What is #Columbia afraid of? I was just there, and the NY police told even some reporters with press credentials that the campus is a 'frozen zone' -- prohibiting entry. Meanwhile, on the other side of these gates, Columbia had started arresting peaceful protesters. Mondoweiss

The risks these young people are making are extraordinary. Every Columbia alum, faculty and staff member should be rallying around them. And ACAB forever and ever amen.

What happened seems obvious. Ira Berliner got outraged over NPR's post-October 7 coverage of #Israel 's war on #Gaza , (even though its reporting is deeply flawed). He added lesser grievances, made a big stink -- and now he's a 'free-speech' hero in some quarters. Mondoweiss

This is Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, a student at #Columbia . Is Columbia's administration suspending her to retaliate because her mother asked the university's president pointed questions in yesterday's House of Representatives 'hearings?' Rep. Ilhan Omar Mondoweiss

What is #Columbia afraid of? I was just there, and the NY police told even some reporters with press credentials that the campus is a 'frozen zone' -- prohibiting entry. Meanwhile, on the other side of these gates, Columbia had started arresting peaceful protesters. Mondoweiss

Jury tampering and obstruction of justice.

within 24H of Rep. Ilhan Omar standing up for student activists and grilling Columbia's president in congress, Barnard suspends her daughter isra hirsi and 2 other students from the coalition.

This is what I'd call 'not a great look'.

#Haiti : An extraordinary quote. Joel Tirone is pointing out that U.S. 'help' has actually been a disaster! Kudos to The Washington Post for finally listening to #Haiti an-Americans, instead of ignoring them. Monique Clesca @Velina Jocelyn McCalla washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04…

Confirming what Thcartwright reported earlier this morning. Deporting Haitians while evacuating US citizens from Haiti. No shame. x.com/Haleaziz/statu…

Tin price rising amid disruptions from major suppliers including Congo & expected demand increase due to needs of AI electronics Alfred Cang bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

A really moving photo essay. Tania Wamani’s great-grandfather died from working in the lead-processing furnaces of the mines in La Oroya, Peru. Tania traveled to the town in the Peruvian Andes to capture this toxic legacy. thenation.com/article/enviro…

Communities in DR #congo effectively paying the price to save the planet from #climatechange . Companies mining #cobalt in the country do in such disregard for human rights of local residents and pay lip service to remediate their negative impacts on innocent bystander communities

Grateful for this extremely thoughtful review of 'Everyone Who is Gone Is Here' in The Nation Books and the Arts 👇

In 5 minutes, I explain why anti-immigrant policies are the public safety threat, not immigrants.

#Israel only warned the U.S. at the last moment that it was attacking #Iran 's embassy building in Syria. Iran could have targeted U.S. troops in the Mideast in response. Will Biden continue to let #Netanyahu jeopardize our troops? Mondoweiss nytimes.com/2024/04/17/wor…

There is no “Turmoil at NPR”. There’s resistance to a bad-faith smear campaign wapo.st/3xx6P5x

These five min of questioning of Columbia admin by Rep. Ilhan Omar brilliantly flipped the script on an otherwise deeply bleak & Orwellian GOP-led show trial — which was not aimed at protecting Jews but on ramping up repression of campus activism & attacking academic freedom.

Hundreds of Columbia students have staged a Vietnam-style encampment inside the main campus of the university in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in defiance of what they say is repression of pro-Palestinian protests at the Ivy League school in New York City.

New: With record wins at the Big 3; less hostility this time around from management; & an organizing committee of hundreds of employees with relationships with over 90% of the plant, the UAW is poised for a landmark win this week at VW

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#Israel only warned the U.S. at the last moment that it was attacking #Iran 's embassy building in Syria. Iran could have targeted U.S. troops in the Mideast in response. Will Biden continue to let #Netanyahu jeopardize our troops? Mondoweiss nytimes.com/2024/04/17/wor…