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Food packages have been prepared today to be delivered to the displaced families. Your support throughout Ramadan and beyond is greatly appreciated.

Didn't cost them a penny. It's all paid for by the American denial of healthcare, child poverty, widespread homelessness, and crushing student debt. That's the American social contract. We have these dynamics at home, so we can have consequence-free genocides abroad.

Despite threats of suspension by Columbia & Barnard admin and intimidation by Zionists & NYPD, the crowd has only grown. Students, faculty, and alumni alike are showing solidarity with each other and with the Palestinian struggle. SO PROUD OF YALL AND KEEP GOING!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

'If you don't like graffiti look away like you do for genocide" Seen in Austin, Texas

So we are clear, Columbia & Barnard are un-housing student activists w/o any plan for their relocation bc they are…protesting a genocide. At night. In NYC. This behavior is UNHINGED. All faculty everywhere should be speaking up about this gross abuse of students. #cu4palestine

The university has always been the third pillar of empire (Wilder 2013). It will always comply with the state as the state apparatuses of violence are always at its disposal. There are no “progressive universities”

Happening at the University of Texas Austin:

Today marks 10 years since the start of the Flint Water Crisis. A decade later, kids are still sick, the city is not done replacing lead pipes and families still haven’t seen a cent from settlement funds theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

This guy is a more effective communicator than 95% of left-wing electeds. Connecting the moral purpose of Palestine solidarity protests with his values as a father 🫡

Faculty petition to hold no-confidence vote in UT-Austin president after protest response bit.ly/3Ui5oj6

Something I’m not hearing a ton about is that Gallaudet Students, from the historic college for the deaf, are also participating in solidarity encampments in the DMV area.

Student protesters were right about segregation in the early '60s, right about Vietnam in the late '60s, right about apartheid in the '80s, right about Iraq in 2003, and right about wealth inequality in 2011. Seems generally bad to side against student movements.

Like, we literally pay these admin hundreds of thousands of dollars to call the police on students exercising their first amendment right. Then next year they’ll talk about the importance of “community, student voice”. We need another world for delulu cause this is…

Why the advice you’ve been getting about writing doesn’t work 🧵

Cornell’s striking dining, custodial, & maintenance workers earn an average of $22/hour. “When you’re not getting paid a living wage in a place that certainly has the money to pay, it feels disrespectful,” said Josh Dexter, a cook. labornotes.org/2024/08/cornel…

I think the alarming calls by indignant liberals for violent retribution against entire communities they perceive to have "failed" to crown a "kinder" genocidaire in chief is a symptom of their begrudging acceptance of the horrors the US commits abroad. Thread 🧵

CNN engaging in a government propaganda tour, amplifying the Bukele government’s self promotion of its State of Exception without asking any of the following questions: