The NYPD’s aggressive escalation yesterday in Bay Ridge was a violation of NYers’ right to speak out + risks chilling political expression. NYCLU protest monitors witnessed violent arrests, protestor injuries + even arrests of credentialed members of the press. 

Our statement:

it’s over for music as a whole because of this

Reading this as the militarized American police state attacks students & teachers for protesting war and companies like Lockheed itself is very chef's kiss

As entertaining as this rap battle is, I also want to point out how highly disturbing it is that men casually expose one another over things like pedophilia, domestic violence and even rape when it involves women and children, but ONLY when we’re fighting. This is a problem.

according to UNICEF, about half of the 1.2 million people currently sheltering in Rafah are children unicef.org/press-releases…

For the past couple of weeks Rafah has been subjected to endless airstrikes.
Today Israeli forces are forcing to people to evacuate parts of Rafah.
Where will all these of people go?

Israel killed Dr Adnan Bursh, head of orthopedic surgery at Shifa in prison. Taken hostage from Al Awda Hospital. Tortured to death by Israeli army in their secret detension sites. He was a great surgeon, full of life. Trained at King's College Hospital.

Columbia University literally invited gunmen on campus to do a school shooting. Now I’ve seen everything.

No one even remotely involved in ordering this raid should work in higher education ever again

The largest union of academic workers, representing 48,000 graduate student workers throughout University of California, will hold a strike vote in response to the brutal crackdown against pro-Palestinian student protests theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…

“The Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk.”

NEW:

A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-raid-colu…

I cannot stop thinking about the choice to point guns at students who spent their entire childhoods training to survive too frequent school shootings and who are out protesting because students half way across the world are being murdered

America hates its kids so fucking much

I was a third-year college student before this genocide started, but I'll never be able to finish my studies because Israeli occupation forces bombed my university and every other university in Gaza. Thanks to the brave college students who are protesting and advocating for us,

TODAY: J. Escobedo Shepherd on the bizarre “Cipher in the Snow,” an overheated anti-bullying film from her youth: flaminghydra.com/issue-63/?attr…

Mohammed El-Kurd DESTROYS Zionist Victimhood, From The River To The Sea Mohammed El-Kurd