Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent:
'This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another.'

We fought so hard for this. We needed this. Trans kids and their families needed this.

We have more work to do, but tonight we can breathe.

Bad news! With the updated voter file with 2024 primary data, we see that a rejection in 2022 reduced primary turnout in 2024 by more than 8 points!
Fixing a problem with election administration doesn't fix the alienation that comes with disenfranchisement

This is big!!!

Herb Gans is an OG and the only person I allow to call me “Jim”

Brutal subtweet of the Atlantic.

Can't believe college students would let their political views be shaped by social pressure, unlike other people who share the same general views as their peer group but arrived there entirely coincidentally via critical self-reflection

Being directed to a media liaison does not mean protestors are unwilling to talk with you. It means they are organized, disciplined, and want to stay on message.

Responses like this (and her video) show that the students were correct not to trust her.

The single most jarring thing I’ve learned from social media time and time again is that so many people *sincerely* cannot imagine that anyone would simply care about other humans

A couple days after this Bad Hillary Tweet went viral on progressive Twitter, the Biden Admin and the EPA announced their new CO2 rules for the power sector, regulating the ability of coal fired power plants to EXIST ANYMORE.

Anyway, the fact that people misinterpreted a graph which would be better represented as the below graphs (created by Sidd and Jonny Axelsson @[email protected] respectively) isn't what makes me so sad and frustrated.

While the media ignores them, students at community colleges ARE protesting genocide too.

They have far fewer material resources to leverage but are just as important. I’ll flag them in this 🧵 as I learn about their efforts.

#GazaSolidarityEncampment #CeasfireNOW

I wrote about why the phalanx of elite opinionists who have told us for about a decade now that the “free speech crisis” on college campuses is a clear and present danger to freedom and democracy has had nary a critical word to offer about this violent suppression of speech.

Students at UW regularly camp out for such things as… football tickets. If UW–Madison acts on protesting students for camping out but not other camping students it’s a clear violation of viewpoint neutrality.

I explained that existing theory allows us to begin giving some answers. Yet, my bottomline was: They will not find all the answers in published texts. They are a new generation, with new insights and new problems. They not only need to master all of these texts,
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Me, a wise old leftist: our repertoire of protest has become so routinized and non-threatening as to risk legitimating the system it means to challenge

University administrators: these dangerous kids in tents must be annihilated at all costs

USC was worried that a two minute speech was going to ruin commencement but clearly they are capable of ruining commencement—and reputation—all on their own.

Julia Serano being very detailed and insightful, as always. Excellent read.