Here are some of the professor’s comments in the interview in question (not the one linked in this article), from a year ago, at least this is what I think most likely to be construed by the university as targeting a group of students:

And what the students were able to do is examine video from that protest and identify, I think, three older students. We have a — Columbia has a program. It’s a graduate relationship with older students from other countries, including Israel. And it’s something that many of us were concerned about, because so many of those Israeli students, who then come to the Columbia campus, are coming right out of their military service. And they’ve been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus. And it’s something the university has not taken seriously in the past. But we’ve never seen anything like this. And the students were able to identify three of these exchange students, basically, from Israel, who had just come out of military service, who were spraying the pro-Palestinian students with this skunk water. And they were disguised in keffiyehs so that they could mix in with the students who were demanding that the university divest from companies that are supporting the occupation and the war, and were protesting and demanding a ceasefire. So we know who they were.

That’s everywhere, as far as I can tell.

That’s a landlord

This is opposite. I think. The double and triple negatives are getting out of hand. The opportunists are threatening to primary (with billionaire backing) any Republican opposed to Trump.

This is the truth. The point of singling out minorities for the harshest policy is to make their white supporters happier and quieter about being ducked a little less roughly.

Lol, Apple thinks it’s user base is annoyed by the length and subtilty of headlines. AI to the rescue!

They learned nothing in the first 11 months of this year, and they’re not about to start now.

This paragraph I don’t understand:

Only the movements in solidarity with Palestinian freedom offered a substantive challenge to the Harris coronation, as it remains the only issue impervious to party influence. To be sure, the absence of a primary for the Democratic Party lessened the ability of progressive forces to push back against Harris galloping rightward.

What does it mean to say the opposition to genocide was “impervious to party influence”?

I do agree the one clear problem was lack of a primary-- that’s the major structural difference from 2020. Without a primary you can’t prove who has the votes and who is voting, it was easy for them to pretend “progressives won’t vote” even though from this article it is clear progressives delivered via in Biden’s election.

They found on him a three page document that indicated “some ill-will toward corporate America” and the id used at the hostel. They are “scrubbing” his social media, by which I hope they mean scrutinizing.

Of all the times to worry about being perceived as opportunistic “on the way out”. After a year of worrying about perception “during the campaign”. And three other years of “reaching across the aisle”. Like trying to choose a place to eat with my family except it’s the direction of our country in a time of rapid global change.

You’re the one giving them money every day for sugar water. I just said to maybe stop?

I’m not trying to change billions of people’s habits, just a few that I know and love :)

But, I don’t think I’m alone.

Where is the button I push to dissolve CocaCola? Our pure hatred isn’t going to do it.

Everyone wishes they could somehow multiply their own influence over the world, but being just one person is no reason to give in and do what they told you.

Voting once a year with a Coke in your other hand is a recipe for status quo.

I’m just going to be unpopular for a minute here and say if you find yourself drinking out of single use disposable containers everyday, take some time to see if you can change that, even a little bit.

The future “goals” listed here are so lame I don’t think you can pretend there’s a sustainable way for billions of people to have that habit.

Landlords are always complaining how hard it is to evict bad tenants or screen new ones, but the way they are willing to ditch long term tenants to chase a few bucks makes clear they are not taking their share of the risk. The long term tenant they already know should be more valuable. In fact, though, I think most of them are just bad at business and think the rules should help them succeed anyway.

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Where is the romance novel?

Garry meets Sue. Garry loves Sue. Sue meets Brad.

In October 2024, Salt Typhoon was discovered to have exploited backdoors in US internet service provider networks used by law enforcement agencies to facilitate court-authorized wiretapping.[9] Affected networks included those of AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, and T-Mobile.

Omg yes. Learned that on a sailboat. Lanicote. Not just for bolts.

What is it with all this regulation? I’ll be so happy when people are free to make their own choices based on myth and legend

Florida was a super close call. Most states won’t miss a few votes, or even a lot of votes in some cases. I’m not advising anyone anything, but I know some people will be making this calculation, and I think it may be the only way to get some new cards on the table.

The two parties are not going to figure this out. I think we are in the middle of one of those major shifts in the landscape. Probably still end up with only two, and one of them might keep its name, but it seems to me this country’s leadership has simply outlived its ability to sense the world around it. They’ve patched over all sensory organs with some kind of insider-curated feed.