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jon ben-menachem

22 days

The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus. New from me:

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’

Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

solidarity…

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

The Real

@TheRealDaytime

3 years

How different would our nation be if our police departments were run by women?

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 months

hmmm

Heritage Foundation

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Mass incarceration in the U.S. is a myth. It certainly seems obvious that where there is crime, there must also be punishment. If not, more crime and more victims will be the inevitable result. @tzsmith

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

25 days

congratulations to columbia administrators for sparking the largest wave of student organizing i’ve ever witnessed

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

26 days

speaking for myself, I’d file this story under “police violence on campus,” but you do you

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

24 days

As a Jewish Columbia student, it is perfectly safe for Jews on campus—if we are talking about student protesters. As Jewish student protesters learned on Thursday, however, they may not be safe from CU admin calling the NYPD to arrest them.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

24 days

In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

After eight long months of not wearing masks and spitting in the faces of protestors, NYPD cops get to line up early for vaccinations.

NYPD to start offering COVID-19 vaccine to cops within two weeks

The NYPD will start offering the COVID-19 vaccine to its force within two weeks, The Post has learned. The department’s medical unit will set up three locations — Floyd Bennet Field,...

nypost.com

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

Wait, the NYT endorsement actually victim-blames Klobuchar staff for being abused. Am I reading this right? "Reports of how Senator Klobuchar treats her staff give us pause. They raise serious questions about her ability to attract and hire talented people."

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

columbia is paying the union busting lawyer $1500 an hour at the bargaining table so he can tell us that columbia can't afford to pay a living wage

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

12 days

Nazis, Zionists, and NYPD are running a very dangerous dox campaign. Stay safe

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

cops not wearing masks while forcibly evicting tenants during a global pandemic is a pretty great encapsulation of why policing is violent and dangerous

Jake Offenhartz

@jangelooff

4 years

Two cops just showed up, apprently called by landlord. Crowd chews them out for not wearing masks. They’re now inside with landlord

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

27 days

"18 year olds who voice political views I disagree with should be subjected to state violence. also, I am the victim here"

Shai Davidai

@ShaiDavidai

27 days

The President of @Columbia lost control over campus. Fire Shafik and bring in the @NYPD .

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

6 months

I’m a Jew who works at Columbia. Suspending JVP is antisemitic and the ADL does not represent me or my interests. You should be ashamed.

ADL

@ADL

6 months

Finally. Thank you, @Columbia , for enforcing your policies & acting in a way consistent with your legal & moral obligations to protect Jewish students. JVP & SJP's violation of university protocol, continued use of threatening rhetoric & tactics of intimidation have no place on…

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

"outside agitators"

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

You mean to tell me that the white supremacist mob included off-duty police officers? Wow! Who could have guessed

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

5 months

Sorry, can’t afford to keep libraries open. Have to pay our boys in blue their OT for standing around playing candy crush

Gothamist

@Gothamist

5 months

NYPD overtime pay for extra officers in the subway went from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million this year, according to city records obtained by Gothamist.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

still kind of in awe that it’s been almost 10 years since the Ferguson uprising and the mainstream police reform proposals are still “body cameras with rules, more training, pay cops more, cop diversity, cop degree requirements”

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

no one but a cop is tagging "AOC" on cars lmao

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

4 years

A great combined effort lead to positive results for Queens communities. Today, our dedicated @NYPDDetectives from City-wide Vandals & Queens Narcotics along with @NYPD114pct , @NYPD115Pct officers, apprehended a person wanted for committing numerous acts of vandalism in Queens.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 month

"People in solitary aren’t allowed to go to the prison library... we qualify for one book a week... the librarian always sends a Christian themed book. In 2018, I asked her, “Why don’t you give me what I request?” She said, “I’m called to save your heathen soul.”"

Solitary Watch

@solitarywatch

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How Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Knowledge Behind Bars via @lithub By award-winning author Kwaneta Harris, who also writes for @solitarywatch .

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

15 days

cop texting they thought they shot someone (thought this one deserved its own post)

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

so when the LAPD cops blew up those fireworks, they killed two elders

Kate Cagle

@KateCagle

3 years

EXCLUSIVE: I've confirmed two elderly victims of the #LAPDBlast have died, including this woman's husband, 72-year-old Auzie Houchins, a retired teacher who was relocated without his oxygen tank or hospital bed. His family believes the incident contributed to his death.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

Will @AP fire every journalist who went on Birthright?

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

what happens when a public official questions LASD gangs? LASD gangs retaliate

Kate Cagle

@KateCagle

2 years

Breaking: Sheriff’s deputies are taking boxes from Civilian Oversight Commissioner Patty Giggin’s Los Angeles home, part of a sprawling investigation that includes Metro and Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. The COC has held a series of investigative hearings into alleged gangs in LASD.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

I’m not saying I *know* that cops just put a napkin in an empty bottle, but I am saying that I think that’s what happened

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

1 year

This is a Molotov Cocktail that was found at tonight’s protest. We are committed to ensuring everyone’s right to protest. Violence has no place in civic demonstration. These actions will never be tolerated & anyone bringing weapons or dangerous substances will be arrested.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

As of November 21, there were 427 homicides in 2021, compared to 432 homicides in 2020. Hard to see a charitable reading of this NYT headline. Blatantly false

David Menschel

@davidminpdx

2 years

I don’t know how else to say this, but @AliWatkins @nytimes MURDERS IN NEW YORK DID NOT DOUBLE this year or last year or ever. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. NOT EVEN CLOSE. YOU ARE LYING TO YOUR READERS. What a goddamn disgrace.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

21 days

Um, holy shit, CNN's Erin Burnett just read my Zeteo op-ed to House Speaker Johnson and asked him to respond to it

Jeff Storobinsky

@jeffstorobinsky

21 days

. @SpeakerJohnson at @Columbia University in NYC interviewed by CNN's @ErinBurnett

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

This is one of the most alarming trends in US politics: the Right is just removing political opponents from office, and it's happening quite a lot with reform DAs or other people trying to scale back criminalization

Taniel

@Taniel

1 year

Georgia's GOP is on brink of adopting a law to enable them to remove locally elected DAs who are not charging certain cases, like abortion or marijuana. I talked to one of their main targets, Athens DA Deborah Gonzalez: "I have a target on my back." New:

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

14 days

I want to be clear: We cannot only defend members of the movement who get trespassing tickets and an 8-hour stint in central booking. We must defend those with misdemeanors and felonies

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

Wait, so the "National Police Association" is really just a 501c3 shell for one guy's grift in Indiana (3 volunteer staff and a PO box). But they've successfully netted a ton of influential media coverage...

jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

This is kind of funny, though. Apparently the org quoted above scams donations from police departments and gained national fame through tough-on-crime posturing rather than actual police membership.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

we fuckin won

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

24 days

After Jake Tapper's misleading post this morning, his colleagues at CNN reached out to more accurately represent the situation on the ground at Columbia. Grateful for the due diligence here.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

american policing in two minutes and eighteen seconds

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog

4 years

This is one of the most absolutely insane moments I've ever seen on live television.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 months

Like the mob, except if they got 6 figure salaries and pensions on the taxpayer’s dime

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito

@RepDesposito

2 months

Don’t ever cross us.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

23 days

Faculty rally in support of Columbia student organizers beginning now >>

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

11 months

This is a pattern. Another NYPD whistleblower who recorded his supervisors discussing a quota system in 2009 was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric facility as retaliation.

Officer Who Disclosed Police Misconduct Settles Suit (Published 2015)

Adrian Schoolcraft, 40, will receive $600,000 as part of a settlement reached with the City of New York over his arrest and forced hospitalization in October 2009.

www.nytimes.com

New York Daily News

@NYDailyNews

11 months

EXCLUSIVE | NYPD sergeant claims bosses forced him to undergo psychiatric exam — and plotted to break into his apartment — in retaliation for filing complaint accusing cops of getting drunk on duty at Electric Zoo music festival

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

addressed to no one in particular: it's not like the Right "infiltrated" police departments. Policing is a right-wing occupation. Similarly, fascist/white supremacist organizing with cops is not something that began during the Trump era...

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 months

Sure seems like the vote uncommitted campaign is achieving its strategic goals! Wild how pressure campaigns can turn voting from a symbolic obligation into an actual tactic

Olivia Nuzzi

@Olivianuzzi

3 months

“‘They are freaking out about the uncommitted vote,’ said a Democrat close to Biden.”

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

To my knowledge this is the 46th active member of law enforcement to attend Jan 6 Trump DC events:

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

3 years

BREAKING: A Chicago cop has been charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection, with officials saying he entered a senator's office while wearing a CPD hoodie. On Jan. 6, the officer sent a photo of himself and texted, "We inside the capital lmfao," feds said.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

15 days

If you are a civil rights lawyer, you should begin investigating Columbia University. I could eventually testify in suits on several topics. Do not contact me directly, but consider yourselves notified

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

At least 26 law enforcement agents attended the Trump rally on January 6, and several former LEOs joined them or made statements in support. My tracker for cop participation is live at @theappeal :

The Cops at the Capitol

Law enforcement officers from around the country attended and supported last week’s rally in support of President Trump that sparked a riot.

theappeal.org

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

The NYT editorial board just... endorsed Bernie Sanders’ 2020 platform? I seem to remember that they endorsed Amy Klobuchar in the primary, lol

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

best part about a vaccine mandate for the NYPD? Lots of cops will quit

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jon ben-menachem

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6 months

Glad to see so many people come out in solidarity with Palestine and to shame Columbia for the discriminatory suspension of @ColumbiaSJP and antisemitic suspension of @jvplive

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

6 months

My employer is cracking down on pro-Palestine speech by Jewish undergraduates, and the ADL celebrates this in the name of "protecting Jewish students." I reject this, and I worry other universities will follow suit. Sent an email to explain why.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 months

i'm alarmingly close to the headspace where i start blaming intellectual decline on smartphone use

cpetersen.bsky.social

@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

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This was the most astonishing thing about teaching freshmen at Cornell this fall: students who had never read anything longer than a reading comprehension excerpt for the SAT.

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jon ben-menachem

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2 months

Am I just going to spend my whole life reliving post 9/11 security theater

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

2 months

#BREAKING National Guard and Police CHECKING BAGS at Grand Central subway station in NYC. Earlier today Governor Hochul announced deployment NATIONAL GUARD and the State Police in NYC Subways after violent crime. Desk @freedomnews .tv to license

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jon ben-menachem

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4 years

I don't get how PolitiFact is getting away with printing "the first 3 think tank people we could get on the phone disagree with a study, and that's just as robust as peer review." Folks with methodological objections can write to The Lancet.

PolitiFact

@PolitiFact

4 years

NEW! @BernieSanders embraces new study that lowers Medicare For All price tag, but skepticism abounds @KHNews

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

15 days

Folks may know about the fallout Columbia experienced in the years following 1968 student protests. I cannot say much publicly, but I expect the fallout from 2024 to be far more severe.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

27 days

If you want to contribute to jail support fund, venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

27 days

Minouche Shafik just announced her decision to request NYPD to clear out the pro-Palestine student encampment

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 months

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Americans that our safest and richest big city is actually a warzone

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NYC’s homicide rate is 4.8 per 100k. Alabama’s homicide rate is 15.9 per 100k — more than three times that of NYC.

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@jbenmenachem

9 months

One of the first un-fun facts I learned about mass violence is that it often starts as intimate partner violence that pulls in family members or spills over into public settings

People's City Council - Los Angeles

@PplsCityCouncil

9 months

Holy shit… a cop just shot up a bar in Orange County. Sources say he followed his estranged wife into a bar before opening fire.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

6 months

Truly the photograph to capture the spirit of our times

Lux Magazine

@readlux

6 months

Hundreds of people in the crowd raised Palestinian flags and led chants

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

don't think anyone really cares about my thoughts on this, but the whole "women talking about their trauma is a manipulation tactic" category of takes should be taken out to the yard and put down

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

thank you @DannyDeVito , your 1 tweet got @SW_Columbia about 1200 followers and around $10,000 for the hardship fund 😇

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

I’m just saying, this is kind of serendipitous

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

22 days

Jewish Columbia students who were arrested and suspended for peacefully protesting in support of Palestinian freedom will hold a press conference on the steps outside the President's House at 60 Morningside Drive on Tuesday, April 23 at 4pm ET. Contact: cuadpress @gmail .com

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

Anyway, I don't think the issue at Rikers is "understaffing." The issue is that jails are a death-making institution, and the mayor is doubling the amount of people who cycle through NYC jails each year. When there were more COs per jail detainee, jails were still dangerous.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

If anyone who was on the fence has questions or wants to read more about police abolition, I am happy to direct you to relevant resources

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

Yang’s “UBI” — for NYC and for the US — has always been a Trojan horse that aims to dismantle other components of the welfare state.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

23 days

It's striking that Shafik calls for de-escalation and compromise given that she made the call to have 108 students arrested on Thursday.

jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

23 days

Columbia President Shafik announces that all classes tomorrow (4/22) will be virtual, discourages the uni community from accessing campus. (Email sent 1:15am)

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jon ben-menachem

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2 years

uh oh, looks like this post is picking up some steam. you know what that means, throw a cheez-it box worth of $ at my union's hardship fund. we're on the 6th week of our strike, and many of us can no longer afford cheez-its

Student Workers of Columbia

@SW_Columbia

2 years

We are on strike (1) because of Columbia's unfair labor practices and (2) because we deserve a living wage, comprehensive healthcare, and protection from discrimination and harassment. #CUonStrike Donate to our strike fund:

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no

The Marshall Project

@MarshallProj

4 years

Joe Biden has long had close ties to police unions. Will they compromise with him if he’s president to embrace criminal justice reform?

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jon ben-menachem

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Well, no, New York City will pay that money. NYPD are just getting a budget increase.

Steven Donziger

@SDonziger

10 months

New York City police will pay $10,000 each to 1,300 protestors who had their constitutional rights violated during demonstrations over the George Floyd murder. The total payout is less than 1% of the annual police budget of $5.8 billion.

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2 years

sorry bucko, the NLRB disagrees

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If you want to get a clear picture of what's been happening on Columbia's campus this past week, I strongly recommend prioritizing student journalism. Access to campus has been restricted pretty consistently -- students have the best vantage.

Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

Hundreds of peaceful protesters began occupying the campus on Wednesday to demand that the university divest from Israel. The next day, the school sent in the NYPD to arrest them.

www.thenation.com

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

you can’t make this shit up: How dare China lift 50 million farmers out of poverty! Won’t somebody think of the deficits??

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Joe Biden should immediately stop making statements which manufacture consent for threats to the physical safety of American students.

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I mean, isn't he the CEO of Blackstone, which pledged $7 million to Israel last month?

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

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After disrupting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, the pro-Hamas mob vandalized the New York Public Library, targeting the dedication to Stephen Schwarzman, a Jewish donor to the library. Because that was will DEFINITELY #FreePalestine

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4 years

god the obsession with innocence is so gross, was it more justified that the other 20% died?

Liz Hamilton

@rationalfish

4 years

A direct quote from this horrifying report: "80% of people who died in jails from COVID were not convicted of a crime."

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In the last 2 weeks, a lot of things that would have sounded like pure tinfoil-hat level conspiracy now appear deeply rooted in reality.

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

@ColumbiaSJP

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From the report: “Dean Rosen-Metsch has also convened meetings with GS veterans who served in the Israeli Defense Forces, directing them to counter Pro-Palestine student activities and to disrupt Pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus.”

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jon ben-menachem

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The amount and quality of work being done by student organizers this past week is tremendous. Folks are being thrust into the international spotlight without warning and they hit the ground running. It is, frankly, giving me hope for the future.

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jon ben-menachem

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From an arrested Columbia student (sharing with permission):

Nikhil Pal Singh

@nikhil_palsingh

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I’ve heard: “The Columbia AAUP held an emergency meeting today, called on the university to drop charges and reinstate the students. They are organizing to move classes off campus Monday, boycotting graduation, and moving to vote no confidence in the president." Good.

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@jenniferdoleac Dr. Doleac previously published a misleading account of scientific evidence on syringe exchange programs and overdose-reducing drugs >>

An Influential Think Tank Suggested That Harm Reduction Doesn't Work

The Brookings Institution claimed that syringe exchange programs and overdose-reversing drugs will make the addiction crisis worse—ignoring decades of public health data. With record opioid overdose...

www.vice.com

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

Next time cops try to push their “most dangerous job” propaganda just remember that they were killing themselves this year by walking around maskless

COVID-19 is the leading cause of death for US police officers in 2020

The tally of police Covid-19 fatalities is likely an undercount, as the memorial wall for officers only includes three of the eight uniformed NYPD members who died from complications of the pandemi...

nypost.com

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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if there's no plausible way to throw cops at a problem the mayor has nothing to say and would prefer that you stop asking why he isn't saying anything

Ben Max

@TweetBenMax

11 months

Mayor Adams tells press not to create a controversy where there isn't about admin's communications re air quality; says "there is no planning" & "no playbook" for something like this, "there were no late notifications" - he & admin reps seem v focused on shaping that narrative

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jon ben-menachem

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"Surrounding the president with a team of seasoned, reasoned leaders is critical to the success of an administration, not doing so is often the downfall of presidencies." The issue here is RETENTION, not RECRUITMENT. People are fleeing the binders.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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MSNBC pushing its Muslim hosts off air to make room for… this

Chris Sommerfeldt

@C_Sommerfeldt

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On MSNBC, Mayor Adams says in NYC "you had the DSA and others carrying swastikas and calling for the extermination of Jewish people" following Hamas' attack on Israel.

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There was a viral tweet yesterday about NYPD sexually harassing femme undergraduates on Columbia’s campus. I just wanted to say that I’ve also heard reports of this from people in my network.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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By the way: How did Gavin McInnes get on campus today? Theoretically, campus is restricted to Columbia ID holders and uni-vetted members of the press. Isn't the Proud Boys founder exactly the kind of outside agitator campus restrictions are meant for?

jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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That thing where the Atlantic writer was mad no Columbia student organizers would talk to him is so funny. We had Gavin McInnes and Fox News reporters on campus today. Being selective about media is just basic self preservation.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

My brother in Christ it is 2023

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

it took me a really long time to realize that criminalization is an effort to preserve the structures that cause harm by focusing attention on individual or interpersonal behaviors. punishment = creating scapegoats and disciplining rebels

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jon ben-menachem

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Free story for any reporter (don't reach out to me, reach out to folks in @SW_Columbia ): Grad students are currently locked out of university medical care. Our health insurance requires us to see a University primary care provider to obtain referrals

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

Reporters called the cops on homeless people, then made a story out of the arrests… Can’t make this stuff up

Travers Mackel

@TraversWDSU

2 years

Exclusive: OPSO deputies working for @SheriffGusman go into the old, abandoned ‘House of Detention’ jail and remove homeless living there. What our cameras captured, and what @CityOfNOLA says about the future of the site only @wdsu at 5PM.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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"what does the evidence say about police abolition? well, in a city that implemented 0.001% of what police abolitionists want, the outcomes expected by abolitionists did not materialize. and cops mounted a reactionary political campaign in response. therefore abolition is bad"

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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Minouche Shafik just announced her decision to request NYPD to clear out the pro-Palestine student encampment

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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Columbia University has notified members of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that if they do not vacate by 2pm, the university will initiate mass evictions and interim suspensions. CUAD statement TK

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

if Barrett gets COVID, gets confirmed, then infects the entire supreme court... that's 9 open seats right there

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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I struggle to understand why no one has announced their campaign yet. It's the lowest-hanging fruit in NYC political history.

Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

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Another bad poll for @nycmayor , this one from a conservative institute whose public safety stances often align with the mayor's

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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@etammykim I wouldn’t have unsubscribed over one article. I unsubscribed because of a pattern of transphobic coverage that clearly extends across the editors of several sections.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

2 years

"at least a third of suicides in New York prisons in 2019 occurred in solitary confinement, and the rate of suicides in solitary in New York’s prisons was 10 times the national prison suicide rate."

Solitary Watch

@solitarywatch

2 years

New York won't release expert's report on soaring prison suicides - Times Union -

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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I want to urge people to focus on Columbia’s Board. Shafik does not matter

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

3 years

You know, if the feds reduced prison populations by 1/3 and closed 1/3 of their facilities, this wouldn’t be an issue.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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University administrators are so far removed from pedagogy that they fail to understand how repression and police violence can educate those who are subjected to it.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

1 year

I'm in a weird position on guns because I think gun control (criminalization) is racist and pro-gun culture is a death cult.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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Anyone confused by the phenomenon should google "Canary Mission."

Who Is Funding Canary Mission? Inside the Doxxing Operation Targeting Anti-Zionist Students and...

Americans who give money to Canary Mission are potentially committing a serious crime by acting as agents of a foreign power.

www.thenation.com

Ben Smith

@semaforben

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A great @daveweigel story on a new phenomenon in plain sight: masked protesters

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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Just fucking gut wrenching.

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

4 years

Andrew Yang with the cutting analysis on CNN: "The missing piece, to me, is why Bloomberg doesn't just take these resources and put them into a candidate he believes in. He reminds me of a movie director who casts himself."

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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Student journalists have now reported on the chemical weapons attack at Columbia. Now to see if any of the national prestige outlets obsessed with Ivy “campus antisemitism” find this worth covering.

Protesters allegedly sprayed with hazardous chemical at pro-Palestinian rally, nearly two dozen...

Protesters were allegedly sprayed with a hazardous chemical while attending a pro-Palestinian “divestment now” rally on Low Steps on Friday, according to nearly two dozen students who reported a foul...

www.columbiaspectator.com

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem

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People have probably already pointed this out, but many big-city police departments have staff who spend a lot of time analyzing social media posts of "gang members." But they can't spot their own coworkers posting shit like "I'm ready to go to war"?

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