Explaining the seder plate at the Columbia encampment. These students truly embody the meaning of Passover in their provisional seder and their commitment to liberation.

The Gaza death toll is over 34,000. Likely much higher as Palestinians continue to uncover mass graves. The devastation is incalculable. It feels like there's no end in sight. So, please remember to center the real victim in all of this: a Columbia University business professor.

Global military spending increased in 2023 for the ninth consecutive year, surging to $2.4 trillion, and the US is responsible for 37% of it.

Last year's global increase of 6.8% was the largest since 2009.

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peppa pig your days are numbered

Laugh all you want, but who serves as Harvard's president is a kitchen table issue in Scranton.

Sam Bankman-Fried seething in prison over what could have been.

I see we’re going to get more statements about protesters near Columbia University than any of the explicitly genocidal statements from US lawmakers and Israeli officials in the last few weeks. If you didn’t condemn an official with actual power calling for the nuking of millions

While US media & pundit class largely focuses on condemning college students for protesting, don't lose sight of what's happening in Gaza & why they're protesting:

Just got back from the Columbia encampment. Students feeding one another, sitting in tents, chanting about divestment. If I didn't know better than to form my impression from what I saw on the news/twitter or what I heard from the White House (?!), I might never have come!

“How would Columbia respond if these kids were pro genocide instead of anti genocide?” good one man

Palestinian civil defense discovered hundreds of bodies buried by Israeli forces in a mass grave inside the complex of Khan Younis' Nasser Medical Complex.

'These mass graves are obvious evidence of genocide and the most unthinkable war crimes.'

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I’m supposed to accept a 20 day old baby who wasn’t even ALIVE on Oct 7 should be collectively punished for it

This is like if Cal Ripken played for 2131 straight days but always went 0-for-4

'The truck was bombed in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the relief agency said. It was parked outside the Tuffah district in the northern part of Gaza at the time, and was clearly marked with the organization's name and a maple leaf'

Can’t pay teachers, can’t house the homeless, can’t provide healthcare, can’t invest in useful infrastructure of any kind, can’t can’t can’t but:

Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.

Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.

BREAKING--The UAW is already celebrating its HUGE HISTORIC WIN IN CHATTANOOGA -With more than 60% of the vote counted, the UAW is winning 2,050 to 699. That's a colossal 75% for & 25% against

Labor historian Joseph McCartin says, 'HUGE! This is the break we've waited years for.'

It seems like we're going to start clearing the rungs of this escalatory ladder very quickly from here on.

Whatever happens next: Biden & allies had so many chances to, but consciously chose not to, avoid this frightening situation. Absolute failure of leadership.