Samuel Kelton Roberts

A Columbia Alum Writes to President Shipman BY HILTON OBENZINGER Dear Claire Shipman, President, Columbia University. I received your letter and other notices about Columbia’s settlement with the Trump administration, and I’m disappointed an…

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Powerful words.

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

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Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Philadelphia drug overdose deaths fall but novel substances in the street drug supplies present new dangers

Medetomidine, a nonopioid veterinary sedative, could be overtaking xylazine in the street drug supply. The drug was found in 72% of street samples from Philly last yr whyy.org/articles/phi...

Why Some States Refuse Federal Cash to Feed Poor Kids Millions of federal dollars helped pay for food for hundreds of thousands of children in Tennessee last summer while school was out. Washington made the same offer this year—and Tennessee refused.

Even the WSJ is reporting on politicians starving children... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

New Mexico judge and wife arrested for hiding an alleged Venezuelan gang member ‘There is no way in the world that I would have allowed my grandkids to have any contact with the boys if I had sensed danger,’ the ex-judge wrote

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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

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RALLY FOR THE RIGHT TO LEARN! THURSDAY, APRIL 171h 4:00 PM FOLEY SQUARE WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK, 3 PM, joining other universities. FOLEY SQUARE, 4 PM JOIN US TO DEMAND, HANDS OFF HIGHER ED! Jumaane Williams, NYC Public Advocate Baher Azmy, CCR, Attorney for Mahmoud Khalil Rotua Lumbantobing, Vice President, AAUP Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Asad Dandia Heba Gowayed, Hunter College/CUNY Denis Nash, CUNY School of Public Health Shana Redmond, Columbia University Salman Khan, Columbia Medical Center Art Eisenberg, NYCLU Grant Miner, Student Workers of Columbia McKenzie Wark, The New School Chenjerai Kumanyika, AAUP/NYU Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University The Rude Mechanical Orchestra... and MORE! FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVER E UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY FREE THE UNIVERSITY

Washington Square Park
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Let’s get to it

I'll be there

Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times Trump nominee Ed Martin’s 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.

Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times

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Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.

“What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China…or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917”.

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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

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Toolkit — A National Day of Action for Higher Ed

⏳ Only 5️⃣ days left until the #DayofActionforHigherEd. But it’s not too late to plan an action on your campus! Visit our website for an organizing toolkit, suggested actions, and a list of online panels and discussions.

#FreeHigherEdNow

www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit

The Feds Want to Cement Change at Columbia With a Consent Decree. How Would That Work? The arrangement would put a federal judge in charge of overseeing the university’s commitments to fight antisemitism. In doing so, it could lock in Trump’s preferred policies for the longer haul.

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Results of a university-wide survey at Columbia published on Mar. 7:
- 69% of respondents felt unsafe because of NYPD presence on campus in spring 2024
- 60.9% of respondents would feel less safe with continued NYPD presence on campus

Direct economics — the great Maga experiment The arbitrariness of the tariffs is a feature not a bug in the plan to short-circuit the financial establishment

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Columbia Displays More Aggressive Posture in Dealing With Demonstrators Students chained to a gate were removed by security officials. It came as the university planned to deploy 36 officers empowered to remove people from campus.

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The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A young woman with a dog, absent-minded scarecrow, heartless tin man, and cowardly lion walk into a city of green seeking a singular wizard who stuns his constitue…

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Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

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Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.

It gets worse and worse...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials The defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under criticism after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app.

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Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited “misinformation and lies” from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

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‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’ Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.

The Great American Brain Drain commences... www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...

Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia (Gift Article) The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Trump Policies Could Send International Talent Elsewhere, Hobbling U.S. Science Funding cuts and immigration concerns might cast a long shadow.

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A Flu Recommendations Vote Was Scrapped From an Upcoming Vaccine Advisory Committee Meeting It’s the latest sign that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department is not so focused on vaccinating against the flu.

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Yeah, his "rebrand" is rather indistinguishable from abandonment -- not a rearticulation, not a reassertion, not a reframing -- of some core principles...

We call on all those who care about the future of education & democracy in the US to stand up now against these monstrous assaults on our core principles of freedom of speech, student & faculty safety, & free inquiry and thought.

Now is the time. When we fight, we win.

#defendhighered #academicsky

‘Mourning’ Democracy, Professors Lambast Columbia Administrators for Submitting to Trump They said they feel shocked, disappointed, and deserted by the university, and reminded of the tactics of authoritarian leaders.

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