Ben Johnson

Faculty vigil for academic freedom outside Columbia this afternoon

35 rabbis arrested in NYC and DC protests for Gaza food aid - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The arrests come as reports of mass starvation in Gaza draw global outcry.

Show me what Torah looks like

Daniel Hinojosa. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hinojosa-daniel

#OTD in 1915, Adolfo Muñoz was tortured, riddled with bullets, and hung from a mesquite tree two miles south of San Benito after mysteriously disappearing from the custody of deputy sheriff Frank Carr and former and future Ranger Daniel Hinojosa. /1 www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

mass murder, mass starvation, all in front of our eyes. The Israeli and US governments will never live down this shame

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger.

#protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

Post #8 — CUIMC Stands Up Columbia Buys Back Its Federal Grants and Sells Off Its Spine By The Specter Editorial Board

Columbia Buys Back its Federal Grants and Sells off its Spine

www.cuimcstandsup.org/specter/post-8

In the summer of 1888, Texas Rangers Ira Aten and Jim King went undercover to try to identify and arrest so-called “fence cutters.” They were unsuccessful. In frustration, Aten developed a plan to hide mines in the fences, blowing them up when cutters approach. /1

"Anti-semitism" was just the foot wedged in the door. The actual intent has always been to destroy academia as a bastion of liberalism, then replace it with nonsense racial and theocratic propaganda.

This was never about protecting Jews, but many in politics and the press willingly fell for it.

Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documents The new papers contain ‘incendiary claims’ about the former president

Donald Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documents
The new papers contain ‘incendiary claims’ about the former president

Mike Bedigan
Los Angeles

Video Affidavit Of Katie Johnson Surfaces
youtu.be/DeLoTf9QUqI
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

@gonzalest956.bsky.social has done amazing work recreating the location and names of Rangers and others in the maranta. Learn more Thursday night . ..

Maybe the LA times will give WAPO a run for its money?

Marble 60-feet tall monument with a wide rectangular base. The second level has carvings of men in 1800s dress at the bottom of a tall rectangular marble piece with a sloping side to meet the corner of the bottom rectangular base. Names carved around the top edge of base of people at the Alamo in 1836. The tall piece has a carving of a semi-nude man reaching towards the sky. The sloping part has some sort of rod with long leaves on each side.

By the way, Ozzy never actually urinated on the Alamo.

He urinated on the cenotaph which was in the plaza across the street from the Alamo. 👇🏼

That monument was added at peak Juan Crow and the doubling down on their ownership of San Antonio de Valero and the 1836 mythology.

I first read of these killings in probably 1997 or 1998; the march of time, especially contemporary police violence and Israeli settler violence and warfare with Palestinians, has led me to revisit them over and over.

Another outrage from our supposedly woke elite universities

ok everyone's seen the trump with epstein photos by now, after years of the media pretending they didn't exist. good progress. next step is making sure everyone who is like "uh this all is sketchy but surely the president isn't literally a pedophile" sees this gross photo

"I want to be clear—what is being done to Palestinians in Gaza is barbaric and entirely preventable. I cannot believe we have come to a point where the world is watching as the people of Gaza are forced to endure starvation and gunfire, all while food and medical aid sits across the border..."

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

What a disgrace

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sounds, uh, fair and balanced to me

patch on AIDS quilt for David Stivers Johnson, 1952-1992; made by his sister, Betsy Johnson Pense, working with their mother, Bertha Johnson

photo of David Stivers Johnson, 1952-1992

gripping narration of the treatment of AIDS patients at Parkland, Dallas County's public hospital and the last chance for many (you get sick you lose your insurance and risk dying even sooner, as David well knew). /2

hard for me to say enough good things about this podcast episode, which recently dropped. Took me back to my own early adulthood, when my late uncle David suffered from AIDS, dying in the summer of 1992. /1

www.queeringthelonestarstate.com/episode-11

Jesus that's awful. On behalf of all men on the internet, I apologize

I'd just add that the notes overall are pretty threadbare which is not what I'd gather from reading your review

Escaping the Dark, Gray City A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contempora...

admittedly I didn't find it a bad book at all, just took it as an example of a different genre. And as somebody who is pissed that my 2017 book on the US conservation movement is routinely not cited, can relate to the anger and frustration at being ignored. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

particularly, having read the book, I think he might plead guilty to this charge. The game is more of a springboard, at least in my reading.

thanks for posting this! It's very well-done and generally I think book reviewers and roundtable participants, etc. have become too uncritical to be as useful as they should. I wish you had accepted the original offer, because an exchange with you and Olsson could so productive.

ironically, I just looked at my last correspondence with Olsson (we have shared interests in transnational history). I praised him for being critical of a book that needed critiquing; here is part of his review of www.ucpress.edu/books/arise/...

yes, well-said; I should have picked my words more carefully. Look at you -- being polite and disagreeing!

agreed. I try to nod to critiques of works I'm reviewing, even if on balance I'm quite positive about the book. Agreement and politeness are good, but only in a moderation. I wish he had accepted the initial assignment (says the tenured guy), even though I disagree with most of his take on the book