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Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.

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Terrific and important op-ed. Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan | Arielle Angel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-university-protests-antisemitism-free-speech

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@barney Yes, it’s a problem when Jewish students are harassed and threatened. Also a problem when pro-Palestinian students are harassed and threatened, or beaten as at UCLA, (or shot, as in the case of three friends in Vermont). But the answer is not militarized police sweeps and laws that further allow armed suppression of dissent, speech & assembly by fiat. Also, the encampments were mostly peaceful. Many Jewish students are among the protesters. It’s complicated.

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Uplifting. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/world/africa/child-marriage-malawi-memory-banda.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Behind the scenes, the raw power of millions and an unhappy donor moved Shafik to call in the cops. An object lesson in how private philanthropy in the age of billionaires is bad for academic freedom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/columbia-university-donor-angelica-berrie.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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“Israel is trying to control the narrative, and it is trying to deprive even the Israeli audience from seeing the atrocities in Gaza,” said Jamil Dakwar, a law professor at New York University and a founding attorney of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

A spokesman for the U.S. State Department, Matthew Miller, said on Monday, “We think Al Jazeera ought to be able to operate in Israel, as they operate in other countries.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/world/middleeast/al-jazeera-israel-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Notwithstanding the tone of the article, I find these anti-RFK, Jr impressions amusing and inoffensive. I hope they work half as well as RFK,Jr’s disclosure that doctors found a dead worm in his brain. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/rfk-jr-jack-schlossberg.html?smid=url-share

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Gratuitous destruction.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/07/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah?card=9724790.253229633&carddeck=4d822153-9d0a-48a6-89cc-aaefd94df4be&smid=url-share&rsrc=crsl

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Closing off a country to information, news and ideas from abroad has long been a hallmark of repressive governments.

“The legitimacy of any democracy turns in part on its citizens having unrestricted access to foreign media,” Mr. Jaffer said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/06/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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How a university administration relinquishes its educational mission

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/05/06/how-a-university-administration-relinquishes-its-educational-mission/

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Starvation as a war crime. (This is what the “counter protester” thugs are championing), spelled out by the Netanyahu government. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-starvation-icc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU0._qyH.nMR2uQWGQLjO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Proud to see my book, “The Lost Children of Wilder: the Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care,” in the NYT ‘s re-upped notable books since 2000. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/top-books-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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“Masked counterprotesters entered the encampment set up last week by students opposed to the war in Gaza. The attackers hurled a firecracker into the encampment, tore down its outer walls and threw heavy objects at the pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

No arrests have been made in connection with the attack.”

Still no arrests of the violent agents provocateurs?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/college-protests-encampments-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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That “precision” police operation that Eric Adams bragged about with edited video? A cop fired his gun “accidentally” in Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, THE CITY confirms — scooping the media establishment. It’s under DA investigation. https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

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@Yoshi Congratulations! Love the news clip on your un-erotic political sign and the police attention it’s brought you.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/outside-agitators-history-civil-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Delicious pan of Erik Larson’s latest, on the Civil War, but minus Black people.
« The green horns show. » by Alexis Coe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/review/the-demon-of-unrest-erik-larson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.6L62.0FTc_o3kCLC_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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The lead editorial in Haaretz, Israel’s dissident newspaper, on a government minister’s remarks advocating genocide of Palestinians. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-04-30/ty-article-opinion/smotrich-must-pay-the-price-for-his-repeated-calls-for-genocide-of-palestinians/0000018f-3084-d0b5-a59f-31c5ca320000

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« The attackers, carrying Israeli flags, then tried to tear down the pro-Palestinian camp, assaulting students with pepper spray, sticks, stones and metal fencing. Police stood by, failing to protect students, who re-commandeered the metal fencing thrown at them to shield themselves, said Joey Scott, an investigative journalist speaking to Al Jazeera from the scene. » https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/5/1/ucla-clashes-pro-palestinian-protesters-attacked-by-israel-supporters

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This is what Columbia could have done before Minouche Shafik threw academic freedom under the bus in Congress & called in the cops the first time. Is it such a big deal to agree to DISCUSS divestment? No. Brown’s president, Christine Paxson, looking so much better. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/brown-divestment-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/brown-divestment-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.59V1.bUixsI3fCzFW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Footage from the police bust at Hamilton Hall — what Columbia’s president didn’t want the news media to see. Does it look like safety for students?
And she has asked the NYPD to stay on campus through May 17 to secure graduation, turning the university into an armed camp.
There will be more protests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T3shB7wYdI

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Heartbreaking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/gaza-parents-children-fear-war/

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« I will be the first to say: If the students really end up being proven wrong on this one, let's punish them the way we punished the people proven wrong on Iraq:

Magazine contracts, think-tank posts, and media gigs. »

https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/notebook-on-the-antiwar-protests?r=ad0yf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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The NY19 Congressional district election could determine whether Democrats take back the House. So why is the Josh Riley campaign so silent? How is this appealing Democratic responding to the Republican incumbent, Marc Molinaro? Google Josh Riley and see that the response dates from September 2023!
Despite signing up for email from his campaign, I’ve received nothing. What is his campaign manager, Daniel Fleiss, doing? https://joshrileyforcongress.com/press/riley-to-molinaro-do-your-job-or-dont-get-paid/

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Democratic candidate, I meant to write

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“A small group of students camped on one lawn, in a very large university complex, calling for relatively minor financial rearrangements in a baggy & poorly managed endowment, are turned by the repressive action of the the University administration under pressure from politicians & donors, into a global news story, putting in doubt the standing of a multi-billion dollar…organization. It is a case study in panicked control freakery gone wrong.” Adam Tooze https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys

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