What I wouldn’t give to get my hands on a copy of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

So much handwringing about Gen Z and if social media has rotted their brains, meanwhile students across the country are putting their academic careers on the line for Gaza are demonstrating more moral clarity on this issue than most of the our elected leaders. The kids are fine.

DE-ARREST PRIMER

sometimes they accidentally come out and say that debt is a tool of oppression

Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war.

It’s not war. It’s genocide.

University occupations are popping off, get to one.

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

It’s really scary the degree to which our universities are entangled with arms manufacturers. It’s really scary that demanding different means the state will unleash a small standing army on you

When I was being attacked by my campus admins and police it was really really intriguing to find out that I could sue the university president personally for suppressing my speech. Do with that information what you will.

I feel like it would be more normal for colleges to have nothing to do with arms manufacturers.

Please learn from my mistakes tonight: make copies of your keys or learn how to pick a lock

Thinking about this Ethan Hawke interview

Let me break this down for you:

The Supreme Court is weighing criminalizing homelessness—that means if you’re sleeping outside, you will be arrested.

Approx. 40% of homeless people in the U.S. are Black.

This is not just about housing—this is the prison industrial complex too.

Italian students are protesting too. I don’t think people understand the ramifications of the protests at Columbia. Those kids are literally leading and paving the way with their activism. Palestine will set us all free.

My abuser used to tell me that I wasn’t particularly intelligent, and I wouldn’t go far in life… yet today I gave a speech to a packed conference room on my experience of the justice system and how it must improve. I’m making change, while he wallows in prison. Girlboss moment?

Seeing way too much “college kids are out of control” and not enough “they’ve uncovered multiple civilian mass graves in Palestine”

they uncovered a mass grave in Gaza and a protester waved a Palestinian flag too close to someone's face in New Haven and the media has chosen to cover one of these incidents in exhaustive detail

Y’all im-