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Harvard and White House Move Toward Potential Landmark Settlement

Trump's extortion of higher education continues

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Trump continues to extort universities

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

DOJ Declares Slew of DEI Practices Unlawful in Memo The nine-page memo builds on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Trump's Justice Department Declares DEI Unlawful
The nine-page memo builds on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Deals Colleges are reaching settlements with the government to restore research funding. Here’s everything you need to know.

Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Deals

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22 new state laws censor higher ed, PEN America finds The bills, which were enacted during the first half of 2025, “have been just as devastating” as federal attacks on the sector, the free speech group said.

22 new state laws censor higher ed, PEN America finds
The bills, which were enacted during the first half of 2025, “have been just as devastating” as federal attacks on the sector, the free speech group said.
www.highereddive.com/news/pen-ame...

Tim Cook at White House with Trump

The White House for sale, in living color and for all the world to see.

Schools and colleges nationwide face Trump investigations The Trump administration is investigating allegations of antisemitism and racial discrimination against white students at dozens of colleges. The agency also has begun investigating policies related t...

Which schools and colleges are being investigated by the Trump administration?

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Capitulation to extortion.

Should back-to-school require parent fundraising? Ontario schools are woefully underfunded, and families pay the price Ontario educators in a recent study discuss how underfunding affects day-to-day schooling, and places a burden on families for fees and fundraising.

Should back-to-school require parent fundraising?
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ANALYSIS | Here's how Trump's tariffs are starting to cost Americans | CBC News Little by little, the costs of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs are starting to add up, both for consumers and American companies that are raising prices, reporting tariff-related hits to their p...

More U.S. companies raising prices, reporting tariff-related hits to their profits or both

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Workplace #36 also includes new article in the Global Labour Research Centre Symposium; plus articles on shared governance in academic libraries; activist resistance and community; social-well being and multi-locational work

New issue launch: Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor #36 — includes the first installment of a series on Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times ...
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Emnan Abdelhadi: “Every editor who canceled a story about Palestine brought us here. Every boss who censored an employee. Everyone who said “not this way” to protesters. Every university admin calling the cops. Bloody. All your hands are bloody, and we will never forget.” #UBC

The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen: “Israelis don’t want us to film outside the window at the devastation in Gaza…communities in the north of Gaza are flat, there’s nothing left…Israel will not allow reporters, like myself, to enter Gaza to report the story and they don’t want us to see it.”

New poll shows growing US public disapproval of Israel, Netanyahu: 'Has become the world's villain' In last year there has been a 10% drop in the number of Americans who support the war in Gaza, with 60% now opposing it;  support remains broadly stable among Republicans, as decline comes from Democr...

New poll shows growing US public disapproval of Israel, Netanyahu: 'Has become the world's villain'

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Indian students reject US study over visa uncertainty
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Leading Israelis Charge Government with Genocide B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, and the Israeli chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, charge that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide against Palestinians in ...

Leading Israelis Charge Government with Genocide

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Tsunami watch issued for most of B.C. coast after earthquake near Russia An 8.7 magnitude earthquake that rattled off the coast of Russia Tuesday afternoon has triggered a tsunami watch for most of British Columbia, according to officials.

🟨 Yellow Alert!
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An American sent to Canada was shocked by how furious Canadians are at the U.S. Description Unavailable

"You have no idea how furious the Canadians are"

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Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

Dave Zirin: Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab

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Protest crackdown creates 'culture of fear' on campuses Academics, staff and students have detailed free speech concerns at Australia's top universities after a crackdown on pro-Palestine encampments.

Staff and students describe a pervasive "culture of fear" at one of Australia's top universities following a furore over pro-Palestine encampments.
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Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education Populist, right-wing governments often target universities as enemies of the state. The Trump administration is watching − and learning.

Nostalgia and resentment fuel government attacks on universities in India, Hungary & USA

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In Extraordinary Deal With Trump, Columbia U. Agrees to Pay $200 Million to Restore Funds The university said the government would resolve its investigations and restore most of the $400 million in research funding it had stripped from the institution.

Columbia University agrees to Trump extortion plan.

www.chronicle.com/article/in-e...

The Nightmare Must End Watch the video now

The Nightmare Must End
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France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says

France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says

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Dear the Northeast corner of Kingsway and Fraser, I will miss you dearly The tiny strip mall housed several businesses.

Developers ripping the heart of Vancouver neighbourhoods, as usual. #eastvan

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Amid Epstein Chaos, Trump Turns to Football to Distract and Dehumanize Trump is calling for the Washington Commanders to change their name back to a racial slur.

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Coming soon: A big, beautiful bill.

Ken Sim Has a Shedding Problem | The Tyee Vancouver’s mayor keeps losing allies. Now his former chief of staff wants his job.

Ken Sim is (unsurprisingly) losing allies.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

🚨 This is Horrifying ‼️

These Alleged ICE agents showed up at this families home & when they asked them to ID themselves they started breaking down the door & smashing the windows!

They had their weapons out ready to shoot in front of young kids.

This ended up being the wrong address‼️