As someone who has absolutely no ties to the Ivy League, no ties to academia, and no ties to the Northeast, I can tell you I will absolutely root for them. Not because of anything already mentioned, but because I have spent 40 years in nursing, and we need the best and brightest to keep advancing the skill, knowledge, and science of healing for those people who need care. And if one of our major research institutions chooses to cave, when will the domino effect start? We need someone near the front to go all "Killing in the Name Of" on these fascists.
(Bill Gates dropped out sophomore year, John Roberts entered with us, but already had enough credits to be a sophomore and graduated in ‘76) I offer the Harvard Cheer:
Motherf&cker Cocks&cker
Eat a Bag of Sh&t
C&nthair Douchebag
Suck Your Mother’s T&t!
HARVARD! HARVARD!
All the Others Suck!
HARVARD! HARVARD!
Rah Rah F&ck!
Not one of the traditional yells, but offered as an example of the social and aesthetic nadir that was the 1970s.
Remember when Obama was President and everyone needed an AR-15 to defend against masked Government jack booted thugs? Those who would arrest you in the middle of the night? Or snatch you off the streets with no warrant and send you off to a concentration camp because of something you wrote? Now that it's actually happening, nary a peep from the "Come and take it" crowd.
Biblical scholars claim that the Sin of Sodom was actually inhospitality to strangers (which, their bad luck, were disguised angels). Throwing out foreign students certainly qualifies. So these Christofascist hatemongers are sodomizers. Pass it on.
I almost wish there was an afterlife so I could picture the looks on all their faces when they reach the Pearly Gates and discover that performative Christianity meant absolutely nothing, and the only thing everyone is judged on is how you treated everyone else.
I've wondered (from a more "want to know" perspective) about the accusations of Harvard's "cancel culture." From a candid NYT opinion piece by Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University for 22 years:
"My colleagues and I have worried for years about the erosion of academic freedom here, exemplified by some notorious persecutions. In 2021 the biologist Carole Hooven was demonized and ostracized, effectively driving her out of Harvard, for explaining in an interview how biology defines male and female. Her cancellation was the last straw that led us to create the academic freedom council, but it was neither the first nor the last.
The epidemiologist Tyler VanderWeele was forced to grovel in “restorative justice” sessions when someone discovered that he had co-signed an amicus brief in the 2015 Supreme Court case arguing against same-sex marriage. A class by the bioengineer Kit Parker on evaluating crime prevention programs was quashed after students found it “disturbing.” The legal scholar Ronald Sullivan was dismissed as faculty dean of a residential house when his legal representation of Harvey Weinstein made students feel “unsafe.” The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression tallies such incidents, and in the past two years ranked Harvard last in free speech among some 250 surveyed colleges and universities."
I guess I have no idea what to do with that. Free speech is good.
However, Free speech is limited to actions by the government and I hope that the feller who wrote it heavily criticized the Trump administration for their many first amendment betrayals.
I doubt it was around at the time (ICE itself wasn't) but I'm sure there was some sort of poorly funded alternative. That did such a good job of kicking out a student who arrived on a student visa, and then never even enrolled, let alone taking any classes, just going straight into "business'. Thank you, Elon Musk.
HuffPost: "Trump, when asked to justify his administration’s recent attempt to suspend international student enrollment at Harvard University, cited a bizarre rationale: their math skills. “A lot of the people need remedial math, did you see that? Where the students can’t add two and two, and they go to Harvard,” Trump posited during an executive order signing on Friday. “How can somebody who can’t add or has very basic skills, how do they get into Harvard? … And then you see the same people picketing.”
In September 2024, Harvard announced that it was adding a math course aimed at boosting students’ "foundational algebra skills,” The Crimson reported at the time. That class was reportedly designed to address gaps in students’ math skills that had emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conservatives, however, seized on this announcement and baselessly claimed that Harvard’s decision to drop standardized tests from its admissions requirements meant that it was admitting less-qualified students."
NOEM - a Bachelor of Arts prepared bitch (I am a Bachelor of Arts prepared bitch as well but also have a different and separate Bachelor of Science) anyway THIS Bachelor of Arts prepared bitch is going to try to take down this academic mountain because of POWER not reason. Fascism Fascism Fascism to the core. It’s about destroying America.
As someone who has absolutely no ties to the Ivy League, no ties to academia, and no ties to the Northeast, I can tell you I will absolutely root for them. Not because of anything already mentioned, but because I have spent 40 years in nursing, and we need the best and brightest to keep advancing the skill, knowledge, and science of healing for those people who need care. And if one of our major research institutions chooses to cave, when will the domino effect start? We need someone near the front to go all "Killing in the Name Of" on these fascists.
"America: shooting itself in . . . its dick for good measure."
Incredibly good marksmanship to hit something so small.
Black bags wouldn't be exclusive if some of us weren't monsters.
I love the cabinet member who calls them "me-me coins" So true, so true.
Gimme Gimme.
First they destroyed American science by mortally wounding NIH and NSF. Now they are moving on to academia. And we are watching helplessly.
Not entirely helpless. Farmers are starting to get that savings means they do NOT get payed.
As a proud member of the class of ‘77
(Bill Gates dropped out sophomore year, John Roberts entered with us, but already had enough credits to be a sophomore and graduated in ‘76) I offer the Harvard Cheer:
Motherf&cker Cocks&cker
Eat a Bag of Sh&t
C&nthair Douchebag
Suck Your Mother’s T&t!
HARVARD! HARVARD!
All the Others Suck!
HARVARD! HARVARD!
Rah Rah F&ck!
Not one of the traditional yells, but offered as an example of the social and aesthetic nadir that was the 1970s.
While many prices are shooting up, the cost of a complete AR15 is less than $300 this Memorial Day!
Anyhow, in case you needed a little something to stop masked MS13 gang members from kidnapping you.
You're getting your violent gangs mixed up. MS13 wear tattoos. ICE is masked.
Silly me, I bet ICE has a lot of interesting tattoos too
Remember when Obama was President and everyone needed an AR-15 to defend against masked Government jack booted thugs? Those who would arrest you in the middle of the night? Or snatch you off the streets with no warrant and send you off to a concentration camp because of something you wrote? Now that it's actually happening, nary a peep from the "Come and take it" crowd.
The left has always known those folks would side with the fascists. The left is also well armed we just know we can’t advertise it like they can
According to the NRA, every gun-owner in America had ONE job.
One.
Yep. And well, still applies
SODOMY!
Biblical scholars claim that the Sin of Sodom was actually inhospitality to strangers (which, their bad luck, were disguised angels). Throwing out foreign students certainly qualifies. So these Christofascist hatemongers are sodomizers. Pass it on.
Leviticus 19:33-34.
I almost wish there was an afterlife so I could picture the looks on all their faces when they reach the Pearly Gates and discover that performative Christianity meant absolutely nothing, and the only thing everyone is judged on is how you treated everyone else.
I've wondered (from a more "want to know" perspective) about the accusations of Harvard's "cancel culture." From a candid NYT opinion piece by Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University for 22 years:
"My colleagues and I have worried for years about the erosion of academic freedom here, exemplified by some notorious persecutions. In 2021 the biologist Carole Hooven was demonized and ostracized, effectively driving her out of Harvard, for explaining in an interview how biology defines male and female. Her cancellation was the last straw that led us to create the academic freedom council, but it was neither the first nor the last.
The epidemiologist Tyler VanderWeele was forced to grovel in “restorative justice” sessions when someone discovered that he had co-signed an amicus brief in the 2015 Supreme Court case arguing against same-sex marriage. A class by the bioengineer Kit Parker on evaluating crime prevention programs was quashed after students found it “disturbing.” The legal scholar Ronald Sullivan was dismissed as faculty dean of a residential house when his legal representation of Harvey Weinstein made students feel “unsafe.” The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression tallies such incidents, and in the past two years ranked Harvard last in free speech among some 250 surveyed colleges and universities."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/harvard-university-trump-administration.html
https://www.thefire.org/news/new-2024-college-free-speech-rankings-show-alarming-81-success-rate-deplatforming-attempts
I guess I have no idea what to do with that. Free speech is good.
However, Free speech is limited to actions by the government and I hope that the feller who wrote it heavily criticized the Trump administration for their many first amendment betrayals.
Trump is trying to deplatform Harvard
Another judge has blocked Cosplay Kristi’s order on the UNFAIR! basis that she totally didn’t follow the law.
https://johnnypalmadessa.substack.com/p/judge-blocks-trumps-attack-on-harvards?utm_medium=ios
I doubt it was around at the time (ICE itself wasn't) but I'm sure there was some sort of poorly funded alternative. That did such a good job of kicking out a student who arrived on a student visa, and then never even enrolled, let alone taking any classes, just going straight into "business'. Thank you, Elon Musk.
HuffPost: "Trump, when asked to justify his administration’s recent attempt to suspend international student enrollment at Harvard University, cited a bizarre rationale: their math skills. “A lot of the people need remedial math, did you see that? Where the students can’t add two and two, and they go to Harvard,” Trump posited during an executive order signing on Friday. “How can somebody who can’t add or has very basic skills, how do they get into Harvard? … And then you see the same people picketing.”
In September 2024, Harvard announced that it was adding a math course aimed at boosting students’ "foundational algebra skills,” The Crimson reported at the time. That class was reportedly designed to address gaps in students’ math skills that had emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conservatives, however, seized on this announcement and baselessly claimed that Harvard’s decision to drop standardized tests from its admissions requirements meant that it was admitting less-qualified students."
There's already a TRO issued and a hearing scheduled for next week.
I'm so tired being threatened by these evil bastards.
NOEM - a Bachelor of Arts prepared bitch (I am a Bachelor of Arts prepared bitch as well but also have a different and separate Bachelor of Science) anyway THIS Bachelor of Arts prepared bitch is going to try to take down this academic mountain because of POWER not reason. Fascism Fascism Fascism to the core. It’s about destroying America.
So, no Israeli students, right? Or Jewish students from other countries? Antisemitism, my ass! More like petty, ignorant fascism.
Anyone who is on a J- or F-visa is going to lose their visa.