Mathew Foresta

People underplay how devastating that crap is. People were laid out by it. It doesn't burn a bit, it burns like you're on fire. I only got a bit from the general cloud of it and it hurt.

The volunteer doctors and medical staff were amazing that night and likely saved lives. I bet EMS couldn't come because the scene wasn't cleared for them, and that's on the police.

I didn't think that you did, but, I don't think it's common knowledge how serious the injuries were. That's why I'm trying to take every opportunity to let people know that it wasn't that. They just pepper, sprayed and punched a few people. They were hitting people with blunt objects.

Ya, I didn't see the beating, but them dragging him back. I'm glad he didn't die. I was worried he might at the time. I read people got burned by fireworks. I saw tons of people hurt from thrown projectiles and mace.

People got badly burned by the fireworks. One person got their hand crushed. I saw a guy get brought back into the encampment after being beaten. He had a severe head injury, blood running down his face.

Let me know if you want help.

The New York Times is worthless and an actively harmful factor in our current world.

There is no economy if we make the planet uninhabitable for humans dumbass.

Omg the Saja Boys have infiltrated the Christian schools.

For sure, again I'm happy there is at least some momentum in the right direction, but again we can't just let this story die off no matter how much the City, The Times, The uni, and the pro-Israel crowd want to memory hole it.

He does good work. With the mainstream media becoming even more shit than usual we need to start making networks of newsletters and independent voices that can fill the gap.

No, I was at UCLA, museum of tolerance, and the march from earlier that year they maced.

When I told people I had nightmares about it I got mocked. They weren't there and the videos make it look way more tame than it was. It felt like more than 4 hours. I didn't leave until first light as I (correctly) believed they'd be out there waiting to jump people.

I've been in at least 100 large demonstrations. That was the bravest, best organized, and most successful effort at community defense I ever saw. It's been massively underappreciated, even in leftist and pro-Palestine circles.

I got there a few minutes after it started. That famous video of the firework going over the encampment barricade, I was the one with the camera in the green coat right in front. You can see me flinch. I felt the shockwave go through my body. It's seriously unreal to me no one died. Damn lucky.

Multiple Sources Allege Widespread Discrimination at Beverly Hills High School AWCN found dozens of sources including letters, students, parents, faculty, videos produced by the school and social media which allege or show a concerning level of bullying and an unsafe environment

Simultaneously Beverly Hills High was allowing this shit to fester as rampant Islamophobia. @acatwithnews.bsky.social wrote a good article on that. Several of those turds attacked the encampment. acwn.substack.com/p/multiple-s...

I'm glad one might go down, but it should have been dozens. This wasn't their first rodeo either. I also got attacked at the Museum of Tolerance and maced at a march a few months before. I think Edan On went to Israel and joined the IOF. Fucking hell, imagine what he'd do there.

Hold his ass in contempt

He isn't even doing the counseling! This was a lynch mob run amok. People nearly got killed and the city could care less. Fuck this.

They are total cowards. When one of them tried to throw a piece of fence and enter the encampment near the flanks like 6 big guys myself included confronted him. He just backed off. They don't want to fight straight up.

I legit thought our lives were in danger. I have never thought I could die at a protest, I thought there was a good chance that night.

We need to keep this in the news. Do a giant article where we just name everybody, and every official who covered for them. Get it in the biggest outlet we can.

On the Student Barricades - New Politics Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.

I can't believe no one got killed that night. I took a traffic cone to the face. People were laid out like a battlefield hospital. I wrote about it. These people should face serious time. The DA is granting permission for this kind of violence. It's complicity with fascism newpol.org/issue_post/o...

It's called oligarchy, an if we are ever to get out of our current misery, we have to stop making Socialism a dirty word.

Have the Democratic Party, the Center for American Progress, and the architects of Project 2029 disavowed Larry Summers?

He's advising all of them and is a major liberal power player.

He was also used by the Dem establishment to attack Mamdani.

If they have, great; if not, why not?

The fact people connect the Holocaust to anti-Black and anti-Palestinian racism is good. They are connected. Genocide and oppression are wrong, and it's good people realize that despite the fact it drives genocide apologists like this ghoul crazy.

1. Good luck in Canada, I'll stay and struggle until the bitter end, but I get why you are doing what you're doing.

2. There is a lot of resistance here the media isn't covering. Don't forget it and keep supporting it, even if it's just uplifting through your platforms.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

We have no guarantee that Trump's followers will punish him when he is inevitably exposed. I doubt they will. They'll justify it like Megyn Kelly did. They don't care as long as he keeps hurting the people they hate.

I lost all my trust and admiration for this profession over time, but Gaza sealed it. When I was taking journalism classes in college we were taught to revere the New York Times. Now I think it's an active harm to the world.