Columbia University capitulated to Trump to get $400M in science funding released. What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen. Giving in to bullies just makes them take more. arstechnica.com/science/2025... - ThreadSky

drdind.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Columbia University capitulated to Trump to get $400M in science funding released.

What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen.

Giving in to bullies just makes them take more.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/trump-administrations-attack-on-university-research-accelerates/

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dechardin.bsky.social•2 days ago

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington

booksartmusic.bsky.social•3 days ago

True

farmgirl1.bsky.social•2 days ago

EXACTLY. Someone mention this to Gretchen Whitmer and that idiot from Pennsylvania.

zensoul.bsky.social•3 days ago

No s**t!

visualgirlpa.bsky.social•3 days ago

As they laugh with glee.

mjtvgirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

The only thing bullies respond to is a punch in the mouth. Kindness is seen as weakness.
Act accordingly.

drdind.bsky.social•3 days ago

✊️

fleurdelisa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Stupid

drklassen.bsky.social•1 day ago

How did they not see that coming?!?

nuniabizznezz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, it's called "protection money". Maybe look up how it works...or doesn't.

instantdogma.bsky.social•3 days ago

For profit education sucks.

alberthartman.bsky.social•2 days ago

So cutting R&D research makes the US a science powerhouse how?

drdind.bsky.social•2 days ago

It does not. We need to punch back.

victorytwin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Extortion …damage is done never be the same

bevste.bsky.social•2 days ago

They deserve it for caving. You can’t do that to a tyrant dictator. You just give him more power.

rmatuz.bsky.social•2 days ago

One can save a great deal of money by not going to such a pathetic university.

boneshark.bsky.social•2 days ago

If Trump played Columbia that easily maybe it is not the best place to send your kid to college.

lorihamilton.bsky.social•3 days ago

And, didn’t he sign an EO to assume control of Columbia?

drdind.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes

scoundrel2.bsky.social•2 days ago

perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly...

drdind.bsky.social•2 days ago

? Not sure I follow you.

scoundrel2.bsky.social•2 days ago

line from star wars... when lando turns han over to vader, then breaks their "deal" and takes more

themostcialist.bsky.social•3 days ago

STUPIDITY

themcp.bsky.social•2 days ago

...and in doing so, Columbia destroyed their reputation. It'll take them a long time to get it back. I hope it was worth it to them.

abunchofmalarkey.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s true!

Don’t be like Lester Nygaard.

vaanhold.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just like the law firms that bent the knee for nothing. And Trump admitted it, live on stage.

lostforever2030.bsky.social•2 days ago

Haven't we learned anything?

rafipepper.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hahaha. Still trusting the conman

lowinfocitizen.bsky.social•2 days ago

You can’t negotiate with terrorists!

tbas7000.bsky.social•2 days ago

Never ever ever ever ever ever EVER give in to bullies.

darbyz.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's such common knowledge, you would think an institute of "higher" learning would know that. Glad I didn't get my advanced degree from a university that doesn't even know that basic tenet.

tbas7000.bsky.social•1 day ago

IKR?!!!!

mr-clyde.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fight in court. Stop the acquiescence!

andyheppelle.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. lesson #ProtectTheConstitution USA🇺🇸 in 2025 https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

myblueeyes.bsky.social•11 hours ago

spock-da-baker.bsky.social•2 days ago

🍊🤡💩BUFFONERY🍊🤡💩

euphoricfuzion.bsky.social•2 days ago

My *Surprised* Face

vero1986.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just remember that while he's being ridiculous and distracting the media with his latest outrage, one of his cronies or staff members is stealing something from somewhere, something that belongs to all of us.
The Kremlin oligarchs keep him around to distract us

longmontlimey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Columbia University’s endowment fund is almost $15 BILLION
They can defy the Trump Reich by funding this research themselves.

byebyex000.bsky.social•2 days ago

Columbia’s Federal endowment hasn’t affected my life at all so why would I mind having my tax dollars going to something that could eventually make lives better?

danistone73.bsky.social•3 days ago

💯🤬

jsburns.bsky.social•3 days ago

And that's why fighting back against bullies, even if it hurts you in the short term, is always the right thing to do if you're looking at the long term.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just like Nazis. We got Einstein. Now we are losing brainpower.

markredwards.bsky.social•3 days ago

I find it fascinating how the leadership is so uninformed while having access to the best research on these matters 🤯

woopsdidisaythat.bsky.social•3 days ago

When doing a deal with a thief always get your needs met first.

tkleghorn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly!

billejzak.bsky.social•2 days ago

The problem with litigating is, can they win in SCOTUS, which has shown itself favoring a view of presidential authority that makes Trump de facto king ruling by kingly edict (executive orders) and hostile to federal departments and agencies implementing progressive legislation enacted since 1933.

castanton.bsky.social•3 days ago

I call what Trump is doing to Columbia extortion. I have always thought extortion was illegal. Extortion universities should not be OK because of the Supreme Court presidential immunity decision.

str8grandmother.bsky.social•3 days ago

it is, you are right!

drdind.bsky.social•3 days ago

It is

princess20.bsky.social•2 days ago

Columbia…

dmzoutis.bsky.social•2 days ago

LOL. Rich elites, way to stand firm against the guy with 49% -- and falling -- of the voters. Maybe if Dem leadership went to Iowa to talk ECONOMICS with farmers being crushed this hell would end with a retaking of the House in 2026.

serrata.org•3 days ago

The leopard ate their faces, stupid fucks never learn. That's how it only gets worse.

lorihamilton.bsky.social•3 days ago

👏👏

ladyevenstarbpe.bsky.social•3 days ago

👍

mat111.bsky.social•3 days ago

😵‍💫🥺😡

bkiehn.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's like cutting a deal with putin

cymumtaz.bsky.social•2 days ago

#FAFO #LeopardsEatMyFace

cjmmusic1.bsky.social•3 days ago

profqueue.bsky.social•3 days ago

Who could have seen this coming

wayneinseoul.bsky.social•2 days ago

You work against Trump or you work for him. There's no in-between.

ukseennotseen.bsky.social•3 days ago

You cannot do a deal with Trump. He will fuck you over. Every. Time.

janwestart.bsky.social•3 days ago

Every single time.

ukseennotseen.bsky.social•2 days ago

And important to stress that a fucking over from Trump isn't even anything clever, it's not 4-D chess. He just lies. He just doesn't do what he said he'd do or give you what he said he'd give you. And will then say he never promised it. It's that utterly basic.

mikedougherty.bsky.social•3 days ago

Every time

heavycrownpress.bsky.social•1 day ago

And everyone thinks they will be different. And they aren’t. Ever.

boldlygoinglol.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's this in one simple gif:

alpha-aurora.bsky.social•3 days ago

Stupid. We should devalue their degree programs

txbrands.bsky.social•2 days ago

You would’ve thought that this grade school lesson was learned by all these ‘intellectuals’ 🙄

ixzist.bsky.social•3 days ago

You can’t negotiate with terrorists.

blazze69.bsky.social•2 days ago

Shame on Columbia

philip-mach.bsky.social•3 days ago

We didn’t capitulate to the apartheid police state. You have constitutional rights. What’s Columbia’s problem?

drdind.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hesitancy to touch the endowment to fight

lucydemo.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s wrong… but I’m not sorry. Grow a pair!

coyote108.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s not a builder, he’s a destroyer. And that’s the goal. That’s the whole actually plan.

Anyone looking for an endstate other than that still doesn’t get who these people are and what they actually believe.

Molly McKew

reader-writer.bsky.social•2 days ago

He does not have a trustworthy bone in his body. Why do people — and institutions— ever trust him?!

tleekeene.bsky.social•3 days ago

So, backtrack…say you will and then you don’t

obearwan-kenobi.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you crack the door they will bust it wide open. They deserve it for being cowards.

castadrift.bsky.social•2 days ago

At this point, I would be fine with Columbia never getting that money back. It won’t get the money, but it will always have the shame. And that’s priceless. Wouldn’t you agree, Columbia?

drdind.bsky.social•2 days ago

It is for supporting really good research at Columbia. There are great people there, many of whom I know. The research can benefit all of us.

laplkp.bsky.social•3 days ago

400mil they could have easily covered from their endowment

thegodofcities.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump is a mass-murderer. But he's too fucking lazy to build camps and assemble Zyklon-B factories so instead he's just going to cut funding to anything thing that saves lives and then sit back while millions perish from preventable causes.

bluefishercat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Research Institutions that drove American innovation and industry are being systematically destroyed.
While China graduates yearly as many engineers as exist in America, we’re destroying universities because they’re too “woke”.
Do we think modern manufacturing is a Million people with screwdrivers?

scottybullmoose.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump can only promise screwdriver jobs because that's the skill ceiling for the vast majority of Trump voters.

Reading, math, and science are all despised by the Republican voter.

timidgoat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes. That is literally what he thinks.

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