“Young people are seeing something brutal and they are freaking out about it, with and without nuance. This is where they should be in this moment, as they are opening their eyes to what that world actually contains.”

slate.com/news-and-polit…

Will Voters Hear About Donald Trump’s Deranged Health Care Agenda? dlvr.it/T4vfbD

What do Columbia, NYU, Princeton & UT Austin have in common?

They all arrested student protesters recently...& they all also openly praise—& market—their histories of campus activism.

“They try to co-opt this image of campus protest.'

New Mother Jones:

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters, young people and military veterans alike, converged on Washington, D.C. starting #OTD in 1971. More than 7,000 of them were arrested in a single day. Learn more from author Lawrence Roberts and others: c-span.org/classroom/docu….

I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…

One of the most frustrating nights for press access i’ve experienced as a reporter. At Columbia & CCNY, police barricaded public streets for blocks, obstructing journalists from seeing what was happening even from a distance. A policy of exclusion cheered on by Eric Adams’ staff

Pressed to back up his claims that 'outside agitators' co-opted Columbia's protests, Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly mentioned a woman on campus whose husband was 'convicted for terrorism.'

I spoke to that woman – a 63-year-old retired teacher – earlier today. apnews.com/article/columb…

Thank you for this story, Teen Vogue. This is far better AND MORE ACCURATE than what you are going to get on cable news.

'We urge all fashion industry leaders & people within the creative industry as a whole, to not be afraid of what their job description holds them to, but to understand their personal human values.' Reporting from @fit, which hasn't gotten much attention: teenvogue.com/story/fashion-…

Columbia literally recommends AND SELLS this lock. On it's own websites.

transportation.columbia.edu/cubike

publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/…

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

In advance of THE FALL GUY: I was thinking about how these days I feel pretty awful 99% of the time (the political landscape, etc), except when I see Ryan Gosling, when I suddenly feel great! At least temporarily. Thank god we've got him. time.com/6972690/ryan-g…

The tents are gone, but they left their mark.

Wrote this piece before everything went to hell last night. But it's even more appropriate now. We've seen over and that heavy-handed police responses only escalate tension. We just don't ever seem to learn from it.

thedailybeast.com/we-dont-need-w…

Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent:
'This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another.'

Student journalists WKCR-FM NY at Columbia are rightly getting a lot of praise for their continued reporting in the face of police crackdowns. Here’s more info on them + other student outlets to follow covering protests across the country >> teenvogue.com/story/student-…

Education reporter for Los Angeles Times:

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:

Thousands of high-school seniors who've been admitted to Columbia and Barnard have until May 1 -- tomorrow -- to decide whether to come here this fall.