"We’re in the phase where people still could push back, but they’re not, and capitulation is not a strategy. For every law firm and university that gives Trump a pound of flesh, he’s going to come back for more. Not just from them, from others."
The more they get away with the strongarming, the more they will strongarm. Each time a law firm or a university capitulates, the worse it'll get. What I can't believe is how the people in charge don't know this
The Trump admin is weaponizing and misusing the words “antisemitism” and “woke” to advance their political agendas. Their firehose of toxic propaganda is purposefully designed to foster hate in order to garner support for their policies. #diabolical
Endowments don’t provide nearly as much (unrestricted) $ as it might seem — see this nice explainer on @donmoyn.bsky.social’s blog. Harvard is definitely reliant on federal $
It’s not reliant on federal money. The federal dollars could stop and harvard would have to shut down certain programs funded by federal dollars, but it would continue just fine.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "not reliant" and "certain programs". They'd have to shut down (or radically change) the school of public health, medical school, and engineering / applied sciences without federal money, for example.
You can put it on the pile with all the rest of the shit the trump administration is destroying. My point is that Harvard can survive without it, and should not cave to the WH to preserve it. There is no point in Harvard as an institution if it caves to trump on this bullshit.
People are also skipping over “and it’s affiliates” part which is also all the hospitals and medical centers that HMS doctors and students work in. They do not have endowments to fall back on.
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"We’re in the phase where people still could push back, but they’re not, and capitulation is not a strategy. For every law firm and university that gives Trump a pound of flesh, he’s going to come back for more. Not just from them, from others."
Harvard can wait out trump, and they should.