It’s hard to compete with this

Trying to think of a precedent where US police cracked down this hard (beating, arrest) against student protesters whose main offence (that I’m seeing reported) is not dispersing/blocking what appear to be open areas. TBH this reminds me of scenes I witnessed in Egypt,Russia.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

It’s been said already but can’t be said enough that these same troopers sat outside an elementary school pissing themselves and menacing parents while one guy with a gun massacred little kids. Real tough now though.

Today is one of those moments where we have to remember that the cops were not actually defunded in 2020. The ruling class actually doubled down on funding them, to repress us in moments like this.

Are the national Democrats just actively trying to make sure they lose every single voter under 40 and not merely most of them by November? Because talk about fumbling the ball over and over. How much more out of touch with regular people can you possibly become?

Arresting dozens of Jews on Passover for demanding an end to genocide and asking that Palestinians be delivered from bondage...you cannot make this shit up.

BREAKING: Thousands of American Jews with Jewish Voice for Peace, @ifnotnoworg, and @jfrejnyc are holding an emergency Passover seder on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s doorstep demanding he stop arming the Israeli government as it carries out a genocide.

It’s antisemitic for mainstream media to pretend that pro-Palestine protests don’t include Jewish people. It’s antisemitic to present Jewish people as a monolith supporting a genocidal settler colonial state. It’s antisemitic to disregard anti-zionist Jewish perspectives.

Over and over we see people simply pretending Leftist Jews do not exist because we’re an inconvenience to their narrative. The past 6 months have made it undeniable: American Jews are not united on Israel/Palestine — we’re on both sides of every protest. Report that.

I’m skeptical of people who hang on every inflammatory word of 19-year-old college students but are indifferent to members of Congress calling on people to run over protestors with cars or use nuclear weapons on civilians. There is a revealing inconsistency and imbalance here.

WARBLERS have arrived in Queens! Saw a palm, a pine and a blue gray gnatcatcher too but only the yellow-rumps posed long enough for my poor reflexes.

FINALLY. No recording of palm warbler or hermit thrush but I got several first of 2024 sightings today. Getting our spring migrants in Queens ♥️.

National guard now bored enough, has moved on to candy crush

The after shock signals the start of happy hour.

Eric Adams about to send 500,000 cops to the earth’s core.

I AM FINE

Of course I was on a video call when the earthquake happened. Still feel like I am gonna hurl a little. NY is not supposed to get earthquakes. That was not in the agreement!

Joe Biden would rather lose the election than stop a genocide he supports and you can’t blame voters if they give him what he wants

This reminds me of my company's now CEO visiting thr NYC office for the first time from Europe. hR did not pre-screen questions in a live town hall. Eventually they removed im for lunch and blocked him with their bodies, I assume for safety. We made an impression.