So pissed but also proud that authoritarians are trying to shut down MESAAS at Columbia. It tells me my PhD department isn't just a Cold War area studies knowledge factory. They are being punished by the state for speaking truth to power.

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/04/04/wor…

Student journalists are anonymizing bylines, unpublishing stories, and resigning from newsrooms amid a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech under Trump. "These are not normal times," the Student Press Law Center has warned. My latest for The Guardian: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Harrowing quote from Sotomayor's dissent from today's SCOTUS decision giving Trump the green light to keep disappearing people.

War on La Radio youtu.be/tTuz_gcsiqc?si…

This is the student ICE picked up at his citizenship interview.

a pope that has been to wawa

If certain Senate Democrats had not caved to anti-Muslim smears against the Biden admin nominee, Adeel Mangi, this very important lifetime appointment would be filled by a wise and eminently qualified mainstream jurist. Absolute malpractice.

Man, to write like this

Please stop sharing this

Beyond parody

A war that has no domestic or international legal basis. A war that Americans do not support. A war in response to no imminent threat. A pointless war.

Americans watching their tax dollars being used to bomb Iran while they set up a GoFundMe account for insulin.

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

Se hizo una convocatoria pública para que todos los trombonistas de Nueva York llevaran su instrumento y despidieran a Willie Colón hoy, a la salida de su féretro de la Catedral de San Patricio, donde se celebró una misa en su honor. Mira el resultado:

this is march

Hurley on UConn and St. John's advancing in East Region: "It's pretty brutal on Twitter, I think, and socials between our fan bases, but I think we have to try to come together Friday night against our opponents so we can have a blood bath on Sunday."

Good morning

Ain’t nothing sweet. The Johnnies are coming…Don’t sleep. 🔴⛈️

NYC murders per year: 1955: 306 1965: 634 1975: 1645 1985: 1384 1995: 1177 2005: 539 2015: 352 2025: 303 NYC is safer now than it has been in many decades. Yet the average Boomer New Yorker will try to convince you that crime is worse now than it was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.