Dilan

Disgusting

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out (unmasked/in unmarked cars) protesters are dumping pounds of glitter on them.

So people can identify them as ICE for days afterward.

Time to buy glitter . . .

Bir tane mezarın yok ki, on milyonların kalbine gömüleceksin. Hangi birini ziyaret edem, hangisine yüzüm sürem gardaş.

Git, yolun açık olsun abe can, her daim kıymetlimizsin. Ama gülüş değil ki, bıyık değil ki sana yakışsın; ölüm sana yakışmadı, olmadı gardaş.

Harvard’s President Alan Garber Talks About His Legal Fight With Trump Alan Garber became a hero to liberals after Harvard resisted the federal government. At the same time, he is trying to remake campus culture in ways the Trump administration might appreciate.

“But Dr. Garber agrees with Mr. Trump on one point. In one of the rare interviews he has given since Harvard began its battle with the federal government, Dr. Garber said this week that Harvard has a campus culture problem that needs urgent fixing.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/u...

a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!

New book out!

Map of continental US showing various places from where people have been disappeared. Currently numbering 1214.

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing.
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Today!

Acquiescence or strategic alliance?

Pretty sure they've just been feeding cyberpunk, etc., into an LLM and 'reading' the hallucinatory ChatGPT summaries instead.

They call on their own president to convene the process to create it. Link to full resolution below.

I strongly believe that higher ed is better positioned than most sectors to respond to the prisoner's dilemmas that authoritarian leaders deliberately create. 🧵

senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Keep rolling over for billionaire bullies Harvard! Excellent strategy to destroy what is left of university from a leading academic institution.

Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years The remains were taken to the US during a revolt led by Muslim slaves

"...the skull of one of the fallen rebels [of the Malê revolt] was taken to the US, where, after being used in eugenics studies that sought to prove so-called “scientific” racist theories, it ended up in Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...