• Trump to yank all remaining federal funds to Harvard in latest blow to

    From P. Coonan@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 27 19:24:20 2025
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    The Trump administration is planning to cancel all remaining federal
    contracts with Harvard University, a day after the president mused about
    taking roughly $3 billion in federal funding that had been given to the
    “very antisemitic” Ivy League university and giving it to trade schools.


    The fresh cuts — believed to be worth roughly $100 million — were
    requested in a memo fired off to federal agencies early Tuesday,
    according to a copy obtained by The Post. The administration had already
    frozen an estimated $3.2 billion in contracts and grants with Harvard.

    The Tuesday letter from the US General Services Administration orders
    agencies to provide a report by June 6 on contracts with Harvard that it
    has or will cut off.

    It also instructs the agencies to “seek alternative vendors for future
    services where you had previously considered Harvard.”

    The letter blames the move in part on Harvard’s inaction to crack down
    on antisemitism on campus, as well as alleged “race discrimination” in
    its admission process.

    “In light of this deeply troubling pattern, each agency should consider
    its contracts with Harvard University and determine whether Harvard and
    its services efficiently promote the priorities of the agency,” the memo states.

    “We recommend that your agency terminate for convenience each contract
    that it determines has failed to meet its standards, and transition to a
    new vendor those contracts that could be better serviced by an
    alternative counterparty.”

    Earlier this month, the Trump administration warned that Harvard
    wouldn’t be eligible for additional federal funds and cited four main grievances: antisemitism, racial discrimination, abandonment of rigor
    and a lack of viewpoint diversity.

    Last month, the Trump administration inked a detailed letter to
    university president Alan Garver outlining more specific demands,
    including merit-based hiring, merit-based admissions, international
    admissions reform, viewpoint diversity, a crackdown on antisemitism,
    stronger whistleblower protections, student discipline reform and an end
    to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

    Officials have been pushing the Ivy League school to enter negotiations
    and prove its compliance.

    If the agencies find Harvard is the only suitable option, the admin has
    ordered them to provide a reason why the Ivy League should be kept on
    the federal government’s books, according to the Tuesday letter, which
    was first reported on by the New York Times.

    The move is slated to affect nine agencies, the outlet reported, though
    it wasn’t immediately clear which ones.

    https://www.scribd.com/document/867898106/Trump-administration-letter-to- Harvard#download&from_embed

    https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/trump-to-yank-all-federal-funds-to- harvard-over-schools-mishandling-of-campus-antisemitism/

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  • From Doctor Fill@21:1/5 to P. Coonan on Tue May 27 14:40:08 2025
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    On 5/27/2025 1:24 PM, P. Coonan wrote:
    The Trump administration is planning to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University, a day after the president mused about taking roughly $3 billion in federal funding that had been given to the “very antisemitic” Ivy League university and giving it to trade schools.


    The fresh cuts — believed to be worth roughly $100 million — were requested in a memo fired off to federal agencies early Tuesday,
    according to a copy obtained by The Post. The administration had already frozen an estimated $3.2 billion in contracts and grants with Harvard.

    The Tuesday letter from the US General Services Administration orders agencies to provide a report by June 6 on contracts with Harvard that it
    has or will cut off.

    It also instructs the agencies to “seek alternative vendors for future services where you had previously considered Harvard.”

    The letter blames the move in part on Harvard’s inaction to crack down
    on antisemitism on campus, as well as alleged “race discrimination” in its admission process.

    “In light of this deeply troubling pattern, each agency should consider
    its contracts with Harvard University and determine whether Harvard and
    its services efficiently promote the priorities of the agency,” the memo states.

    “We recommend that your agency terminate for convenience each contract
    that it determines has failed to meet its standards, and transition to a
    new vendor those contracts that could be better serviced by an
    alternative counterparty.”

    Earlier this month, the Trump administration warned that Harvard
    wouldn’t be eligible for additional federal funds and cited four main grievances: antisemitism, racial discrimination, abandonment of rigor
    and a lack of viewpoint diversity.

    Last month, the Trump administration inked a detailed letter to
    university president Alan Garver outlining more specific demands,
    including merit-based hiring, merit-based admissions, international admissions reform, viewpoint diversity, a crackdown on antisemitism,
    stronger whistleblower protections, student discipline reform and an end
    to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

    Officials have been pushing the Ivy League school to enter negotiations
    and prove its compliance.

    If the agencies find Harvard is the only suitable option, the admin has ordered them to provide a reason why the Ivy League should be kept on
    the federal government’s books, according to the Tuesday letter, which
    was first reported on by the New York Times.

    The move is slated to affect nine agencies, the outlet reported, though
    it wasn’t immediately clear which ones.

    https://www.scribd.com/document/867898106/Trump-administration-letter-to- Harvard#download&from_embed

    https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/trump-to-yank-all-federal-funds-to- harvard-over-schools-mishandling-of-campus-antisemitism/

    It might behoove Harvard's leadership to have a Tienanmen Square or Kent
    State like crackdown on students who protest genocide and ethnic
    cleansing in Gaza to prove they aren't "anti-Semitic." /sarc Then the
    "Trump" Administration could restore funding to Harvard as a reward for
    dealing harshly with the alleged "anti-Semitism."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_(Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_&_Young_song)

    "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" refers to the Kent State shootings,
    where Ohio National Guard officers shot and killed four students during
    a protest against the Vietnam War. Crosby once stated that Young keeping Nixon's name in the lyrics was "the bravest thing I ever heard." The
    American counterculture took the group as its own after this song,
    giving the four a status as leaders and spokesmen they would enjoy to a
    varying extent for the rest of the decade.[11]

    At the time of the shooting the American public was highly critical of
    the protestors and blamed them for the violence. This is what the line
    "What if you knew her? / And found her dead on the ground" was about.
    Sociology professor David Karen said the importance of the song was that
    "it didn't let the moment die" and "underlined just how corrupt and
    awful the government was."[12] After the single's release, it was banned
    from some AM radio stations including in the state of Ohio, because of
    the challenge to the Nixon Administration[13] but received airplay on underground FM stations in larger cities and college towns. Today, the
    song receives regular airplay on classic rock stations. The song was
    selected as the 395th Greatest Song of All Time by Rolling Stone in
    2010.[14] In 2009, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[15]

    --
    First we will destroy your identity. Then we will teach you your past
    was evil. You will conclude yourself that your inheritance, your
    homeland, your ancestors and your people are underserving of it all.
    Then we will complete your dispossession and dissolve you into the final
    phase of the Kalergi Plan.



    https://www.globalgulag.us

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