Harvard enters agreement with protesters, ending encampment
By
Breccan F. Thies
May 14, 2024 2:36 pm
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Harvard University came to an agreement with its encamped pro-Palestinian protesters on Tuesday, negotiating the end to the encampment with some concessions to the agitators.

The end to the encampment came as organizers of Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine successfully negotiated the reinstatement of at least 22 students from involuntary leave for their participation. The group also secured a meeting with university governance to discuss financial disclosure and divestment from Israel-related entities.

“Yesterday, the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) coalition democratically voted to end its encampment after 20 days,” the group, which is not recognized as an organization by Harvard, wrote in a Tuesday morning statement.

“We are under no illusions: we do not not believe these meetings are divestment wins,” HOOP added. “These side-deals are intended to pacify us away from full disclosure & divestment. Rest assured, they will not.”

Harvard is one of a handful of schools across the country that has been able to end the protests without the use of police force, and it is one of even fewer that was able to do so without making heavy capitulations to the protesters’ demands. Other schools that negotiated ends to their encampments included Brown University and Northwestern University, as well as the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, which agreed to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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On Monday, Red Lobster abruptly closed dozens of its locations, according to multiple reports. The closures come as the popular seafood chain has struggled in recent years with increasing financial challenges—one of which was the popularity of its Endless Shrimp promotion, which led to an $11 million quarterly loss in late 2023.

Due to these financial hardships, there have been ongoing rumors that Red Lobster is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. And now CNN reports that Red Lobster is abruptly closing at least 48 of its nearly 650 restaurants.

TAGeX Brands, an auction company that specializes in restaurant and food auctions, has been brought in to sell off equipment from some of the closing locations.


https://www.fastcompany.com/91124703/red-lobster-restaurants-closing-list-of-doomed-locations-2024


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14:04
Trump is asleep. Cohen is giving deadpan answers

Trump appears to have fallen asleep, while Cohen is keeping his cool.

The former president has his eyes closed with his chin resting on his chest.

Blanche brought up a February 2023 interview Cohen did on CNN with Don Lemon in which he said that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office asked him to hand over his two phones.

Blanche said that Cohen had ‘very specific recollections’ about calls with Trump in but ‘no recollection’ of promising prosecutors he wouldn’t go on TV.

In a flat voice, Cohen replied: ‘I don’t recall even having these conversations about not going on television’

Blanche tried asking the question again. Cohen replied: ‘I recall the conversations with President Trump at the time’

Blanche asked if Cohen asked if Cohen recalled a conversation with prosecutors last March in which they said ‘how important it was for you to stop talking?

Cohen said: ‘I don’t recall anything because I don’t recall agreeing not to go on television’

Blanche asked: ‘You don’t recall the District Attorney telling you you were unwittingly helping President Trump by going on TV?’

Cohen said: ‘No, sir’.

Cohen agreed that he had done about 200 episodes of his podcast and Trump was ‘mentioned in every single one’.

Turning to his posts on TikTok, Cohen said he started doing them to ‘vent because I have a difficult time sleeping, so I found an outlet’.


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Cohen testifies that he still lives in a building with Trump's name on it
By Ben Kochman

"You still live in a building with Trump's name on it, correct?" Todd Blanche asked Michael Cohen.

"I do," Cohen replied.

This brings up the age-old argument about if one would do this or that.

The real question is always “who is better?”  Who gets to survive?  That is what it comes down to. Now, if it’s literally JUST you, a single individual person, feel free to turn the other cheek.

But if it’s more people, a whole society, you have to choose who is going to survive.  I prefer Americans, eg.  if there is a fight, I will choose my family. It’s that simple.

So it’s not about how they die or are injured, it’s whether you must oppose an aggressor.  As a society always protect yours.