Ok, signing off for ... not quite sure how long. Leaving tomorrow on a long planned, much anticipated vacation and it feels like the moment to take a social media break.
NYPD has started tear gassing inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia, per student radio WKCR
I feel like the frog sitting in the water that's finally like "Oh. Oh fuck. Oh this water is boiling. Oh no."
Kent State was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a playbook.
Columbia AAUP chapter faculty statement, posted online by classics professor Joseph A. Howley and read aloud on WKCR: "Columbia faculty have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored."
I strongly recommend following Columbia Spectator coverage too, and not just because I'm a former Speccie. Their coverage has been tremendous throughout this.
I’m listening to WKCR as student journalists at Columbia are calmly describing the situation. They are amazing and also it is *such a balm* to simply hear neutral calm descriptions. www.radio.net/s/wkcr
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Trump on Truth Social: "I am the only Presidential Candidate in History to be GAGGED." Me: Idk, there's been a lot of kinky dudes in power. thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-glass...
John Tyler did some serious work in the White House — and I’m not talking about the 1844 Treaty of Wanghia — he fathered 15 children with two different women in his 71 years on this pla…
As I've been saying, Democrats are the party of marijuana, mifepristone, marriage equality, (and let's add Medicaid expansion) ... and it's a popular agenda
The Drug Enforcement Administration will move to loosen restrictions on marijuana in what would be a historic shift in federal drug policy, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
The measure, if enacted, does not instantly legalize marijuana at the federal level but could broaden access to the drug for medicinal use.
Trump says he'll use local police in his mass deportation plans in a second term in the White House -- and vaguely threatens to deny them federal $ if they don't participate. “They won’t partake in the riches, you know." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Local law enforcement that won't participate "won't partake in the riches," the presumptive GOP presidential nominee vaguely threatened in a new interview.