@ofthemisery it's kinda sad that people will steal other people's posts word for word for like. clout on the internet. they should give credit to the tumblr users whose posts they stole 🤪
Law professor Fred Klein: “The phones never should have been taken in the first place... it seems like a pretty blatant violation of their constitutional rights.”
Note the Yale blue though.
https://t.co/Cw2VSHcc3D
The powers that Democrats are now handing the police to repress pro-Palestine protesters will soon be used to attack pro-choice advocates, gun control advocates, LGBTQ rights advocates, unions, and many others.
https://t.co/yV6lO0WOgh
genuinely so impressed and proud of these encampments. I don't know who this is, but he obliterated the mainstream counterinsurgent narratives in 5 minutes
UMass now proudly boasts of being one of the first major public universities to divest from fossil fuels in 2016. You know why that happened? Because students demanded it! And you know how they did it? In part, by occupying the building (Whitmore) housing the chancellor’s office!
It feels superfluous to even say it, but the speed with which we have gotten to "we have closed the campus so that the protesters can no longer impair the normal functioning of the campus" is amazing
NEW POLICING PUB⚡️
As attention to police violence grows, the civ legal support for residents they harm stagnates, illustrating what I call a legal mirage—a knowable legal process exists to pursue your rights, but a variety of structural/human/$ barriers make it unreachable. 1/7
You cannot make this shit up. We’ve just learned that at *literally the same time* the Virginia State Police was macing and beating students, the UVA President’s Office was sponsoring a conference celebrating student activism.
This was only heightened by the fact that our campus community has such a high proportion of people of color, queer people, and other minority groups who are significantly more likely to be subject to police violence
The cops who arrested students @stonybrooku spent the following days surrounding the area of the cleared encampment, interrogating students as they walked by on their way to classes and making the campus community feel significantly more unsafe than the original protestors
It is true some student protesters are not giving full first and last names to reporters.
I will also note that 1000s of gov & corporate spokespeople refuse to let journos cite their names on routine anodyne statements -- THAT THEY ARE PAID TO MAKE. This happens every day.
Remember that time when college kids decided to protest the indiscriminate killing tens of thousands of innocent children by one of the most well funded technologically advanced militaries in the world & other people called them terrorists racists & shut them down with force?
Just a reminder NYPD is not allowed to release mugshots unless the person poses a present danger to the public (ie a wanted poster).
NYPD routinely ignores this law and gives mugshots of protestors, who don’t meet the criteria for releasing their mugs, to the New York Post.