As many, including myself, take some time to absorb the events of tonight, there is one thing I am certain of...EVERY decision of Columbia's President Shafik, from the beginning of the protest was extraordinaly bad, escalated everything, & negatively reverbated across the

The same people who think Jan 6th was just a guided tour want you to think college kids in tents are Hamas

Someone should do an open records request to see who called him.

Anti-semitism is a real threat. Jews have a legitimate, collective fear of extermination. But this nonsense about 'anti-semitic' student protests is crying wolf. When the real fascists come — and they will — they'll come from the far right and won't be wearing keffiyahs.

Today I met with families from Gaza. I heard the suffering that they and their loved ones continue to endure. Some killed or wounded, others displaced.

We are working tirelessly to get more aid to people in Gaza and secure an immediate ceasefire and release of hostages.

Universities, like Columbia, must ask themselves, “under what conditions would they permit the police to kill one of its students or one of its faculty members.

Is Columbia willing to have police kill one of its students today? That is the gamble they’re taking.

Molly Ball is a weird commentator

By contrast, look at what’s happened - or more precisely what *hasn’t* happened - at Brown and Wesleyan. It’s not because the students are less committed or the admins more timid. It’s because there still survives there, against all odds, some sense of mutual respect.

…and desperate behavior by administrators without principle, lurching from one position to another depending on which Congressional committee or wealthy donor is mad at them the most;

- a university that has given up on shared governance, electing for chaos instead.

It’s about:
- the sheer size of the response, which was massively disproportionate given the overwhelmingly (albeit not exclusively!) peaceful nature of the protest;
- the decision to eject journalists right when the public’s need for information was most acute;
- the panicked…

None of this was inevitable. This happened because a poor leader listened to bad advice from people who thought demagogues in Congress playing for the cameras could be placated.

Everyone is getting a real world lesson today in law vs policy. The First Amendment is a floor, not a ceiling. It is true that the law (aka First Amendment) allows universities to create reasonable time, place, manner restrictions and apply them neutrally. They can punish people

A woman died, Ari. Her name was Heather Heyer, and she was murdered in front of our eyes. Many more of us were injured, physically and mentally. Those scars remain. It is still not over for us.

Minimizing the horror of A12 in service of a genocide is utterly unspeakable.

Frankie mentored Rob Dermer who is part of Bibi’s team that is killing civilians.

And Frankie is sharing a bad Mark Penn poll so that you will want to also support killing civilians.

The way the right has grasped onto an anti-war demonstration as an excuse to downplay the sheer horror that was Charlottesville is honestly one of the biggest alarm bells about where our politics are at.

I cannot describe the ghoulishness and cynicism it takes to compare these Columbia students to the Nazis in Charlottesville - it is more than beyond the pale

As someone who was in Charlottesville, and who didn’t start a disastrous war that killed so many people, from the absolute bottom of my heart, fuck off forever

I can’t get over this mirror image

Photo 1: NYPD lined up in dark navy shirts and light khaki pants before storming a building at Columbia tonight

Photo 2: Neo-Nazis in WV like three days ago wearing dark navy shirts and light khaki pants

And WilmerHale should disband as a firm for their abject failure at the hearing in the fall.

Their failure made all of this worse.

His father was a professor at the University of Kentucky. That’s not lower-middle class.