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Christopher Rufo, who spent three months campaigning for the firing of Harvard President Claudine Gay over issues of “academic integrity,” has not always been so rigorous in his standards. A right-wing author and progenitor of the panic over trans...
by Blue Tuesday
on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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The Anniversary Below are the links to Part 1 and Part 2 of this diary from earlier this week. What Nikki Haley Learned in Middle School — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 2 (Re-Post) About Those New Year's Resolutions — The Week in Editorial...
by JekyllnHyde
on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 08:01 PM PST
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“Small government” is the antithesis of the creeping authoritarianism that can be readily seen within the Republican Party Republicans have claimed to favor “small government” for decades, but their policy positions contradict that assertion. Ronald...
by frankfaiola
on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 05:53 AM PST
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Ackman hates plagiarists so much he married one, who admits it. Why doesn’t Harvard (and MIT) tell him to go pound sand, when he threatens them in his attempt to end what he calls “racism against whites”? Just refuse the money from this racist! No...
by wytcld
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 09:03 PM PST
with 14 Recommends
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Harvard President Claudia Gay resigned on Tuesday amid growing pressure from multiple scandals. The first Black woman to hold the position, her exit after just six months also makes her the shortest-tenured president in Harvard history, proving once...
by Blue Tuesday
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 10:17 PM PST
with 334 Recommends
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As indicated before, the ruling class protected a certain brand of privilege by firing vulnerable Ivy university presidents. The panel at the House education subcommittee hearing lacked males, and was designed to weaponize antisemitism in advance of...
by annieli
on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 11:08 PM PST
with 33 Recommends
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Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned yesterday, just six months after taking office. According to The Crimson, her decision was driven by a witch hunt by far right members of Congress and the decision of some donors to stop giving to Harvard. This...
by necturus
on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 08:53 PM PST
with 11 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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Harvard's President has received a vote of confidence from the university’s senior governing board, known as “the Corporation” but officially “The President and Fellow of Harvard College”. That miserable excuse for a Congressperson Elise Stefanik will...
by necturus
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 03:02 PM PST
with 26 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
with 28 Recommends
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The battle over the future of higher education has taken a dark and cynical turn. Last week, near the end of a contentious Congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses, the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT all fell into a trap set by...
by Blue Tuesday
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 01:03 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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Many of us have seen the Congressional soundbites. MAGA superstar Elise Stefanik made mincemeat out of Ivy League college Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts...
by Alan Singer
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 10:02 AM PST
with 24 Recommends
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[ Note: Some have had difficulties accessing previous videos I’ve presented here in the past few weeks. I believe I’ve now learned how to prevent that problem. So I expect there will be no more such frustration.] ******************* This is the second...
by AndySchmookler
on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 08:59 AM PST
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A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep ...
by Associated Press
on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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In my mail today was a plain white envelope with a “Freedom” forever stamp, postmarked from Salt Lake City on November 16 at 4pm, no return address. There were three pages inside, an “urgent plea to the Harvard community” to speak out against the...
by gmoke
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 07:10 PM PST
with 6 Recommends
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These are my notes with some updates on the Middle East war prepared for the Media Watch taping on Thursday October 12. The situation is changing quickly. On Friday October 13, Israel demanded that civilians evacuate the northern half of Gaza as it...
by Alan Singer
on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 11:36 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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I avoid I/P postings because they are too contentious, but the reactionary discourse about trying to censor student speech especially on private university campuses is getting out of hand with CEOs and RWNJs weighing in. It resembles the whining of...
by annieli
on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 09:15 AM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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from CNN Oct 6 The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” ...the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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The conservative activist who launched a full-scale legal assault on affirmative action programs in higher education has now set his sights on a new target: the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Edward Blum, 72, is the founder and president of...
by Charles Jay
on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 03:40 PM PDT
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It’s hard to take the GOP seriously as the “pro-life” party when its members are dying faster than Louie Gohmert’s brain at a urinal cake-eating contest. Eventually Focus on the Family will have to change its name to Focus on the Fetus, because the...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 347 Recommends
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