Random Thoughts and Interesting Things

⇓ bush under the cut btw. If you even care.

Our Top 5:

- The sport of competitive Excel (The Verge) - The opioid epidemic at sea (The New York Times Magazine) - Running away from FLDS (Runner’s World) - The art of worm grunting (Oxford American) - Using parents as content (The New Yorker)

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#LibraryShelfie to start the week!

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968

photo from this twitter post as the NYPD continues to brutality arrest students and push out journalists from reporting what is going on tonight.

Both Columbia and CUNY tonight.

The student reporters, through their panic and even tears and doing a great job.

It may be hard to find a working link for them, so many people are listening, but the above link or here might work:

Shai Davidai needs to be FIRED and de-platformed. He's a danger to Palestinian/Arab/Muslim students and allies to Palestinian liberation. That has been proven time and again.

Here is another beautiful moment/act of solidarity I wanted to share that happened on the same campus: