Begging some of you to imagine how you'd feel about this exact sequence of events if the president was the other guy.

don't fall for these shifting goalposts. as soon as arrest records confirm that most arrestees are students, the discourse will shift to why those students deserved to be arrested

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.

There are campuses that have managed these protests without major incident. The people who decided to help the right-wing thrive are Shafik, Adams, Hochul, and ultimately Joe Biden.

probably shouldn’t have announced the pot rescheduling just prior to storming Columbia huh. so much for that PR freebie, oops!

jesus fucking christ

My statement on the protests on VCU's campus:

uva students here outside the rotunda are planning to be here all night. their current needs are: portable batteries, blankets, lanterns, coolers, and ice. i think there’s plenty of bottled water at the moment!

A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?

I teach a class on technology and fascism, and today we literally talked about fascist discourses and how they adopt food as a symbol of presumed virility or weakness. Anyways, on an unrelated note, please feel free to read this screenshot.

a small but growing group is gathering next to the rotunda at the university of virginia. the only cop i see at the moment is UVA police chief longo.
free palestine 🇵🇸

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

above all, the right cannot imagine people helping each other. completely sold out to dim self-interest, they imagine everyone to be as selfish and jealous as themselves

In a #1A balancing test this question needs answering & should be weighed against the impact the encampment was having on campus operations

Any policy violations should expect a higher bar to clear if used to violate 1A

Accusations of abuse, threats, need to be proven #valeg