our movement is rooted in love.'

“Laws of the school?”
That’s not a thing.

The inaccuracy of what constitutes a law in your statement is highly concerning, considering it is law enforcement putting their hands on kids.

NYPD promised to not call counterterror SRG units on protests.

It’s time to keep your word.