'The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children — they knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences.'

Are we giving out awards for university's that give 🔥🔥🔥 statements? Because this one wins.

You can't even peacefully protest (brandish a 2-foot sword) without getting hassled by Joe Biden's police these days. Smh.

Columbia says it has begun suspending students at 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…

Columbia University says they've begun suspending students as part of this next phase of ensuring 'safety on our campus.'

LIVE at UT Austin: Piles of trash, including pizza boxes, papers, blue tarps, tents, and all sorts of other items, left behind by the dozens arrested at the pro-Palestine encampment on campus today

Not clear who will clean up the mess, which includes laptops and backpacks

'Exactly why the utterly self-defeating tumult of Chicago ’68 excites modern-day radicals is a topic I’ll leave to the psychoanalysts.' David Frum bit.ly/4deYXWP

Cal Poly Humboldt estimates damage “to be in the millions” kiem-tv.com/2024/04/28/cal… via @KIEM-TV | Redwood News

Bash: Lawyers for Hunter Biden are telling Fox News to correct the record on bribery allegations made by a discredited FBI informant or face a defamation lawsuit..

Columbia University also WILL have a commencement, according to its president. Read the full statement here: president.columbia.edu/news/statement…

Columbia University will NOT divest from Israel and the university was not able to come to an agreement with encampment protesters, says university president Minouche Shafik. She wrote they are considering 'alternative internal options to end this crisis as soon as possible.'

Columbia University has given students a 2pm deadline to leave the encampment and commit to all university policies or face suspension and ineligibility to finish the semester in good standing.

Ugh, neoliberalism again: 'Thanks to improvements in global health, more than 100 million children have been saved since 1990.'

(It's 132 million, actually) ourworldindata.org/children-saved… via Our World in Data Max Roser

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Even for a conservative Republican, Trump is a choice that makes sense only if you have no long-term imagination, David Frum writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…