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| Date | April 23, 2024 2:43 AM |
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Monday, April 22, 2024
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA
- Vital presidential poll happening over at [Fox News]([link removed]) (we actually agree with Fox that Trump would win that contest by a landslide)
Student protests at Columbia University in New York City continued over the weekend, even after the administration called in the NYPD last week. Now, the demonstrations have spread to other schools.
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The White House released an official statement on Sunday seemingly referencing the ongoing protests and “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, characterizing them as “physical intimidation and targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community.” [President Biden made remarks a few hours later ahead of Monday’s Passover holiday]([link removed]) in which he condemned “blatant Antisemitism…[which] has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country.” (“I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” he said.) Early on Monday, Columbia’s President Nemat Shafik announced that classes would be held virtually and that school leaders would begin discussing a way to end what she called a “crisis.”
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Beginning last week, Columbia’s administration decided to deal with the protest encampments by [suspending student protesters and calling in the police to arrest the students]([link removed]) for “trespassing” on their own campus. [Hundreds of Columbia’s faculty held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon]([link removed]) to protest the institution’s decision to call in the NYPD to arrest over 100 members of the student body. Students re-erected the protest tents that had been torn down over the weekend. As the sun set on Monday night, the Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Currents magazine [captured]([link removed]) pro-Palestinian Jewish protesters sharing food and reciting Hebrew prayers at the encampments in observance of Passover. A few dozen blocks south, [the NYPD arrested dozens of students and faculty protesting at New York University]([link removed]).
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Following Columbia’s example, pro-Palestinian protest encampments have sprung up at dozens of other colleges. In Boston alone, such encampments were seen at [Emerson, MIT, Tufts, and Boston University]([link removed]). At Yale University, large pro-Palestinian demonstrations began last week shortly after Columbia’s, and [60 people were arrested at protest encampments there on Monday]([link removed]). Similar encampments also began on Monday at the [University of Michigan]([link removed]) in Ann Arbor. [A Jewish student at Yale said she was assaulted during one of the pro-Palestinian protests]([link removed]), and believes she was targeted for wearing a Star of David necklace. The university said in a statement that it is investigating the incident.
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These protests have sparked national outrage on both sides of the issue, as well as larger conversations about institutional responsibility.
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At the center of each of these protests is not just the war itself, but demands from students that their universities divest from companies profiting from the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Columbia, for example, has an endowment of almost $14 billion. The school’s Student Elections Board announced on Monday that [a divestment referendum had overwhelmingly passed]([link removed]) in a vote of over 2,000 undergraduate students. The referendum has no direct bearing on University policy, but functions as a barometer of campus sentiment. The referendum’s results, with 76.5 percent of students voting in favor, marked a 15 percent increase in undergraduate support for divestment since Columbia College held its last referendum on the topic four years ago. The University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing rejected a divestment proposal in February, citing lack of consensus on the issue, according to the University’s newspaper.
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Conservative outrage over the student protests has hit a boiling point. [Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) called on President Biden to send in the National Guard to Columbia]([link removed]). Almost four years ago, [Cotton wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times]([link removed]) similarly calling for the use of military force against Black Lives Matter protesters (an argument so indefensible it led to the resignation of the paper’s editorial page editor). Anti-Defamation League Director and CEO [Jonathan Greenblatt also suggested]([link removed]) that the National Guard should be deployed to the campus “before it’s too late.”
Pro-Palestinian protests coming off the heels of a conservative backlash to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives on college campuses has led to politicians exerting significant pressure on institutions of higher learning. This political climate may be leading to [a rightward lurch among university administrations]([link removed]).
Book bans are on the rise, and it’s on us to fight back. Luckily, the Crooked Store is doing a flash sale on all Free The Books merch! Free The Books tees, sweatshirts, and magnets are 30% off, but the sale won’t last long, so make like a conservative who found out about a book with a gay character and jump on it. Head to [crooked.com/store]([link removed]) to shop before the sale ends.
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It’s almost summer so you know what that means: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is gearing up to make some bad decisions. [On Monday, SCOTUS began hearing arguments in a landmark case that could determine states’ abilities to criminalize homelessness]([link removed]). The case involves an appeal from the city of Grants Pass, OR, which a lower court had found in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in enforcing anti-camping ordinances against unhoused people, when there was no other shelter space available. The three city ordinances in the crosshairs of the case target sleeping and camping in public streets, alleyways, and parks, violation of which gets you a $295 fine. If someone is found to have repeatedly violated these laws, they can be criminally prosecuted for trespassing and face up to 30 days in jail. The liberal justices like Elena Kagan expressed that the city’s ordinance “goes way beyond” seeking to address public safety and instead creates conditions under which an unhoused person “can’t take a blanket and sleep some place without it being a crime.” "Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this? Where are they supposed to sleep? Are they supposed to kill themselves, not sleeping?" asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor. It will not surprise you to learn that the Court’s conservative justices appeared to be receptive to the arguments made by lawyers representing Grants Pass.
In recent decades, housing costs have skyrocketed, and so too has the population of unhoused Americans. On any given night in the United States, more than 600,000 people are experiencing homelessness, according to federal estimates. As these populations have grown larger, many cities have resorted to draconian measures involving local police to crack down on encampments rather than addressing the crisis at its root, which is obviously a much more difficult endeavor. The Court’s ruling is due by the end of June.
[Israel has not provided evidence to support allegations that many employees of the main United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, are members of terrorist organizations]([link removed]), according to an independent review commissioned by the UN that was released on Monday.
[The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the Biden administration’s appeal over the regulation of so-called “ghost guns.”]([link removed]-)
[The Times of London sent one of their reporters to ride the New York City subway for a full 24 hours]([link removed]) to see if it was really dangerous. She found that the people who were the most afraid of crime were tourists and people who don’t regularly take the subway, and that everyday riders feel it’s safe. She also interviewed a retired NYPD officer who said he thinks more cops in the subway are not the answer for the relatively low crime there. Damn, who could have predicted these results, except everyone who has ever ridden the NYC subway more than once.
[Over 70 percent of the world’s workforce is exposed to excessive heat on at least one day every year,]([link removed]) according to a new report from the International Labor Organization. The figure is expected to rise with global temperatures if climate change continues on its current trajectory.
[The White House is weighing potential avenues to provide temporary legal status and work permits to undocumented immigrants who are married to American citizens]([link removed]).
[Opening statements were heard on Monday in the Manhattan hush money trial of disgraced former president Donald Trump]([link removed]). The former president was seen listening quietly (truly shocking behavior) as prosecutors listed allegations against him, and then Trump’s defense team laid out their claims that he is just a normal guy who by the way is innocent! Trump is charged with falsifying 34 business records related to an effort to cover up a payment he made through his lawyers to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in order to buy her silence in 2016 for an alleged sexual encounter they had ten years prior, while Trump’s wife Melania was pregnant with their son. Trump denies the charges yada, yada, yada. If convicted, he could face probation or up to four years in prison. Trump’s lead lawyer Todd Blanche used his opening statement to cast his client as a typical businessman who simply acted as any of us would have, and also made the outrageous claim that, “There's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It's called democracy.” For their part, prosecutors began the proceedings by laying out the way that Trump had worked with his former fixer Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Inquirer (whose name is, I kid you not, David Pecker) to catch and kill damaging stories during the 2016 election. Will this election season take years off of all of our lives? Yes. But at least this trial will be fun to read about.
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[Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced on Sunday that he would introduce legislation to help Arizonans get abortions in California]([link removed]) following the former state’s Supreme Court decision to reinstate an 1864 near-total abortion ban. The mere existence of the Civil War-era ban kind of precludes this from being “good” news per se but we’ll take what we can get.
[The Biden administration issued a final rule on Monday via the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen existing HIPAA provisions]([link removed]) for women seeking abortions by banning disclosure of protected health information related to reproductive issues.
[Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, TN, overwhelmingly voted to unionize on Friday night]([link removed]), a major breakthrough for the United Auto Workers efforts to organize non-union auto plants.
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[You Survived Today. See You Thursday.]([link removed])
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Monday, April 22, 2024
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA
- Vital presidential poll happening over at [Fox News]([link removed]) (we actually agree with Fox that Trump would win that contest by a landslide)
Student protests at Columbia University in New York City continued over the weekend, even after the administration called in the NYPD last week. Now, the demonstrations have spread to other schools.
-
The White House released an official statement on Sunday seemingly referencing the ongoing protests and “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, characterizing them as “physical intimidation and targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community.” [President Biden made remarks a few hours later ahead of Monday’s Passover holiday]([link removed]) in which he condemned “blatant Antisemitism…[which] has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country.” (“I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” he said.) Early on Monday, Columbia’s President Nemat Shafik announced that classes would be held virtually and that school leaders would begin discussing a way to end what she called a “crisis.”
-
Beginning last week, Columbia’s administration decided to deal with the protest encampments by [suspending student protesters and calling in the police to arrest the students]([link removed]) for “trespassing” on their own campus. [Hundreds of Columbia’s faculty held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon]([link removed]) to protest the institution’s decision to call in the NYPD to arrest over 100 members of the student body. Students re-erected the protest tents that had been torn down over the weekend. As the sun set on Monday night, the Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Currents magazine [captured]([link removed]) pro-Palestinian Jewish protesters sharing food and reciting Hebrew prayers at the encampments in observance of Passover. A few dozen blocks south, [the NYPD arrested dozens of students and faculty protesting at New York University]([link removed]).
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Following Columbia’s example, pro-Palestinian protest encampments have sprung up at dozens of other colleges. In Boston alone, such encampments were seen at [Emerson, MIT, Tufts, and Boston University]([link removed]). At Yale University, large pro-Palestinian demonstrations began last week shortly after Columbia’s, and [60 people were arrested at protest encampments there on Monday]([link removed]). Similar encampments also began on Monday at the [University of Michigan]([link removed]) in Ann Arbor. [A Jewish student at Yale said she was assaulted during one of the pro-Palestinian protests]([link removed]), and believes she was targeted for wearing a Star of David necklace. The university said in a statement that it is investigating the incident.
[What A Day]([link removed])
These protests have sparked national outrage on both sides of the issue, as well as larger conversations about institutional responsibility.
-
At the center of each of these protests is not just the war itself, but demands from students that their universities divest from companies profiting from the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Columbia, for example, has an endowment of almost $14 billion. The school’s Student Elections Board announced on Monday that [a divestment referendum had overwhelmingly passed]([link removed]) in a vote of over 2,000 undergraduate students. The referendum has no direct bearing on University policy, but functions as a barometer of campus sentiment. The referendum’s results, with 76.5 percent of students voting in favor, marked a 15 percent increase in undergraduate support for divestment since Columbia College held its last referendum on the topic four years ago. The University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing rejected a divestment proposal in February, citing lack of consensus on the issue, according to the University’s newspaper.
-
Conservative outrage over the student protests has hit a boiling point. [Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) called on President Biden to send in the National Guard to Columbia]([link removed]). Almost four years ago, [Cotton wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times]([link removed]) similarly calling for the use of military force against Black Lives Matter protesters (an argument so indefensible it led to the resignation of the paper’s editorial page editor). Anti-Defamation League Director and CEO [Jonathan Greenblatt also suggested]([link removed]) that the National Guard should be deployed to the campus “before it’s too late.”
Pro-Palestinian protests coming off the heels of a conservative backlash to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives on college campuses has led to politicians exerting significant pressure on institutions of higher learning. This political climate may be leading to [a rightward lurch among university administrations]([link removed]).
Book bans are on the rise, and it’s on us to fight back. Luckily, the Crooked Store is doing a flash sale on all Free The Books merch! Free The Books tees, sweatshirts, and magnets are 30% off, but the sale won’t last long, so make like a conservative who found out about a book with a gay character and jump on it. Head to [crooked.com/store]([link removed]) to shop before the sale ends.
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It’s almost summer so you know what that means: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is gearing up to make some bad decisions. [On Monday, SCOTUS began hearing arguments in a landmark case that could determine states’ abilities to criminalize homelessness]([link removed]). The case involves an appeal from the city of Grants Pass, OR, which a lower court had found in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in enforcing anti-camping ordinances against unhoused people, when there was no other shelter space available. The three city ordinances in the crosshairs of the case target sleeping and camping in public streets, alleyways, and parks, violation of which gets you a $295 fine. If someone is found to have repeatedly violated these laws, they can be criminally prosecuted for trespassing and face up to 30 days in jail. The liberal justices like Elena Kagan expressed that the city’s ordinance “goes way beyond” seeking to address public safety and instead creates conditions under which an unhoused person “can’t take a blanket and sleep some place without it being a crime.” "Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this? Where are they supposed to sleep? Are they supposed to kill themselves, not sleeping?" asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor. It will not surprise you to learn that the Court’s conservative justices appeared to be receptive to the arguments made by lawyers representing Grants Pass.
In recent decades, housing costs have skyrocketed, and so too has the population of unhoused Americans. On any given night in the United States, more than 600,000 people are experiencing homelessness, according to federal estimates. As these populations have grown larger, many cities have resorted to draconian measures involving local police to crack down on encampments rather than addressing the crisis at its root, which is obviously a much more difficult endeavor. The Court’s ruling is due by the end of June.
[Israel has not provided evidence to support allegations that many employees of the main United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, are members of terrorist organizations]([link removed]), according to an independent review commissioned by the UN that was released on Monday.
[The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the Biden administration’s appeal over the regulation of so-called “ghost guns.”]([link removed]-)
[The Times of London sent one of their reporters to ride the New York City subway for a full 24 hours]([link removed]) to see if it was really dangerous. She found that the people who were the most afraid of crime were tourists and people who don’t regularly take the subway, and that everyday riders feel it’s safe. She also interviewed a retired NYPD officer who said he thinks more cops in the subway are not the answer for the relatively low crime there. Damn, who could have predicted these results, except everyone who has ever ridden the NYC subway more than once.
[Over 70 percent of the world’s workforce is exposed to excessive heat on at least one day every year,]([link removed]) according to a new report from the International Labor Organization. The figure is expected to rise with global temperatures if climate change continues on its current trajectory.
[The White House is weighing potential avenues to provide temporary legal status and work permits to undocumented immigrants who are married to American citizens]([link removed]).
[Opening statements were heard on Monday in the Manhattan hush money trial of disgraced former president Donald Trump]([link removed]). The former president was seen listening quietly (truly shocking behavior) as prosecutors listed allegations against him, and then Trump’s defense team laid out their claims that he is just a normal guy who by the way is innocent! Trump is charged with falsifying 34 business records related to an effort to cover up a payment he made through his lawyers to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in order to buy her silence in 2016 for an alleged sexual encounter they had ten years prior, while Trump’s wife Melania was pregnant with their son. Trump denies the charges yada, yada, yada. If convicted, he could face probation or up to four years in prison. Trump’s lead lawyer Todd Blanche used his opening statement to cast his client as a typical businessman who simply acted as any of us would have, and also made the outrageous claim that, “There's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It's called democracy.” For their part, prosecutors began the proceedings by laying out the way that Trump had worked with his former fixer Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Inquirer (whose name is, I kid you not, David Pecker) to catch and kill damaging stories during the 2016 election. Will this election season take years off of all of our lives? Yes. But at least this trial will be fun to read about.
[link removed]
This newsletter is sponsored by BetterHelp.
April is National Stress Awareness Month, something most of us know a thing or two about. Stress doesn't just cloud our thoughts, it can be equally harmful to our bodies as well. It can make us sick, interfere with our sleep, and overall just leave us feeling run-down. And with yet another nerve-racking election season headed straight towards us, it's important we get out in front of the oncoming stress train.
If you’re thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. It’s entirely online. Designed to be convenient, flexible, and suited to your schedule.
Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist, and switch therapists any time for no additional charge.
Learn to manage stress and build resiliency, with BetterHelp.
Visit [BetterHelp.com/WAD]([link removed]) today to get 10% off your first month. [BetterHelp.com/WAD]([link removed])
[Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced on Sunday that he would introduce legislation to help Arizonans get abortions in California]([link removed]) following the former state’s Supreme Court decision to reinstate an 1864 near-total abortion ban. The mere existence of the Civil War-era ban kind of precludes this from being “good” news per se but we’ll take what we can get.
[The Biden administration issued a final rule on Monday via the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen existing HIPAA provisions]([link removed]) for women seeking abortions by banning disclosure of protected health information related to reproductive issues.
[Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, TN, overwhelmingly voted to unionize on Friday night]([link removed]), a major breakthrough for the United Auto Workers efforts to organize non-union auto plants.
[What A Day]([link removed])
[You Survived Today. See You Thursday.]([link removed])
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