Poll:
1) This Actually Happened.
2) This Did Not Actually Happen
3) Auntie's Into The Gin Again

I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. Columbia Daily Spectator is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money. specpublishing.com/donate-1

Austin (or 2012) coded

Seeing the nice respectable leaders of their schools hysterically repress their protests against mass death is the best education that college students could possibly get.
hamiltonnolan.com/p/college-is-a…

Beluga grads worldwide are shaking

'The wisdom that older people claim grants them the legitimacy to control the world also demands the grace and humility to be able to admit that young people bring important qualities to the political mix that we lack.'

'In Rafah, a few hours later, Israeli nighttime airstrikes reportedly killed 24 people, mostly women and children.' indignity.net/send-the-natio…

I’m sorry to be corny but this inspires me beyond what I can possibly convey. Humans can be good sometimes.

When my baby doesn’t eat for three hours, I know he’ll be fine and his crying still breaks my heart. Here is the reason for protest. These are not normal casualties of war.

Some would honestly have us believe that the problem is not that things like this are happening, but that unruly people have the audacity to protest them.

in honor of the protesting students at Columbia who have been manhandled by the NYPD, here is a Sharon Olds poem I love about being pregnant while protesting at Columbia and being manhandled by the NYPD in 1968
poetrynook.com/poem/may-1968

It was so fun to publish this Lucas Mann piece. Frighteningly relatable...

while we're on the topic of essays, criticism, and self-promotion, here's an essay I wrote while locked out of my twitter account, which I am now self-promoting! esquire.com/lifestyle/a602…

And to think some people say “twitter” is “over”

New Interview: I talked to doctor Paul Spiegel, the co-author of a new report projecting the death toll in Gaza for the next 6 months, about the various scenarios they modeled, & why even best-case scenarios will see the humanitarian catastrophe continue. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

Somewhere in Alabama there is at least one woman, hoping IVF could help her have a baby, who just saw several thousand dollars and ~7-10 days of injecting herself with drugs all go down the drain.

Today is a great day to buy a book from me -- both because of the imminent layoffs and because I'm going to the post office tomorrow to mail orders and it's annoying to do it twice. annamerlan.bigcartel.com

The most important possible thing today about the Vice uncertainty is that you all read this immediately: vice.com/en/article/dpw…

VICE did stories nobody else would touch or tell as transparently, from around the world, and broke news like it was nobody’s business. And everybody was hilarious. On the best days it was the best place ever. On the other days it was a lot of trauma bonding.

New Interview: I talked to the British doctor Deborah Harrington, who recently spent two weeks at a hospital in Gaza, about what the war has meant for maternal care and women’s health. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…