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After days of Biden repeatedly condemning campus protests as antisemitic, pro-Israel demonstrators have now violently attacked an encampment at UCLA, calling for a "Second Nakba!" Biden was warned his increasingly hostile rhetoric would fuel this kind of violence.
After days of Biden repeatedly condemning campus protests as antisemitic, pro-Israel demonstrators have now violently attacked an encampment at UCLA, calling for a "Second Nakba!" Biden was warned his increasingly hostile rhetoric would fuel this kind of violence.
new social contract just a reversion to hobbes?
I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.
@PatBlanchfield The top down Dem swing on immigration/refugees is one that has floored and gutted me
and thats why Joe Biden should simply run once more on how his many sacrifices and life experiences have forged him into the national healer and mourner in chief our divided country so desperately needs 🇺🇸🫡👍 🇺🇸
The brave students at Columbia and other universities have held a mirror to the face of the US empire. The state uses extreme force against its own children at home in a futile attempt to crush their dissent against the state's facilitation of a genocide abroad.
(silencing my phone with its pesky notifications about yet another school turned to concrete powder and matchsticks, stepping over a cop as they ziptie a 18 catatonic year old) holy shit this is huge did someone set a trashcan on fire over there? oh well nevertheless,
Despite police presence here at UCLA, counter protesters still attacking the Gaza solidarity encampment. One of them just said a racial epithet for black people.
At UCLA, pro-Israel demonstrators just threw a barricade that they’d taken. It hit a man who is photographing.
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
What's unusual is: * state troopers kneeling on protester's heads * snipers on rooftops overlooking student commons * campus police tackling professors seeking to deescalate violent arrests * cameramen being arrested for livestreaming the crackdowns rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Hearing the people who launched fireworks and lasers at a peaceful encampment chant "USA" and shout about how they love law enforcement and America now that they have a law enforcement audience is just incredible toddler behavior. youtube.com/watch?v=ZVEHoN…
Has there been any updates/follow up on this?
Has there been any updates/follow up on this?
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@PatBlanchfield @RuckCohlchez The Most Progressive President Since F D R
Dunno but it seems who is president doesnt make a lot of difference across the pond.
from ending COVID aid to throwing billions at cops to folding on trans rights to crushing opposition to ethnic cleansing in Palestine the past four years have pretty clearly telegraphed what propositions are nonnegotiable and which populations are disposable for US liberalism
wild AF to see explosive devices casually lobbed at an anti-war encampment this way
Another case of pure projection: what’s more nihilistic than finding it impossible to believe that young people’s moral imagination is so big that it encompasses the Palestinian people being murdered by American weapons?
Beware of nihilism masquerading as leftism. There's a lot of that going around right now.
Imagine being the highly trained glamorous Chinese spy eagerly awaiting your assignment and its … the French navy at Brest!
“Brest is a rainy industrial port…that is home to the French navy and its submarine nuclear deterrent. It has also witnessed a remarkable number of weddings in recent years between female Chinese students and the seamen who work at its naval bases” ft.com/content/6c115d…
note that protests against the Vietnam war were happening at HBCUs. Kent State killings overshadowed the same at Jackson State 11 days later: zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jack…
The conversation about whether or not Black students are protesting is bizarre to me. Because they are in the places where there are a lot of Black students. But on many of these campuses not only is the Black student population 3% or less, Black students are ignored
@PatBlanchfield it’s not just the police who are beating protesters. rn at UCLA x.com/mel_buer/statu…
A thing I think about a lot: the main issue on campus when I was at UChicago was a push by activists to have the university open a trauma center, partially to help shooting victims. Much discussion about how unworkable and moronic it was. Anyway, it's been open for six years now.
@JMfreespeech if youre so proud of your face why are you using a pic from 1996
I'm telling y'all
I just saw a nypd tank accompany by two squad cars going west on 125th Streeet
this is the replies to any local news story about a protest.
TIL that for some days after the Kent State shootings many locals insisted that it had been students who had killed guardsmen; some armed themselves against students and a local radio station broadcast news that students were going to attack town landmarks via underground tunnels
@PatBlanchfield Public opinion polls at the time showed that a majority of Americans thought the kids had it coming.
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Yep... That's him alright
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