They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/07/us/trump-news-crypto/the-trump-administration-cancels-400-million-in-grants-and-contracts-to-columbia-university?smid=url-share
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Although Maggie Haberman did well for herself PERSONALLY of course.
https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lhwr6ysvhi2r
I feel for the students but, i dunno, i kinda dont anymore.
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This is 100% on the administration.
Is everyone still in denial over there?
https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3ljsmky4um22o
He is Satan.
“Licking the boots of folks who never laced them up”
There should be a system to buy just 1 article at a time. All those WaPo and NYT etc articles need a subscription.
Why can't I buy just the one article, cheap like 25¢. A quarter. I'd do that. And if 10,000 other people did---
C'mon Paypal give us a coin slot.
We juxtaposed Zionist Ben Shapiro's claims about what was going on there at the time against interviews with some of the protestors — many of them Jewish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7zLI2uBKts
People sell their souls for nothing.
They aren't liquid, and they aren't one pool of money. They're meant little pools of money, most with limits on what their able to be used for, and are often being used as principle for the interest, which is what actually gets used.
Research is expensive, and if the gov't was offering $, it was easier to use it than to try to finagle it all from the endowment
This order will be overturned in court, costing additional interest to Columbia on the withheld grant payments.
Whether it will be is anyone's guess
I’m pretty sure this is the same dynamic.
He’s also a liar, a felon, a tax cheat, a lousy businessman and a sex offender.
Class dismissed
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So F_ck Trump. He can keep his lousy $400MM and stick it right up his mango-tinged rectal passage...
the big picture isnt columbia itself, its abt universities all across the country
millions of dollars worth of life-saving research and study, gone, disappearing down a dc mystery hole
Hope they learned a lesson here
We now have two choices. Live free or kneel to your MAGA king like a slave.
Color? Gender? Race? Immigrant? Rural? Urban? Worker? Boss? Poor? Rich? Red? Blue? Your flag is one of these.
I know which one is mine.