Georgette Z. Jones
@georgettezjones.bsky.social
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“We are what makes Barnard, and you have chosen to abandon us.” New online: a speech by Tali Beckwith-Cohen, written for a disciplinary conduct meeting at Barnard College, where she was charged for participating in anti-ICE demonstrations.
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Your Best and Brightest | Tali Beckwith-Cohen
We run clubs, we start projects, we advocate for ourselves and for fellow students. We have watched the most documented genocide in history play out, have watched our international friends be targeted...
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May 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“We are what makes Barnard, and you have chosen to abandon us.” New online: a speech by Tali Beckwith-Cohen, written for a disciplinary conduct meeting at Barnard College, where she was charged for participating in anti-ICE demonstrations.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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“If in my future I succeed at all in creating the more equitable world I want to see, it will have everything to do with the classmates and faculty who fought alongside me these last two terrifying years, and nothing to do with the administration.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Your Best and Brightest | Tali Beckwith-Cohen
We run clubs, we start projects, we advocate for ourselves and for fellow students. We have watched the most documented genocide in history play out, have watched our international friends be targeted...
www.nplusonemag.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“If in my future I succeed at all in creating the more equitable world I want to see, it will have everything to do with the classmates and faculty who fought alongside me these last two terrifying years, and nothing to do with the administration.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Free Mohsen Mahdawi www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, detained by ICE at naturalization appointment
<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Free Mohsen Mahdawi www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
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“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Amid turmoil, Trump heads to Florida for a golf event (again)
After setting much of the global economy — and retirement accounts — on fire, taking a golf trip isn’t a great look for Trump.
www.msnbc.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
www.reuters.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.
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Literally no one is stopping you from working in the fields
White dudes are just bored, that’s why we need to destroy the economy.
April 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Literally no one is stopping you from working in the fields
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The Jewish student protestors say university delegates are telling them they are obstructing a university facility. The gate to which they are chained has been locked for months and has a lock on it put there by the university. There are a lot of cops here.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Jewish student protestors say university delegates are telling them they are obstructing a university facility. The gate to which they are chained has been locked for months and has a lock on it put there by the university. There are a lot of cops here.
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🧵Proposed statement that I would love to see, from many Jewish institutions:
"For decades, we have invested immense resources into the idea that college campuses are dangerous. That Jewish students are made unsafe by the presence of Pro-Palestine activists there..." (1/7)
"For decades, we have invested immense resources into the idea that college campuses are dangerous. That Jewish students are made unsafe by the presence of Pro-Palestine activists there..." (1/7)
April 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🧵Proposed statement that I would love to see, from many Jewish institutions:
"For decades, we have invested immense resources into the idea that college campuses are dangerous. That Jewish students are made unsafe by the presence of Pro-Palestine activists there..." (1/7)
"For decades, we have invested immense resources into the idea that college campuses are dangerous. That Jewish students are made unsafe by the presence of Pro-Palestine activists there..." (1/7)
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This is the single question every media outlet should be asking.
Who sits on the Harvard/Columbia/NU board of trustees?
Why are they helping Trump topple higher Ed?
Why do they show such disdain for their own people?
(Ok 3 questions.)
bsky.app/profile/illd...
Who sits on the Harvard/Columbia/NU board of trustees?
Why are they helping Trump topple higher Ed?
Why do they show such disdain for their own people?
(Ok 3 questions.)
bsky.app/profile/illd...
Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is the single question every media outlet should be asking.
Who sits on the Harvard/Columbia/NU board of trustees?
Why are they helping Trump topple higher Ed?
Why do they show such disdain for their own people?
(Ok 3 questions.)
bsky.app/profile/illd...
Who sits on the Harvard/Columbia/NU board of trustees?
Why are they helping Trump topple higher Ed?
Why do they show such disdain for their own people?
(Ok 3 questions.)
bsky.app/profile/illd...
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Once again, today would be a good day for all the Ivy League, Big Ten, & other R1 university presidents & chancellors to get themselves to DC & on national television & start holding daily, collective press conferences to speak out against the all-out fascist assault on US higher education.
March 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Once again, today would be a good day for all the Ivy League, Big Ten, & other R1 university presidents & chancellors to get themselves to DC & on national television & start holding daily, collective press conferences to speak out against the all-out fascist assault on US higher education.
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Oh man, who could have seen this coming?
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
"acceding to the ... demands is not going to restore the funding." From @danifriedrich.bsky.social in @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
March 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Oh man, who could have seen this coming?
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When people voice concern about antisemitism on campus, ask their thoughts about antisemitism toward non-Zionist Jews at UCLA, to glean if they’re interested in antisemitism…or just in squashing the voices of non-Zionists (Jews and otherwise).
newvoices.org/2025/03/23/b...
newvoices.org/2025/03/23/b...
March 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
When people voice concern about antisemitism on campus, ask their thoughts about antisemitism toward non-Zionist Jews at UCLA, to glean if they’re interested in antisemitism…or just in squashing the voices of non-Zionists (Jews and otherwise).
newvoices.org/2025/03/23/b...
newvoices.org/2025/03/23/b...
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This is very important new news: today Columbia University was given a ransom note by the Trump administration. A ransom note.
The actual note itself is here: drive.google.com/file/d/12ogI...
youtu.be/rrXAmszIoEs
The actual note itself is here: drive.google.com/file/d/12ogI...
youtu.be/rrXAmszIoEs
Columbia is given a ransom note
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
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March 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is very important new news: today Columbia University was given a ransom note by the Trump administration. A ransom note.
The actual note itself is here: drive.google.com/file/d/12ogI...
youtu.be/rrXAmszIoEs
The actual note itself is here: drive.google.com/file/d/12ogI...
youtu.be/rrXAmszIoEs
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The federal government here declares its right to dictate the policies of private universities on a granular level.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The federal government here declares its right to dictate the policies of private universities on a granular level.
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You apparently can now be fired from a university for stuff an AI hallucinated about you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
You apparently can now be fired from a university for stuff an AI hallucinated about you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
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My colleague Nadia Abu El-Haj and I spoke just now at a press conference outside the courthouse after the first hearing to contest the disappearance and detention of Mahmoud Khalil youtu.be/ZDdwd2XB8_E?...
LIVE: US hearing over Columbia University protester's challenge to arrest
YouTube video by Reuters
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March 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My colleague Nadia Abu El-Haj and I spoke just now at a press conference outside the courthouse after the first hearing to contest the disappearance and detention of Mahmoud Khalil youtu.be/ZDdwd2XB8_E?...
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Update on the U.S. government's abduction of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil.
youtu.be/8HuUZrE9zOI
youtu.be/8HuUZrE9zOI
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March 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Update on the U.S. government's abduction of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil.
youtu.be/8HuUZrE9zOI
youtu.be/8HuUZrE9zOI
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Just in case you still thought that the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters was about protecting Jews, Laura Loomer et al. have just made the entire Heschel School, PK-12, a target because its admin is married to the judge who halted Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation. forward.com/fast-forward...
Trump allies target Jewish judge — and his wife — after ruling on Palestinian activist
Laura Loomer, Charlie Kirk and others attacked Judge Jesse Furman and his wife, Ariela Dubler, head of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School.
forward.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just in case you still thought that the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters was about protecting Jews, Laura Loomer et al. have just made the entire Heschel School, PK-12, a target because its admin is married to the judge who halted Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation. forward.com/fast-forward...
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Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
March 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
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Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.
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Joe Rogan is using his massive platform to mainstream vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Absolutely disgusting.
Joe Rogan podcast guest says Israel is behind a Jeffrey Epstein coverup. (And 9/11, too.)
Ian Carroll, a self-styled journalist who traffics in antisemitic conspiracy theories, told Rogan that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent.
forward.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Joe Rogan is using his massive platform to mainstream vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Absolutely disgusting.
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“If you grovel before a bully, it just emboldens the bully. [Now] the bully has now become an authoritarian government with the capacity to act on a level that was unthinkable for us a couple of years ago.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration cancels $400m in funds to Columbia University
Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“If you grovel before a bully, it just emboldens the bully. [Now] the bully has now become an authoritarian government with the capacity to act on a level that was unthinkable for us a couple of years ago.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’ll be doing a Town Hall this afternoon on how authoritarian power has used the suppression of campus protests as the test-run for broader forms of repression. Please join us. zeteo.com/p/prem-thakk...
Professor Pushed Out by Columbia Joins Exclusive Zeteo Town Hall TODAY
Prem Thakker hosts Ex-Columbia Prof. Katherine Franke in a timely Q&A about free speech and campus crackdowns for Zeteo subscribers.
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March 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’ll be doing a Town Hall this afternoon on how authoritarian power has used the suppression of campus protests as the test-run for broader forms of repression. Please join us. zeteo.com/p/prem-thakk...