I call this the “Other University”––that morass of rules, regulations, bureaucracy that manages students lives entirely detached from what happens in the classroom, library, lab, or near a book. It also collects debt from students. And, now, sends in riot police if they talk back

One of my first portraits on Reddit—a person named sqeegie-freak. #redditgetsdrawn #findingalikeness

Bob Benson spin-off when?

UVA appears to have unilaterally changed policy on tents *this morning* to help justify calling upon the police to arrest protestors.
Metadata suggests this change was made at 9:54 AM.
UVA is in Charlottesville, where neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us” unabated in 2017.

Congratulations to the DCCC and Nancy Pelosi. You guys fought hard to get this outcome, and you earned it!

>Humans have a unique tendency to live on land

For all the sicko Know Your Enemy fans who can't get enough of the pod AND who want to meet us in real life, please join us (it's a Sunday, and in the afternoon, so I could probably be convinced to go out for a drink afterward...)

So this should be fun: Sam Adler-Bell and I will be talking to filmmaker Mitch McCabe about his documentary on the aftermath of the 2020 election, 23 Mile, at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. May 12 at the Natural History Museum, more info below:
amnh.org/calendar/mead-…

One observer, a SUNY New Paltz sophomore who asked that his name not be used, said that Parker Quad was typically used by people hanging out to smoke cannabis.

“I think this is the most productive use of the space I’ve seen this whole semester.”

today’s papal tweet

As an alumna, terribly disappointed in Fordham University Tania Tetlow - I expected more than having students arrested & suspended. Expected more care for moment & students than vague rhetoric abt “outsiders” w/o evidence of any threat or danger.

Can't sleep tonight. I was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him. Then I switched off the light and tried to sleep, but I was afraid of something.

(Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples)

In 2020, Biden did *better* in places that had BLM protests, on average. Here's a graph from our book and see the papers Jake links to below.

I agree too that there's no easy way for a certain answer but this evidence deserves more attention than it gets.

Phenomenal (and eye-popping) on-the-ground reporting on Ole Miss's pro-Palestinian protest today

My dispatch from the Pro-Palestine protest in Oxford today, one of the most... astonishing things I've ever seen Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2024/05/02/it-…

Let's be clear: what the good professor is doing here is offering an apologia for violent vigilantism.

We just updated our arrest/prosecution tracker: More than 2,200 protesters have been arrested since last month, the majority in the last week alone.
theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

I don’t think Eric Adams understands that we live in a free country. The quotes have been wild - he really seems to believe that people don’t have freedom of association or speech and that it’s his job to forcefully choose who college kids listen to.

When you’re trying to stop antisemitism and end up banning the Chair of Jewish Studies from your Ivy League campus for protecting her students.

I don’t think “not wanting to talk to Peggy Noonan” is really indicative of anything sinister. Seems like a very normal reaction.