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Columbia crackdown led by university prof doubling as NYPD spook

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/
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Thu, 02/05/2024 - 23:39

Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide student protesters and directing the militarized raid that dislodged them from campus. The violent crackdown carried out on Columbia University students protesting Israel’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip was led by a member of the school’s own faculty, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared. During a May 1 press conference, just hours […]

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America is Rising for Gaza: What Should We Expect?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/america-gaza-protests-what-should-we-expect/28731…
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Thu, 02/05/2024 - 23:31

American students across the country are not protesting, risking their futures and safety because of some pathological hate for Jews. They are doing so in rejection of, and justifiable outrage over, the mass killing carried out by Israel against defenseless civilians in Gaza.

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The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza

https://tomdispatch.com/the-distortion-of-campus-protests-over-gaza/
Created
Thu, 02/05/2024 - 23:29

Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway.  Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off against a penned-in group of anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian protesters. These groups are usually small, often vastly outnumbered by the police around them, but they are loud and they are not Columbia students. They’ve been coming every day this April to shout, chant, and hold up signs, some of which are filled with hateful speech directed at the other side, equating protests against the slaughter in... Read more

Are There Long, Curved Knives too?

https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/02/are-there-long-curved-knives-too/
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Thu, 02/05/2024 - 23:00
Antifa-da is comin’ ta git ya At Dartmouth College Wednesday night, students holding a peaceful pro-Palestine protest on the college green were quickly met with …. well, let Prof. Jeff Sharlett (“The Undertow“) tell it: It wasn’t as dramatic as the police breach of Columbia University carried live from New York. Meanwhile, Brown University administrators reached a negotiated settlement with student protesters: Northwestern did as well. Which do you think will get more press? Which do you think will fuel the right-wing culture war? Okay, likely all of it. Charlie Sykes recalls being a kid at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago when Mayor Daily unleashed his police against Vietnam War protesters. Those clashes helped Richard Nixon win the presidency. “[T]hey hastened the realignment of much of the American electorate. Republicans would hold the White House for 16 of the next 20 years.

We Asked for Science. We Got Sustain-a-Babble.

https://steadystate.org/we-asked-for-science-we-got-sustain-a-babble/
Created
Thu, 02/05/2024 - 22:53
Editor’s Note

CASSE encourages members and readers to hold their government agencies to account on the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. Last week, Brian Czech presented Gag-Ordered No More to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, concluding with recommendations for engaging agency directors. We follow up this week with a letter from the Qualicum Institute (British Columbia) to Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change,

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Jeremy Corbyn: Our Political Class Are Emboldening the Far Right

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/jeremy-corbyn-our-political-class-are-embolden…
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Thu, 02/05/2024 - 21:54

Mr. and Mrs. Saeid* arrived in Islington in the 1990s. As Kurdish refugees, they fled persecution in Turkey in search of a safer life. Not long after their arrival, immigration officials threatened to send them back home. As the MP for the area, I tried to appeal their deportation, but endless letters, emails and calls […]

Upgraded Sportz Central officially opened

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/upgraded-sportz-central-officially-opened
Created
Thu, 02/05/2024 - 14:56

COFFS HARBOUR Mayor Paul Amos has declared long-awaited improvements to Sportz Central as “a game changer” for the city, with the upgraded Bray Street sporting facility officially opening last week. The $8.28 million project has been jointly funded by the City and the Commonwealth and NSW Governments. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...

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The new Navigation module and Layout Builder

https://www.drupal.org/about/core/blog/the-new-navigation-module-and-layout-bui…
Created
Thu, 02/05/2024 - 12:28

Navigation module makes use of Layout Builder to construct the navigation toolbar.

There have been some questions about this decision in Slack. This post discusses the background.

In #3397058: Convert navigation sections to blocks and use the menu system the navigation module added a plugin system and config entity for 'navigation blocks'. These were very nearly identical to block plugins and block config entities. The primary difference was the config entities did not depend on a theme like block config entities do.