The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.
Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia’s lawn last Wednesday: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime.
At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.
An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.
The fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson, and includes David Rockefeller Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of directors. The non-profit gives money to “sustainable development” and “peace-building.”
And a former Wall Street banker, Felice Gelman, a retired investment banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian causes, funded all three groups.
17Free sandwiches from upscale takeout joint Pret a Manger are on offer at the encampment, worth up to $12, and $10 rotisserie chickens. Cash for the encampment has come from billionaire investor George Soros.NYPJ
Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.
“Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence,” JVP said in a statement on its website.
SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel “a historic win.”
17Also on offer for the thirsty anti-Israeli protesters camped out at Columbia is free coffee from Dunkin’. Behind the scenes, the groups organizing the encampment have received cash from Soros and another former Wall Street banker.NYPJ
An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman’s cash made its way to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their contributions.
Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations which his son Alexander — whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner — now controls.
In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides Foundation, a progressive nonprofit “fiscal sponsor” that then sends the cash to smaller groups.
Those groups include A Jewish Voice for Peace, which between 2017 and 2022 has received $650,000 from Soros’ Open Society. Its advisers include the academic Noam Chomsky and the left-wing feminist author Naomi Klein.
JVP has been a prominent part of the protests at Columbia and one of its student members was among a group expelled from the university for inviting the leader of a proscribed terrorist group, Khaled, to the “Resistance 101” Zoom meeting.
Soros has also donated $132,000 to WESPAC, called in full the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation.
Professor Robert Gadling and Professor Adam Pierson had a friendly "rivalry" going on.
Okay, so it was less rivalry and more bawdy Elizabethan drinking songs at the New Inn, copious amounts of beer, and amazing comic routines during each other's classes, topped off with obscure bits of historical anecdotes and trivia that frequently sent students into hysterics, but it worked.
According to the local grapevine, one of these Professors' boyfriends spent a few long moments being the "green-eyed monster" due to a misunderstanding of Shakespearean proportions. Swords and duels at dawn were apparently involved.
It was most certainly NOT the boyfriend who seemed to be the OG Victorian Goth Boy, with a hard-earned PhD in Brooding Moodily and was known all over the campus as "Murphy."
In point of fact, "Murphy" only spent about five short seconds in that deplorable state before he graced Professor Pierson with one of those heart-stealing faint smiles and said, "My sister sends her regards."
Campus history did not record Professor Pierson's reaction to this.
6. Not a Cat Dad
Look, Professor Gadling was NOT a pet person. He was not cruel to animals, mind you, but he was not expecting to foster the tiniest little bit of black and white fluff to ever meow at this point in time.
The problem was said Fluff came with some absolutely stellar credentials. That being from the "Cat of Dreams."
"I spent 600 years not knowing your proper name, y'know," sighed Professor Gadling. "And suddenly I get to find out you have many of them."
"And all of them quite proper, I assure you."
"Even 'Murphy'?"
A sigh. "I have been called that before, so yes."
The kitten, whose proper name was trilled by the Cat of Dreams but would therefore be known to humans as Miette, purred contentedly from her basket. Said basket now served as a paperweight for Gadling's test papers.
The rest of the class also waited for his decision with bated breath. It was their fault, the clever little bastards. They'd been the ones to find the kitten and of course, chose to make their appeal to "Murphy."
Their long-suffering professor sighed. Gadling's History 101 class would now have a feline mascot.
7. Prince of Stories
Here's the funny thing about Murphy.
Sometimes, he's just there, sitting in a dark corner, the first person in the classroom. Sometimes, the light will catch those dark blue eyes in the strangest way, like the reflection of a star.
Dressed all in black - black coat, black shirt, black pants and black boots - with the signature brooding expression on his face - he really should've been the most unapproachable person, to be honest.
Except that he isn't.
It's remarkably easy to sit next to him, for a bit of a friendly chat, while waiting for class to start. And he has stories to share, if one knows how to listen.
So many stories. They linger in your head like fragments of dreams.
The best listener in Professor Gadling's class is quiet, shy, soft-spoken little Isabel, who suddenly lit up when Murphy greeted her in her native tongue. And they spent a pleasant 30 minutes chattering away in a mix of Filipino and English which made her feel less homesick.
Professor Gadling almost didn't recognize her when he finally walked in to start the day's lesson.
8. Will vs Kit
"So as you can see, that bloody hack Will Shaxberd -- ugh, Shakespeare - stole all his best lines from Marlowe! " Professor Gadling took a breath and quoted:
“Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?"
"Isn't that from 'As You Like It'?" ventured one brave soul in the classroom.
"MARLOWE RUDDY WROTE IT FIRST!"
There was the discreet crunch of popcorn. Some enterprising person produced two large buckets and it was now being passed around the classroom. Professor Gadling was too busy enjoying his rant to call it out.
And then: “‘A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known’"
There is a Filipino word called "kilig" that is the only word adequate enough to describe the delightful shudders that went down the spines of every romantic-minded soul in the classroom once they heard Murphy softly declaim those lines.
"Oh, you bastard," Professor Gadling breathed. And then, went on with: "Love is not full of pity (as men say) But deaf and cruel, where he means to pray.”
“Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love," Murphy responded. And of course, to add insult to injury, he crowned that with one of his rare, faint, heart-stopping smiles.
"You absolute pillock. You complete tosser." And then, the good professor growled, "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Stop smirking at me, you wanker - the couch now has your name on it! I'm keeping Miette with me!"
Miette purred. Loudly.
"For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation." It was quite unfair, really, how well Murphy could deliver those lines as if it was nothing but the absolute truth, in that soft, deep voice.
"Awww!" sighed more than one person in the room.
"Are you really going to make him sleep on the couch after THAT, Professor?" Apparently, there was no shortage of courageous folk in Professor Gadling's class.
It was never absolutely clear whether Murphy did spend the night on the dreaded couch, as he was not in class the following day. However, Professor Gadling was wearing a conspicuously high turtleneck during that class, with a blush on his cheeks that didn't seem to go away during that day and he was in a ridiculously good mood. So good, that he moved the scheduled exam for the following week.
Coincidentally, everyone actually did sleep well the night before. They all had remarkably sweet, pleasant dreams.
- end -
Note: Yes, Highlander fans, Professor Adam Pierson is exactly who you think he is, including his...uh... boyfriend. 😂
Pesteng yawa ka, Morpheus, lagi na lang akong kinikilig sayo, hayup ka. 😅
Spesso la dolcezza arriva come se fosse in prestito, resta solo il tempo necessario per dare un senso a quello che significa essere vivi, poi torna alla sua misteriosa fonte. A me non interessa dove è stata, o quale amara strada ha percorso per venire fin qui e per sapere così di buono.
Stephen Dunn
____ Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Isabelle Pierson
Historians drawing parallels between Philip II of Spain and Elizabeth I of England
“Both had long resisted the clamour for war from strident voices at home. Both recognized that their countries had by long tradition been allies and that wars between them were the exception rather than the rule. (..) The two monarchs were united, too, by their innate conservatism. Both dreaded war for its expense and for its uncertainty.”
Patrick Williams, Armada
“Philip knew how to distinguish his political from his religious objectives. In this sense he and Elizabeth were kindred spirits.”
Patrick Williams, Philip II
“… Elizabeth of England (whose mind, apart from being quicker, seems much like Philip’s)…”
Peter Pierson, Philip II of Spain
“… [Elizabeth] tended to seek the opinion of each councillor individually and then to “leak” it to the rest – a practice surprisingly similar to Philip II’s style of government.”
Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker, The Spanish Armada
“His [Philip’s] slowness in making decisions was, with reason, strongly criticised by those who worked with him. (..) His caution and slowness were, clearly, dictated by the circumstances in which he had to rule. Elizabeth of England was also criticised for the same reasons.”
Henry Kamen, Philip of Spain
“… ambos eran humanistas.” - “… both were humanists.”
José Martínez Millán, Vidas Cruzadas: Felipe II - Isabel I de Inglaterra
https://youtu.be/SIfR0QxHRZY?t=257
“When the familiar liturgy began, she listened to it prostrate on cushions set out for her in the Privy Chamber, ‘hard by the closet door’. This was eerily like her old adversary Philip II, who, when dying, had listened to the chanting of the monks and priests at the altar in the monastic church at the Escorial through an interior window in his bedchamber.”
Visionaire No. 18 : Fashion Special Portfolio Louis Vuitton
Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos, Designed by Greg Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan.
Published by Visionaire Publishing, New York 1996, Small 4to. Leather and Fabric Portfolio, 2500 Numbered copies This copy numbered 1654/2500 packaged within an elegant fabric-lined leather portfolio case with a wood and shoelace closure made exclusively for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton
Every issue of Visionaire is, to some degree, about fashion, but Issue 18, was the first all-out Fashion Special. Forty-four artists, photographers, and image-makers were asked to give their personal interpretation of clothing selected from the Fall/Winter 1966 collections of forty-five of the world’s most innovative and influential fashion designers. Highlights of the issue included Alexander McQueen as captured by Steven Klein, Azzedine Alaia by Jean Paul Goude, Comme des Garcons by Craig McDean and M/M, Daryl K by Inez Von Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Elsa Peretti by Miles Aldridge, Geoffrey Beene by Mario Sorrenti, Gucci by Hiroshi Tanabe, Helmut Lang by Nan Goldin, Hussein Chalayan by Jurgen Teller, Isaac Mizrahi by Larry Fink, Isabel Toledo by Ruven Afanador, Jean Colonna and Patricia Field by Ellen Von Unwerth, John Bartlett by Terry Richardson, Marc Jacobs by Jack Pierson, Shunichiro Arakawa by Hiromix, Viktor + Rolf by Viktor + Rolf, Vivienne Westwood by Ruben Toledo, Yves Saint Laurent by Mario Testino, and many, many more. But the real surprise was the packaging: a deluxe monogrammed portfolio designed and produced specially for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. People went wild. Some couldn’t believe that the case was real. By the time the launch party was thrown at Mr. Chow in New York City some three weeks after the issue appeared, all 2,500 copies had sold out. It is among the most rare and sought-after back issues.
Professor Gadling had to take a moment. He really did.
It was that or explode into hysterical laughter right that very second and that really wasn't going to help his cause now, was it?
The paper he was trying to grade was supposed to be an essay on the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf at Mayerling and its indirect effect on World War I. Instead, what he got was "Our Four Cryptid Teachers on Campus."
And a List, which deserved to be quoted in its entirety:
a. Professor Robert "Hob" Gadling - Probably knew Shakespeare IRL; explains why he has such a hate-boner for him
b. Professor Adam Pierson - has an actual motherfucking SWORD hidden somewhere in his clothes (maybe it's like Hammerspace?!!) and might possibly DUEL other immortals; maybe the OLDEST immortal because he talks about ancient EGYPT like he's been there, done that and worn the t-shirt
c. Professor Duncan Macleod - the OTHER sword-wielding immortal
d. Professor Nicholas Chevalier - VAMPIRE?!!! OMG?!!! Also, his Dad is legit creepy and we sincerely believe he's legit a vampire?!!!
Honestly, there was only one, sane, sensible way to respond to this.
Dustin, interesting essay choice there, lad, but I was rather expecting something about poor Crown Prince Rudolf and not speculations about my cryptid status. Incidentally, thank you for realizing that I'm not the Oldest Immortal around, yes, Professor Pierson wears his Ancient Egypt T-shirt with pride and yes, you'd do well to steer clear of Lucien Lacroix, that one gives me the willies.
You have a day to give me the right essay, so chop chop!
2. The Cat Thing
"So maybe his fursona is a cat, did ya ever think of that, genius?!"
"Ahahahaha, right, sure, Steve, he uses meows, purrs and trills like a legitimate language and the cats understand him - this is NOT a fursona thing my friend!"
"Also, Steve-o, I didn't think you knew about things like fursonas..."
"Eh, you've been around the Internet long enough, you pick up on some things, Wheeler."
"So Murphy speaks Cat like legitimately, actually speaks Cat, not just like us humans doing random meows."
"Yep."
"Score 1 for the Cryptid Candidacy! We're adding Murphy to the list."
"Actually, humanity knew how to speak feline once. The knowledge was lost, aeons ago. Isn't that right, Miette?"
"Meow!"
"I could tell you that Story, if you've a mind to listen."
"GYAAAAH!!!!"
3. Typhoon Morpheus
First off, Isabel didn't really actually mean to eavesdrop.
She'd submitted the wrong paper for the classwork they'd done today and while it wasn't as spectacular a mistake as Dustin Henderson's Cryptid List - it was still, obviously, the wrong paper. So she was just hurrying to fix things, although she was a little nervous, because Professor G seemed to be in a bad mood the whole day.
She was just about to knock on the door when she heard:
"Look, Gadling, you gotta do something. Caw!"
That voice sounded oddly familiar.
"Oh, Christ, what now?"
"Whatever it is you two did, fix it, for the love of Murphy. Do you see these feathers, man? I am soaking wet - it's been raining in the Dreaming and it hasn't stopped. Lucienne's already got all the rest of us trying to save the books in the Library from the flooding."
"Raining."
"Yeah. The boss thinks you don't love him anymore. So, boom, cue the rain. Thunder and lightning. Sturm und Drang - the works, you know?"
"Wait. Hang on, he thinks we've broken up?!!"
"Duh? Yeah?!!"
"Oh for Chrissakes, it was just a silly, ridiculous argument - I'm - hey, Matthew, remind me to kiss the stupid out of that idiot. After I yell at him. And kiss him stupid again."
"Reminder set, Other-Boss. Can we go now?"
Isabel told herself she was never, ever, going to speak of this to anyone - even if the fact that she had witnessed Matthew talking was probably enough to confirm Murphy's Cryptid Status on Dustin's stupid list.
4. Stranger Things
"Run this by me again, love," Professor Gadling said, in obvious bewilderment. "You're a Dungeon Master? What is that?"
"Not anything kinky, Professor G! AHAHAHA!" Dustin Henderson said in overly cheerful tones.
Murphy slanted the boy a look of wry amusement. "I think he understands that already."
"He's our DM for Dungeons and Dragons, Professor," said Will Byers. "It's a storytelling game."
"Ah, of course, a storytelling game, why wouldn't His Darkness the Prince of Stories be interested in that?" Professor Gadling said wryly.
"He's the best DM ever," volunteered Iggy Pop. "Like, the way Eddie went down fighting the demobats with Metallica, that was like, truly epic."
Murphy inclined his head in a regal almost-bow. "I can only but inspire. And I rather enjoyed young Eddie's performance. Truly something only a Master Bard could do."
"I'm still dead though!"
"Relax, man, we'll bring you back in flashbacks or something. Or maybe make you into a vampire!"
"Hey, you'd better - because I am this close to writing the Love Song of Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington and posting it on AO3!"
Professor Gadling knew when to give in. "Fine, you can use The New Inn for your session tonight. Just try not to wreck the place while you're off trying to fight the forces of darkness or whatever."
Murphy leaned over to drop a kiss into his hair. "We'll put all the breakables away before we begin our quest anew, dearest."
-end-
Footnote the First: Shortly after Dustin compiled his List of Cryptid Teachers on Campus, a new Professor joined the faculty, having retired from his former tailoring job at Kingsman. His name? Michael Percival Archangelus.
Footnote the Second: Dream of the Endless is not quite sure how he ended up adopting Hob's students and joining their D&D group, but he is quite charmed at their imagination and creativity and thoroughly enjoyed the idea of designing a villain formidable enough to test them.
Footnote the Third: Look, Dream still hadn't quite gotten all the nuances of a healthy relationship but he's at least figured out that minor spats and squabbles do not equate to breaking up and ending things forever. Hob's made sure of that. The kisses definitely helped.
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Did I also just crossover Forever Knight, Kingsman and Stranger Things into this ridiculousness? Yes, yes I did. Nobody tell Neil.
Also, the "Michael" in this story is the headcanon Michael I came up with for the Lucifer show. Except obviously, this Michael isn't an evil twin douchecanoe but is an actual legit good guy... who uh.... spent a few years with Kingsman.
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While there are lots of YA books out there about teen reproductive choices, these titles feature characters who (spoiler alert) actually have abortions.
My hope is that this list will introduce you some thought-provoking reads, and also encourage you to think about the stories that aren’t being told–the recent books on this subject aren’t as plentiful or intersectional as one would hope, and only some address the challenge of accessing abortion, a task that’s becoming increasingly difficult for many. That last fact is why I’m including a shameless plug for my National Abortion Access fundraiser here–please consider donating! You’ll get book recs from me, and the satisfaction of supporting a vital resource. Signal boosts are also appreciated!
Aftercare Instructions, Bonnie Pipkin (forthcoming in June 2017)
Exit, Pursued by Bear, E.K. Johnston (2016)
Ask Me How I Got Here, Christine Hepperman (2016)
Girl Mans Up, M-E Girard (2016)
A Sense of the Infinite, Hilary T. Smith (2015)
‘89 Walls, Katie Pierson (2015)
And We Stay, Jenny Hubbard (2014)
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, Isabel Quintero (2014)
Falling Into Place, Amy Zhang (2014)
Every Little Thing in the World, Nina de Gramont (2010)
My Life as a Rhombus, Varian Johnson (2007)
Gingerbread, Rachel Cohn (2002)
Further reading:
Abortion in YA Fiction
Abortion in YA Lit: A Reading List
Teen Librarian Toolbox posts tagged “abortion”