This touching and beautiful reference to Angelus Novus, Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history.” Students using intellectual history more powerfully than many senior scholars

Ok this is getting weird

nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-…

they were all Columbia students

What did this government do to the big Gaza, remind me again?

Can’t make this up. At Northern Arizona University, the VP of Inclusion helped tear down the encampment tents set up by anti-genocide student protestors. 24 were arrested. Oh & the university suspended the SJP chapter.

AI disinfo has broken out of facebook containment and is coming for brutalist ruin porn aficionados

everything about state power is about process and capability, not intent. from the Muslim Ban to the border to now militarized domestic police repression the Biden administration has overseen a streamlining and regularization of things which under Trump were deemed egregious.

Hunter S Thompson’s 1965 (pre-Gonzo, when he was still being edited by Carey McWilliams) essay “The Nonstudent Left” is a brilliant indictment on the fundamentally antidemocratic nature of this trope, and in 2024, a testament to how stale it is: berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2005-03-…

'Dissent must never lead to disorder.' Statement for the history books, folks, and not in the way Biden wants it to be.

Israel destroyed all the universities in Gaza.

This is one of the most hideous leads I have ever seen. wapo.st/3Wnyi3V

Think of the children! No, not those children. No, not them, either. No,

The police just bombing these kids now. It’s a flashbang every few seconds now.

There’s this weird slippage people do where by “peaceful” they mean “lawful” but then they want to use MLK as an example and seem to forget where “letter from Birmingham Jail” was written from

Do you understand how meta it is that the pro-Israel counter-protesters are launching explosives at the pro-Palestinian/ceasefire protestors in tents, as they are protesting against Israel’s military bombing Palestinians in tents in places like Rafah?