francesctrillas.bsky.social
Secretari d'Afers Econòmics i Fons Europeus del Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Professor de la UAB en excedència.
PhD in Economics for the EUI.
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"the message for Europe is to stand up for yourself. In trade, in GDP, even in everything but the most advanced technology, you are no more dependent on the United States than the US is on you. There is nothing compelling you to cater to the delusions of America’s mad king"
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"after years of journalists and some professors priming people to think that campus is controlled by woke commissars and “Marxist maniacs” (Trump’s expression – I am still looking for them in the Economics Department), a clear majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s approach to higher education"
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"university leaders have to explain to a larger public how Trumpists, in an unprecedented spree of national self-destruction, are busy preventing cancer cures, damaging American soft power, and killing one of the country’s major exports, namely higher education"
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So how do we combat this?
- BUILD broad coalitions beyond party lines
- MOBILIZE professionals, not just activists
- SUSTAIN pressure through strikes and protests
- FRAME it as defending democracy, not partisan politics
None of this is easy. But democracy never is.
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"Do MAGA types understand how much damage their campaign against universities will do to American prosperity and power? Probably not. I suspect that it wouldn’t matter if they did... making America poorer, weaker and sicker is an acceptable price for keeping the nation suitably ignorant"
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"Trump’s move has already been temporarily blocked by a judge. I hope that the courts show it to be unlawful to make arbitrary sweeping changes based on a bad faith claim about antisemitism to undertake a punishment that is not supported by any Jewish faculty or students I know, including myself"
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"Without international students and immigrants we might have never head Indra Nooyi as CEO of PepsiCo, Jensen Huang who co-founded Nvidia, or Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai as CEOs of Microsoft and Google — or even Elon Musk"
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Un programa muy currado sin duda.
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"Lo que los padres fundadores no esperaban, sin embargo, es que el resto de las instituciones, al toparse con un cretino psicótico en la Casa Blanca que quería arrogarse un poder casi absoluto para castigar a sus enemigos e imponer su programa político por decreto, le aplaudieran"