Emily Runde
@quodemelye.bsky.social
Library worker and sometimes adjunct at Columbia University
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Every time @thenation.com publishes the writing of Lujayn, a teen in the Gaza Strip, I hold my breath while reading. If you read one thing today, make it this: "Don’t you dare preach “child protection” to our children while they are bombed and starved in front of the whole world."
I’m a Teenager In Gaza. And I Am Starving.
What hits you first is the exhaustion carved into every face. The sickly pallor. The terrifying weight loss ravaging everyone—yes, including me.
www.thenation.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Every time @thenation.com publishes the writing of Lujayn, a teen in the Gaza Strip, I hold my breath while reading. If you read one thing today, make it this: "Don’t you dare preach “child protection” to our children while they are bombed and starved in front of the whole world."
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This is an *actual* purity test, and it’s not by leftists, it’s by the ostensible “moderates” — with purity defined as how Muslim you’re not.
August 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is an *actual* purity test, and it’s not by leftists, it’s by the ostensible “moderates” — with purity defined as how Muslim you’re not.
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Liberals keep trying to reach "reasonable compromises" with conservatives on criminal justice issues – carving out small exceptions to bail reform or allowing involuntary commitment in some situations – and then conservatives just demand more the next year, slowly chipping away at people's freedom.
At an event hosted by the conservative Manhattan Institute just now, Mayor Adams called on the State Legislature to in 2026 (when he very well might not be mayor) give NYC powers to involuntarily commit people struggling with drug addiction.
August 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Liberals keep trying to reach "reasonable compromises" with conservatives on criminal justice issues – carving out small exceptions to bail reform or allowing involuntary commitment in some situations – and then conservatives just demand more the next year, slowly chipping away at people's freedom.
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We urgently need political education about involuntary commitment, because I am terrified by its increasingly consensus position in NYC political discourse.
At an event hosted by the conservative Manhattan Institute just now, Mayor Adams called on the State Legislature to in 2026 (when he very well might not be mayor) give NYC powers to involuntarily commit people struggling with drug addiction.
August 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We urgently need political education about involuntary commitment, because I am terrified by its increasingly consensus position in NYC political discourse.
Students, there’s nothing like the smell of books at Butler Library — while Public Safety puts you in a chokehold!
August 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Students, there’s nothing like the smell of books at Butler Library — while Public Safety puts you in a chokehold!
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
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Nice reporting by the Harvard Crimson, which cuts to the chase on the Trump Administration's objectives
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
August 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nice reporting by the Harvard Crimson, which cuts to the chase on the Trump Administration's objectives
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Marianne Hirsch's letter to Claire Shipman: "I’m afraid that the actions Columbia has taken, hypocritically encouraged by truly antisemitic U.S. government officials, will have the effect of fomenting anti-Jewish prejudice on a large scale."
riseupcolumbia.substack.com/p/open-lette...
riseupcolumbia.substack.com/p/open-lette...
Open Letter to President Claire Shipman from Professor Marianne Hirsch
Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender.
riseupcolumbia.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Marianne Hirsch's letter to Claire Shipman: "I’m afraid that the actions Columbia has taken, hypocritically encouraged by truly antisemitic U.S. government officials, will have the effect of fomenting anti-Jewish prejudice on a large scale."
riseupcolumbia.substack.com/p/open-lette...
riseupcolumbia.substack.com/p/open-lette...
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LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
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WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...
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August 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...
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Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
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The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...
What the Columbia Settlement Really Means
knightcolumbia.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...
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This clip...I have no words.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
July 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This clip...I have no words.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
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"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."
A five-year-old child.
A five-year-old child.
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
July 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."
A five-year-old child.
A five-year-old child.
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Most reporting is just not up to the task of registering both that 1) the White House is *attacking* universities *as institutions* 2) the White House is working *with* universities’ boards to achieve *common goals* for remaking and weakening those institutions
Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
July 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Most reporting is just not up to the task of registering both that 1) the White House is *attacking* universities *as institutions* 2) the White House is working *with* universities’ boards to achieve *common goals* for remaking and weakening those institutions
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Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
July 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
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99% of the population doesn’t know what a Board of Trustees is. They think universities are run by the faculty. Which is like thinking line cooks at McDonald’s are making corporate decisions.
Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
99% of the population doesn’t know what a Board of Trustees is. They think universities are run by the faculty. Which is like thinking line cooks at McDonald’s are making corporate decisions.
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It is not possible to find the words for this.
July 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is not possible to find the words for this.
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🎓🩸🤡Harvard Harvarding:
"Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School"
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School"
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Announces 2 New Partnerships With Israeli Universities | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School on Monday in ...
www.thecrimson.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎓🩸🤡Harvard Harvarding:
"Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School"
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School"
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Israel won’t allow journalists embedded with Jordanian airdrops to film what they’re seeing outside the plane windows, so the BBC’s Bowen describes what he’s seeing:
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
July 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Israel won’t allow journalists embedded with Jordanian airdrops to film what they’re seeing outside the plane windows, so the BBC’s Bowen describes what he’s seeing:
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
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one reason democrats have a credibility problem is folks like adam schiff were taking smiling photos next to netanyahu two weeks ago
Children are starving. Civilian deaths continue to mount. Hostages are still held.
Today I led 43 of my Senate colleagues in demanding the State Department work urgently to end the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
This cannot continue.
Today I led 43 of my Senate colleagues in demanding the State Department work urgently to end the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
This cannot continue.
July 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
one reason democrats have a credibility problem is folks like adam schiff were taking smiling photos next to netanyahu two weeks ago
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The new Columbia University
A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”
July 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The new Columbia University
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But yeah, this was always about antisemitism at Columbia.
A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”
July 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
But yeah, this was always about antisemitism at Columbia.