Courage is contagious

That’s awesome. Great job

LFG. Appeasement does not work. Hitler’s not getting Czechoslovakia this time.

And it’s about damn time.

Cheers for Harvard! Cheers for M.I.T.!!

GOOD! Universities are the ultimate place of creative freedom. Any government trying to control the thoughts and processes of higher education, while challenging the courts, due process and the rule of law at the same time is doing so to create a Hungarian dictatorship. Public broadcasting next!

I thank the resistance for joining in the 24hr Work Stop, 4/14. 4/17-19 Work Stop focus is to shut the country down. People should progressively Stop Work until the country stops while we protest on 4/19. Please, protest loudly but peacefully. #FiretRump #BuildtheResistance chng.it/WBR8LRVmr7

Thank you, Massachusetts Higher Education. Our community college has expressed the same. We need to highlight these stories to retain hope and find our fight. Some integrity is left, and it needs to be recognized and protected.

More of this, please.

Anyone with a common sense future business projection longer than couple of years is going to do the same.

Respect to MIT.

“Courage is contagious”. @kamalaharris.com

Massachusetts strong!...kinda? I'm gonna play on our regional superiority complex and just brag about being from the Boston area and not mention that a school from *ahem* NYC capitulated faster than...insert something inappropriate here, because if I do I'm gonna get 500 posts about being a jerk

Glad to hear it. The more that stick together, the more difficult they'll be to bully. Too bad the law firms lacked spines.

Columbia, are you watching? Are you going to be Trump’s little Ivy League lap dogs? Does Professor Steven Miller now get to teach Black studies? Where will the new Melania Trump Library be located?

Just like the American Revolution Massachusetts (and her institutions) are leading the way.

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Say bye to DARPA without these two

Way to go MIT!

I stand with Harvard! Resist the lunacy of Trump!

They all saw China whoop his ass and now everyone got a backbone. LFG!!!!!!!

One shows spine, many will follow.

Such wonderful news

Time for all institutions to pull a “I’m Spartacus,” moment.

This is nice from them! but from a foreigner perspective, I'd feel absolutely terrified to go study in a country that really don't want me there. I know they are a great place to study but it is scary.

We want you! This whole place has been up-ended by a Cheeto.

Hopefully temporarily!

The current shit going on in the US will have horrible repercussions for decades

I hear you. Step 1, though, is for the universities to fight back. It appeared as if they were going to obey in advance before today. The US needs to fight this one out before international students will be free and safe in US universities. Democracy and academic independence need to win this

I agree with you! and I hope the universities win

America isn’t really great as advertised. 🤣

They don’t want those of us who live here, and don’t bend the knee either.

This is what we need. Law firms need to do this too. News outlets would be good too

Trump is The Capitulator. Good move.

Once again, Massachusetts is in the forefront of getting our freedoms (back)

Courage is contagious. And, this is another 'well-endowed' institution.

Excellent.

Yes!

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Good

Standing up will lead to knocking down fascism!!!

Thank goodness these great universities know Americans back them in defending and not be dictated to by an authoritarian regime

The Revolution has begun and it is the bravery of Universities that will lead us out of this Abyss Trump is a Convicted Felon and Rapist. He is also an evil, racketeering mob boss who is proud to be a human rights abuser This Monster must be stopped but media and big law are capitulating cowards

YES

We must all work together & not obey in advance! Great job, Harvard, Yale & MIT.

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The U.S. started giving Universities money during WWII because that’s where the smartest people are. They used that money to research and develop the basis of every invention that drove the world economy over the last 75 years. MAGATS want to throw that all away

Cornell, too. Still waiting for Johns Hopkins...

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social This could have been you.

Fire! Loving this- finally. Enough is enough.

Cool

Boston strong , in all ways on all days !

YES, MIT!! 🙌🏻

April is a bad month to try and strong-arm Massachusetts. They remember their own history and the anniversary of Lexington and Concord on the 19th. There's a reason they have reputations of excellence, in spite of some of Harvard's graduates going from crimson to orange.

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Good for them!! Thank you for resisting stupidity!

if the turning point in the wave of elite collapse is Harvard telling Trump to fuck himself because their profs don’t want to sit next to greasy maga dorks at department meetings, I will spend the rest of my life begrudgingly handing it to them

Where the brains really are, cuz they're certainly NOT in the White House.

Come on Princeton and what about Yale

Princeton has stood up already, well before Harvard.

From March: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

They've done a lot since then.

Now if only all those big law firms who collapsed immediately would change their minds.

Unless they can work within the admin to undermine it.

Naw fuck them. They showed the whole world who they are.

I really needed this bit of good news tonight

Here we go:

Thank God there are still decent ppl in this world

HELL YEAH!!! 👏👏👏🔥 #Harvard and #MIT leading the way!!! #Resist

Good. Maybe there will be a glorious cascade of defiance from these colleges and universities.

And it's not too late for the ones who capitulated out of fear of Trump to join in. This would work for the law firms that capitulated as well. A united front.

If only Harvard had done the right thing on Oct 8. This is a step in the right direction

Awesome

Here’s hoping Columbia enrollment evaporates, they sold their soul and no one shows up🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

It’s like maga want to kill the USA on every single level.

Thank goodness!

Finally a bit of moral courage.

Cowardice inspires cowardice, but courage also can do the same…they can’t fight everyone if everyone refuses to comply.

Stand strong MIT

Nice

Sweet! Cut their funding. Tax their endowments. These elitist, anti-Semitic institutions are going to learn a very hard, very costly lesson.

MIT…also knows…goose stepping bullies never stop in their demands or whims…an inch becomes a mile…hang tough MIT💙💯

Respect!

Finally! The universities must not back down to the illiterates in the White House.

👏 Stand up to bullies.

Rush uh 28’ lol sounds word haven’t you heard cactus #iWroteTheVote2020 pricks #270winsiT

Shocking considering that the Koch family have practically "bought" the university...

FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS! As Trump says, "You need to fight -- and fight like hell -- or you won't have an America in your future".... @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @jonmeacham.bsky.social @eugenerobinson.bsky.social @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

Everyone better start standing up and hitting back.

Thank you MIT!

I think everyone is smelling the reek of weakness from him after the tariffs and signalgate.

Alright MIT!!! WAY to stand against Tyranny!!! Stand up for Democracy!!!

Enough of this Fascist Administration!

Who knew Harvard and MIT were the cool kids?

I know some- they are no different than state kids.

Every single flucking day it’s another horrible attack on our nation from within.

Home grown terrorists.

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#BostonTeaParty. Stand up against tyranny. Against a wanna be orange king.

Ok but aren't they suing cause they can't charge exorbitant amounts for their endowments off the cheap labor of their grad and doctorate students? I don't hate on MIT as much bc they are so awesome with their open source courseware but still...

no

No what. Substance plz

And both MIT and Harvard thereby become even more prestigious and better places to go.

Finally something like seems hopeful.

America openly funded genocide. Laughed while it happened and is still funding and laughing about it right now. This is karma. Netanyahu's used condom will effectively and efficiently wipe out America and turn it into a nazi cesspool just like Ukraine. Don't believe me?

Columbia needs to immediately change course!

I'm glad to see my old school standing up to this crap. And also glad to see that Kornbluth did not allow herself to be chased out of office by that yahoo Stefanik, the way the Presidents of Harvard, Columbia, Penn and Cornell were.

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Good job, MIT!

Just takes one and the uprising begins!!!

Sally Kornbluth is a woman of courage, a defender of Education, a trailblazer.

Universities should NEVER receive my money unless I attend their institution. Can they not survive on their own? The two listed need to dig into their multibillion dollar endowments. Supporting these oligarchs is like supporting big business.

Universities are the beacon of hope and knowledge They are the enemy of Thiel/Musk and their useful idiot Trump

Glad SOMEONE is standing up to the new Hitler.

Yale should follow the same path. They have the best and one of biggest endowments of ANY University. New England could, once again, become the center of resistance 👊.

Yes!

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Proud to be from Massachusetts. Watching to see what BU does, as they are the fifth largest recipient of NIH funding in Massachusetts.

Wait... but his Uncle went to MIT!

It's not just MIT: ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/jnav...

It takes one act of bravery for others to follow.

Fucking beautiful. Thank you a million times over for the share Tim.

Howard University is also on board.

Wait how do yk??

After listening to the President of Wesleyan this AM on NPR - this should be a relief to many smaller unis/colleges who were not willing to give in but couldn’t fight this entirely on their own. I hope we hear from many more in the next day.

We don't eff around in Massachusetts.

Was just coming to say do not mess with these guys.

But Mr Trump says I can go to Harvard. I'll miss Alabama and my friends in the Klan though

And we love you for it!

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Good job Harvard for getting this party started!!!

Trump won’t be able to handle this with his fragile ego. We need more resistance from every corner of America to break that little man.

Finally, some folks that won't kiss the ring!!!!

Hell yes! Who is next?! Keep it up

All of us! Start now. Join a group like indivisible. Let’s take it back.

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Defying the royal edicts of Kim Jong Don is the only way to stop the tyranny Resistance is now a patriotic duty

Mass holding the line

Must protect their pro terror activists. Qatar is watching! However , Jewish students can be sacrificed for the « cause » n’est-ce pas?

What

Sometimes all you need is 1 or 2 brave souls and the rest will follow…👏🏻💪🏻

Okay! We are on folks. Let's do this, keep fighting authorization.

Did we not see this coming? Columbia caved and didn't get their funding back, Trump is also asking to have oversite. Did Trump really think these other institutions wouldn't notice?

I'm frankly glad Trump was stupid enough to not give them their funding back. His bad faith encourages any other would-be cowards not to pay the ransom, because you aren't getting the hostage back anyway. Even ransomware virus distributors will give the key when paid, it's just good business.

Universities with 50 billion in endowments can weather this storm, but public universities will have to cave to the dictator or lose funding....I AM Very happy these wealthy universities are fighting back, but that isn't where the real battles will be fought.

This is what pissed me off so much about Columbia caving. If a prestigious, wealthy school is too scared to fight Trump, what kind of message does that send to other schools without hefty endowments? Thank you Harvard and MIT!

Columbia’s endowment is about 30% of Harvard’s - ~$15B vs $50B - and 60% of MIT’s ($24.6B), and. Although I’ve a couple friends who are alums, that school no longer exists to me. I certainly hope MY alma mater Cal Berkeley follows suit (more correctly, the entire UC & CSU systems).

Dean of Cal Berkeley law school led a joint letter from many law schools against the targeting of law firms and education. Don't know about the rest of the system, just that.

Georgetown law lead the first wave against the government interference

My first thought as well. Please Please Please Cal.

My husband went to Columbia and was horrified when they gave in to Trump's demands. I don't see UC going this route but I wouldn't have expected it from Columbia either. A while ago I shared this article from the NYT that explained how Columbia could have said no. I mean, they have the money!

Wow, thank you. I’m empathetic - if relieved - your mister felt their cowardly capitulation as hard (prob harder) than me. That officials also apparently “turned out” not only Mr Khalil, but additional students & alums makes me vomit What are we becoming & eff NO I RESIST ✊🏿 I WILL NOT ‘COMPLY’

The reality is that endowments aren’t just blank checks to spend on anything. Each donor specifies how the money can be used and that can be problematic if very specific. For example, UT Austin has an endowment for typewriters that they can’t spend because no one uses typewriters anymore.

That's true. The endowments are often allocated to specific depts, scholarships etc. But, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think the money is invested and grows well beyond the actual endowments. I shared this NYT article a while ago and it kind of explains that.

Very nice, thanks for sharing that! Even if the entire endowment was at stake, Columbia and everyone else should stand up to Trump, or US academic institutions won’t exist at all anymore except to be mouthpieces to an authoritarian regime. Didn’t they study the history that they purport to teach?

I agree completely. A Columbia degree will be worth nothing if the school's run by the Trump administration. It makes it even worse that they could have resisted and survived financially but chose not to. Smaller schools may not have the same cushion and they need wealthier schools to fight this.

Is it still possible for Columbia to reverse course?

If it is, I hope they get shamed into reversing. But I haven't got a clue about the deal.

Great schools. I can’t see any UC siding with Trump, not even Fullerton in Orange Cty.

Ironically, I am also a Cal State Long Beach alum, and both my brothers - an attorney & an MD - are CSU Fullerton alums. I very much wish Janet Napolitano was still UC President.

Columbia caved bc they wanted to. Trumps demands gave them cover for what the admin and board of trustees wanted to do

I'm sure that's true to a large degree, but they had to know that caving would seriously damage the school's reputation. Which would then damage its value. My husband went there and he's almost embarrassed.

They admit enough rich people not to care about their reputation. They are more concerned about their pro-Israel big donors who pulled donations after the student protests last year. Now they can ask those donors for $$$

I guess what I was getting at is that the school's reputation and "name" is the reason rich people go, many of them international and full tuition. If that name is tarnished, it's worth less. In any case, this must have been preferable financially which sadly is what it all comes down to.

Thank you, MIT!

Yes!

Let's hope MIT follow Harvard's lead and declines Federal funding. That'll save we-the-taxpayers another billion+ dollars, which is the whole point of the exercise.

Good

Excellent! 🎉💙

It's got to be stopped. Let's have the Alumni get busy and speak up for these colleges!

Stand up for Our Rights!

If all the institutions gave him the big finger I really feel like we could neuter him. What's he going to do, hold funding? Let them. We can find another way if we all work together and pitch in. Yes it will be hard but losing democracy is harder.

Finally

MIT probably don't want to make an air traffic controller program

Good.

Stick together Don't obey in advance

Where is this posted? I can’t find it.

Good for Harvard don’t bow down Resist

@mitpress.bsky.social YES!!!!🙌🏼 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

finally

Good

Its a start.

Oh thank you so much for showing me the things I need to see right now.

MIT don’t kiss the ring

Fuck yes. Actual intellectuals will not bend the knee to facism. I'm honestly not shocked. It certainly helps to have an endowment I am certain. Must really chap Thiel's ass that Stanford is refusing. I say they should take down his works done as a student there. Since he's cool with censorship. Obv

New England TOUGH

Elbows up!

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YES

Columbia can just close down at this point.

America needs to be brave and stand up to this vile human being trump! Let’s go America 👏👏👏

The word 'human' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Two schools, at least, standing up against the forces of evil!

How is it legal that the president on a whim holds back funding allocated by Congress?

It’s not, but lack of accountability makes him continue.

How is most of all this legal?!

It is not. So it is up to people to join together to stop it.

I thought Congress was in fact that "joining up". The whole structure of government branches is broken. This can not be fixed with elections alone, even if there will be fair elections at all in the near future.

Most of them are cowards. They can be persuaded. Your representatives are in their home districts until the 27th. Take 10000 of your closest friends and neighbors and go pay them a visit. Take your copy of the constitution, a copy of the oath that your reps swore to uphold the constitution, confront

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Yes!

I wonder how much of it is Harvard setting an example versus seeing Columbia try appeasement and get the full-on "I'm just gonna keep taking your lunch money" treatment (my money is on both).

If MIT isn't paid to store that radiological material it has used for US government research grants does that mean it should dispose of it? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC sounds like a good location ! ☢️☢️☢️

Have you seen any Republicans talking about the lawsuit in Fla challenging the legality of the tariffs, The plaintiff owns a small business in Florida. It is being funded by Koch.

We should let them know that we appreciate what they are doing. We need to help each other through this. We're quick to talk about boycottsl. We need to be just as fast thanking them. It lets people know that they will be praised for doing the hard things.

I wonder if they would help small state schools who don't have endowments to get them through. Start by mentoring them and see where it goes.

Courage is contagious. Resist the beginnings.

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Didn’t one of Trump’s relative worked at MIT. That’s why Trump thinks he’s genius because someone from his mother’s side of the family worked at MIT.

Boston Strong!

Yes. Right on!!

let’s get Harvard, to lean on the lawyers they pump out every year,to defend our democracy. Every lawyer in this country who has been privileged to attend Harvard and its law schools should be representing those being attacked by their own government, pro bono!

Yes!

Good for them

Good job MIT!! We’re all with you.

They understood that even if they do what he wants they will get screwed. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social should have known better.

The Peach Pol Pot has been combating education, expertise, and the truth his entire life. No institute of learning should bend a knee because the administration wants to turn them into the Ministry of Truth. Likening him to Pol Pot was VERY intentional.

I believe it won’t pass SCOTUS.

I hope van Hollen is safe

The temptation of twisting the knife RE Columbia overcame admin cowardice. Academic spite I thank you once again.

never thought would see MIT -and- Harvard shut down in my life time but it’s coming fast

This is right. We can’t let government control education. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1

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It would appear they've figured out from how the federal government treated Columbia that there's no point in groveling because Trump wants to squish them regardless

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Awesome!!!🥰🥰🥰

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Trump is going to regret what he started. It’s not going quite the way he intended when he threatened Harvard, (founded in 1636) and wanted to effectively be the President of Harvard. Trump: move aside Mr Garber Harvard President, Mr Garber: Fuck the fuck off!