Michael Olivier

Great story, gives hope to all the people who are being removed from swearing in ceremonies across the country!

This posting this morning and his earlier statement about the Brown University shooting ("things happen"), clearly demonstrate that the President completely lacks any level of empathy with others. This is embarrassing. 💔

I added my name to this and so should all of you who are US citizens: Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

I guess you can selectively watch the games in Mexico and Canada...

Ja da das die einzige in der Zukunft mehrheitsfaehige Zweiparteienkoalition sein wird

Normally I would say "unbelievable" but that is the wrong statement these days. So what is next, delay mammograms or PSA screening?

The intention has ALWAYS been to destroy academic research and science. That vindictive goal has always been clear from the beginning.

A U.S. soldier was executed on the streets of the U.S. capital, yet the flags remain at full-staff.

But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days.

WTH?

Tonight...

Mecklenburg School District had ~20% absenteeism this week at least that is the number that I saw reported, no way to confirm it).

After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.

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The link for the application can be found here: redcap.school.wakehealth.edu/surveys/?s=8...

Feel free to share with any undergraduate students that may be interested!

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated.

Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

It would also require lights for virtually all after school sports activities for most Middle and High Schools..., and essentially a evening commute in the dark for almost all employees...

Just a nice memory on a gloomy and rainy day, this is how it looked 2 weeks ago (Price Lake, NC)

One of the few arrests that I have read about today. This is near Myrtle Beach, SC and she was driving around pointing a gun at protesters. Note the shirt.

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday. I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led White House- is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities on their teaching and research mission. Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its place as the envy of the world. We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance higher education. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

No Kings in Winston-Salem, NC!

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

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www.latimes.com/california/s...

Dartmouth’s President Balks at Trump Compact, Sources Say, as Feds Expand Offer to ‘Any Institution’ Sian Leah Beilock has told faculty members she won’t sign the document as written. Meanwhile, the White House’s broader proposal has shifted discussion about the deal.

Dartmouth’s President Balks at Trump Compact, Sources Say, as Feds Expand Offer to ‘Any Institution’ www.chronicle.com/article/dart...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn became the third university to decline the offer.

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www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

It does indeed...

Funny how that comes as a surprise to academics...

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

New Trump plan offers UT funding benefits with conditions on academics The Trump administration named the University of Texas as one of nine schools that can access funding benefits in exchange for demands outlined in a compact.

It will be interesting to see how universities will coordinate and grow a spine to oppose this: www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

And people are surprised why tourism is down?!

May want to switch to a different TV channel occasionally?!