super cool that, wrt UCLA, the @nytimes deemed it fine for the last 48 hours to have the narrative settle as one of "clashes", until doing the actual work (paying attention to basic firsthand evidence from the ground) to state that this was, ofc, pars pro toto.

Furious that the admin at @TheNewSchool would call in cops to arrest our students, still asleep in their encampment tents early this morning, precisely when they could least avail themselves to faculty support. Now the school sits in grim company alongside Columbia, NYU, CCNY.

I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/202…

One fleeting lighter note: I hope this also draws an overdue end to the bizarre US obsession with graduation ceremonies as “a thing”… really don’t need to be a thing. Resistance to occupation, apartheid, and genocide, meanwhile…

This is CCNY… Columbia meanwhile blocked for all surrounding blocks… obscenity