Among many unwelcome revelations today, it's been striking to see how many people seem to believe that *sending in the riot police* is an appropriate response to violations of the student handbook.

Letter from the Editors: Columbia enabled the NYPD to suppress free press as it brutalized our peers columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

Trapping a pregnant woman in a marriage she’s trying to get out of is sentencing many of them to domestic violence, full stop

Proud of my org for putting out this statement ❤️

A permanent ceasefire, an end to genocide, and an end the brutalization across college campuses.

We as Young Dems are the next generation of the Democratic Party, and we want to inherit one we can be proud of

When neo-Nazis torch marched on UVa Grounds in 2017 and brutally attacked students the cops did….. literally nothing.

In this video you can see one man being taken to the ground by Virginia State Police and another being tear-gassed. 29News - Charlottesville

Fifty four years ago today, the Kent State shootings of unarmed students at a rally protesting the expanding Vietnam War launched a nationwide awakening as universities, including UVA, saw student walkouts and demonstrations. #maydays

Historian here, we remember the Kent State Four OTD 1970.

Will there be any sort of statement from UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy on today's breakup of a peaceful protest by police in riot gear over what appears to be a new rule?

Insisting autistics are succumbing to peer pressure to identify as LGBTQ shows an inherent misunderstanding of autism. My oldest autie child wouldn’t wear clothes w/status labels in HS, bc they refused to advertise for free for designers & would actually cut out all labels

Proud of our UVA Law School students who were out there getting maced as legal observers today, documenting the completely unnecessary brutality their classmates (and some of our colleagues) endured.

Proud of the CAMD students for this

William Boulet My god yes. AI is available. We would rather be miserable than use it.

None of these folks showed up when I lived on campus and white supremacists with tikki torches yelling “Jews will not replace us” marched through campus as I hid my three kids.

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I’m furious & terrified about the police @uva encampment & hoping beyond hope they don’t hurt anyone. Also infuriating me is emergency alerts from uva saying to avoid the area. The only emergency arises from police presence. If the police left there would be no emergency.

As is alway the case with people who can only see indoctrination because it’s all they believe in, everything exists for the purposes of indoctrination because there are no other purposes for anything to exist.

UVA is making a choice right now to send in the riot squad on a peaceful encampment foe violations of rules that were hastily revised this morning.

Structurally, this arrangement is why so many universities are heavily invested in the military industrial complex, in the oil industry, in surveillance systems, in carceral technologies... In whatever has the highest rate of return, consequences be damned.

The essay by G Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social is essential reading

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