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Thomas Birmingham

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Thomas Birmingham

@thomasbirm

Y23 | Someone once said I’m naturally anti-dogmatic. Housing is a human right. Research Fellow @InTheseTimesMag. Investigations in @thenation, @theappeal, etc.

New Haven, CT

Joined August 2017

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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 20, 2024
BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing. FREE PALESTINE!
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 20, 2024
BREAKING: Organizers of Yale’s divestment encampment just announced: “WE’VE JUST HEARD THERE WILL BE NO ARRESTS TONIGHT! This is because there are so many of us!” The crowd then begins chanting “When we fight, we win!”
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 24, 2024
One underreported element of these protests is that many of them are occurring at schools with ostensibly the best journalism programs/schools in the country: USC, UT Austin, Emerson, UNC, Columbia, etc. Just look at all the cameras in this video!
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Dec 8, 2024
BREAKING: Yale student body has voted OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of divesting the university’s holdings in weapons manufactures, including “those arming Israel” Of 3,338 students, over 76% voted in favor of divestment. @yaledailynews reports unprecedented engagement in the vote.
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
May 2, 2024
BREAKING: Hundreds of Yale student protestors have taken to the streets, heading towards President Peter Salovey’s house on Hillhouse Ave to protests his decision to continue investing in the genocide in Palestine. “Peter, Peter you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!”
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Jun 25, 2025
Another great part of Mamdani’s victory is that it means Michael Bloomberg pretty much lit over $8 million on fire for no reason lol
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 22, 2024
BREAKING: Students have taken to the streets! Hundreds of students are now blocking the intersection of Grove and College chanting “WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!” and singing. This is in direct protest of their peers at the Yale divestment encampment being arrested minutes ago.
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 22, 2024
BREAKING: Police have flooded the encampment and given the warning, banging tents as they entered. Students have locked arms around the flagpole, signaling their willingness to be arrested. The crowd, several of whom are in tears, have begun singing “We shall not be moved.”
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 22, 2024
BREAKING: Organizers of the Yale divestment encampment have been informed that those at the encampment can expect arrest, likely sometime between now and early morning. Repeat: ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED AT YALE. The crowd of hundred of students is sitting in a circle and singing.
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 21, 2024
BREAKING: Student organizers with the Yale divestment encampment have just been informed that as of 11:30 tonight, any student remaining in the encampment will be subject to “discipline.” Students have responded by chanting “SHUT IT DOWN!” Updates to come
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 22, 2024
The first of the Yale students arrested today has been released and just gave a speech to the crowd, met with some of the loudest cheering I’ve heard in the last three days. 47 students were arrested, according to organizers. “For our friends, we shall not be moved,” they sing.
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 28, 2024
BREAKING: Despite a wave of arrests at campus protests and nearly 50 arrests on Yale’s campus on Monday, hundreds of students have just REBUILT the divestment encampment in a new location. Dozens of tents have appeared with students forming barricades around them FREE PALESTINE
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Oct 25, 2024
As an author of this, I want to emphasize we wrote this thinking of the journalists in Gaza, of whom Israel has murdered over 175. We don’t support Trump. But The Nation’s endorsement of the woman brazenly financing these executions doesn’t represent us. So we are speaking out.
The Nation
@thenation
Oct 25, 2024
Kamala Harris has failed to differentiate her policies from Joe Biden’s blank-check support for genocide, write @nationinterns. As such, they argue she should not have received The Nation's endorsement. bit.ly/3Aon8Dv
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Thomas Birmingham
@thomasbirm
Apr 20, 2024
Replying to @thomasbirm
BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing. FREE PALESTINE!
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