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May 9 21 tweets 6 min read
SCOOP @FreeBeacon: Columbia Students Arrested For Storming Library Include Several Repeat Offenders — Including Grad Student Who Demanded Humanitarian Aid from University w/@LevineJonathan 🧵 Image At least six of the Columbia students arrested for storming a Columbia University library on Wednesday are repeat offenders, including one student who demanded humanitarian aid from university, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
May 5 17 tweets 4 min read
NEW @FreeBeacon: Columbia Med Students Condemn University After Classmate Who Stormed Library Returns to Campus

The student, Gabrielle Wimer, appears to be on course to graduate later this month. 🧵 Image Wimer was one of the four anti-Israel Columbia students arrested for storming Barnard’s Milstein Library in March.
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Apr 21 11 tweets 2 min read
NEW @FreeBeacon: At Harvard's Center for Health and Human Rights, Academics Paint Israeli Jews as the Real Terrorists 🧵 Image In late March, Harvard University, anticipating a funding fight with the Trump administration, suspended its School of Public Health's longstanding research partnership with Birzeit University, a West Bank institution known for hosting Hamas military parades.
Mar 12 12 tweets 3 min read
NEW @FreeBeacon: Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Promotes Fundraiser For Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody

The fundraiser has received nearly $270,000 and will bankroll 'long-term justice efforts' to 'hold those responsible for his unlawful detention accountable' 🧵 Image Isra Hirsi, the daughter of "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), championed a fundraiser supporting Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national facing deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Hamas campus organizing.
Mar 7 15 tweets 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE @FreeBeacon: Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building 🧵 Image Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
Jan 17 18 tweets 2 min read
Today marks Day 10 of the high-stakes $1 billion defamation trial against CNN. The jury has not yet reached a verdict and will resume their deliberations to determine if CNN is liable. Stay tuned for a live thread covering the latest developments in the courtroom. 🧵@freebeacon Image The jurors have been brought back into the courtroom to grab their note pads and drop off their belongings.
Jan 10 60 tweets 6 min read
Day 5 of the CNN defamation trial is underway in Panama City, Florida. 🧵 @FreeBeacon Image Retired Army Major General James V. Young Jr. (unrelated to the plaintiff) has taken the stand in defense of the plaintiff
Dec 4, 2024 13 tweets 3 min read
NEW @FreeBeacon: Amid a severe budget crisis, the SF Unified School District decided that some schools needed to close.

To do this, it paid a Stanford University professor $30,000 to create an "equity-centered" formula that targeted a high-performing, majority-Asian school. Image From the outset of the district's plan to close some schools, the San Francisco school system "intentionally planned for equity throughout the entire process" and Board of Education District Advisory Committee members "raised equity concerns at every meeting." Image
Aug 19, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
Protesters have breached Secret Service fencing @FreeBeacon More down
Jun 22, 2024 10 tweets 3 min read
NEW: After distancing himself from leaked messages showing Columbia administrators mocking concerns about anti-Semitism, I reached out to see if the dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett, would comment.

Rather than answer questions–or decline to comment–he called the police. The Washington Free Beacon previously reached out to Sorett for comment, only to receive no answer. Before contacting him at his residence on Friday afternoon, I tried speaking to Sorett at his campus office but learned he was not there.