Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
IMPORTANT THREAD: Have you followed what's happened at the
@UofMaryland
? Experts say it's the single greatest violation of student civil rights in (at least recent) history, and administrators want it to be a new "model" for how they govern universities moving forward.
Israel has risen to the sixth most-prolific jailer of journalists in the world – tied with Iran – according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists
All this is happening because:
1. Hamas kidnapped/raped/maimed/killed thousands of people, including women, kids, entire families, Holocaust survivors.
2. They have repeatedly rejected temporary ceasefire offers.
3. They refuse to return remaining hostages.
Any questions?
I’ve seen a lot of reports about
@RTMannJr
stepping down as
@ManshipSchool
chairman over potential political issues with the incoming Landry administration.
I’m obviously a hardcore right winger 😂, but Bob was the best professor I had at LSU - by a country mile.
He never…
🧵: NYT published a long article today about detransitioners and how the “always affirm” model has destroyed the bodies and lives of many confused children.
Some notable details below.
Just finished
@AbigailShrier
’s “Bad Therapy.” Rarely before has a book moved me like this. As a young mom of 3 under 4 who grew up in the 90-00s Ritalin era, every sentence was a profound, painful warning not to go down the path we have all been conditioned to. It’s not too late.
You might wonder why you should care about what happens at one school. Well, they want it to - in their own words in a CBS interview! - serve as a "model" for how schools conduct investigations in the future.
This isn't about Greek life. It's about administrators.
Some admins genuinely believe they're allowed to break the law and their own administrative rules to achieve ideological ends (be honest: they hate traditional organizations like Greek groups).
It's not about fraternities and sororities. They can do this to anyone.
The school broke its own administrative procedures and the law. It's pretty indisputable. Now, a judge is involved, as lawsuits have been filed. A temporary restraining order was initially filed, and the school relented. But, the lawsuits for civil rights violations remain.
In Maryland, students are fighting back. But the power imbalance is so real and so terrifying, it takes real courage to do so. UMD's students should be heralded as leaders for standing up for student civil rights.
Will others do the same?
More here:
US not standing with Israel at the UN speaks volumes. This administration is controlled by way too online staffers who are controlled by woke intersectional activists. Pathetic.
NEW POLL: In 6 out of 7 swing states, the crisis at the border is the “single most important issue” to voters, eclipsing the economy (context: only 29% say the economy is going in the right direction).
Nearly 2/3s respondents say Biden is responsible.
Watch this.
@NorthwesternU
student journalist filming new pro-Hamas encampment on campus gets assaulted for being there. They want to illegally occupy university grounds while physically preventing unwanted press coverage. Arrest these people & if they’re students, expel them:
The following day, administrators announced a total ban on Greek life. They issued a "NO CONTACT" (in caps) order, forbidding thousands of students from even speaking to each other, including biological siblings, roommates, classmates, group project members, etc.
This Nazi/Soviet style "snitching" was a REQUIREMENT. Admins told the assembled students that a failure to be fully honest about their or other students' organizations could endanger their professional or grad school aspirations. They said they had done it to students before.
Everything happening right now is about taking the West down. I don't know how much clear they need to make it. They're a well-organized, well-funded army of histrionic, maladjusted weirdos willing to behave irrationally for virtually ANY cause.
Israel is the West, only Jewish.
If the new "model" is empowering admins to suspend civil rights of students without cause, without charges, without following the law, how vulnerable are students who are in their crosshairs? Especially if these students are opposed to their preferred groups?
When the students requested they have attorneys represent them since they were being interrogated by lawyers, the school refused. They were allowed a "support person" to listen in, but this person could not interject or otherwise advocate for the student.
Meanwhile, UMD contracted an outside law firm to begin an investigation of all Greek life. They brought in hundreds of students, including teenage pledges, to be interrogated by lawyers. Students were not accused of any crimes and were not told of any charges against them.
Students could not refuse to participate. Some parents intervened, saying they would direct their children to decline. They were informed by the school that it was required, and a failure to comply would result in disciplinary action. Again, no one had been accused of anything.
Senior administrators gathered leaders from all the fraternities and sororities (historically black organizations were exempted) in a room and gave them sticky notes. They told them to write down any rumors they had heard about OTHER fraternities and sororities.
I am crying. Actual tears coming down my face. They would throw this guy off a roof the second they saw him in Gaza. Yet here he is, siding with the animals who kidnapped Holocaust victims and babies and raped women. Right side of history, yaaaaaas!
Bans and investigations lasted 15 days, affecting thousands of individuals (16% of all UMD students). Unaware of their own rights, these students were subjected to an unprecedented infringement of their rights on a global scale - privacy, due process, free speech/association.
Vanderbilt has suspended at least 7 students for occupying the lobby of the chancellor’s office today.
They’re there because the admin cancelled a student BDS referendum.
Investigators asked intrusive and inappropriate questions on everything ranging from absurd rumors to confidential organizational rituals. They also demanded some students turn over their cell phones (!!) so they could look at texts, photos and calendars.
When students objected to sharing the contents of their private cell phones, investigators said they'd be marked as non-compliant, which could result in disciplinary action. When one sorority president resisted, she was accused of "covering" for fraternities with her refusal.
Eventually, the school lifted the orders against nearly all fraternities and sororities. A handful of investigations remain ongoing (the most long-lasting actions were taken against an organization whose charges were known long before the dragnet investigation took place).
Normal people reject this kind of stuff - the antisemitism, the bigotry, the incivility. I don’t know why on Earth Democrats are more afraid of a bunch of maladjusted teenagers with an outsized online footprint than they are the voters who look at this and think, “What freaks!”
They also announced that all Greek life social activities were canceled. They eventually said that philanthropic activities could continue, but because some were public-facing events with alcohol, groups began to cancel them, leaving charitable partners without needed funds.
It's crazy to consider that Columbia admits less than 4 percent of its elite applicant pool, and yet, it somehow found Khymani James worthy of a spot at their school.
The allegations were sensational, and frankly, unbelievable - requiring pledges to lay on a bed of nails or drink urine. Horrifying, if true. But pretty unlikely, so no students took the rumor mill seriously. But the University of Maryland did.
Again, these protesters are maladjusted weirdos. Every single interaction should be framed this way. It’s WEIRD and CREEPY and GROSS that they’re doing this.
You absolute lunatic, these were noncombatants - mere babies, even - asleep in their cribs.
I’ll never forget the image of a toddler’s room, covered in blood, with all of her little things everywhere. In the corner, a toy my own American child has.
NOTHING warrants Hamas.
@ellencarmichael
Why would Hamas attack people on October 7th?
There must have been a reason or an influence, right?
I mean, that amount of hatred doesn't come from nowhere.
In February, administrators received an anonymous "tip" about hazing and alcohol issues in fraternities and sororities at UMD. Prior to that, students had alerted administrators that a "rumor mill" in Greek life was going crazy as organizations competed for recruits.
My daughter joined a peaceful protest on the lawn of her university today. It turned violent when the state police showed up in riot gear. She and her friends were sprayed with tear gas. Incredibly frustrated that the adults making decisions aren't better at de-escalation.
#vcu
Pure nonsense. I’m married to a European computer scientist whose options are limitless in America, even compared to his first world home country.
Americans have greater economic mobility, more autonomy, more choices, more freedom. Even compared to other first world nations in…
Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.
People standing up for Jewish students' rights to exist freely in American society being somehow a thinly-veiled trick into hurting Jews is really some mental gymnastics.
As I wrote on Tuesday, the *most* antisemitic thing happening on college campuses right now is the fact that Republicans have goaded college presidents, who now fear for their jobs, into joining the GOP in using Jews as a political weapon.
🇵🇸THE MINNESOTA 9 ARE FREE🇵🇸
Thank you so much to everybody who showed up to support us today! The MN 9 are now banned from campus for a full year as well as charged w misdemeanors for “trespassing” on the campus we pay for
Next up, DROP THE CHARGES!
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!
Everything - EVERYTHING - they do is designed to take down the West. Anti-Israel hatred is just the Trojan horse.
Don’t ignore what’s happening, not only for the safety and dignity of Jewish Americans but also for the sake of our civilization.
Basically, Dr. Frankenstein wondering why the monster he built is turning on him.
Administrators are to blame here, because they admit maladjusted hyper-activists rather than serious students to these elite institutions, and now they’re outnumbered by a mob in tantrum.
To the students at
@Columbia
, and any other students at colleges across the United States,
blocking Jewish kids from entering the school to go to class:
You're supposed to be smart. You're blaming your 18 year old classmates from the US for the actions of the government of…
Daily Caller Facebook post: "Who was the best first lady in our nation's history?"
Remember: Dolley Madison saved precious national artifacts when the White House was on fire.
But most users replied, "Melania Trump," so now I want to head on a rocket ship straight to the sun.
"One of those expelled...said protesting in high school was what helped get him into Vanderbilt & secure a merit scholarship for activists and organizers. His college essay was about organizing walkouts to oppose Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-LGBTQ policies."
Here is the full Khymani James live-stream that includes his disciplinary meeting with Columbia University over making threatening social media posts.
I saved you all the first 30 minutes where he rants with a friend and started with the school meeting.
I love how students who could walk away from the mob and into a New York City bodega to grab a bagel and coffee 24/7/365 are crying out to the administrators to provide them with “humanitarian aid” in the form of food, like they’re in Somalia. I can’t. You guys are such losers.
He clearly sees what Trump has done: make himself a personality in the conservative movement, rather than just somebody who does all the things Republicans want from a policy perspective.
Trump spent years phoning into Greta Van Susteren and Fox & Friends before he was ever a…
If it’s one thing Catholics are known for in this country, it’s definitely that we run all institutions and definitely not that we were persecuted, beginning with the founders not even knowing if we should be allowed in.
Stick to limbless knights.
Any time anyone says there are “both sides” to all of this horror, I think about comments like these.
This “transfemme communist” is cheering on Hamas and Iran, despite being first on their lists to kill.
Intersectional socialism is a mind freak.
BREAKING | Brown's Corporation will vote on divestment from companies affiliated with Israel at its October meeting following an agreement between encampment organizers and University administrators this afternoon.
The University of Virginia pays $20 million annually for its 235 DEI employees, and some are earning nearly $600K each year in salary and benefits.
Annual tuition for non-resident students exceeds $58,000.
When Isra Hirsi, the daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, joined several of her classmates in a pro-Palestinian campus protest known as the Gaza encampment, she had no idea she would end up suspended, homeless, and left without food within a matter of days.
A lot of people are dunking on this poor girl. She’s unwell. She let herself be used by a terrorist-funded movement. She has traded what matters to her and to her family, with long-term consequences (for probably the first time ever), and the people using her won’t help her.
WATCH: We spoke with ASU senior Breanna Brocker outside the courthouse, who said she will not be able to graduate because the suspension will cause her to miss her final exam
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, then you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” -St. Francis of Assisi
ATTN:
@KristiNoem
At my alma mater
@FloridaState
, they don’t mess around. They told the Pro-Hamas crowd no tents. Turned on the sprinklers on Landis Green. And a hero student made sure that the Hamas make shift sprinkler cover was taken care.
#GoNoles
It’s hard to have community when a very small minority of the student body acts like mini-Hamas, inflicting outsized terror on the majority.
Most students are normal. They want to go to class, make friends, play sports, and even walk unobstructed from points A to B.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.
NPR's censor-in-chief.
Please stop with the WWIII stuff. There’s a lot of mental illness in this country - the kind where people *literally* need to be medicated because they’re panicked about catastrophic climate change - and they certainly can’t handle this.
Pro-Hamas/anti-Jewish protests are terrifying, not just because of what they're doing but because of how the protesters appear - belligerent, violent, scary.
How can they possibly think this is convincing people? Of course, it's not about that. It's about fear and coercion.
16-month-old twins are in their room, jumping in their beds across from each other, and screaming "PIZZA!!!" at the top of their lungs at 7 AM. Good morning, world!
I need
@AbigailShrier
to write on what’s going on at these colleges. They’ve been told since the age of 3 they’re “leaders” who are bound to “change the world.” They take that to mean “by any means necessary.”
Crazy admins admitting maladjusted weirdos made by their parents.
Huge SCOOP by
@abigailandwords
for
@NRO
:
Princeton students are planning an encampment.
A recruiting document shows they know they’re breaking the rules but don’t expect serious consequences.
They say they “have a trained security team, pro bono legal support, and ‘faculty…
YOU WILL BOW DOWN!! YOU WILL BEG FOR MERCY!!! YOU WILL SUBMIT!!!
Most Republicans aren’t on the same team as these folks — at least the VERY ONLINE version of MAGA.
And the overwhelming majority of voters aren’t, either.
When they lose again, maybe they’ll find a new hobby.
They’re proud to shout for Intifada, but have no idea what it is. The first and second intifada’s in the late 80’s-early 90’s and then again in the early 2000’s were responsible for killing thousands of Jewish civilians via suicide bombing at night clubs, shopping malls, markets,…
Israel is an advanced, pluralistic, democratic society. They value the rule of law, tolerance, peace.
As a result, they, like the U.S., are a threat to those who hate the West. They're just an easier target for antisemitic activists because they're also primarily Jewish.
This is why this fight is so important. Western ideals aren't about geography or demography. It's respect for the inherent rights of the individual. Israel is the West. What happens to them matters. And what happens to Jews in America matters - for their sake and for everyone's.
I totally see how destroying public property, blockading infrastructure, thwarting the delivery of an education and terrorizing Jewish students over the policies of a country they don’t even live in is a legitimate exercise of free speech.
You got ‘em!!!!!!
A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?
“Sondra, how far has this family come?”
“We came from Baton Rouge, LA.”
Not quite what she was asking, Sondra, but congrats to your family all the same. 🤣🤣🤣
#NFLDraft
Kevin McCarthy says the only reason that he is not Speaker is because "one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old"
NYPD lays out charges: “For the individuals that are inside the Hamilton Hall building, [they’ll be] charged with burglary in the third degree, criminal mischief and trespassing. The individuals that are on campus outside, they will be charged with trespassing and disorderly…
NBC fired McDaniel because on-air talent complained about her on TV and Twitter. In fact, they made far worse charges, implying their employer would be complicit in undoing democracy. If you have the "right" opinions and tantrum, you're pacified. If you don't, you're suspended.
The thing is, of course he was suspended. I’m surprised he wasn’t just straight out fired! Doesn’t mean his essay is necessarily wrong but obviously you can’t publicly slag your employer like that. If a NYT employee published an essay like that, I hope they’d be fired too
Today is the 250th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette and his wife, Adrienne. Much is known about the tremendous, towering Lafayette, but his strength was accentuated by the political wit and courage of his wife.
When they married, Lafayette was a 16-year-old noble orphan.…
It was already bad enough that he spoke of “loyalty” and condemned anyone who dared to run for president after he lost in 2020 and wanted it in 2024.
It’s another that staff are being targeted now. You’re not even allowed to WORK for someone who ran for office when he did.