Bend at the knee. Get fucked. Idiots. Columbia announces deal to pay Trump administration more than $220m www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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There should be a class action lawsuit against this illegitimate regime for extorting schools, businesses & individuals who do not agree with the current regime. trump continues his lifelong crime spree of profiting off of accusations, threats of & malicious lawsuits. trump is a bully.
jul 24, 2025, 11:08 am • 5 1 • view
Right? And a class action lawsuit for us all to withhold our taxes!
jul 24, 2025, 2:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I like it for the people earning under 500,000K the rest of the people can pay their fair share.
jul 24, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m pretty sure Columbia bent at the waist. Then Columbia reached back and pulled their ass cheeks apart.
jul 24, 2025, 2:02 am • 9 0 • view
The Trump administration has quite the mob racket going on. Money pouring in from frail, weak-minded, go-along-to-get-along to get along business, media and educational leaders.
jul 24, 2025, 2:45 am • 5 2 • view
Hope the alumnae stop writing checks
jul 24, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
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jul 24, 2025, 2:53 am • 1 0 • view
See also Lisa Murkowski
jul 24, 2025, 10:51 am • 4 0 • view
Tell that to all the researchers who’ve poured their lives into coming up with cures or remedies for cancer, diabetes, COVID and dementia, Jeff www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...
jul 24, 2025, 1:59 am • 18 4 • view
Lets hope China picks up the slake and over takes America at this point, they deserve it lets be honest
jul 24, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
That's precisely why I'm angry. He will keep coming for more.
jul 24, 2025, 10:07 am • 20 3 • view
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jul 24, 2025, 10:20 am • 4 1 • view
Gift link: "But this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with." Gift link Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
jul 24, 2025, 10:40 am • 7 3 • view
Be sure to share that gift link (from an economics professor) with people whose clinical trials have been interrupted or whose promising medical research was stopped midway. Or you can share it with their families, if the patients themselves are no longer alive.
jul 24, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view
We'll come back to see whether your colleague's predictions are true or yours.
jul 24, 2025, 10:57 am • 2 0 • view
I didn’t make a prediction. I made an observation. Few people here wanted this. But the stranglehold on research funding is catastrophic on many levels, and expecting the courts (especially SCOTUS) to intervene is a dangerous gamble.
jul 24, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
Crushing dissent of the genocide in Gaza is also catastrophic, and rewarding Miller and Trump for doing so is an act of equal parts evil and cowardice. A deal with this admin to protect research funding is meaningless, just as all deals with them are.
jul 24, 2025, 11:10 am • 4 0 • view
Hey, as someone who makes meds and does clinical trials and whose livelihood depends on the existence of federal research, bending the knee to fascists is legitimately not worth any price. All you're doing at that point is veering the trolley towards marginalized people instead of patients, as...
jul 24, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
opposed to refusing to negotiate with the freak show terrorists running the trolley. They're going to use whatever ins they have at Columbia now to harm very vulnerable people outright.
jul 24, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is Faustian bargaining 101.
jul 24, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Do we really genuinely believe that funding is safe now? That's an honest question. I just find it hard to believe that it's all good now and the yes, absolutely vitally important medical research will now go on normally.
jul 24, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
Y’all just don’t learn do you? Follow Harvard’s example. He will be back to pick your pocket get a better law firm!
jul 24, 2025, 1:59 am • 5 0 • view
None of this will age well. I’ll be here to watch the Republican Party crash and burn 🍿
jul 24, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
Legal extortion?
jul 24, 2025, 2:03 am • 3 0 • view
Everyone who bows to him will come to regret not fighting.
jul 25, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 1 • view
I can only assume Columbia's Board of Trustees want to help trump, because they could not have handled this more poorly. Oh well at least they silenced criticism of Israel
jul 24, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Where, EXACTLY, does all this money go?
jul 24, 2025, 2:38 am • 3 0 • view
Yes! Who gets the money?
jul 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
The ethics courses should be interesting.
jul 24, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
So the new Trump university? Say goodbye to your students and money Columbia!
jul 24, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Once you allow the mob in, the extortion never ceases.
jul 24, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
The same day they decided to expel students unless they "apologized" for suppotting Palestine. Humiliation, dominance -- lack of any kind of spine or moral fiber. bsky.app/profile/karl...
jul 24, 2025, 10:20 am • 6 1 • view
Had a student I mentor reject his full ride to Columbia for this cowardice.
jul 24, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
This sounds like Republican Extortion. People are allowed free-speech- first amendment rights. So now Columbia is just going to give $220m to Republicans, so Republicans will stop attacking and extorting the school????
jul 24, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 0 • view
Hey Columbia Leadership, comfortable being Trumps slaves?
jul 24, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Unbelievable.
jul 24, 2025, 2:06 am • 2 0 • view