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Columbia Southern University

Columbia Southern University (CSU) is a private, online university based in Orange Beach, Alabama. Founded in 1993, CSU offers over 25 degree programs and certificates across various disciplines, including business administration, criminal justice, and occupational safety and health.READMORE

[rebelwithacauze]

Call it PRO -PALESTINE, PRO- LIFE OR ANTI WAR PROTESTS ,this my friend's is the era of the unstoppable Generation of resistance, #genz Just globalised the Intifada.Bidens and Netanyahu worse nightmare just went on overdrive.

#freepalestine #Stopisrael #gazagenocide #rafahmassacre #hamdsofrafah #gaza #palestine #Jerusalem #ceasefirenow #Iran #yemen #IDFterrorists #icj #globalstrikeforpalestine #globalintifida #revolution #genz #gotthis

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Do ppl not know what the implications of them actively co-signing for the national guard to come to a peaceful protest is? They aren’t going to be as “harmless” as the cops were and they were fucking aggressive as hell. You are actively campaigning for the death of these kids knowing or unknowing because they are protesting. Are they really disrupting you that much? They are not being are nearly disrespectful and disruptive as they could be they could’ve held up inside the school with their dean like Kent university back in the day but they decided to do this peacefully. So why were there snipers for sure at Ohio state but from what I’m hearing on multiple campuses?

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Some excerpts about various college protests:

Law enforcement have arrested more than 20 people on the University of Texas at Austin campus, according to a statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety. ... Harvard University has joined the growing list of American universities holding solidarity encampment protests. Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, a group that describes itself on Instagram as a "coalition of Harvard students fighting for divestment and a #FreePalestine," posted today that it established a "liberated zone" on campus, joining a slew of other campuses across the country. ... Police responded to the encampment protest and were seen taking down tents at the University of Southern California this afternoon — hours after student activists started their demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. ... Peace and environmental activist Naomi Klein, who is Jewish, joined hundreds of antiwar demonstrators outside New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's home Tuesday night for an "emergency" Seder. ... Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, an assistant professor of journalism at NYU, said he and other faculty members went to support students protesting in support of Palestinians yesterday when ranks of “intimidating” helmeted police officers closed in and arrested them. ”I can’t even count how many police. Then they arrested faculty and they violently arrest students, and sort of destroyed this academy that the students had set up. Took all of us down to One Police Plaza, the NYPD headquarters, and everyone was charged with trespass,” he said. Kumanyika said students were grabbed, handcuffed with zip ties and officers were seen throwing chairs. Student protesters at the University of California's Berkeley campus joined students across the country yesterday in demanding their school cut all ties with Israeli institutions. The Berkeley protesters have camped out for the last two days in opposition to the war in Gaza."I guess I'm not super surprised. I mean, it is Berkeley, things like this are happening all the time. The only thing that's surprising me is, it's this late in the semester," UC Berkeley student Any Bass told KNTV, NBC News' affiliate in the Bay Area. .... An encampment protest started this morning at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with about 90 students seen joining shortly after 6 a.m., the school said. Nine people were arrested at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus yesterday, the institution said this morning. Some students had set up an encampment on the north end of Northrop Mall and were warned by police early yesterday to disperse or be arrested. Some chose to disperse while others chose to remain and peacefully protest before they were arrested and later released.

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To protesting students:

SEIZE YOUR CENTURY

Push back against dark times ✊🏼

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#freespeech #righttoprotest #endgenocide

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Campus Crossroads: Columbia University at the Heart of Nationwide Pro-Palestinian Protests

April 26, 2024 There have been ongoing Pro-Palestinian protests at various US universities, with a focus on Columbia University. Here’s a brief summary and analysis: Columbia University Tensions: The epicenter of the protests is Columbia University, where a student leader was banned for making a controversial statement. The university’s senate has passed a resolution to investigate the…

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A file photo shows ground parched by drought. The climate is changing in the U.S. Huseyin Bostanci/Getty Images

Sudden Shifts From Drought to Floods Are Getting More Common in the U.S.

— By Robyn White | August 31, 2023

Sudden shifts from drought conditions to heavy floods are becoming more common in the U.S. as the climate changes, a study has found.

The findings were presented in a study published in Communications Earth & Environment. Researchers from the University of Texas, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research Institute for Land and Space, and Columbia University's Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, also found that so-called feedback loops—a process that can either increase or decrease the effects of greenhouse gases—are likely contributing.

"We are especially concerned with the sudden shift from drought to flood," co-author Zong-Liang Yang, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, said in a statement on the findings. "Society usually has difficulty responding to one kind of natural disaster like drought, but now you suddenly have floods too. And this has been happening in many places."

The findings were reached based on four decades of meteorological and hydrological data from hotspots around the world, including eastern North America, Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, southern Australia, southern Africa and southern South America, according to the statement.

Over time, from 1980 to 2020, researchers found that such whiplash trends in the weather increased approximately a quarter of a percent to 1% per year. These extreme shifts in weather patterns have manifested in parts of the U.S. recently, and in California in particular.

The state, which has been suffering from extreme drought conditions in recent years, was battered with record amounts of rainfall from December 2022 until early spring this year. The storms were so severe that catastrophic flooding was seen in many places.

While many thought that the increase in wet weather may help ease the drought, experts have warned that it will only be a short-term solution. As the drought in the western U.S. has stretched on for so long, it will still take years of above average rainfall for the region to fully recover.

Other factors as well as climate change may be contributing to these sudden weather changes, including the El Niño and La Niña climate patterns.

Feedback loops can also be to blame. Researchers found that during periods of heavy drought in humid areas, precipitation is pushed into the air, providing an additional moisture source, the study reported. This can then cause heavy rainfall.

Periods of drought in arid regions, can also see hot weather and low pressure colliding together, drawing moisture from other sources, such as the ocean.

"Climate change is fueling back-to-back droughts and floods which have caused widespread devastation, resulting in loss of life and damage to property, infrastructure, and the environment," said co-author Shuo Wang, an associate professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. "Our findings provide insights into the development of early warning systems for mitigating the impacts of rapid dry-wet transitions."

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Excerpt from this story from Common Dreams:

Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration in federal court on Monday over "the U.S. Department of Agriculture's unlawful purge of climate-related policies, guides, datasets, and resources from its websites."

The complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York by Earthjustice and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on behalf of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY).

The case focuses on just one part of Republican President Donald Trump's sweeping effort to purge the federal government and its resources of anyone or anything that doesn't align with his far-right agenda, including information about the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency.

"USDA's irrational climate change purge doesn't just hurt farmers, researchers, and advocates. It also violates federal law several times over," Earthjustice associate attorney Jeffrey Stein said in a statement. "USDA should be working to protect our food system from droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather, not denying the public access to critical resources."

Specifically, the groups accused the department of violating the Administrative Procedure Act, Freedom of Information Act, and Paperwork Reduction Act. As the complaint details, on January 30, "USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee sent an email ordering USDA staff to 'identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change' by 'no later than close of business' on Friday, January 31."

"Within hours, and without any public notice or explanation, USDA purged its websites of vital resources about climate-smart agriculture, forest conservation, climate change adaptation, and investment in clean energy projects in rural America, among many other subjects," the document states. "In doing so, it disabled access to numerous datasets, interactive tools, and essential information about USDA programs and policies."

EWG Midwest director Anne Schechinger explained that "by wiping critical climate resources from the USDA's website, the Trump administration has deliberately stripped farmers and ranchers of the vital tools they need to confront the escalating extreme weather threats like droughts and floods."

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Extra notes from asker: As someone who was born and raised near the University of South Carolina, it always annoyed me so much that the majority of people outside of my immediate home area just expected me to know that when they said "USC" they meant University of Southern California. It happens a lot in movies too. Even if you Google "USC", University of Southern California comes up first. I know California is a much more prominent state nowadays as far as overall population and pop culture, so it makes sense, but it's always stood out weirdly to me, not just as a South Carolinian, but as a history major who knows the University of South Carolina was founded 79 years before the University of Southern California and that it is more relevant in US history (specifically around the burning of Columbia (and the rest of most of the southeast) during the civil war)).

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A pair of marine mammal scientists at The University of British Columbia, has found that claims that a lack of access to salmon is what is driving the crash in population numbers for southern resident killer whales of the Pacific are wrong. In their paper published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, Burak Saygili and Andrew Trites describe how they consulted with sport anglers and whale-watching crews to learn more about the orcas' access to chinook salmon. Prior research has shown that the southern resident killer whales of the Pacific are struggling. Not only are their numbers dwindling, but the number of offspring is dropping dramatically. And nobody knows why.

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Sam Levin and Robert Mackey at The Guardian:

A federal judge in Manhattan blocked immigration officials from detaining Yunseo Chung, a Columbia University student and legal permanent resident the Trump administration is trying to deport for taking part in Gaza solidarity protests. The 21-year-old green card holder, who has lived in the US since she was seven years old, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, arguing the government is “attempting to use immigration enforcement as a bludgeon to suppress speech that they dislike”. The US district judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in court that the government had not laid out enough facts about its claims against Chung, who is originally from South Korea. Buchwald granted the temporary restraining order Chung had requested, which also prohibits the government from moving her outside the jurisdiction of the southern district of New York. The ruling comes as the Trump administration has been aggressively targeting pro-Palestinian college protesters across the US and cutting funds or threatening to revoke grants from universities it claims are failing to prevent antisemitism. The efforts to deport green card holders have sparked widespread backlash from civil liberties and immigrant rights groups. The US is also fighting to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate who has not been accused of a crime. Khalil was arrested at his Columbia-owned building in New York, in front of his pregnant wife, and later transferred to detention in Louisiana. In ordering the US not to transfer Chung out of the district, Buchwald said: “No trips to Louisiana here.” Chung’s lawsuit alleged that immigration officials moved to deport her “from the only country she has ever known” after she was identified in news reports as part of a group of protesters arrested after a sit-in at a library on the campus of Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia. Chung was given a ticket for “obstruction of governmental administration”, a common protest citation, according to her suit, filed by Clear, a clinic at the City University of New York law school. But days later, the US government “began a series of unlawful efforts to arrest, detain, and remove Ms. Chung from the country –because of her protected speech”, her lawyers alleged. On 9 March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) showed up to Chung’s parents’ home, and the following day, a US law enforcement official advised her lawyer that her lawful permanent resident status was being revoked. US agents also executed search warrants at two residences on Columbia’s campus, including her dormitory, seeking documents related to Chung, despite the warrant targeting the institution, not Chung directly, according to the complaint. “Officials at the highest echelons of government are attempting to use immigration enforcement as a bludgeon to suppress speech that they dislike, including Ms Chung’s speech,” the suit said.

Good to see Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald issue a ruling in favor of sparing South Korean green card holder Yunseo Chung from deportation. The attempted deportation of Chung is part of the Trump Regime’s war on pro-Palestinian speech.

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“Teaching constitutional law today is an enterprise in teaching students what law isn’t,” Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan law school, told me. Rebecca Brown, at the University of Southern California, has been teaching constitutional law for 35 years. “While I was working on my syllabus for this course, I literally burst into tears,” she told me. “I couldn’t figure out how any of this makes sense. Why do we respect it? Why do we do any of it? I’m feeling very depleted by having to teach it.” At least she’s still trying. Larry Kramer, a widely-respected legal scholar and historian who was my constitutional law professor at N.Y.U. 20 years ago, called it quits in 2008, on the heels of the Supreme Court’s divisive decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down decades of precedent to declare for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. Many observers felt that Heller’s majority opinion, by Justice Antonin Scalia, intentionally warped history to reach a preordained result. Professor Kramer was the dean of Stanford law school at the time, but after the Heller ruling, he told me recently, “I couldn’t stand up in front of the class and pretend the students should take the court seriously in terms of legal analysis.” First-year law students, he felt, “should be taught by someone who still believed in what the court did.”

Regime indoctrinators losing faith in obviously phony ruling ideology

[girlactionfigure]

Take a moment to read this excellent post by Loowala Khazzoom. 

“I am the daughter of a Middle Eastern immigrant who came to America on a student visa.

I am a graduate of Barnard college.

I was the Israel group leader at Columbia University.

I am an indigenous Middle Eastern Jew whose family was forced to flee from Iraq to Israel, following a pro-Nazi massacre and wave of violence against Jews in Baghdad.

My family lived on the land of Iraq for 2,600 years, since the Babylonian conquest of Yehuda, the southern Kingdom of ancient Israel, and the subsequent exile of all the inhabitants of Yehuda to Babylon. That is 1,300 years before the Arab Muslim invasion of the region.

My family lived under Arab Muslim rule for 1,300 years under DHIMMI status - legally second-class and subject to humiliating restrictions, because they were not Muslim. 

It was so common for Jews to be kidnapped and taken hostage in Iraq that there was an ongoing ransom fund in the Jewish community.

Women of my family wore the Abaya, the Iraqi equivalent of the hijab, despite being Jewish, because everyone was subject to the laws of Islam. I inherited my grandmother's.

My aunts, uncles, and cousins have lived in Israel since my family's exile from Iraq and served in the IDF. My father was in the Israeli Air Force.

My direct ancestors wrote the song, "On the Rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept for Zion." That is Zionism. We started it.

I've got all kinds of fucking skin in this game. And yet white Christian people, who never stepped foot off the American continent, never mind who have never been to the Middle East, have the arrogance to try and school me on what is going on and yell at me and unfriend me and block me, when I say that I want to get fascists like Mahmoud off Columbia campus and out of the USA.

Seriously. Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

Love,

LOOLWA KHAZZOOM 

(My long-ass Judeo-Arabic name, in case you didn't fucking notice)” 

But add white people in general not just American Christians.

@GnasherJew

[kaidlo]

I have major beef with Fallout: Frontier (though it is an impressive project and it’s cool that they were able to make a full conversion mod for New Vegas) mostly because of its weird stuff. And also I’ve lived in Oregon for a few years and I gotta say, not very accurate.

So without further ado, here are my headcanons as to what Fallout would be like in Oregon/Portland:

So we know Arroyo (the town where the Chosen One was born/starts out) is in southern Oregon, and based on the in-game maps, I’d say it’s kind of by Ashland

Obviously Fallout 2’s graphics aren’t really comparable to the later games or even New Vegas’, but based on the sets alone, it seems like most of the state (at least there) has “dried up” so to speak. Oregon is known for being very lush and rainy but we don’t see this in Fallout 2 whatsoever.

This ties in well to what we see in the show, where it seems that California is even drier than usual, with sand dunes that stretch over hundreds of miles. Idk how scientifically accurate that is but basically everything in Fallout America is drier and more desolate

So I’m imagining like dead, petrified forest type environment. Creepy and fits the “keep Oregon weird” type of vibe that Portlanders love:

As for Portland itself, it’s sometimes called the “city of bridges” and does cross the Columbia River. Imagine this: a sprawling city made of old scrap lumber and steel. The houses are stacked on top of each other precariously, some of them even leaning on the old pre-war bridges that have collapsed. Hundreds of smaller bridges connect these stacked houses like an urban treehouse.

I could also see the rest of Oregon becoming very agriculturally focused; the state itself probably wouldn’t be a big target in a nuclear war (no military bases around) except for Portland/Vancouver. Except instead of farming — most of the state are more akin to “badlands” at this point — people ranch. Bighorners, Brahmin, hell even Mole Rats.

Ohhhh my God and seeing the influence of religion on post-war settlements and factions like the BoS would be so interesting. I like to think the BoS would come to post-war Oregon and all the locals would hate them because they’re a big faction carrying echoes of the pre-war government. They’d probably be pissed that the BoS is looking for technology in the region, as I’d imagine the locals would try to focus on preserving and living with nature, even though it’s mutated. They’d be like “get your ass away from that toaster oven and come help us herd the Brahmin,,”

I love thinking about the state of American subcultures in the Fallout universe!! I’ve made a full D&D 5e campaign that takes place in New Orleans it’s so fun