On the Substack: some timely reflections from guest author Barack Obama ourtime.substack.com/p/breaking-the…

Great from Samuel Moyn 🔭 UCLA would be the exception that proved the rule? There they seem simply to have unleashed a Squadristi mob to do the dirty work for them.

.Martha Kelner explaining that it took the police over 2 hours to turn up after a violent mob of pro Israel pro genocide thugs started attacking students.

Happy May Day!

'I don't think the administration is being honest about this not being a CUNY protest, because people I've met all have some CUNY connection—it's a working-class college,' said Billy, a student protester who attends City College. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-storms-ci…

People in glass houses.

The radical-to-neocon pipeline is capacious and caused by various factors, but I think a huge difference would have been made if none of those guys were allowed to keep drinking heavily in middle age

Okay, maybe there is U.S. fascism

Palace courtier Peter Baker is a brazen propagandist and will go down in history as a key genocide apologist. The NYT simply allows him to repeatedly lie and label student protesters antisemites. It’s pure defamation and disinformation.

BREAKING: Fordham University students launch a Gaza solidarity encampment, just hours after encampments were swept at CCNY and Columbia.

fuck @columbia and fuck the #nypd

This latest ⁦Financial Times⁩ analysis suggests that China’s over accumulation isn’t just about the vested interests in prioritising investment over consumption, as ⁦Michael Pettis⁩ argued, but also about geopolitics: ‘“China should be prepared for … 1/ on.ft.com/4di6kwL

Vanity Fair has the exclusive on the closed-door Baric testimony from earlier this year vanityfair.com/news/story/ral…

One of the tried and true recipes for revolution is giving people enough education to sharpen their critical faculties but no opportunities for social mobility and then repressing them. Just something to think on. Happy May Day.

As much as it's about workers standing up for themselves, May Day is also a commemoration of brutal state repression in the US. Sort of like April Fool's Day for anyone who believes this country is a genuine democracy. Very fitting this year.

The NYPD and City Hall explanation for why they think there are outside agitators makes sense in a reality where no stores exist in person or online.

These Columbia Journalism students need freelance assignments, not interview requests. They are on the cusp of graduation, desperate for experience and clips, with a front-row seat to the biggest story in America—pay them to tell it!

This isn’t ending soon and we (USians, the outside world) have got to be on the streets

NYPD officials have spoken often recently of their intent to “control the narrarive” by building out their own media apparatus. In practice, that looks like barring reporters from public streets adjacent to a mass arrest action, then posting videos like this