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josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 01:55:33 JST josh buermann

The Domestic Security Alliance Council didn't need to coordinate the police riots -- like the Obama administration shut down Occupy Wall Street -- when these were coordinated between college administrations and Congress live on CSPAN:
"escalating to a military response [to student protests] nearly immediately, at barely a provocation or no provocation?—in the 1960s... would have been inconceivable"
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-08-new-anti-antisemitism-college-protests-gaza/
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1. Rick Perlstein: You might have already stomached some of the videos of last week’s most harrowing abuses. At the University of Wisconsin, a balding, bespectacled professor face down, two cops pinning his left arm sharply behind his back, and a disabled professor getting her dress torn and suffering internal damage from police strangulation. The 65-year-old former head of Dartmouth’s Jewish studies program who dared scream “What are you doing?” at cops being taken down with a wrestling move that also left her with an arm wrenched behind her back. Then a second cop arriving to keep her pinned as a third looks on blithely, rifle at the ready. (She was suspended by her university for her trouble.) At Washington University in St. Louis, a 65-year-old professor, a Quaker, was told by his doctor he was “lucky to be alive” after absorbing a flying tackle from a very large officer for the sin of filming cops with his cellphone, then being dragged to a nearby patch of grass, writhing, then to a police van, where he fell limp. If mainstream news organizations would concentrate their formidable resources at how this exact same script played out at diverse institutions large and small, as if their administrators had all attended the same continuing education seminar.
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  The New Anti-Antisemitism
  
  from https://prospect.org/topics/rick-perlstein/
  
  The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

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