Trump vs Universities

[Politruk]

I just think religion makes people idiots.

Yes, but only the Church of the SubGenius can teach you how to enjoy it!

 

[Politruk]

Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop funding freeze

Harvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop billions of dollars in proposed cuts.
The suit filed Monday is part of a feud that escalated last week when the elite institution rejected a list of demands that the Trump administration said was designed to curb diversity initiatives and fight anti-semitism at the school.
President Donald Trump froze $2.2bn (£1.7bn) of federal funding and also threatened the university's tax-exempt status.
"The consequences of the government's overreach will be severe and long-lasting," Harvard's president Alan M. Garber said in a letter to the university on Monday.
The White House responded later Monday night in a statement.
"The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families is coming to an end. Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege", said White House spokesman Harrison Fields.
Mr Garber said the funding freeze affected critical research including studies on pediatric cancer, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
"In recent weeks, the federal Government has launched a broad attack on the critical funding partnerships that make this invaluable research possible," the school's lawsuit said.
"This case involves the Government's efforts to use the withholding of federal funding as leverage to gain control of academic decisionmaking at Harvard."
Aside from funding, the Trump administration days ago also threatened Harvard's ability to enroll international students.

 

[ll74]

Does anyone know how good the lawyers are from Harvard?

 

[ll74]

The administration has no case
Harvard is going to rip them a new one in court

https://twitter.com/x/status/1914499006148882879

 

[Politruk]

Does anyone know how good the lawyers are from Harvard?

Well, they have a pretty good law school.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Ten Elite Universities Form Private Collective To Combat Trump Administration Overreach

Belatedly realizing that Columbia University's complete cave-in to Trump and Israel set a terrible precedent for government intervention, the "best and the brightest" band together to fight fascism.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Clown Show Administration continues to harass Harvard. This time they are “investigating” the Harvard Law Review.

It’s retaliation for Harvard taking the administration to court for the previous harassment.

Trump and his gang of imbeciles are such petulant little whiners.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Trump continues to coerce Harvard into ceding control of the university to the federal government. Authoritarian run amuck.

Trump blocks grant funding for Harvard until it meets president’s demands

The US Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was ending billions of dollars in research grants and other aid unless the school accedes to a list of demands from the Trump administration that would effectively cede control of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university to the government.

Obviously the government should not be attempting to grab control of a private university, but MAGA sheep approve because they love authoritarianism.

The letter to Harvard contains the usual MAGA bluster and is totally fact free. The Education Secretary is an imbecile.

But McMahon’s letter is not mainly about the claim that Jewish students feel unsafe at Harvard – a view the school’s president, who is himself Jewish, has some sympathy with – but is filled with extended diatribes about a series of other grievances, including: the supposed far-left politics of Penny Pritzker, a member of the university’s governing board who previously served as US commerce secretary during the Obama administration; the complaints of Harvard alumnus and Trump supporter Bill Ackman; what McMahon calls the “ugly racism” of Harvard’s efforts to diversify its student body; complaints about what Fox News has termed a “remedial math” course which is intended to address gaps in new students’ math skills following the Covid pandemic; accusations that the Harvard Law Review has discriminated against white authors; and two brief fellowships the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health offered to the former mayors of New York and Chicago, Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot.

 

[ll74]

Lol.... Harvard's response has been brilliant.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1919871292875973114

 

[MajorRewrite]

Lol.... Harvard's response has been brilliant.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1919871292875973114

That’s awesome and clever, but I bet it enrages MAGA sheep who hate literate “coastal elites”.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Trump continues to coerce Harvard into ceding control of the university to the federal government. Authoritarian run amuck.

Trump blocks grant funding for Harvard until it meets president’s demands



Obviously the government should not be attempting to grab control of a private university, but MAGA sheep approve because they love authoritarianism.

The letter to Harvard contains the usual MAGA bluster and is totally fact free. The Education Secretary is an imbecile.

Ah, the stink of Ayatollah Netanyahu's favorite billionaire Bill Ackman once again permeates the air.

Ackman's not gonna cease his little "jewhad" against Harvard until Israel has direct control over curriculum and staffing.

The Trump administration continually coaxes Ackman to create more division on Ivy League campuses, so the Feds can swoop in and deport every last foreign student of Arabic descent under the guise of "protecting the Jews". This exercise helps to desensitize the general population and making "suppression of dissent" more palatable.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Secretary of Education vs. Harvard


Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!

 

[MajorRewrite]

Trump continues to attack Harvard in his (illegal) attempt to seize control of the private university.

Eight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus.

The latest funding cuts come after the administration cancelled $2.2bn in federal funding to the university, bringing the total financial penalty to approximately $2.65bn.

MAGA sheep love this kind of autocratic bullshit.

 

[ll74]

In a other unlawful a use of power, 47 has blocked foreign students from Harvard.

This king needs to be impeached now-> 86 47

US Bans Harvard From Enrolling Foreigners, Forcing Transfers - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students

 

[RobDownSouth]

Does anyone know how good the lawyers are from Harvard?

Attorney General Pam Bondi sure know that.

As of two months ago, anyway.

It was glorious.

She called two US Attorneys into her office and directed them to do something blatantly illegal to appease her Lord and Savior Donald J. Trump.

They demurred, citing legal ramifications of doing something both questionably legal and absolutely unethical.

She whined, cajoled and finally ended up threatening both men: "Do as I say, or I'll make it so that you'll NEVAR work as a lawyer in this town again".

They both smiled at her, more than a bit condescendingly, and delivered the verbal killing blow:
"We both went to Harvard Law and clerked for Supreme Court justices. You attended the University of Florida law school. We'll both be practicing law long after you've ended your career as a part time "legal analyst" for Fox News".

Both attorneys submitted their resignations, effective immediately, right then and there.

 

[RobDownSouth]

In a other unlawful a use of power, 47 has blocked foreign students from Harvard.

This king needs to be impeached now-> 86 47

US Bans Harvard From Enrolling Foreigners, Forcing Transfers - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students

This won't last.

Qatar, for one, won't permit it.

Orange Julius Caesar™ fails to realize that a Harvard education is a gold ticket for respectability in other countries. Making it into Harvard as a foreign student is like putting a gold star next to your name, it's your entrance to the "big leagues".

Countries have taken note of this and begun pumping up Harvard's endowment fund in the hopes of securing admission for their elite students.

This issue transcends Trump's pettiness.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Prime Minister Carney’s daughter goes to Harvard.

Or used to!

Hahaha!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Prime Minister Carney’s daughter goes to Harvard.

Or used to!

Hahaha!

I hope she stocked up on sunscreen for her upcoming Trumptrip to El Salvador.
I hear it gets quite hot down there in the summer months.....good thing global warming has been proven to be a hoax, per Rightguide.

 

[schism666]

harvard sues the felon.

 

[schism666]

moar winning!

 

[icanhelp1]

Ivy League educational institutions are failing themselves. They ignore their own rules and allow the inmates to run the asylum. Even if Trump doesn't act on behalf of stemming anti-Semitism on college campuses these institutions will self destruct. Harvard, Columbia and Yale types might be the gold star for foreigners, in the US this anti-Sematic movement is being closely monitored by US businesses and legal foundations.

Important to our system of education is a balance between free speech, discipline, learning and respect. Elite schools may have legal beagles who can write briefs and win a few battles but in the long run letting campuses "run amuck" will change the path parents take with their children. Trades and technical schools are making a big comeback.

 

[ll74]

Ivy League educational institutions are failing themselves. They ignore their own rules and allow the inmates to run the asylum. Even if Trump doesn't act on behalf of stemming anti-Semitism on college campuses these institutions will self destruct. Harvard, Columbia and Yale types might be the gold star for foreigners, in the US this anti-Sematic movement is being closely monitored by US businesses and legal foundations.

Important to our system of education is a balance between free speech, discipline, learning and respect. Elite schools may have legal beagles who can write briefs and win a few battles but in the long run letting campuses "run amuck" will change the path parents take with their children. Trades and technical schools are making a big comeback.

Nothing theyve done requires government intervention. Fascism has no place here.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Ivy League educational institutions are failing themselves. They ignore their own rules and allow the inmates to run the asylum. Even if Trump doesn't act on behalf of stemming anti-Semitism on college campuses these institutions will self destruct. Harvard, Columbia and Yale types might be the gold star for foreigners, in the US this anti-Sematic movement is being closely monitored by US businesses and legal foundations.

Important to our system of education is a balance between free speech, discipline, learning and respect. Elite schools may have legal beagles who can write briefs and win a few battles but in the long run letting campuses "run amuck" will change the path parents take with their children. Trades and technical schools are making a big comeback.

Oh, fuck off, traitor. You'd be sucking orange cock if he went the other way on this issue. You're a useless tool.

 

[butters]

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-harvard-international-bigwin/

Harvard filed a complaint Friday morning in Boston federal court, and U.S. District judge Allison Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order hours later freezing the policy.

"Revoking Harvard’s certification is unlawful many times over," the judge wrote in her order. "It is a pillar of our constitutional system that the government cannot 'invok[e] legal sanctions and other means of coercion' to police private speech, especially when the government’s treatment is animated by viewpoint discrimination. The government’s effort to punish the University for its refusal to surrender its academic independence and for its perceived viewpoint is a patent violation of the First Amendment."

no doubt this judge e received a shedfull of maga-threats within 30 minutes of her ruling

 

[icanhelp1]

Nothing theyve done requires government intervention. Fascism has no place here.

It's sad you believe that. Anti-Semitism, violence, intimidation, restricting freedom of movement of other students is anarchy. Enforcing the rule of law is not FACISM. In most cases I would agree that allowing the markets to adjust is what capitalism is all about, but foreign influence and money is changing the landscape.