🚨🚨 URGENT ALERT 🚨🚨
🔊RUSH TO CCNY CAMPUS ASAP

Students and workers from CUNY are requesting support and back up for an encampment at CCNY *RIGHT NOW*, just days after the 55th anniversary of the FIVE DEMANDS occupation of CCNY in 1969.

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Plenty of elected officials have released statements about the situation at Columbia – most based solely on media coverage of the protest.

But four left-leaning City Council Members actually visited the encampment this weekend. Here's what they saw: cityandstateny.com/opinion/2024/0…

Inna Vernikov literally brought a gun to a pro-Palestine protest at Brooklyn college & openly brandished it specifically to intimidate & terrorize student protesters. But here she is acting as if pro-Palestine student protesters at Columbia are violent & dangerous.

On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

From Erin Reed: 'Iowa becomes the latest state to adjourn Sine Die without passing a single piece of explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. The only bill to pass was a broad religious freedom bill.' erininthemorning.com/p/iowa-attacks…

“the fantasy of the campus appears as an allegory of the nation-state. The future of the nation itself is taken to be at stake in what happens “on campus.”” Now we’re talking! parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-c…

What David Brooks wants from the transgender debate is exactly what the Report offers: a genteel, polite statement that there are too many trans youth and something should be done to limit their numbers.

I get it. For someone with the usual mainstream biases, this is catnip.

I'm glad to see this statement from a Columbia program that I have taught for as an adjunct.

Not to be facile, but I am disturbed at how the ruling class wants mass disappearance of populations to be unremarkable: a million Americans die of Covid, 1% of Palestinians in Gaza die, or 1% of your classmates disappear—and liberals want you to just carry on & not GAF

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be a fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study next year.

Powerful piece by Alisa Solomon and colleagues: 'While we are deeply concerned about antisemitism, we are also disturbed by the ways the hearing...used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Academics, please consider signing this -- it's strictly about academic freedom and freedom of speech, so it affects us all.

Revoke Professor Jodi Dean's suspension from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Sign the Petition!

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There's a striking silence on this matter from liberals and centrists who claim to cherish free speech, with a few notable exceptions (credit to Ben Dreyfuss for being principled on this).

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

Maybe it's time for trans people and gender non-conforming people to stop searching for legitimacy in history, in biology, in 'other' cultures. From my book: