Trump treats concessions as weakness and will keep punishing you.
Was it worth it, Columbia?Look at what they made you give…www.nbcnews.com/news/educati…
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T20:33:19.758Z
So odd to see the former president of Columbia being more outspoken about the Trump administration's threat to academia than the current Columbia president.www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Gm…
— Karl Jacoby (@karl-jacoby.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T21:23:37.388Z
"Its first target was Columbia. When that school acceded to the administration’s demands, it didn’t get its funding back. Instead, Trump is considering demanding that Columbia agree to direct government oversight — effectively, a takeover of the university…"www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04…
— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) 2025-04-15T03:59:27.476Z
Columbia University capitulated to Trump to get $400M in science funding released. What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen. Giving in to bullies just makes them take more. arstechnica.com/science/2025…
— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T21:33:32.747Z
"In an unusual move…" seems to be the media's preferred way of describing American fascism http://www.wsj.com/us-news/educ…
— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T18:49:51.479Z
“If … you’re just being intimidated,” said Obama (Columbia ‘83, Harvard ‘91) “you should be able to say, ‘That’s why we got this big endowment’”www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Matthew Hay Brown (@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T22:31:11.757Z
In what was a disgraceful show of stunning weakness, Columbia caved inBut compliance doesn’t workCompliance incentivizes the bully to ask more and moreIf the bully targets you, the only effective answer is to fight back
— Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net) 2025-04-09T19:22:45.794Z
Sad! 