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Robert F Bouchard's avatar

Thank you for diligently pounding the drum’

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Nick Mc's avatar

Just another page from the Authoritarian Handbook that Rump is clearly reading from. Americans should be up in arms. Universities, normally a hotbed of counter-institutional, counter-corporate thinking and usually the first place you'll see protests, should be out in the streets by now. Thing is though, most of the idiots who voted for him, see educational institutions as elitist, liberal wastes of money. So they'll be 100% behind Rump defunding them.

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Bruce Maslack's avatar

Yes, Harvard should sue for its money and for damages; asserting its independence from Federal Government interference. But Harvard, of all places I know, has the resources to cover the $2.2 billion withheld and continue what’s important to them in the meantime.

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Trystan's avatar

It's the principle of the thing, sir!

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Bruce Maslack's avatar

Principles before profits /finances. Do what needs to be done.

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Trystan's avatar

Revere the Constitution! Expel the Tyrants.

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Angus Laird's avatar

A very clean and clear assessment of a misguided power move (cutting off the disbursement of research funds to academia) one would expect to see from an administration populated by cretins and power-hungry narcissists. [Thought I’d employ T Rump’s favorite debate strategy - ad hominem attack - against his administration for a change.]

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