I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

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We might as well cite her...

Well done Mohammed Salem, w/Reuters, for winning the Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic news reporting from abroad in any medium for an entry titled Gaza, “‘Hell on Earth'” #OPCAwards85

Congratulations to Samar Abu Elouf of the The New York Times for winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for best photographic reporting with courage and enterprise, for coverage of Gaza. Watch the acceptance speech here: youtu.be/AuLbBdL8rAc #OPCAwards85

Very, very proud of these students.

when i’m stressed out it really helps to hold all the world’s bad news six inches from my face til 2am

1/ Two years ago today, on 4/25/22, Twitter’s Board accepted Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at $54.20/share.

As an ex-director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve watched what Musk has done since then.

And today is my last post on this platform.

I’m leaving.
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In the United States you can be acquitted of rape charges cause you raped so many women that too many women showed up to court to call you a rapist

Unsure what other indicators university administrators need to see they’re on the wrong side of history when cops start arresting their philosophy professors.

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

this violence against peaceful student protesters at UT Austin is absolutely horrifying—and should be condemned in the strongest terms by every politician & mainstream journalist

An update on Knock LA:

We are still locked out of our website & newsroom social media accounts.
None of our admin or reporters have been paid for their work in April.

We're asking you to sign our open letter demanding Ground Game LA return what's ours
youtube.com/watch?v=3a3sca…

In solidarity with my
Columbia GSAPP friends and colleagues. Their multiple opinions, expertise and politics is what makes us a strong, committed faculty, as well as creates an environment which defends academic freedom and free speech. See: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

You can’t suspend students for peaceful protests if members of your own faculty won’t enforce the terms of the suspension. 🙃

The Columbia College student body overwhelmingly passed a referendum asking the University to divest from Israel, cancel the opening of the Tel Aviv Global Center, and end the Tel Aviv University dual degree program.
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Columbia’s formidable Knight First Amendment Institute just issued this statement calling for an urgent “course correction” at the university:

knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in… Knight First Amendment Institute Columbia University

A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.

You have to fuck up on a truly historic level to get the NYPD to say “even we think these were meaningless arrests.” They love meaningless arrests!

here at @usc where a considerable crowd has come out to protest against the cancellation of valedictorian asna tabassum’s speech

I like the way that CNN handles this. We have no right to view the bodies of the dead & their lifeless faces. But CNN believes it's important that we do see & says that it obtained the family's permission to show them. Humane & humanizing. We need more of this kind of journalism.