Jim Glover, senior associate dean for academic administration at the Climate School, will oversee the implementation of the University’s $200 million deal with President Donald Trump’s administration as resolution administrator and vice provost. columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/10/2…

One superintendent, who said “Christ never left the school,” nonetheless voiced concern about Oklahoma’s priorities. His teachers work second jobs because of low pay, and the district has lost 15% of its students to online and homeschooling. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Public Safety officers asked Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers to move its Oct. 17 picket off campus, despite a change to the University statutes exempting certain union demonstrations from the typical rules governing on-campus protests. columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/10/2…

A team of Columbia researchers has developed an AI-imaging solution to address male infertility. The STAR system helps find rare sperm cells in the semen samples of men with azoospermia. It was named one of TIME Magazine’s best inventions of 2025. columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/10/2…

Andrew Cuomo cuts Zohran Mamdani’s lead by 10 points after Eric Adams exit: Poll trib.al/PH5ZZGR

In Central Park every afternoon at 3, a dozen UWSers gather on benches, sharing their 600-plus years of wisdom and life experience. westsiderag.com/2025/10/27/mee…

Hundreds of TSA agents lined up to receive grocery assistance from a local food bank and its food supply partners. pix11.com/news/local-new…

A Harvard student seems to have had a psychotic break triggered by the word "labubu" thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

🚨HUGE moment. ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Greg Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

CHICAGO — Border Patrol agent theatens to illegally abduct photographer Mike Kelly, a U.S. citizen, filming him in a Sam's Club parking lot on Sunday.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States. to.pbs.org/3JyaV3N

I’m not for free buses, but I think it’s funny that free transit in NYC is socialism unless it’s a 24/7 ferry to +30 Trump Staten Island lmao

For years, the Phoenix nonprofit Keys to Change has run a mail room for thousands of homeless people. Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open. propublica.org/article/phoeni…

First time I’ve seen something like this.

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people. wired.com/story/elon-mus…

Huge purge in ICE offices nationally

Anna Giaritelli Border Patrol is authorized to operate anywhere within the country. The 100 mile zone that you may have read about is just the zone where their powers are heightened. Operationally the country is divided into a number of different Sectors. x.com/codyump/status…

In recent substack, Ross Barkan argues Zohran Kwame Mamdani's platform-free buses, rent freeze for stabilized tenants, expanded childcare-is "relatively modest" as Hochul can fund buses/childcare w/out tax hike, esp given the latter's popularity, and Mamdani appoints the rent board.

Podcast now posted here talk-out-of-school.simplecast.com/episodes/probl…

“It’s pretty much a disaster in terms of the way that ICE & the federal government is behaving towards people. They are not following due process,” Naveed Hasan, SEAS ’00, ’02 said, referencing detainments by ICE in courthouses across the country. Columbia Daily Spectator New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) NYCLU (Find us on Bluesky)