The settlements the city is going to have to pay due to this evening will be why libraries never reopen on Sunday.

It’s cool that this level of horrifically disproportionate police reaction just… continues to happen to any and all protests against oppressive power

This image will be in the history books and the people who authorized or cheered it on are going to look like shit.

History repeats itself because we refuse to learn

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

watching this happen in real time and knowing it will go down as a deeply shameful moment in history for both columbia and new york city is just… surreal. my heart is with the students

Can’t wait for the president of Columbia University to tell my industry what’s good journalism at the Pulitzers next week. Try not to trip over any hogtied student journalists while collecting your award.

And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide

seriously how much is the city paying for this one night of reflexive and pointless crackdowns

NYPD SWEEPS OCCUPIED HAMILTON HALL, ARRESTS DOZENS

NYPD has forced hundreds of students and journalists off of campus, though many remain inside, now unable to leave.

columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/3…

Tonight taught me that I could do the 9/9/9 challenge but also that I don’t want to confirm that for myself

My body is 50% nitrates

SCOOP: DEA HQ to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

The DEA’s biggest policy change in its half-century history could have massive ripple effects, aligning the federal government closer to the 24 states that have already legalized weed.
apnews.com/article/mariju…

Leave it to Ken to have even his resignation letter be, in of itself, an expose of how the powerful work (in this case, in journalism)

nbc has implied for a while that they want the ability to divide the union up and remove membership from whoever they want -- yesterday they actually put it down on paper, and told us to trust them to use the power wisely

we need a reliable contract, not... whatever that is

Why I'm resigning from The Intercept
kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resig…

sometimes you chop one onion and put it in a pan and think, this simply won’t do. so you chop another onion and put it in the pan, and now you have the amount of onions a clown would eat, at the circus

Joey Wendle entering the pantheon of absolutely useless Mets veteran signings