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We are still technically off, but this particular news story was something that Neiman

I were talking about offline and it was enraging us so we thought we reported news brief

because it very much fits into an episode we did recently on cryboliism.

Yeah, just a little background I'm sure for those who are paying attention there's been a recent explosion in college campus occupations and encampments to draw attention to the

ethnic cleansing and mass killing event of genocide in Gaza calling on both

the universities himself to divest from Israel and also to make certain demands because a lot of these universities of course have these large investment funds.

To some extent that's their kind of key function and there are other relationships with the military industrial complex. on the

to some extent that's their kind of key function and there are other relationships with the military

industrial complex. This is obviously extremely in our wheelhouse on the show

and this of course has led to pretty aggressive suppression by the police,

the suspension of students, which is obviously something that can really

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