Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

The intended effect of equating student protests with the horrors of the mass atrocities committed by Nazi Germany is to legitimize violence against the protesters.

What a shameful, disgusting instrumentalization of the Holocaust.

The actual Kristallnacht was a country-wide pogrom in November 1938 in which the Nazis killed hundreds of German Jews, threw tens of thousands in concentration camps, destroyed hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish businesses.

Was even a single person hurt at Columbia?

Regardless of how you feel about the content of the protests, one thing is absolutely clear: If you've read any of @pluralistic books, you would definitely not be surprised at the police's actions last night at Columbia University. The books have been an eye-opening education in how adversarial modern protest response is.

Breaking: South Dakota governor Kristi Noem takes her vice presidential aspiration to gravel pit and kills it.

Fight for your libraries. Don’t let them take away your library by defunding it out of providing vital services. Don’t let them shackle the library with rules meant to prevent the right people from getting the right book to change their life. Don’t let them close the doors, because you know they will never open again. Fight for the freedom to read and explore new ideas. Fight against censorship and denying people the materials their souls need. If a library closes, it will never open again. You couldn’t create libraries today. You want to loan out books? And people will just willingly give them back? Are you mad? Naïve, perhaps? Once a library closes its doors, it’s over. The book banners have won. Do not let them win. Fight for libraries. Fight for library workers. Fight for patrons. Fight for free people reading freely. #libraries #censorship #librarians #LibraryWorkers #LibraryPatrons #BookBans

Campuses aren't being rocked by protests.

They're being rocked by politicized administrators ordering students beaten and jailed to satisfy the political elite.

Let's be clear who is causing the violence.

the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

https://www.tiktok.com/@msolurin

#policebrutality #studentspring #abolition

Columbia University’s President was so bad at basic strategic comms that now we’ve got police snipers on the roofs of campuses around the country.

I got a little mad about it in my latest post.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-only-thing-university-administrators?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Normalize asking people, “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

I have ZERO faith in a Supreme Court who's rationalizing putting SEAL Team 6 at anyone's front door.

A transcript of #NaomiKlein's speech at the Seder in the Streets in front of Senator Schumer's house in New York City. 👇

This thread is the whole speech because, well, it's that important -- Klein went out in public and claimed a path for US Jewish futures that is in coalition with those harmed by Zionism, but that is also deeply nested within Judaism as a multi-millennial tradition. We're lucky to live and breathe at the same time as Naomi Klein...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

The #unemployment rate for US-born workers averaged 3.6% in 2023, the lowest rate on record. Obviously, #immigration (white line) is not causing high #unemployment among US-born workers @economicpolicy chart @BloombergTV

Imagine my surprise, dear reader, when the Altoids tin in my junk drawer actually had Altoids in it.

Remember: we live in a world where the people buying $400 gold sneakers from a known con-man probably consider themselves smarter than the people who just reconfigured a malfunctioning spacecraft twenty-two light hours away over a 40 bps communication channel.

Weird to think there was a time pre-Trump that everyone did fake news on April 1 and people thought it was cute instead of, like, just part of the usual daily slog of misinformation

For April Fools' Day, I was going to suggest a ridiculous CO₂ removal (#CDR) method but everything I’ve come up with has already been proposed as a real solution.

Ho lee shit.
The AP has found that the number of deaths caused by the police in the US is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than thought because they're not always reported as being "officer-involved."

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The investigation found that between 2012 and 2021, more than a thousand people died after police use physical force that was not intended to be lethal. That includes batons, stun guns, physical restraints, and chemical agents. The oldest victim was 95 and the youngest 15.

Only 28 of the officers were charged.

The Police role was only cited in about half of the cases, meaning that many more Americans have died at the hands of the police than was previously known.
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Watch the PBS segment here
https://youtu.be/5rrMUfbGVlM?feature=shared

#PoliceBrutality #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle

Trump has posted a mock video and photo of President Biden, bound and gagged, in the back of a pick up truck.
-The Secret Service and/or FBI
would long ago have been at
our door.
-That photo would have us held
in jail.
Makes a threat to our President and Trump is still sitting at home... posting threatening messages to a judge and his daughter. He's making a mockery of our judicial system.
And, being allowed to get away with it.

Stochastic Terrorism is far more dangerous when it made by a person of power. Donald Trump, a former US president and a current presidential candidate, is a Stochastic Terrorist. This is not an opinion – it's an objective fact.