Cuttlefush posted:

was that video really suppressed because it seems familiar

Cuttlefush posted:

was that video really suppressed because it seems familiar

comedyblissoption posted:

https://twitter.com/NewsWire_US/status/1725937567692964037

Willa Rogers posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1726186365870866784?t=h9sKzCYoFTIWbL5gFbMqRw&s=19

More people are awakening to Glenn being right

Willa Rogers posted:

this is what we'd have going on right now in the states if the twitter files hadn't come out a year ago.

edit: oh wait: I forgot they were about hunter's huge hog & nothing important, like the end of democracy.

Marzzle posted:

hearing a review of musical "here lies love" from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim from a friend. when she was watching it during the bit when imelda marcos gets airlifted from manilla to hawaii at the behest of ronald regan the audience around her groaned

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1726186365870866784?t=h9sKzCYoFTIWbL5gFbMqRw&s=19

More people are awakening to Glenn being right

quote:

IN FRONT OF Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library, seven infant-sized bundles of white cloth rested on the steps, splattered with red paint. Behind the swaddles, plywood boards read “10,600 lives slaughtered,” “4,412 children,” and “let Gaza live,” alongside images of Palestinian flags and olive trees.

This was the scene where Columbia students gathered last Thursday for a “peaceful protest art installation” and demonstration organized by the campus chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine. Hundreds of students demanded that Columbia publicly call for a ceasefire in Gaza, divest its endowment from corporations complicit in Israeli apartheid, and end its academic programs in Tel Aviv.

The next day, Gerald Rosberg, chair of the Special Committee on Campus Safety, announced Columbia had suspended its chapters of JVP and SJP through the end of the semester, citing an “unauthorized event” that “included threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” The announcement quickly drew widespread criticism, including from hundreds of Jewish faculty who denounced the “vague allegations” that served as grounds for the suspensions.

But amid the backlash, StandWithUs, a self-described “non-partisan Israel education organization,” lauded Columbia’s decision. “StandWithUs sent several legal letters to universities like @Columbia, urging them to immediately hold these groups accountable for the hate, fear, and harassment they incite on campus,” the group wrote on social media. “We hope more universities will follow suit.”

Alongside Israel advocacy groups like the Brandeis Center, the International Legal Forum, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center, StandWithUs has spent years trying to shut down criticism of Israel on college campuses, often by weaponizing civil rights law. The groups allege that, while the political speech may be protected by the First Amendment, it fosters a campus climate of antisemitism in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federally funded programs from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin. As students have ramped up pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the past month, Israel advocacy groups have escalated a pressure campaign of their own.

Earlier this month, StandWithUs sent an open letter to thousands of universities addressed to the general counsel and vice president of student affairs, outlining actions colleges could take to ensure compliance with Title VI. The group’s recommendations include requiring student identification cards at protests, monitoring university communication channels for “biased statements about Israel,” and investigating student groups for ties to Hamas. The group has also sent a surge of direct letters urging administrators to clamp down on specific Palestine solidarity campus events. Meanwhile, on November 9, the Brandeis Center filed two Title VI complaints with the Department of Education against the University of Pennsylvania and Wellesley College. (The Brandeis Center also joined forces with the Anti-Defamation League to call on the presidents of nearly 200 universities to investigate their SJP chapters, alleging they could have ties to Hamas that would constitute “materially supporting a foreign terrorist organization.”)

According to Dylan Saba, a staff attorney at Palestine Legal, the groups tend to target “pretty mundane examples of pro-Palestine expression … because that’s precisely what these organizations are trying to get rid of.” But as Israel’s military assault over the past month has become “increasingly indefensible for the pro-Israel forces,” it’s spurred a new wave of Title VI threats.

“That’s what’s motivating the strategy to try to raise the stakes of Palestinian expression and organizing by getting universities to try to crack down on it,” said Saba. “If you can’t win the debate because the facts aren’t in your favor, it’s pretty sensible to try to stop it altogether.”

Willa Rogers posted:

edit: oh wait: I forgot they were about hunter's huge hog & nothing important, like the end of democracy.

Willa Rogers posted:

hoot, candace owens is pro-palestinian so your CBO probation is zionist.

Willa Rogers posted:

Censorship ramping up.

Willa Rogers posted:

hoot, candace owens is pro-palestinian so your CBO probation is zionist.

Davethulhu posted:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1726653530218619018

Jack "Pizzagate" Posobiec makes a good point

Cuttlefush posted:

reik please re-open https://old.reddit.com/r/paul_soccer12/

Cuttlefush posted:

reik please re-open https://old.reddit.com/r/paul_soccer12/

Cuttlefush posted:

reik please re-open https://old.reddit.com/r/paul_soccer12/

Cuttlefush posted:

reik please re-open https://old.reddit.com/r/paul_soccer12/

Cuttlefush posted:

people are too mean to reik

Ash Crimson posted:

he's a good lad who means well.... im sure

Cuttlefush posted:

yep. still not sure why making a paul_soccer12 subreddit as a joke was "creepy". hell, with hindsight we know it was a good idea.

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

yeah lol it was just a silly gag because paul was calling posts "reddit" all the time but the mods had to make a big deal about it in the LC and history was made