New York police officers arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters who’d occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday night while pro-Israeli counterprotestors attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA.
Meanwhile, an overwhelming majority of House lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of passing the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, a bill that critics say could create an overboard definition of what counts as anti-semitic speech on college campuses and other educational institutions. Todd Zwillich, a longtime Washington reporter and friend of the show, explains how the bill is part of a cynical ploy on the part of Republicans to divide Democrats.
And in headlines: Arizona lawmakers voted to reverse the state's Civil War-era abortion ban, the Federal Reserve moved to keep interest rates flat, and the U.S. could have more than 100 million doses of bird flu vaccines available for people within four months if the disease jumps to humans.
Show Notes:
Like A Day Without Sunshine
Indian Child Welfare Act Upheld
Hut, Hut, No Hike
Not Guilty, Not Buying It
When It Arraigns, It Pours
Another Day, Another Indictment
Trump, Indicted (Again)
Down With Stand Your Ground
Flooding On Ukraine's Front Line
We Won't Build This City
Default Averted
Labor Rights And SCOTUS Wrongs
The Grand Old Parade of Losers
McCarthy, Come Get Your Party
Our Healthy News Diet Starts Tomorrow
Remembering the PI in AAPI
DeSantis DeSucks
One Year After Uvalde
The Kids Are Queer, Here, And Won't Disappear
Fly Like The G-7
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