New York City says it can’t afford to keep its libraries open on the weekends but it can afford to spend literally millions in one night in cop overtime pay to beat the shit out of undergrads sitting still on their own campus. That should infuriate everyone except fascist idiots.

Noticing some folks reasoning that particular students don't deserve a militant police response bc they are 'peaceful.' I don't care if students break windows, shove back, or throw things; none of them deserve a militarized police response. They're protesting a genocide.

Once they arrest all the protestors, ban Tik Tok and make it illegal to say 'Israel bad' it should be smooth sailing from there

You have to understand, Gen Z is not going to back down.

They lost every teen milestone to the pandemic. They went to high school scared of being shot. They are inheriting a burning planet.

What are we gonna threaten them with, taking away their reproductive rights?

They’re normalizing making resistance to the state illegal and telling you that they’re fighting fascism.

We are spiraling toward an outcome in which students could be murdered all because universities would rather send heavily militarized police forces to disrupt encampments than stop funding a genocidal colonial project. The blood will be on their hands.

A whole lot of people who've spent years calling the younger generation 'snowflakes' now apparently want armed guys in riot gear to protect them from teenagers sitting peacefully on the ground

“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

Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers.
Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.

This week, you’ve been shown again that you actually don’t have the right to protest war and genocide. In cities run by Democrats, at liberal institutions, under the lesser evil president.

When UC campuses were becoming hubs of activism in the 60s, then Governor Ronald Reagan’s aid advised him to “Make them pay. Put them in debt. They’ll quiet down.” He obliged. Tuition hikes and the student debt crisis were spurred intentionally as tools of political repression.

Just had explosive interaction w/ Columbia University’s heightened security coming onto campus. They followed me to my office & then lied, saying I didn’t scan my ID for entry (I did) & I pushed an officer (I didn’t). An ugly scene followed. They did this to me, a tenured, full professor.

With all the attention on Columbia students right now, you'd think they were murdering 300+ people and leaving them in a mass grave near a hospital they bombed.

They didn't. But Israel did.

Columbia should divest.

Might sound weird, but I think thousands of kids at elite universities from immense privilege risking their (earned or unearned) status for the lives of people they will never meet is breathtakingly beautiful

Do admin realize that by repressing our students they have done more to organize faculty and staff as a political unit than we could have ever dreamed otherwise? The political connections we are building with each other won't go away when this genocide ends.

They want to use debt to control your speech. To control your life.

News flash: it’s not just student debt.

Imagine if a mass grave of hundreds of “Israeli” civilians was found bulldozed into the dirt after a Resistance retreat, mutilated, hands tied, evidence of torture and execution, the elderly, women and young children among them. It’d be plastered on every front page for months.

it is very clear that the vast majority of people still genuinely think that adhd is just a minor annoyance and it’s like no my brain physically never stops, i am unable to do things, i am constantly overwhelmed, it’s not just “no big deal” !!!!!!

love how Greta Thunberg became a vocal anti capitalist and immediately vanished from every single large news outlet 👁️