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In today's edition, we dive into the world of Columbia Journalism School and its leader, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb, as the school faces very real and very unsettling threats from the Trump administration by eating itself and offering solutions that staff have found... eccentric.

We reveal why Rupert Murdoch raged at Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker.

Also, the movie Michael Bloomberg watches over and over (and our own repeat-watchers). And indications that the Daily Beast's leadership has been overthrown by machines.

Plus an extremely painful piece of nostalgia for any working journalist, the price of eggs, Dovid Efune, Wesley Lowery and Andrew Cuomo.

Inside the turmoil at Columbia

Shortly after Donald Trump was elected for the first time, printers inside Pulitzer Hall, the home of Columbia Journalism School, began to print “DIE MUSLIMS” over and over in a presumed MAGA hack.

The school, a totem of hatred for the right-wing, has since existed in a strange symbiosis with the MAGA movement. Each considers the other to be perpetrating monstrous injustices that justify any means to stop them. Each raises support and money by that outrage.

In recent weeks the relationship has been upended by a profound asymmetry of power. The Trump administration has used the pretext of vocal and vehement pro-Palestinian protests on campus to withdraw $400m of federal funding from the university as a whole, to arrest and seek to deport a student, a green card holder named Mahmoud Khalil, and to mount immigration raids seeking to similarly strip students of their visas based on their political views. (One has self-deported to Canada. Another has been arrested for overstaying a visa.)

Insiders have told us in recent days that these events pushed a school that has always been fearful toward outright paranoia. Academics and staff are caught between the protest politics they consider synonymous with journalism, their suspicion of each other, and the reality that the school will crack down on perceptions of anti-semitism because, as the dean of the journalism school and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb has told some of them in private he fears that the administration has the power to…

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