The #Trump admin has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for #Cornell & $790 million for #Northwestern amid *#CivilRights* [white man sad] investigations into both schools.
The #funding pause involves mostly grants & contracts with the depts of #Agriculture [HUGE school at Cornell], #Defense, #Education & #Health & Human Services.
I’m an alum, so… 
#Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for #CornellUniversity & $790 Million for #NorthwesternUniversity
The funding pause amid *#CivilRights* investigations into both #universities sharply escalates the Trump admin’s campaign against elite #colleges.
#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education #Cornell
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0C341DDC-17F7-403A-A100-B68F51396C05
Another law firm, #MilbankLLP, makes a “deal” with #Trump rather than face his wrath.
Basically the same terms as the other appeasers
$100 Million Dollars in #ProBono [#QuidProQuo] legal services during the Trump admin, & after.
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A commitment to *Merit-Based* hiring & employment practices, & it will not engage in *illegal* #DEl *discrimination*.
Here is the text of the email sent to hundreds of international #students telling them that
their #visas have been revoked due to #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
![[first paragraph] “On behalf of the United States Department of State, the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office hereby informs you that additional information became available after your visa was issued. As a result, your F-1 visa with expiration date XXXXX was revoked in accordance with Section 221(i) of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended."](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/247/830/669/610/776/original/dfac7d2fb1ec8a04.png)
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
Whoa, yesterday, #Trump illegally stripped #CollectiveBargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers in 18 different departments across multiple #FederalAgencies.
The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *#war* on President Trump’s agenda.”
Is he going to use #wartime powers against #union members now?
#law #LaborLaw #labor #Musk #DOGE #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #propaganda #Trumpaganda #gaslighting #NaziState #MafiaState
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/
#RümeysaÖztürk's filing contains a paragraph each on the similar treatment of #RanjaniSrinivasan, #MahmoudKahlil, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhanSuri, & #MomodouTaal.
It also quotes #MarcoRubio:
#RümeysaÖztürk's attorneys include in their filing that her arrest & detention — without any notice — is not a necessary or usual part of #visa revocation but an experience "designed to #silence her, #punish her for her #speech, & ensure that other #students will be chilled from expressing pro-#Palestinian viewpoints."
New details of #RümeysaÖztürk's #StateSponsoredAbduction:
A rep of the Turkish consulate went looking for Öztürk at an #ICE office in suburban Massachusetts. Her lawyer called hospitals, worried she might have had a dangerous #asthma attack. [anxiety can induce attacks & no doubt they took her inhaler] & of course, she did have an attack & didn’t have her medication.
In an amended petition for #HabeasCorpus, #RümeysaÖztürk's attorneys—now including the #ACLU—describe her arrest & detention as "part of a concerted & systemic effort by #Trump administration officials to #punish #students & others identified with pro-#Palestine activism."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282503/gov.uscourts.mad.282503.12.0.pdf
…Today, we are witnessing the birth of a new #DualState. The #US has long had a normative state. That system was always imperfect. Our #criminal #justice system, for example, sweeps in far too many people, for far too little security in exchange. Even so, it is recognizably part of the normative state.
What the #Trump administration & its allies are trying to build now, however, is not.
