Kevin McNamee

At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary

Good on Dr Gregory Washington: At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

The Realtor Who Came in From the Cold • russian desk Trump's chief negotiator is acting in the service of a section of the elite, interested in restoring trade ties.

"In a landscape driven by elite interests and covert dealings, the line between diplomacy and profit has become dangerously blurred.
No wonder Witkoff didn’t want any witnesses to his meeting with Putin. It would've cost a fortune to buy their silence." desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/t...

Trump and Harvard Both Want ‘Viewpoint Diversity.’ What Does It Mean? The administration has accused the university of lacking viewpoint diversity. Harvard is fighting its demands, but embracing the vague term.

Viewpoint diversity is an admirable goal for a university to pursue on its own.

In America, though, the First Amendment forbids the government from requiring diversity (or homogeneity, or any distribution) of viewpoints.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/a...

Kevin Warren received the green light to shatter the Big Ten's philosophy of contiguous state expansion. The LA market opened for business and everyone cashed in on relatively low hanging revenue fruit.https://t.co/f2SylEq066

Trump plans to announce the US will call Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia

Volatility nonsense. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

UM's Ono picked as sole finalist for University of Florida's presidency Ono says he expects to assume the new role later this summer once the appointment is approved by Florida's Board of Governors.

Santa Ono jumps ship at Michigan after a 2.5 year tenure. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Trump’s ‘lone ranger’: How Steve Witkoff became the defacto point man on America’s foreign policy challenges | CNN Politics Last month a private jet belonging to Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff winged its way from Abu Dhabi to Doha to Moscow and Baku, before finally flying to Palm Beach, where Witkoff briefed President Don...

“As Trump’s top foreign policy negotiator jets around the globe to broker deals, some officials worry he’s not prepared”

www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...

Slouching Towards Tyranny On a dark hour for the American right.

Terrific read via @thedispatch: To the extent that Trump’s true nature was ever a mystery, it no longer is: As a White House aide recently said, the president is “at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore” and “going to do what he’s going to do.” thedispatch.com/article/decl...

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Read the room. This image sums up the absolute tone deaf ridiculousness of college athletic leadership at the P4 level. After a tough day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, they gathered for an intimate chat. As they like to say; "We don't have a revenue issue, we have a spending issue."

US plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University, official says The administration of President Donald Trump plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University over what it calls antisemitism on campus, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, but the university said it had not yet been formally notified.

The Trump crackdown on free speech on college campuses now includes Brown University. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"There isn’t any analysis.
It’s a one-person show based on economic fallacies that are going to wreck our economy, wreck the world trading system." Jeffrey Sachs

The same Nazi that said, "Just like a potato beetle destroys potatoes, the Jew destroys nations and peoples. There is only one solution: to deal radically with the danger."
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

Power schools will outsource enforcing NIL payments to athletes Skeptics say cash to players for commercial endorsements often far exceeds the service's actual value.

An enforcement concept that sounds great to ADs and coaches, but history shows all prior efforts to be a Sisyphean task. Terrific read, via @danwetzel. bsky.social www.espn.com/college-spor...

A defining commitment 🧵. Via @d1scourse.bsky.social

Trump privately indicates Elon Musk could step back from current role: Sources President Donald Trump indicated to top advisers that Elon Musk could be taking a step back from his current role, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Trump told Elon, "I'll take your money, but you can keep your 2 cents." abcnews.go.com/US/trump-pri...

US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

This is rich. Trump slaps Europe around and Europe says we've had enough. Now U.S. defense contractors are vulnerable to Trump's impulsivity. www.reuters.com/world/us-off...

Imagine that. Russian media seems to see Donald Trump for who he is.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

If this staggeringly ignorant national security incompetence doesn't get people in Trump's cabinet fired, then nothing will. Huge story, via @JeffreyGoldberg www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Roosevelt has been working for the weekend.

Moody's Downgrades Higher Education Outlook to Negative as Federal Policy Changes Threaten Sector Moody's Ratings has revised its outlook for the U.S. higher education sector from stable to negative, citing recent and potential federal policy changes that have created a more difficult operating en...

A sobering reality check on the higher education landscape. www.diverseeducation.com/institutions...

Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.

One thing is certain: Trump is no poker player. Thanks to his actions so far, Putin hasn’t had to reveal any of his cards. Trump claims to know what Putin wants, but his own actions show that he actually has no clue. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Opinion: Feel free to hate me, but I'm rooting for Team Canada in 4 Nations I hope that the crowd in Boston will not boo the Canadian anthem tonight. Team USA and Team Canada are rivals on the ice. But we're not enemies.

Great read by a great friend: "Team USA and Team Canada are bitter rivals on the ice. That's hockey. But our countries are not enemies. We are best friends. And we pray it stays that way." @erikbrady.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

"Now when the music plays The Gates of Hell Are Open, that's where you walk in." Moe

If there's an organic, grassroots movement developing, then keep the damn politicians out of it. Let folks speak for themselves!

Marco Rubio Is Walking into a Trap Ukraine still has an opportunity to win the war—if the Trump administration will let it.

A deep dive into where Trump is attempting to lead Ukraine. www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi...

Who is House in House v. NCAA settlement? Meet the man behind the lawsuit that will change college sports forever Grant House used to be an All-American swimmer at Arizona State. Now he's getting death threats as a central figure in one of the most transformational moments in college sports history.

College athletics will forever be changed by an agreement that, while he had little involvement in negotiating, will always bear his name. sports.yahoo.com/who-is-house...

Update from Trump's Christmas party at Mar-a-Lago.

Greenland tells Trump it is not for sale It comes after the US president-elect repeated comments he made in 2019 that he would like to purchase the territory.

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede: "We are not for sale and we will not be for sale." www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
Charles Dickens,