“You are moving in the direction of freedom & the function of freedom is to free somebody else.” — Toni Morrison

📝Quote from “Cinderella’s Stepsisters”, Toni Morrison’s 1979 Barnard College commencement speech.

📸: Image of Toni Morrison. Zora/Rochelle Ritchie/Barnard College.

Incase you didn't read that last sentence: More than 9,500 Palestinians have been kidnapped from the West Bank since Oct 7.

Amazing headline to see just hours after congress voted for 90 billion in foreign aid

Wow. University administrators reaching new lows everyday.

Rafah this evening: What congress just voted to spend MORE of your money on tonight, rather than using your money to fund forms of care

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Huge. Thank you Jamie Raskin

so many brave and principled people, particularly students, rising to the moment right now, grateful to share a world with them

“Western civilization” is such an unsubtle dog whistle here. It’s the same rhetoric we hear from white supremacists.

This is literally a vote to kill more Palestinians. What a disgrace.

an absolutely absurd number of cops at Columbia. I’m very worried about how they’re going to escalate things, given history.

this is what our tax dollars are going to instead of funding libraries or schools.

BREAKING: Student organizers with the Yale divestment encampment have just been informed that as of 11:30 tonight, any student remaining in the encampment will be subject to “discipline.”

Students have responded by chanting “SHUT IT DOWN!”

Updates to come

being on columbia’s campus feels like being in a fully militarized zone. i’ve never seen anything like it. cops everywhere, double security at every entrance, police drones, helicopters. orwellian. shameful. can’t believe we’re here.

Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department.

Israel deliberately killed the most aid workers in recorded history, the most journalists in recorded history, the most UN staff in recorded history, the most doctors and nurses in recorded history, and the most children, as a proportion of overall deaths, since records began.

The student movements growing nationally are asking schools for financial disclosure and divestment. Students don’t want schools (they are in part funding) to fund the killing of innocent people. This is neither an unreasonable nor an extremist request.

“But if you must divide, divide us as those who believe in justice, peace and equality, and those who don’t—yet.'

Aziz Abu Sarah

Bruh

And this poem was removed from the Toronto Public Library. What? They are scared of poetry?

do you know how absolutely enraging it is to talk to an elder who survived the nakba and she tells you she has never experienced anything worse than the soullessness of the israeli military in tulkarm now? a child shot dead on a scooter, the siccing of a dog on a child in bed...