נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"The <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> deals threaten to topple everything that <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> studies has achieved. They not only poison the waters in which <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewishstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewishstudies</span></a> exist; they portend the delegitimization and devastation of the field. By co-opting Jewish studies in the shakedown of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> and brandishing it to extort <a href="https://babka.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> resources and control <a href="https://babka.social/tags/campus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>campus</span></a> priorities, the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> casts the field outside of the academic norm. Jewish studies may have had no voice in negotiating these deals and no choice in accepting them, but it must resist their divisiveness and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antiintellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiintellectualism</span></a>. To do anything else is to endanger its own survival."</p><p><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/jewish-studies-scholars-beware-trumps-deal-will-corrupt-you" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chronicle.com/article/jewish-s</span><span class="invisible">tudies-scholars-beware-trumps-deal-will-corrupt-you</span></a></p>
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Bohemian Peasant<p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pentagon</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/antiintellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiintellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/militaryacademies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>militaryacademies</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecurity</span></a></p><p>“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.” — William Francis Butler</p><p>“That, unfortunately, is the direction that the Pentagon’s decisions are taking the U.S. armed forces.” — Eliot A. Cohen</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/military-education-reforms/683760/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/national-secur</span><span class="invisible">ity/archive/2025/08/military-education-reforms/683760/</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>vibe physics</p><p>Angela Collier tears into billionaires and tech bros who think they can push the boundaries of physics by prompting a sycophantic language model.<br> <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=-AMxQgiyNgoZjQsC&v=TMoz3gSXBcY&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?si=-AMxQgi</span><span class="invisible">yNgoZjQsC&v=TMoz3gSXBcY&feature=youtu.be</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ChatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatBots</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/VibePhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VibePhysics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AngelaCollier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AngelaCollier</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pseudoscience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PseudoPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PseudoPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AItools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AItools</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AIscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIscience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PodcastBrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PodcastBrain</span></a></p>
Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’<p>Today my immigrant friend defended his PhD dissertation. His 4-person committee were all immigrants. Everyone else in the room (grad students, friends, family) were immigrants. </p><p>And then there was me, the lone American in a room on an American campus near the country’s largest city. </p><p>But hey—let’s cut off the immigration pipeline and encourage a brain drain, shall we? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/makeitmakesense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>makeitmakesense</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/studentvisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>studentvisas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colleges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colleges</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attackonhighered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>attackonhighered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiintellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiintellectualism</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"It is naive to think that this is all primarily a Harvard problem, or even only a challenge to higher education. Noem’s letter to Harvard makes clear that Trump and his sycophants will weaponize the state against anyone who incurs their displeasure."</p><p>~ Jan-Werner Müller</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/3</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/26/trumps-revenge-spree-on-harvard-echoes-well-beyond-education" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/may/26/trumps-revenge-spree-on-harvard-echoes-well-beyond-education</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"As Republicans embraced economic individualism and religion, they also embraced anti-intellectualism. Their version was not unlike that of the early colonists, in which rural Americans, especially those in the West, claimed their evangelical religion made them more worthy than the urban Americans in the East who far outnumbered them."</p><p>~ Heather Cox Richardson</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/2</p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-24-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/may-24-2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>’s response: </p><p>“The government’s action is unlawful. We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard’s ability to host international students & scholars, who hail from more than 140 countries & enrich the University – & this nation – immeasurably.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanAutocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Here is the letter dog killer <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> sent to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>, [she of course posted it on X].</p><p>It does not allege ANY violation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SEVP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEVP</span></a>. Not one. She cites no <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> violated, no regulation broken, no policy ignored.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanAutocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>How is this even slightly legal?<br>(Hint, it’s not)</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Admin Halts <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>’s Ability to Enroll <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalStudents</span></a></p><p>The move was a major escalation in the admin’s efforts to pressure the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/college" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>college</span></a> to fall in line with Trump’s demands.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanAutocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FEF8C80B-EF9E-4A25-B3B7-9273FF569BA5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-harvard-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FEF8C80B-EF9E-4A25-B3B7-9273FF569BA5</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>I have encountered increasing barriers to the exercise of honest counsel. These repeated obstacles of procedural circumvention, particularly insidious to those of us who have long advocated for more democratic & inclusive knowledge systems, represent not just personal frustration, but institutional regression.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSF</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Perseverance has its limits. The erosion of these institutions’ integrity—& the growing realization that it is impossible to fulfill their missions in good faith—has made the cost of continuing untenable. This is why I must step away from my work with two federal institutions I care deeply about.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSF</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Since January 2025, scientists & librarians, program officers & policy analysts at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSF</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a>, & other federal offices & agencies have focused on their work, despite an increasingly hostile political environment. We’ve also seen civil servants fired & accused of not making the mark, vendors’s contracts ignored, & grants & fellowships cancelled.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Aside from one very oblique reference to congressional hearings about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> (“the great work of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik”), the letter is silent on the subject. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin is no longer pretending that it is standing up for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a>. The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Many <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>faculty</span></a> justifiably feel that these <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> failed to take <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/harassment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harassment</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> seriously enough during the protests that erupted after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a>. By centering its critique on that issue, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin was cannily appropriating for its own ends one of the progressive left’s highest priorities: protecting a minority from hostile acts.</p><p>Now, however, the mask is off.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The upshot is that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> should not bother to apply for any new federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a>, because, McMahon declares, “today’s letter marks the end of new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grants</span></a> for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a>.”</p><p>What you will not find in the McMahon letter is any mention of the original justification for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admi’s ongoing assault on elite <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a>: <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a>. As a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> pretext for trying to financially hobble the Ivy League, anti-Semitism had *some* strategic merit.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>To hear McMahon tell it, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> on the verge of ruin. (I say McMahon because her signature is at the bottom of the letter, but portions of the document are written in such a distinctive idiolect—“Why is there so much HATE?” the letter asks; it signs off with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”—that one detects the spirit of a certain uncredited co-author [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>].)</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>‘Bout time</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Finally Drops the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiSemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiSemitism</span></a> Pretext</p><p>The latest letter to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> institutions for the crime of being liberal.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>The intensely <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hostile</span></a> letter that *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>* Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LindaMcMahon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LindaMcMahon</span></a> sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxb1QtyC5jEJxucYDgT0fTn8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxb1QtyC5jEJxucYDgT0fTn8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“Soon this could be the case in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> across the country. We’ve all heard stories of elite institutions cowering before President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s assault on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a>. Take it from someone who knows: It could get worse — far worse.</p><p>“Trump has been watching what’s transpired in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a>. The architect of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> policies has said that FL is 'leading the way' on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> overhauls.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanAutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CultureWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CultureWar</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>What it’s like to be a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>faculty</span></a> member in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> & probably all <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> soon. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Racists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racists</span></a> try to entrap you into saying something that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> is chilled to frozen.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanAutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/college" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>college</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CultureWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CultureWar</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion/trump-universities-woke.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU8.Hs4h.0yHnjqz7bS2Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-universities-woke.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU8.Hs4h.0yHnjqz7bS2Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>One of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grants</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> froze at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a>: $6.7M (over 4 yrs) to develop <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeartPumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeartPumps</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/babies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>babies</span></a> born w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeartDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeartDefects</span></a>.</p><p>It took decades of work to get to the point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pediatrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pediatrics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cardiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cardiology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infants</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PediatricCardiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PediatricCardiology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/progress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <br><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/05/research-risk-life-saving-heart-pumps-babies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/</span><span class="invisible">05/research-risk-life-saving-heart-pumps-babies</span></a></p>
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