The focus is rightly on students in this moment, who are creating a decisive rupture in the commons. We sld remember, too, the faculty who are finding one another in this clampdown and finding ways to build solidarity where there was once silence and isolation. Powerful times.

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this is so funny. “hey man, what’s your opinion on this?” “BLOCKED for being a LIAR”

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Half right: repression drives radicalization, but radicalization does not ipso facto reduce to ‘chaos’ - calling a broken window chaos borders on police logic. The occupation of Hamilton Hall is in direct response to the escalatory suspensions yesterday. It can remain organized.

Plato’s last words were complaints about a slave girl playing music. Hey reporters if you want a quote for this I talked about Plato’s hate for women musicians in my dissertation/first book…

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today on morning joe the new line is that anti-war protesters are the new January 6th rioters, courtesy of the ADL.

As reactionary centrists argue that what happens on these campuses don't matter as anything other than a barometer for the opinions of elite privilege children, remember: the 1st gay college group started at Columbia University in '66 nyclgbtsites.org/site/columbia-….

‘Divest’ is being taken up as an iterative rhyme of ‘defund.’ That students are forging not just these discursive, but *material* connections between abolition and BDS, ATL and Gaza/WB, as they converge in the university commons builds transnational popular movement power.

one really jawdropping part of the campus-wide email just sent by UChicago's president