There's nothing wrong with this. In fact, it is only right to eschew the colon and the semi-colon, especially.

Look at the vandalism Columbia protestors did to Hamilton Hall

Check out my new piece y’all—I’ve been writing it on and off the last few weeks, since Shaun King’s conversion to Islam. King’s duplicitous past mirrors Omar Suleiman’s, a popular imam and darling of liberal Muslims—the same Muslims who are ecstatic that King has joined their flock.