I don’t know why a lot of people are surprised at how university students are being treated by US forces.

Y’all they fired teargas and pellets at protestors in Ferguson ten years ago. I remember because it was the same teargas Israel was firing at us at the time.

I will never forget how Ferguson was unfolding for many days before US corporate media was forced to acknowledge it was happening

It’s always been citizen journalists, local journalists, independent journalists, marginalized journalists covering what ruling class tries to bury

At every camp, it’s mostly young people peacefully dreaming of a more peaceful world

LAPD has threatened to arrest Daily Bruin reporters between Royce Hall and Haines Hall.

student newspaper live reporting in UCLA

Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

why are security figures in Israel worried about the academic boycott?

'because the academy is the oxygen of the security industry'

which is also exactly why the boycott is such a basic+essential act of solidarity with Palestinians on the sharp end of Israel's security industry

New internal Big Oil documents just dropped

featuring hits like

-“We don’t yet see the world even approaching a 2°C pathway'

-'“Methane is more potent than CO2'

-“No one is committed to anything, other than to stay in the game.”

And more!

heated.world/p/new-internal…

Fun fact, did you know that the first institution to receive a government bailout in 2008 was the student loan service Sallie Mae? It happened on April 30, 2008

Joe Biden was in the Senate. Bailing out a student loan predator was so controversial it passed on a voice vote

My enduring lesson after a deep deep dive into all of this (so deep that I had to teach myself quantum mechanics lol), is that EVERY system can be weaponized as long as ‘white possession’ (Moreton-Robinson 2015) and ‘settler politics of recognition’ (Coulthard 2014) reign.

'Borrowers are counting on President Biden to quickly choose a FSA head with a record of holding corporations accountable and with a commitment to protecting students’ and borrowers’ rights. The finances of tens of millions of borrowers are at stake.” -Persis Yu

protectborrowers.org/advocates-reac…

At Columbia but everywhere #gaza

I keep getting this ad and the more I get the ad, and the more I look at this probably-AI picture, the more I suspect that this ostensible standing pool of international survey respondents is 'synthetic' ChatGPT

Hot off the presses! 'How the Visibility of “Whiteness as a Credential” Creates Trade-offs for the Fit and Belonging of Minoritized Students at College' by Lynn Gencianeo Chin: doi.org/10.1177/233264….

Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.

HUGE NEWS!! While ASA council has rejected requests to issue a ceasefire statement, and while they along with detractors have claimed it would be divisive, 18 former ASA presidents, the vast majority of this century’s presidents, endorsed it!!

Today In proud to be a sociologist

Want to know how Uber assigns a driver a passenger, and vice versa?? Think it’s because you are the closest? Nope. Not about efficiency.

This is what makes algorithmic wage discrimination so so so insidious, immoral, and terrifyingly dystopian.

Just a reminder that if stadium developments were profitable, billionaire sports team owners would self-fund them, rather than holding cities hostage for public funding