Breaking News: The Trump administration demanded discipline and admissions policy changes at Columbia before restoring $400 million in grants and contracts.
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Trump acts like a mob boss who is off of his rocker. He is behaving like a madman since he has returned. You can bet that Elon and the Project 2025 contributors are running this show. Too much is happening all at once. Most actions are out of the 2025 handbook. Trump does not have original houghts.
This cynical use of “protecting students against anti-semitism” is itself antisemitic. Who do they want to see blamed for all of this? Clearly, nobody is being protected here.
Trump, do go back to the cesspool you crawled out of. And Columbia, consult your legal council and dismiss trump's demands. He was probably going to try to pocket the $400 million.
Fucking fascist cunts. What the fuck is wrong with Americans that you’re letting this happen? Strike. March. Shut the whole country down. Form a militia and take back your country.
Columbia has an endowment of $14.8 BILLION DOLLARS.
They will, of course, collapse like a flan in a cupboard and capitulate, but they could easily weather this forever. Fuck, if they would reverse course and protect pro-Palestinian protestors, I'd donate to them.
Remember during Viet Nam the conflict with the university-federal government was over weapons development on campus, including agent orange, ROTC, CIA recruiting, etc. Imagine if the Trump administration imposed content and engagement issues onto universities by threatening their funding.
Didn’t we just dismantle half of the Dept. of Education because the administration said the federal government shouldn’t be telling schools what and/or how to teach?
NEVER CAPITULATE! Columbia and other prestige universities have wealthy endowments and donors. They can and must survive this hostile takeover of acdemia. The world is watching.
The Supreme Court ruled in Obamacare 7-2 that tying the purse of grants to participation was unconstitutional coercion. I’m sure they’ll do the same here!
Can you believe that this is even a headline in our world today? It should read a fcking lunatic demands policy changes at a university. This isn't normal. It is aggregious and overreacting. When is the media going to call a spade a spade? Oh wait, do they have eggs at Columbia? Bea Best
When this is all over, we can count the number of ways that a President and an entire administration can be assholes, while pretending to be efficient.
I thought they were a private institution? So the Ivy’s are now going to let a Penn Graduate (Wharton) run their schools? They are going to abdicate their roles to an all powerful government. Personally, I think they should be downgraded from Most to Highly competitive now, if not less.
If you want to know a man, give him power, you saw the shit they elected, president of the United States, with this president the United States will see abundance for at most two or three years, then it will plunge into deep hyperinflation.
Money talks. We're finding out real fast which institutions have the courage of their convictions and which institutions don't have any convictions or any courage.
It only takes one little wannabe dictator to inspire nearly everyone -- politicians, businessmen, educators -- to proclaim in unison, "We welcome our new #OrangeOverlord!"
They’re getting rid of the Department of Education, then sticking the president’s nose into university’s business to force them to conform to his wishes. Why doesn’t he go plan a season at the Kennedy Center? Or just golf?
His administration has no business, let me repeat, no business blackmailing or interfering with Columbia University, or any other University. The are attacking any and everyone.
Columbia doesn't have lawyers, law school, nothing? They're just good with this? Have they not been watching the news - no court in this nation would alow this bullshit to stand.
Why the hell is the federal government getting involved in a college’s work? Is that how its going to be now? Anything that catches Trump’s displeasure is subject to federal interference? This is obscene!
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They will, of course, collapse like a flan in a cupboard and capitulate, but they could easily weather this forever. Fuck, if they would reverse course and protect pro-Palestinian protestors, I'd donate to them.
Disgraceful
Does Columbia have a f****** law school?
This is what happens when you consent in advance.
Looking at you, Schumer (and the other capitulating Senate DEMs).
Columbia announces research on benefits of various snake oils on unvaccinated children below the age of 12 and politician manbabies over 70.
Coming next… Trump demands universities suppress dissent of his planned invasions of Panama, Greenland, and Canada….
This is how Citizens of non-democratic nations feel their entire lives... Ironically,
AMERICA WAS THEIR DREAM!