Which is fucking SAYING something! 🤬

The students’ demands include Columbia’s financial divestment from Zionist organizations, an academic boycott of complicit institutions, cops and ICE off campus and amnesty for all university members unfairly targeted and disciplined for pro-Palestinian actions.

Not a single one of which wouldn’t be a given in a sane and civilized modern society.

Columbia’s Public Safety officers immediately responded and violently barred protesters from leaving unless they showed identification, which created a prolonged standoff…

Because of COURSE they did!

When it comes to Apartheid regimes (and indeed most big picture stuff), student protesters are always on the right side of history and the people who derive income directly dependent on the atrocities continuing always react with the subtlety and intelligence of trying to remove a splinter with a machete.

So the new pope is off to a GREAT start, I guess 🤷

Please do not the word.

Mississippi is the worst, though.

It’s at the absolutte bottom of almost every positive statistic, at the very top of almost every negative statistic (including poorest state) and don’t even get me STARTED on the white supremacist kakistocracy they have ruling the state!

In fact, it’s so dire that the unofficial motto of awful neighboring state Alabama is “thank god for Mississippi” (making us not the worst)