University of Kentucky Students for Palestine, a coalition of UK undergrad, grad, alumni and community members, will hold a rally for Palestine on the lawn of William T. Young library starting in 20 minutes.

Follow along, I'll be live tweeting. Lexington Herald-Leader

Two things are certain:
1. Monica Kast and Andrew Henderson are treasures
2. this story is great example of that

(while beating you with a hammer) imagine if it was the other guy. he has a bigger hammer

We've updated our national arrest tracker:
- 1,700 people have reportedly been arrested
- More than 500 people have been arrested in Manhattan, ~1/3 of US total
- Still only two prosecutors who've told us they don't want to prosecute peaceful protesters theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

🚨NEW: Israeli warned the Biden administration that if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, it will take retaliatory steps against the Palestinian Authority that could lead to its collapse. My story on Axios axios.com/2024/05/01/us-…

All that money couldn't buy taste smh

gotta fire the brain on all cylinders for derby week

Any student journalist at just about any college in the United States is better equipped to report what's happening on their own campus than the NYT would be in a million years

for The Nation, I wrote about Emory, Cop City, and the police violence and brutality aimed at righteous protest. long story short: when you put all your resources into militarizing policing, militarized police become the answer to everything. thenation.com/article/archiv…

Everyone should be listening to the Columbia student journalists WKCR-FM NY. Some are seeking shelter & reporting from inside PULITZER Hall, upon threats from the NYPD, which was called on them by Columbia University …Which prides itself on its journalism school.

No, the irony is not lost.

Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades

BREAKING: The New York Police Department began arresting protesters outside occupied Hamilton Hall at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening. l8r.it/XtnY

NOW at Columbia: Heavy presence of Strategic Response Group officers. Media being blocked. Bulldozers sighted near campus.
Student-run WKCR reports numerous *unverified* tips suggesting SWAT teams are en route to Columbia.

SCOOP: DEA HQ to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

The DEA’s biggest policy change in its half-century history could have massive ripple effects, aligning the federal government closer to the 24 states that have already legalized weed.
apnews.com/article/mariju…

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

AP -- Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children (one aged 5 days old)
apnews.com/article/israel…

Come for the predictions stay for my impromptu review of Taylor Swift's newest album

At least 20 of Biden admin’s own lawyers say military aid to Israel is illegal.

Blinken has until May 8 to report findings about whether Israel has complied with US and international humanitarian law — via Joseph Gedeon politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

being told my idea for a column where i examine how many ways can i describe derby pie before kern's kitchen sues me has been shot down for the aforementioned fear of being sued by kern's kitchen

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

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