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there was middling faculty support for the protests last week; this week, everyone is ready to go absolutely apeshit (rhetorically and administratively speaking, of course)
dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/o...
dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/o...
Op-ed: Faculty stands with pro-Palestine protesters, demands full amnesty for all arrested - Daily Bruin
As Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, we call upon the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles, the University of California system and all other complicit authorities to grant full le...
dailybruin.com
May 2, 2024 at 8:53 PM
there was middling faculty support for the protests last week; this week, everyone is ready to go absolutely apeshit (rhetorically and administratively speaking, of course)
dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/o...
dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/o...
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I love this. Both in itself, and juxtaposed to throwing batteries at Santa.
This is beautiful. I'm a little in awe of this guy.
May 3, 2024 at 1:46 AM
I love this. Both in itself, and juxtaposed to throwing batteries at Santa.
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So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room. Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_co...
Hotline Complaint Form
ut-sao-special-prod.web.app
May 2, 2024 at 11:07 PM
So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room. Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_co...
Princeton students correct the record on being characterized as defiant / threatening / dangerous
Google Doc with the student letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Google Doc with the student letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
May 3, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Princeton students correct the record on being characterized as defiant / threatening / dangerous
Google Doc with the student letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Google Doc with the student letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I don't know how to say that this is sincere, but this is sincere:
I'm glad that there are people doing radical acts to push our country / society / world to be better — I'm trying to be one of them, and I often wish I was doing more
I'm glad that there are people doing radical acts to push our country / society / world to be better — I'm trying to be one of them, and I often wish I was doing more
May 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
I don't know how to say that this is sincere, but this is sincere:
I'm glad that there are people doing radical acts to push our country / society / world to be better — I'm trying to be one of them, and I often wish I was doing more
I'm glad that there are people doing radical acts to push our country / society / world to be better — I'm trying to be one of them, and I often wish I was doing more
100%. we need a high speed rail. one with no genocide.
we are stuck with shitty buses that don't take us where we ought to be.
we are stuck with shitty buses that don't take us where we ought to be.
Saying that, of the options available, you’d rather ride on the bus that’s less on fire and going marginally closer to your desired destination does not abrogate your right and duty to criticize the route map, the transit system as a whole, or the arsonists.
May 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
100%. we need a high speed rail. one with no genocide.
we are stuck with shitty buses that don't take us where we ought to be.
we are stuck with shitty buses that don't take us where we ought to be.
I should know better than to make a nuanced point on here.
no one is trying to understand each other well enough. (I am including myself here.) the medium doesn't allow it.
no one is trying to understand each other well enough. (I am including myself here.) the medium doesn't allow it.
May 2, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I should know better than to make a nuanced point on here.
no one is trying to understand each other well enough. (I am including myself here.) the medium doesn't allow it.
no one is trying to understand each other well enough. (I am including myself here.) the medium doesn't allow it.
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In fact, staying home and sulking isn’t even an option in this analogy. You’re getting on a bus whether you like it or not. None of the buses are going where you want to go, and they’re all more or less on fire, but you can vote for one that’s less on fire or let everyone else decide without you.
May 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
In fact, staying home and sulking isn’t even an option in this analogy. You’re getting on a bus whether you like it or not. None of the buses are going where you want to go, and they’re all more or less on fire, but you can vote for one that’s less on fire or let everyone else decide without you.
I'm so sad about the world. I want it to change in so many ways. until we can make big changes in the right direction, the changes we can make will be painfully slow. people will hurt & bad things will happen— but there are worse paths to walk too. how do we find paths that do the least damage?
May 2, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I'm so sad about the world. I want it to change in so many ways. until we can make big changes in the right direction, the changes we can make will be painfully slow. people will hurt & bad things will happen— but there are worse paths to walk too. how do we find paths that do the least damage?
"Trump is worse" ≠ "Biden is good"
voting in Nov is a choice btw 2 individuals. that sucks & I'd like to change that, but impossible before Nov.
it's a zero sum game, so votes matter desperately. saying nothing is real or everything is bad so I'm not voting is giving them what they want.
voting in Nov is a choice btw 2 individuals. that sucks & I'd like to change that, but impossible before Nov.
it's a zero sum game, so votes matter desperately. saying nothing is real or everything is bad so I'm not voting is giving them what they want.
May 2, 2024 at 5:52 PM
"Trump is worse" ≠ "Biden is good"
voting in Nov is a choice btw 2 individuals. that sucks & I'd like to change that, but impossible before Nov.
it's a zero sum game, so votes matter desperately. saying nothing is real or everything is bad so I'm not voting is giving them what they want.
voting in Nov is a choice btw 2 individuals. that sucks & I'd like to change that, but impossible before Nov.
it's a zero sum game, so votes matter desperately. saying nothing is real or everything is bad so I'm not voting is giving them what they want.
doing research is such a good pallet cleanser for dealing with **gestures broadly**
May 2, 2024 at 3:10 PM
doing research is such a good pallet cleanser for dealing with **gestures broadly**
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The Antisemitism Awareness Act gives the Department of Education the authority to cut off funding to academic institutions that refuse to address antisemitism.
That’s a very specific law.
Why doesn’t it include everyone, like the Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and America First movement?
That’s a very specific law.
Why doesn’t it include everyone, like the Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and America First movement?
House passes antisemitism bill over complaints from First Amendment advocates
Critics call the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which has some Democratic support, an effort to silence criticism of Israel and an affront to the First Amendment.
wapo.st
May 2, 2024 at 5:35 AM
The Antisemitism Awareness Act gives the Department of Education the authority to cut off funding to academic institutions that refuse to address antisemitism.
That’s a very specific law.
Why doesn’t it include everyone, like the Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and America First movement?
That’s a very specific law.
Why doesn’t it include everyone, like the Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and America First movement?
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From my South Dakota colleagues--a faculty member at the USD is being threatened with termination if they don't remove their pronouns and tribal affiliation from their email signature. The Board of Regents previously passed rigid guidelines on what an email signature may contain.
May 1, 2024 at 6:28 PM
From my South Dakota colleagues--a faculty member at the USD is being threatened with termination if they don't remove their pronouns and tribal affiliation from their email signature. The Board of Regents previously passed rigid guidelines on what an email signature may contain.
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Amazing!
NYU Grad workers are withholding their labor until cops are off campus!
www.instagram.com/p/C6bpoA8rbo...
NYU Grad workers are withholding their labor until cops are off campus!
www.instagram.com/p/C6bpoA8rbo...
May 1, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Amazing!
NYU Grad workers are withholding their labor until cops are off campus!
www.instagram.com/p/C6bpoA8rbo...
NYU Grad workers are withholding their labor until cops are off campus!
www.instagram.com/p/C6bpoA8rbo...
Princeton has recently arrested 11 more students —threatening EXPULSION— claiming it was in response to a dangerous situation (see www.instagram.com/p/C6XpwOcNnwH/). this got me very angry.
I read this docs.google.com/document/d/1... and I am now BEYOND ANGRY. I am without words.
I read this docs.google.com/document/d/1... and I am now BEYOND ANGRY. I am without words.
Statement from Princeton Faculty on Clio Hall
docs.google.com
May 1, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Princeton has recently arrested 11 more students —threatening EXPULSION— claiming it was in response to a dangerous situation (see www.instagram.com/p/C6XpwOcNnwH/). this got me very angry.
I read this docs.google.com/document/d/1... and I am now BEYOND ANGRY. I am without words.
I read this docs.google.com/document/d/1... and I am now BEYOND ANGRY. I am without words.
the fucking audacity to just get in front of press cameras to claim a bike lock as evidence of "outsiders".
this is either (1) rooted in ignorance that it is a bike lock or (2) the production of full throated lies by calling it something it isn't.
both explanations are supremely awful.
this is either (1) rooted in ignorance that it is a bike lock or (2) the production of full throated lies by calling it something it isn't.
both explanations are supremely awful.
May 1, 2024 at 5:00 PM
the fucking audacity to just get in front of press cameras to claim a bike lock as evidence of "outsiders".
this is either (1) rooted in ignorance that it is a bike lock or (2) the production of full throated lies by calling it something it isn't.
both explanations are supremely awful.
this is either (1) rooted in ignorance that it is a bike lock or (2) the production of full throated lies by calling it something it isn't.
both explanations are supremely awful.
all of this is really bumming me out.
I am simply at a loss with the state of academic “leadership” and its quick abandonment of principles.
this whole month has felt like watching a building collapsing in slow motion.
I am simply at a loss with the state of academic “leadership” and its quick abandonment of principles.
this whole month has felt like watching a building collapsing in slow motion.
the timeline from our perspective:
1. an incredibly successful and well-organized peaceful protest, despite intense antagonism, with lots of campus and police support
www.latimes.com/california/s...
1. an incredibly successful and well-organized peaceful protest, despite intense antagonism, with lots of campus and police support
www.latimes.com/california/s...
At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses
At USC, police in riot gear arrested 93 pro-Palestinian protestors, while UCLA sent in observers who kept their hands off students in a peaceful encampment.
www.latimes.com
May 1, 2024 at 2:38 PM
all of this is really bumming me out.
I am simply at a loss with the state of academic “leadership” and its quick abandonment of principles.
this whole month has felt like watching a building collapsing in slow motion.
I am simply at a loss with the state of academic “leadership” and its quick abandonment of principles.
this whole month has felt like watching a building collapsing in slow motion.
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Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero
April 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero
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yes, because simply put: rape isn't offensive to them.
These universities will call in riot police to respond to peaceful protests, but their response to the widespread nature of rape on campus is to try to (a) ignore it or (b) bury any ask for redress in process.
May 1, 2024 at 11:16 AM
yes, because simply put: rape isn't offensive to them.
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Another professor, Steve Tamari at Washington University, assaulted by police for recording images of the protest. Reportedly hospitalized with broken bones.
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
May 1, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Another professor, Steve Tamari at Washington University, assaulted by police for recording images of the protest. Reportedly hospitalized with broken bones.
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
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Even as cops are cracking skulls around the nation, it's May Day, and that's a good reminder that there's power in unity and community
May 1, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Even as cops are cracking skulls around the nation, it's May Day, and that's a good reminder that there's power in unity and community