Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL Columbia: [slaps student] Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC Columbia: [kicks student in groin] Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL Columbia: [punches brown student in nose] Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA Columbia: [reaching for another student] okay this time it will work - ThreadSky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL
Columbia: [slaps student]
Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC
Columbia: [kicks student in groin]
Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL
Columbia: [punches brown student in nose]
Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA
Columbia: [reaching for another student] okay this time it will work

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deepwatermike.bsky.social•9 days ago

watergunner42.bsky.social•9 days ago

Comedy gold

awakeneddragon.bsky.social•9 days ago

I always wonder what kind of undisciplined children these people raise. If they parent like they conduct their business, there's a whole bunch of assholes growing up out there.

trade-winds.bsky.social•9 days ago

Hold on Columbia doesn’t have the alumni to say we dint need your money

larryfrompa.bsky.social•9 days ago

It all depends on the context.

posaune2.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is EXACTLY how Columbia operates, and has for decades. It is an entirely abusive institution.

dslakter.bsky.social•9 days ago

Never seen a university repeatedly stomp on its own dick before.

gritsmcbarkin.bsky.social•9 days ago

Somehow stepping on their own micropenis.

dh1969.bsky.social•9 days ago

By wanting to annex Canada, Greenland and Panama the US is DECLARING WAR on Canada, Greenland and Panama.

sdnixie.bsky.social•9 days ago

Change a few words and substitute SCHUMER for COLUMBIA.

terraistrying.bsky.social•9 days ago

If any of the dems wants to speak with abuse survivors we can offer some advice. There’s no winning. No appeasement. When you do something perfectly, the rules change. It’s so triggering to watch this play out.

sarajanemaki.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yup

relentlesspursuit.bsky.social•9 days ago

No room for bullies.

Hit them back hard, let them know that even if they win they will bleed for it.

They will back down.

Every.

Time.

alissa914.bsky.social•9 days ago

That's good advice for anyone dealing with hateful people. Eventually people realize the best defense is getting them to elaborate on their own points... and they'll self destruct.

lilyflagg.bsky.social•9 days ago

Important insight for context here.

susiebright.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ken, this is exactly it.

citoyendumonde.bsky.social•9 days ago

Trump is now the Associate Vice Dean of Admissions at Columbia University. Finally, a chance for white people to enjoy the benefits of a private university education!
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324

innerlog1c.bsky.social•9 days ago

BASIC international history taught in the U.S. is rife with the lesson of "appeasement never works" lessons. Sophomore high school stuff.

innerlog1c.bsky.social•9 days ago

If you want to couch it in bro-speak -- "We won't negotiate with terrorists." Think of Trump as a terrorist and act accordingly.

jpure.bsky.social•9 days ago

Vichy @columbiauniversity.bsky.social? Despite the fact people @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social have told them not to obey in advance, these people are so weak. They have no backbone, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @democrats.org.

givemeadouble.bsky.social•9 days ago

Well, when federal officials in the state are rolling over for the mad king, why wouldn’t Columbia follow suit?

Pathetic cowards, the entire lot.

satiricalplanet.bsky.social•7 days ago

Ah history, humanity’s favourite horror movie that we watch on repeat, somehow always surprised when the monster shows up again.

Congratulations, America! You’re on track to winning the “Ignore Fascism Until It’s Too Late” speedrun challenge.

https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/when-warnings-go-unheeded-how-to

dimondoak.bsky.social•9 days ago

Cowardice must be contagious in NY. Looks like Schumer and Gillibrand will be doing the same thing as Columbia.

jstephenclark.bsky.social•9 days ago

You mean Schumer (D-Netanyahu)?

greenhombre.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'll miss their astrophysics department. It was top notch.

greenhombre.bsky.social•9 days ago

"God wants the heavens to remain a mystery."
- Project 2025

greenhombre.bsky.social•9 days ago

and weather

auntmiems.bsky.social•9 days ago

Isn't this where Baron goes to school?

posaune2.bsky.social•9 days ago

No he's at NYU. The downtown version.

auntmiems.bsky.social•9 days ago

Did Columbia not accept Baron? There is always personal beef.

danthiell.bsky.social•9 days ago

Turns out Chuck Schumer is the president of Columbia.

posaune2.bsky.social•9 days ago

ha ha. Great comment!

courtneylovecraft.bsky.social•9 days ago

Columbia is a place where world renowned experts can tell you how Thucydides' lessons on competing states inform modern diplomacy; or how childhood trauma contributes to adult narcissism

Yet the admin believes the way to deal with a bully is to keep giving him a little more, until he is satisfied

acidnasa.bsky.social•9 days ago

They were doing this when Biden was president too

alissa914.bsky.social•9 days ago

Then cops in neighboring states will arrest anyone who shows them a DC drivers license and calling ICE over.

riscorpian.bsky.social•9 days ago

At some point, they'll realize that the reason they can't hit the football is that they handed over Lucy and she got deported already.

johnconorryan.bsky.social•9 days ago

Perhaps Columbia aims to negotiate with he-whose-name-I-dread, and capitulate by renaming itself King's College, since we now have a (mad) King.

3fecta.bsky.social•9 days ago

If Columbia drop a bomb on the women's studies department during finals it just might do the trick*.

*It will not do the trick.

topmarx.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even at a place like Columbia, WGS isn't valued by admins enough to be anything more than an interdepartmental program.

topmarx.bsky.social•9 days ago

That said, they would also be very willing to drop those bombs on the Anthro, Art History, English, History, and Sociology depts. They don't give a shit about any humanities, the CIA recruits heavily from there but they don't have direct military R&D contracts like STEM brings in.

fitforpurpose.bsky.social•9 days ago

At this point I’d be telling current and prospective students to go to other schools, but is there any guarantee they’re any better?

kathy2431.bsky.social•9 days ago

What would they have done during Vietnam War protests?

arznasun1.bsky.social•9 days ago

WELP
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3lkc6uej33z2u

posaune2.bsky.social•9 days ago

Complete capitulation! They've always been fascists.
It's just that everyone knows now.

gabimccauley.bsky.social•9 days ago

So who's next, Ken?
What about people who are adopted? Where do they fit in?
Because I have a very vested interest in the escalation of the uprooting of anti-trump brown people who weren't born in this country.
This is a fucking nightmare and my little nursing degree feels less than useless.

kenwhite.bsky.social•9 days ago

Depends on where they were adopted. People from before the act that made internationally adopted kids citizens upon adoption face immediate scary issues — and did already.

Kids benefiting from the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 are in a better position — they are citizens. However ……

kenwhite.bsky.social•9 days ago

…I am worried about two things. First is Trump & Co. asserting some sort of executive power to denaturalize. Second, lesser, is Congress repealing that act.

International adoption is popular with the Right - lots of evangelical adoptions. But is it more popular than hating immigrants?

gabimccauley.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm scared. Not gonna lie.

I know international adoption is popular with the evangelicals, but they also really seem to have issue with brown people.

And this is just not my scope, so I sit and worry and give my.aelf heartburn.

gabimccauley.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thank you, by the way.
I often look to you for some sense of reason to help me parse through things.
I'm not saying it always makes me feel better, but it helps me organize my thoughts better.
I appreciate that more than you know.

deegc.bsky.social•9 days ago

Some of their weakness has to be because of donor pressure, right? They can't really think that Trump will come around.

tiredrevenant.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://mailchi.mp/mesana/mesa-statement-on-academic-freedom-and-attacks-on-campuses-us-13445397?e=414be8cca8

newyorkmammoths.bsky.social•9 days ago

Those Who Ran Back Into Omelas

dougwar40k.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Please, just tell us how many orphans you want us to imprison and abuse, and we'll do it!"

"Sir, this is an Arby's."

justvisiting74.bsky.social•9 days ago

It'll stop once they change their name to Trump U.

joedudekjd.bsky.social•9 days ago

Maybe he WAS trying to place a tariff on Columbia.

sailbarque.bsky.social•9 days ago

Columbia going out of it's way to prove Trump is right about Columbia.

lordhonkhonk.bsky.social•7 days ago

😑 It's a miracle they haven't skipped straight to throwing a student into a volcano.

muddlethrough.bsky.social•9 days ago

Please add to the top: Conservatives: let’s hold a congressional hearing to harass college presidents we don’t like and then demand they be fired no matter how they respond to questions.
Columbia: Roger that. We have the resignation letter typed out for her to sign when she gets back.

athenabird.bsky.social•9 days ago

Of course it would be a woman

ywfyf.com•9 days ago

The university is probably scared he'll try to put tarifs on them again.

topmarx.bsky.social•9 days ago

Hey now, Columbia doesn't cave to mere political pressure. They abuse and repress their marginalized students for the simple love of the game.

politicallyint.bsky.social•9 days ago

Not unlike how he treated Justin Trudeau, Zelenskyy etc.
He asks for something. GETS the something, but just keeps pretending he didn't get that something...

bisonmetaphor.bsky.social•9 days ago

When you let the bully keep “winning”, the bullying never stops

fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social•9 days ago

When you let the bully win, then the bully wins.

blocksincoming.bsky.social•9 days ago

You know what? Trump is right. They are awful.

threatintelanyst.bsky.social•9 days ago

Columbia is Don Mattingly

sviscusi.bsky.social•9 days ago

On the other hand Columbia did handle things terribly so and everything they're doing is making up for what they should have done before.

ed-superhero.bsky.social•8 days ago

I am absolutely disgusted that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social decided that blood money from Trump was more important than the freedoms of speech and protest.

This. Is. Fascism.

justsomeguy007.bsky.social•7 days ago

As much as extreme lefties love to glorify the days of protesting Vietnam, the real result was 25 years of Repub rule. The only reason they got Carter for four years was Nixon's corruption.

No matter how much they protest, they cannot change what Hamas did, or that they did not surrender.

skyeactual.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean most of the Gaza protesters were peaceful but a handful of them at the building takeover tried to hold the janitorial staff hostage including assaulting one of them until other, more reasonable students shut that shit down and forced the others to let them leave the building.

skyeactual.bsky.social•9 days ago

Occupying a building is totally acceptable. Assaulting and detaining the janitors? I'd say that deserves an expulsion. Attacking working class folks just trying to do their jobs while you're getting one of the most prestigious educations in the country is complete bullshit.

pterognar.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yeah. Hit a janitor? Fuck right off outta here and don’t come back. Zero tolerance for that shit.

garymaher.bsky.social•9 days ago

There's just no pleasing (or appeasing) fascists.

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