New York's hottest club is the sidewalk in front of the Trump trial axios.com/2024/05/14/mik…

Two years ago today, a white supremacist killed 10 people and wounded 3 others in a racially motivated shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

It's the worst shooting in the city's history abcnews.go.com/US/shoppers-re…

“the proliferation of legal and illegal firearms is forcing officers throughout the country to have to decide faster than ever what constitutes a deadly threat” apnews.com/article/5b97a3…

'No parent should give any thought to sending their child to a sporting event, to a concert, to an elementary school and think, 'My child might get shot today'' kcra.com/article/high-s…

The Government Media Office in Gaza says that the number of journalists killed since October 7 has risen to 143 with the death overnight of Bahaa Okasha.
 
Okasha was a photojournalist for the Al-Aqsa Network, killed when his family’s house in the Jabalia camp, the office said

NEW: VCU students walk out of their own commencement to protest Glenn Youngkin #valeg

They will not be allowed back into the ceremony but don’t seem worried.

“My families going to be mad, but it’s worth it for what he’s done to bBack and trans ppl” - said by a student outside

Perhaps the most appalling accusation is that some Palestinian detainees had to have limbs amputated after being handcuffed or ziptied for long periods. Really disturbing reporting by @cnn based in large part on Israeli whistleblowers.

MAGA: “DEI = Didn’t Earn It”

Also MAGA:

We're hiring a news developer for our soon-to-launch Gun Violence Data Hub. Please share this with journalists who may be the right fit:
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Thanks to The Trace and Garrett M. Graff for having me on to talk about how the #AR15 went from a Cold War invention to becoming the most popular and divisive firearm in American #history .
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everything I hear and read about UCLA last week is totally surreal and terrifying lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

Michigan: The grandparents of a 5-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed by his 6-year-old relative were charged with felonies people.com/boy-accidental…

So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?

J.D. Vance: 'Exactly.'

I’m just checking because you did help raise money for people who did so on Jan. 6th.

A UCLA student said authorities watched pro-Israel protesters attack the pro-Palestinian encampment last night without stepping in — and that the pro-Israel protesters were not students. They were older people from the surrounding areas, she said

“A school is a place where people are in and out of the building the entire day. So you can fortify the main school building. You could add ballistic windows … but the reality is that it’s not a supermax prison.” dallasnews.com/news/education…

Not anymore. But wayback has it web.archive.org/web/2024050105…

Interesting: this is how Columbia handled commencement a month after the 1968 crackdown on student protesters web.archive.org/web/2024050103…

You may well have the unusual situation of the Columbia student radio station being eligible for a Pulitzer Prize, administered by Columbia University, for the station’s coverage of how Columbia called the cops on Columbia students. (They’re doing an extraordinary job).

The reporting from WKCR-FM NY is stunning. Students journalist doing war zone-like reporting from their own campus. It’s a heartbreaking listen, but also inspiring because they are pros who are holding back no punches about the gravity of the moment.