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It would, I think, be genuinely useful if Chuck Schumer were politically ruined after last week.
There’s a limit to how useful it actually is to direct our energies specifically at elected politicians right now. Politicians aren’t going to save us. BUT: institutional leaders of many stripes (.gov, .edu, .org, and .com alike) are still acting much, much more afraid of the consequences of •fighting• than they are of the consequences of •compliance•.
We can change that. Make compliance ruin some high-profile careers. Make examples out of a few people. Schumer. Newsom. The Columbia admin. Tar and feather them. https://flipboard.com/@vanityfair/top-stories-ur1oga9sz/-/a-CUoIJMw5TYa3em_8zTUjJg%3Aa%3A3195374-%2F0
Speaking of which:
What’s going on at Columbia? What’s the state of the resistance there?
Columbia just •rescinded• degrees they’d granted. This wasn’t even just a politically motived expulsion, which would already be utterly horrifying. They ••revoked diplomas•• already granted.
@inthehands I looked at articles in their student paper
They aren't ignoring it, but it's not their headline story either. There is a statement by the School of Journalism faculty on their front page. A reference to outside protests. IMHO it seems pretty tepid.
If there are on-campus protests happening, the paper isn't reporting it yet.
Meanwhile at least one other university (that had their own protests & were closely following the events at Columbia University last year) is *completely* silent in their student paper. 
@igrok
To be fair, student papers usually have a slower turnaround than mainstream news outlets. And I hope that’s what it is.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a heavy thumb from above on what that paper can publish.