Columbia University doing online classes due to anti-Semitic threats | HAKE NEWS Mon 4-22-24

April 22, 2024 / James Hake

Hake News for The Jesse Lee Peterson Show, Monday, April 22, 2024 AD

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End of Hour 1: Earth Day // Columbia U Israel-Palestine drama // Foreign Aid // TikTok ban //

End of Hour 2: Homeless bums rights going to the Supreme Court! // Pink moon tomorrow! // Theme park ride mishap: Universal Studios // Bibi on Passover on hostages // SATs under attack! //

JLP Show Notes | Mon 4-22-24

Hake notes from JLP…

Mon 4-22-24 Hr 1 Weak RINOs, Ukraine aid… … Caller gal from India or Netherlands (I forget!) has a question about something that shouldn’t be a question! … Super chats…

Mon 4-22-24 Hr 2 Letitia James going after Trump from the start… Family doesn’t like each other: RFK family. …. Donald in NY asks about Trump and about forgiving mother, and about the Silent Prayer… // John from TX (He’d said his mother used simps to beat on him), age 30, may have said he had a gun, now his mother built an army against him and called the police…

Mon 4-22-24 Hr 3 John from TX finishes with Jesse… // Dawn in NJ (1st-timer) says mother was a kleptomaniac etc, harsh woman…

HAKE NEWS, Hr 1 | Mon 4-22-24

Earth Day // Columbia U Israel-Palestine drama // Foreign Aid // TikTok ban //

*Earth Day

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) The world is celebrating Earth Day today — but the truth is, we could all live a “greener” lifestyle to better preserve our planet. For example, despite global-homo efforts to rein in plastic pollution, only 9% of it is actually recycled.

*Columbia U

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) Surging tensions at Columbia University have sparked condemnation from the White House as pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus stretch into their fifth day. “In recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous — and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country,” President Joe Biden said Sunday. A rabbi linked to the Ivy League school has recommended that Jewish students “return home as soon as possible and remain home” amid the demonstrations. The atmosphere is so charged that school officials said students can attend classes virtually starting today — the first day of Passover, a major Jewish holiday.

theSkimm: People watching Columbia University. Today, its president moved its classes online! after protests over the Israel-Hamas war continued for the fifth straight day on campus this weekend. The demonstrations are raising safety concerns, with one rabbi at the school urging hundreds of Jewish students to stay home amid reports of antisemitic harassment. In a statement, the White House said calls of violence and physical intimidation against Jewish students and the Jewish community are “blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous.”

Meanwhile, at least one Republican lawmaker is calling on Columbia University’s president (Egyptian gal Minouche Shafik) to step down, saying the school’s leadership “lost control” of the campus. Just last week, police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters at the university.

Foreign aid bill

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) The House passed a $95 billion package over the weekend providing foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region (TAIWAN??). Some moderate Republicans commended Speaker Mike Johnson after he joined with Democrats to advance the measure to Saturday’s vote, while others in the conservative flank voiced strong opposition. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday said Speaker Johnson “betrayed” Republican voters and threatened to call a vote for his ouster if he doesn’t resign. The legislation — which passed with the support of 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans — now heads to the Senate, which is expected to give final approval this week.

*Tryna ban TikTok

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) The high-stakes foreign aid package approved by the House on Saturday included a measure that could lead to a TikTok ban. By attaching the TikTok bill to funding for Ukrainian military equipment and Israeli missile defense, House Republicans put pressure on Senate lawmakers to consider the whole package in a single up-or-down vote. The current version of the bill would, if signed, give TikTok roughly nine months to separate from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, following national security concerns. The bill also states the deadline could be extended by President Biden by 90 days if he determines there’s been progress toward a sale. Policy analysts expect the Senate to take up the aid package quickly, giving it high odds of passage.

TikTok’s fate is up in the air again.

As part of a $95 billion foreign aid package, the House approved a bill over the weekend that could potentially ban TikTok. The legislation, which mirrors an earlier measure that stalled in the Senate, would give China-based ByteDance up to a year to sell the app or face a ban. This time around, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the upper chamber could vote on the package as soon as tomorrow. President Biden, who applauded the bipartisan House effort, signaled he would sign the bills into law.

By tacking on the TikTok bill to funding for Ukraine and Israel, House Republicans put pressure on the Senate to fast-track approval of the package. Even if the upper chamber gives it the green light, expect a battle in the courts. TikTok, users, and some lawmakers have questioned the bill’s constitutionality. China has also indicated it would block any forced sale of the app. Meanwhile, US officials maintain a sale or ban is necessary to protect the data of the roughly 170 million “Americans” (there’s only 330M I think, so like half of them) who supposedly use TikTok.

For years, US lawmakers have tried to ban TikTok in the name of national security. If the bill is approved in the Senate, it would be the first time the government passes a measure that threatens to pull the plug on a social media platform.

HAKE NEWS, Hr 2 | Mon 4-22-24

Homeless bums rights going to the Supreme Court! // Pink moon tomorrow! // Theme park ride mishap: Universal Studios // Bibi on Passover on hostages // SATs under attack! //

*Homeless BUM crisis!

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether ticketing homeless people is “cruel and unusual” and violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. City and state officials are closely watching the case — which will decide whether the homeless have the right to camp in public places — as many communities struggle to respond to a surge in encampments that have cropped up under bridges and in city parks across the nation. It’s also being followed by people who live in those encampments and are alarmed by efforts to criminalize the population rather than build shelters and affordable housing. This comes as the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 12% from 2022 to 2023, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

*pink moon this week

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) full phase at 7:49 p.m. ET Tuesday, Apr 23rd (4:49pm PT). Despite its cool name, April’s full moon will probably look like any other. A Lyrid meteor shower will peak this week right before a full moon rises (The Pink Moon making the meteors more faint) .’

The pink moon actually got its moniker due to its annual appearance not long after the start of spring, much like its namesake, a hot pink wildflower called Phlox subulata (also called “moss pink” which smells like marijuana - Wikipedia) that blooms in early springtime, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Of the 12 full moons in 2024, the September and October lunar events are set to be supermoons, according to EarthSky.

Definitions of a supermoon can vary, but the term generally denotes a full moon that is closer to Earth than normal and thus appears larger and brighter in the night sky. Some astronomers say the phenomenon occurs when the moon is within 90% of perigee — its closest approach to Earth in orbit.

Here are the remaining full moons of 2024:

• May 23: Flower moon

• June 21: Strawberry moon

• July 21: Buck moon

• August 19: Sturgeon moon

• September 17: Harvest moon

• October 17: Hunter’s moon

• November 15: Beaver moon

• December 15: Cold moon

*Theme park rides are dangerous, not just airplanes!

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) 15 people were injured at Universal Studios Hollywood on Saturday after a tour tram crashed and “ejected multiple passengers,” according to California authorities. While the incident remains under investigation, the driver indicated a mechanical failure caused the vehicle to collide with a metal guardrail.

*Bibi on Passover and Hamas hostages

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) QUOTE: “This night, 133 of our dear brothers and sisters do not sit at the Seder table and are still imprisoned in the hell of Hamas.” — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he plans to increase “military and political pressure” on Hamas to free Israeli hostages. His comments came Sunday as many Jewish families prepare to mark the Passover holiday with a ceremonial meal called the Seder.

**Should the SAT still matter after all these years?

(CNN or theSkimm Mon 4-22-24) Criticism has dogged standardized tests for years (by liberals crying racism ONLY, right?). Some colleges are reinstating SAT requirements for admissions after suspending them during the Covid-19 pandemic.

NOT READ: … SAT acronym originally stood for “Scholastic Aptitude Test,” was developed in the 1920s by Princeton-based eugenicist Carl Brigham, who believed immigration was diluting American intelligence and adapted US Army mental tests to determine whether similar exams could measure innate student intelligence. (Brigham retracted some of his views several years later.)

The College Board, the educational non-profit that designs and administers the exam, told CNN the SAT has been “completely overhauled” since the 1920s and now measures how well a student has learned specific content, not inherent aptitude.

But the test’s legacy — one steeped in racism and classism — has raised questions about the need for high-stakes testing at all. The National Education Association has noted that the SAT, and its counterpart the ACT, can factor too heavily in the college admissions process.

…. Discrepancies with standardized testing appear to be symptomatic of the inequality endemic to the education system. Some experts point out that doing away with the SAT as an admissions component, like many universities did at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, does little to remedy systemic inequity. In fact, it can bring the disparity into starker focus.

…. “SAT/ACTs can be especially helpful in identifying students from less-resourced backgrounds who would succeed at Dartmouth but might otherwise be missed in a test-optional environment,” Dartmouth wrote in a statement in February.

“With an abundance of high school GPAs surrounding 4.0 … an SAT or ACT score is a proven differentiator that is in each student’s and the University’s best interest,” UT Austin said in March.

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