Here's the text of a letter I sent earlier this week to the President of Tulane University, after he had the fledgling student encampment there violently broken up by cops on horseback, with 14 people arrested:

Nicole Kidman as survival analysis:

Since at least 2012, OiYan Poon 潘愛欣 had been trying to write a book on Asian Americans and #AffirmativeAction . Things clicked into place when she framed it as a letter to her young daughter. #AAPIHeritageMonth buff.ly/3UFvLAS

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill that'd be a national first: It mandates in-person voting centers within local jails to allow people detained there to vote.

Key context: People in jails typically have the right to vote but face enormous hurldes.

NEW: boltsmag.org/colorado-votin…

I'm a professor at Tulane University.
I was present at the Pro-Palestinian protest on campus. I observed Tulane students engaging in peaceful & nonviolent demonstration.
Lift suspensions & drop charges
We condemn the violent & disproportionate police response.
We stand with our students.

Reparations are just.

But if you're unmoved by that case, consider this: reparations are also an investment in underinvested-in people that will help more dreams come true, more cures be found, more inventions be invented.

Reparations are possibility.

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Quick thread on the Astra Zeneca (AZ) covid vaccine since it's been in the news today.

TLDR there isn't a new 'smoking gun', the AZ vax was one of first and cheapest, it saved millions of lives globally, there are better vax out there now, adapted to new variants 1/9

Really glad to see Katharine Meyer call out the need for information on Federal Student Aid completion by students *in* college.

They are navigating these same problems, very likely without the same supports as high school students and no one is reporting on them or talking about them.

One of the most revealing things about this country is what past we want to ceaselessly venerate and what past we ceaselessly dismiss. I have never seen a single person telling us to get over rememberances of racial apartheid in the 1960s say that about commemorating Pearl Harbor…

TLDR: The NY Times offers click bait headlines about #college & #college admissions, and continues to pretend the Ivy League is a signpost rather than an outpost in #HigherEd

akilbello.com/2024/05/06/the…

This is incorrect. Their demands are simple and direct. You can read the demands of all 167 camps right here. students4gaza.directory They also chant clearly and make clear signs. Anyone who doesn’t know what they are demanding is being willingly ignorant, Jill Filipovic.

So universities are literally evicting student protesters overnight, which leaves me with a lot of questions about how tax exempt institutions can just bypass the eviction process entirely.

No housing court.

No 30 day notice.

Just cut off keycard access and bye.

This is just absurd. Israel is invading Rafah and meanwhile…

“Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed indefinitely.”

INDEFINITELY😐
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a reminder that phosphorus BURNS skin down to the bones. it ignites upon contact with oxygen and could burn you inside out if inhaled

Brilliant students that the Western media wants to portray as uninformed or misguided demonstrate it’s the punditry class & politicians who’re misrepresenting, misguided, warmongers. Student’s demands globally are fair, transparent & justice-oriented if anyone actually listened.

I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that the first black graduate of Georgia Tech is still alive.

#OnThisDay in 1955, the Rev. George Lee was shot to death in Belzoni, Mississippi, after using his pulpit and his printing press to urge other Black Mississippians to vote.

He became one of the first African Americans to register to vote in the mostly Black Humphreys County.…

Alright, by popular request from like one person and to amuse basically just myself… here’s #MetGala 2024 outfits as medical specialties for a third year in a row

Before Roe v. Wade, I was forced to carry my dead stillborn baby boy in my womb for 3 months to term. As his flesh disintegrated, it poisoned my bloodstream, and I almost died!

It was considered illegal to induce labor, even to save my life.

WE CAN’T GO BACK FLORIDA!

School leaders and practitioners should always be assessing schoolwide and individual data to determine if certain groups of students are being subjected to differential or unfair treatment. Here are some questions leaders might want to ask (A thread🧵)