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DoomsdaysCW

Following #Trump's playbook eh?

Four foreign activists face #deportation from #Germany after Berlin #university sit-in

Story by Tamsin Paternoster, April 4, 2025

Excerpt: "The university's general students' committee said in October that the university had failed to 'capture the complexity of events.' The committee alleges that the police presence on-site was 'excessive' and that the law enforcement responded violently to the protesters in the broader context of suppressing similar demonstrations."

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#Fascism #USPol #WorldPol #GermanyPol #SuppressingDissent #CriminalizingDissent

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Ecologia Digital

"You have to understand that everything #Trump is doing is in service of #stayinginpowerforever. He is trying to destroy our #democracy.
That's why he is going #lawfirm by lawfirm, #university by university, to try to bully them into pledging #loyalty to him.
The #tariffs are going to be used to do the same thing to #privateindustry."
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy
#handsoff

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YouTubeConnecticut Senator Chris Murphy didn’t hold back on Trump’s tariffsBy The Southern African Times
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Led By Fools

Kings and despots historically used spending and taxes (tariffs) to control their subjects, to reward loyalty and punish dissent.

Tariffs are a means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition would-be-king Trump for relief.

He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.

Relief will come to industry and institutions that pledge loyalty (fealty).

Trumps strategy. is from the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.

#NoKings#NoDespots#Kings
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Sadly Robotic Metaphors for AI

Another #SadlyRoboticMetaphor! "Your AI Wise Professor is of Course… A Robot with a Book"

And of course, ALL professors wear ties.

This is the featured image chosen to align with a Venture Beat “piece” (I can’t use “article” or “news item: as there are so many ads on the screen I can barely read the text) called:

OpenAI just made ChatGPT Plus free for millions of college students — and it’s a brilliant competitive move against Anthropic

OpenAI has made its […]

Check out the sadness sadlyrobotic.cogdogblog.com/me and maybe share another you have seen sadlyrobotic.cogdogblog.com/sh

Cartoon style blue block head robot with glasses, wearing a tie, is standing holding an open thick book in front of a bookshelf.
#professor#Robot#school
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Dr. Anna Latour

Taught a bonus lecture for a course on Algorithms for NP-hard Problems today. Material won't be on the exam, so technically, this lecture was "just for fun".

Quite some pressure to make coming to class on Friday morning 8:45am worth it for a gang of 20-year-olds.

Students were a hoot. They were listening actively and participating. Great to meet them. Had a blast 🙂

Afterwards, some of them thanked me for the "really great lecture" 🥺

Ab-so-lute-ly exhausted now.

#AcademicChatter#AcademicLife#StudentLife
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ProPublica

In An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes’ NIL Deals
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Records show that a fraction of the school’s athletes are complying with a state law requiring them to disclose endorsements. In the wild west of college sports, Illinois’ flagship university says the rules are losing relevance.
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ProPublicaIn An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes’ NIL Deals
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#News#Illinois#University
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Geriatric Gardener

British veteran anti-Zionist and anti-racist campaigner, Tony Greenstein, at his most excoriating best!

“New York University is the latest Corporate University to Prostitute Itself To the Trump Administration”

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“NYU Cancelled a Talk by Dr Joanne Liu of Doctors Without Borders Because They Feared She Would Mention the US Sponsored Genocide in Gaza”

azvsas.blogspot.comNew York University is the latest Corporate University to Prostitute Itself To the Trump Administration
#Press#NYU#Acadenic
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The One

#university #Canada #trump #civilwar

“ Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher education to take up positions at the University of Toronto in fall 2025.
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections.“ yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03

Yale Daily News · Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fearsHistory department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.
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