Today was supposed to be my last day in Sacramento before moving out... but I'm excited to share I'm staying on this fall to continue reporting for
@politico
!
Thank you to the California team for extending my time; I'm excited to cover more Golden State politics.
Update: the man in the red flannel in the photo below appears to be Christopher Pohlhaus, a former U.S. Marine turned Blood Tribe leader, based on matching facial tattoos.
Breaking: UW-Madison’s Alumni Park vandalized with messages supporting the trans community just hours before conservative commentator Matt Walsh is scheduled to appear at UW.
More to come from
@dailycardinal
.
Biden, a few moments ago:
“Destroying property is not peaceful protest. It's against the law.
“Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes & graduations …none of this is peaceful protest.”
Happening now: Hundreds
@UWMadison
students are gathered in Bascom Hall, outside
@uwchancellor
’s office, for a silent protest in response to a racist video circulating social media.
Hundreds of UW-Madison students and community members are marching on campus for a second day to protest
@UWMadison
’s handling of a racist video circulating online.
Students say the university needs to do more to protect Black students, who make up less than 3% of unergraduates.
The Daily Cardinal asked a UW System spokesperson for an interview for this story multiple times. They declined.
I firmly stand behind our reporting, which included a full copy of the email from Rothman. You can read it here:
I am a product of the liberal arts, and I am deeply disappointed by the mischaracterization of my communication with chancellors by the
@DailyCardinal
, both in its egregiously false headline and the framing of its story.
2/
NEW:
@GovEvers
will veto Wisconsin budget if Republicans advance $32 million cut to UW System.
Such a cut would be "a ridiculous effort" on Vos' part, he told reporters during a stop at a cheese plant outside of Monroe.
By me for
@journalsentinel
:
New: Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on Wed's clashes in Madison: "I think what happened on Wednesday morning was basically what we would have expected ... to the extent that there was clashes, it was instigated by the protesters."
THE IVIEW SUN ON UPFRONT...
Some personal news: I'm leaving Wisconsin this month for an exciting opportunity to cover California state politics as an intern with
@politico
.
I'm grateful to join a publication I've long admired in Sacramento starting next week.
Statement from
@WisconsinUnion
Council Executive Committee today:
"Memorial Union was used as the location to process demonstrators who were arrested... this purpose was antithetical to the Union's mission."
Highlighting this from a previous update: Here is a video of an interaction preceding the professor's arrest via
@SpectrumNews1WI
, which shows Alatout pushing against police shields.
Things Madison-area police officers have been spotted with tonight at the Fluno Center as a pro-Palestine demonstation continues at Library Mall:
- Ziptie cuffs
- Panera Bread takeout
- Pepper spray
- Chick-Fil-A takeout
- Batons
- Gatorade
- What appear to be gas masks
Some personal news: I'll be joining
@journalsentinel
this summer as a Sharon Stark intern reporting from the Wisconsin State Capitol!
I'm excited to sharpen my political and investigative reporting skills with an award-winning, statewide paper like the Journal Sentinel.
Just asked police at the Fluno Center if press could get a media conference given today's overall lacking communication from police.
Police responded with a laugh.
All 15 impeachment articles against Wolfe contain false or misleading info about her role and the 2020 election.
Read my report here: (via
@journalsentinel
)
NEW: Senate President Chris Kapenga is urging Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to move forward impeachment articles against Wisconsin Elections Commission Meagan Wolfe.
2. Calling the protesters "pro-Hamas" is misleading.
Protesters so far have opposed the war in Gaza and harshly condemned Israel. But calling the protest "pro-Hamas" on the whole, as some conservative onlookers have, is not accurate.
#UWMadison
officials say they’ll use a new analysis of the Madison housing market commissioned by the city and university to guide future policy decisions and better help students find the housing that best suits their needs and budgets.
In a stunning turn of events, the UW Board of Regents narrowly rejected a deal between UW leaders and Republicans that would have made compromises on DEI, freed up pay raises and funded a new UW-Madison engineering building.
Story TK from
@dailycardinal
Yesterday was my last day with The Daily Cardinal after a year leading the paper with
@DWhiteBergey
and 4 years on staff. I joined on a whim, I stayed because
@hopekarnopp
was an amazing editor, and I had the time of my life.
Thank you
@dailycardinal
. Fly high, dirty birds ❤️
UW-Madison waived $4.2k in security fees for Young Americans for Freedom after a conservative law firm threatened to sue.
But UW has charged other campus orgs for security. Why did YAF get a pass?
From
@gabihartlaub
+
@noegoldhaber
via
@dailycardinal
:
The issues being protested are ones of university investment, among others.
In fact, student journalist Ty Javier wrote an explainer about protesters' divestment asks, which you can read here via
@dailycardinal
.
"That's just ludicrous."
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on the protesters' list of demands including 'get cops off campus' : "The issues that they are protesting are ones of foreign policy, not of university investment. So, I just view that as a red herring."
Some personal news: It's my first full week back at
@journalsentinel
, this time as a
@GoogleNewsInit
+
@Poynter
Student Misinformation Fellow!
I'll be doing plenty of fact-checking, so tips are welcome at tkatzenberger
@gannett
.com or via DM.
The group is wearing shirts with the name "Blood Tribe," a neo-nazi group with hardline white supremacist views. There has already been an n-word lobbed at a Black person.
Thank you for speaking with student reporters! And yes, I stayed up late Sunday night using a sharpie and a paper stencil to make hi-vis press vests for
@dailycardinal
staff. Sometimes journalism requires a little arts and crafts.
I've been speaking with campus reporters - what a crash course they're all getting. Working non stop (during finals!!), making makeshift press vests, dealing with police, violence, and getting national attention.
I'm beyond excited to share
@dailycardinal
was named a national finalist for the SPJ's best all-around student newspaper award.
Thank you to
@spj_tweets
for this honor and to
@DWhiteBergey
, our fearless EIC who co-led the paper with me this year.
NEW for
@politico
: AI initiatives would get $40M annually in a draft California journalism bill agreement shared with POLITICO.
The draft would see California and Google form a partnership funding “democracy, journalism and AI innovation.”
Tents are popping up at a pro-Palestine protest on Library Mall at
@UWMadison
.
Camping is not allowed anywhere on campus, and the Chancellor has said she will not make an exception despite having the ability to do so.
Background from
@dailycardinal
:
This is what appears to be a video of police at UW-Madison shoving Prof. Sami Schalk and Prof. Samer Alatout to the ground. The profs in this video appear to be part of a human chain.
It's a new angle and an earlier shot than a past video I'll link below. Let's add context. 🧵
What Rep. Van Orden shared below is not accurate.
The individual did a raised-hand Nazi salute but didn't chant "Heil Hitler," and they were not part of the encampment protest group.
Fact-check from
@rachelleighhale
via
@WisconsinWatch
:
To those framing yesterday's events as a "clash" or a "skirmish" between protesters and police, or to anyone covering student protests against the war in Gaza nationwide, please give this
@UWJournEthics
piece a read. It's essential.
Two tents are up despite police leaving the pro-Palestine encampment at UW-Madison.
UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott told reporters: "We're working on that. I'm not sure what our plan is... but we were able to remove, obviously, the vast majority of the tenting equipment."
Something I spotted a day late: In this video from UW-Madison's police crackdown on a pro-Palestine encampment, you can see police shove a person after they appear to shove police.
When police shove them to the ground, they land inches from hitting their head on a cinder block.
1. Protests so far are peaceful, as most anti-war protests have been at UW-Madison this year.
There are just over a half-dozen UWPD officers on scene, who for now have not arrested any protesters but have diverted a few disruptors.
This is just a sliver of what we do at The Daily Cardinal. We might be young, but we're committed to reporting high-quality news for our
@UWMadison
campus community.
I had the pleasure of reporting on (and shaking the hand of)
@POTUS
this afternoon in DeForest. Thank you to my co-workers at
@dailycardinal
and all the political reporters who were kind to me during this hectic day (s/o
@MollyBeck
and
@jessieopie
!)
5. The encampment is expected to persist into the evening and has established a set of rules, which were posted to SJP's Instagram page.
See the rules here:
Good student journalism comes from all over the UW System.
Here are 5 articles you might have missed this fall from student papers at UW campuses beyond Madison. 🧵⬇️
WI Democratic Party Chair
@benwikler
reminds the crowd how close Wisconsin’s elections are.
He’s asking Milwaukee voters to bring the same energy from Obama’s 2008 and 2012 elections to this November’s midterms.
I'm exceptionally proud of the work our
@dailycardinal
student journalists produced in 2023.
Here are 10 must-reads from this past year, picked by our desk editors.
I’m incredibly excited to announce
@DWhiteBergey
and I will be the 2023-24 management team for
@dailycardinal
! Thanks to
@sophiasvento
and a special thanks to my predecessor
@JessicaSonkin
for believing in some crazy kids from Marshfield.
Let’s run this show.
.
@uwchancellor
Jennifer Mnookin was supposed to meet with student media at 11 a.m. today.
She canceled for the second time in two weeks, this time following a proposed deal with Republicans that faculty, staff and students criticized as non-transparent.
This was her reason:
This is a video of Samer Alatout, a UW prof detained by police at today's protest, pushing against police shields.
Some disclaimers: The video cuts before Samer is detained, and the original poster has not identified who filmed it.
You might not have noticed, but there's a renaissance happening on Regent Street in Madison.
I spoke with local leaders and explored the neighborhood's rich cultural history in my cover story for
@CapTimes
Good evening from Janet Protasiewicz’s watch party in Milwaukee, where I’m covering tonight’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race for
@dailycardinal
. Follow this thread for live updates as events unfold ⬇️
Proud to announce (with accurate spelling this time) my first byline with
@CapTimes
! There will be much more to come this summer as I continue growing in journalism.
Things
@hopekarnopp
did for this story:
- Drove almost 9 hours round trip (and outran bad storms for 2 of those)
- Understood the shared revenue formula (and explained it to me, too)
- Spent hours picking at the details of this story (because she cares a ton about these folks)
The Daily Cardinal on Tuesday was named finalist for 23 collegiate Milwaukee Press Club awards, including a sweep of the print investigative and photo essay categories.
Read more here via
@dailycardinal
:
In a warning for Biden, UW-Madison area wards voted uninstructed at nearly 4 times the statewide rate in yesterday's primary.
From
@Mary_Bosch6
via
@dailycardinal
, w/data analysis from
@noegoldhaber
:
We salute
@UWMadison
alum
@RaneyAronson
-Rath, now an Oscar-winner for her role in producing the documentary
@20DaysMariupol
. While majoring in South Asian studies and history at the UW, she discovered her career path in journalism at The
@DailyCardinal
.
Good afternoon from the DeForest Kwik Trip, where my friend Ally is taking over driving for me after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered new legislative maps in the state ahead of the 2024 election.
Found in
@GovEvers
' budget: $2 million for UW System student journalism programs.
The funding would provide $1 million each in FY24 and FY25 for journalism students, fellowships and graduates from UW institutions.
After previously saying they wouldn't talk until tents come down,
@UWMadison
admin has agreed to talk with pro-Palestine protesters as about two dozen tents are still up at the encampment.
More from
@dailycardinal
:
So proud of our Cardinal staff! An award like this is gratifying after staying up until 4 a.m. on election night (and taking on countless other endeavors in the name of student journalism).
Dirty birds forever ❤️
The Daily Cardinal won 20 awards, including 1st place in the General Excellence category, in the 2022 WNA Collegiate Better Newspaper Contest on Friday.