The state’s attorney is prosecuting University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students over last April’s encampments.

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    29 days ago

    America is one of those “shithole” countries we’ve heard of.

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    28 days ago

    when universities become nothing but businesses with shady figures behind the scenes i guess you get actions as crushingly capitalist youd get from a corporation. i hope for the students sake they lose this stupid case.

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    29 days ago

    This is the recent election in a nutshell: Choose between the party that thinks about deporting you, and the party that wants to imprison you.

    Remember, when you scare people, their reaction is one of the three F’s: Fight, flight, or freeze. It’s impossible (for most of us) to flee, and Democrats won’t fight, so…

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    28 days ago

    Glad I left that box unchecked on my ballot on principle (she ran unopposed) She excused a cop when he killed a kid by shooting him in the back a couple of years ago.

    I forgot that this rabi was raising the biggest stink about the encampments and how he was in emergency meetings with admin about how the kids were breaking campus rules by putting up tents. He is also an adjunct law professor at the college along with Julia Reitz.