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…

Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus latimes.com/california/sto…

Thank God, dialogue at last

How lucky is Trump? Every network mobilized to cover the Historic Trial of a President and most days it hasn’t even been the biggest story in Manhattan.

Crime. People, it's about crime. There's tons of cheap housing in American cities. Virtually free to buy. But you won't live here because of crime. Not race. Crime. (Well crime and schools.) Reduce crime in cities and double affordable housing. Quadruple in some.

Praying Baltimore sees under 200 homicides this year. It is still 200 too many but it would be monumental progress.

1. Today is ILSR's 50th anniversary! It was founded by 3 friends working in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood of DC in 1974. They had a vision of a decentralized economy in which communities had the power to determine their own future.

“After two days at Columbia … I was struck by how unusual that sentiment — I understand my opponent’s suffering — had become and how rarely I’d heard anyone talk of making an effort to understand the other. Maximal anger was all that lingered”
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Never saw half this energy from fellow Catholics when the church was covering up the abuse of our children.

She’s spent 27 years preparing for this moment. But Angela Alsobrooks’ Senate bid may still fall flat: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

'Defaults are reaching historic levels in the office market, as a growing number of owners capitulate to persistently high interest rates and weak demand.' wsj.com/real-estate/co… via The Wall Street Journal

I’ve actually been curious about this. 70s talk TV clips always seem surprisingly high brow (or upper middle brow). Came across some Jerry Garcia clip, where the host just really let him go on about making music.

Why was the culture so amenable to that at the time?

Columbia’s student radio station is doing incredible reporting.

Columbia University students have been ordered to “shelter in place” as a large group of police officers is amassing outside the gates of campus.

baltimore boomer facebook: i won’t even go to the inner harbor, it’s a war zone out there

famous and recognizable baseball players:

It's not Columbia yet, but things are getting rowdy at the last of the three listening sessions held by the Archdiocese of Baltimore for its plan to close two thirds of its parishes.

black coffee?

It’s the phrase 'gravel pit' that stands out most—imagery fit for a Cormac McCarthy novel. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Mom and Dad should pack a snack bag for their kids on the way to the protest

A handful of elite schools — Brown, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins — seem to have handled the Palestine protests gracefully.

Their successful approach: don't send cops after students, talk seriously with the protestors, and enforce *preexisting* codes about speech and harassment.