MediaFaro News Digest<p>European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts.</p><p>Laced with terms such as “censorship” and “political interference”, the jobs advert was a-typical.</p><p>The promise of academic freedom, however, hinted at who it was aimed at: researchers in the US looking to flee the funding freezes, cuts and ideological impositions ushered in by Trump’s administration.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250325-european-universities-offer-scientific-asylum-to-us-researchers-fleeing-trumps-cuts?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250325</span><span class="invisible">-european-universities-offer-scientific-asylum-to-us-researchers-fleeing-trumps-cuts?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/ScientificAsylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificAsylum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. Surveys that show a growing polarisation in public attitudes towards universities only demonstrate the effectiveness of decades of rightwing agitation. It is not a given that conservatives are inherently against universities. In other democracies, even voters of far-right parties are generally not anti-universities, even if they can be mobilized against bogeymen like “gender ideology”.</p><p>Universities must defend their truth-seeking and educational missions. They can point to obvious benefits, including economic ones. As the social scientist Adam Przeworski recently pointed out, “every dollar spent in publicly funded research yields $8.30 after eight years”. But universities must also insist that one cannot pick and chose research, as in: say medical research OK, but climate research not. They must not allow governments to dictate which departments are legitimate and which should be placed in “receivership”, a demand by the Trump administration on Columbia (Orbán – a “model”, according to Vance – showed the way by simply prohibiting gender studies).</p><p>Universities must avoid the trap of “we’ll sacrifice humanities if you leave us the hard sciences”. Humanities (and social sciences) are, after all, disciplines: its practitioners are disciplined by professional standards in what the former NYU president John Sexton calls “transparent, testable processes”. This is also why universities are governed by norms of academic freedom, not free speech; the latter is not subject to such processes."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/academic-freedom-us-trump-admimistratio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/18/academic-freedom-us-trump-admimistratio</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a></p>
ocean<p>With what's going on in America, where does free speech, right to protest, and academic freedom truly exist?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/askmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a></p>
Touaregtweet<p>'Trump threatened to cancel $400 million in federal funding if Columbia University didn’t put its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department in “academic receivership". </p><p>Columbia has now agreed to appoint a senior vice provost to oversee the department.'</p><p>Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight [...]<br> <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-159590663" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/home/post/p-15959</span><span class="invisible">0663</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, I've been bullied and have defended others who were being bullied, and the advice I would give ANYONE being bullied is NOT to give in! That just empowers the bully!<br> <br>Under threat from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> agrees to policy changes</p><p>By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 7:19 PM EDT, March 21, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.</p><p>"As part of the sweeping reforms, the university will also adopt a new definition of antisemitism and expand 'intellectual diversity' by staffing up its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, according to a letter published Friday by the interim president, Katrina Armstrong.</p><p>"The announcement drew immediate condemnation from some faculty and free speech groups, who accused the university of caving to President Donald Trump’s largely unprecedented intrusion upon the school’s academic freedom.</p><p>"'Columbia’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> endangers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CampusExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CampusExpression</span></a> nationwide,' Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLibertiesUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLibertiesUnion</span></a> said in a statement.</p><p>"Earlier this month, the Trump administration pulled $400 million in research grants and other funding over the university’s handling of protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. As a precondition to restoring those funds — along with billions more in future grants — federal officials last week demanded the university immediately enact nine separate reforms to its academic and security policies."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-funding-trump-fa70143c715df8fd4ef337c0e1ccf872?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/columbia-un</span><span class="invisible">iversity-funding-trump-fa70143c715df8fd4ef337c0e1ccf872?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsABully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsABully</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a></p>
Francis Mangion (M)<p>br00t4c<br>(@)br00t4c(@)mastodon.social</p><p>'This shouldn't happen in a democracy': Trump tries to arrest academic suing administration over antisemitism executive order.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEducationActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducationActivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntisemitismExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntisemitismExecutiveOrder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CornellUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CornellUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a><br><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antisemitism-order-momodou-taal-b2719588.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/us-politics/trump-antisemitism-order-momodou-taal-b2719588.html</span></a></p><p>The Independent · Trump administration tries to arrest academic who is suing over antisemitism executive order in latest sign of campus crackdown.<br>By Josh Marcus</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114202842544249841" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@br00t4c/11420</span><span class="invisible">2842544249841</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/davidho.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidho.bsky.social</span></a></span> Twenty years ago, I commented on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@NPR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NPR</span></a></span> in Murfreesboro/#Nashville that <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> was where <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> was under attack in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>. “Chemical Eye 👁️ on Academic Freedom” 👉 <a href="http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/041305_macdougall.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sitnews.us/MacDougall/041305_m</span><span class="invisible">acdougall.html</span></a></p><p>Not the ‘leading edge’ that <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanities</span></a> scholars want to be on! 🤦♂️ </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotComply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotComply</span></a> with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a>.</p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>>>We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government’s recent treatment of Columbia University.<<</p><p><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/a-statement-from-constitutional-law-scholars-on-columbia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/</span><span class="invisible">a-statement-from-constitutional-law-scholars-on-columbia/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a></p>
Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦<p>"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like. </p><p>How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule</p><p>Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@thenation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thenation</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/how-a-free-speech-university-sidles-up-to-orbans-strongman-rule/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/society/</span><span class="invisible">how-a-free-speech-university-sidles-up-to-orbans-strongman-rule/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UATX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UATX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hungary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Orban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orban</span></a></p>
Claes de Vreese ☑️<p>1️⃣ Citizens support science: "universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them"</p><p>2️⃣ Research is an investment: "every dollar spent in publicly funded research yields $8.30 after eight years”</p><p>Jan-Werner Muller 🎯</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a> @academicchatter </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/academic-freedom-us-trump-admimistratio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/18/academic-freedom-us-trump-admimistratio</span></a></p>
MikeF<p>Mahmoud Khalil’s case is setting up an epic first amendment battle with Trump</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/mahmoud-khalil-first-amendment-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/16/mahmoud-khalil-first-amendment-trump</span></a><br><a href="https://birds.town/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/whitesupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitesupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/nativism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nativism</span></a></p>
Touaregtweet<p>Wesleyan University President: 'The law should not dictate what your opinion is’</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-ZMza0fvA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=_8-ZMza0fvA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> 🛋️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> ✊ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>project2025</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedomofspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofspeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a></p>
Chilly Squid<p>Trump intervention at Columbia alarms defenders of academic freedom | AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/columbia-un</span><span class="invisible">iversity-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> demands unprecedented control at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a>, alarming scholars and speech groups</p><p>By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.</p><p>"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiddleEasternStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEasternStudies</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthAsianStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAsianStudies</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AfricanStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanStudies</span></a> Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a>.</p><p>"Across <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a>, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.</p><p>"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AAUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AAUP</span></a>]. 'Even during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McCarthy</span></a> period in the United States, this was not done.'"</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/columbia-un</span><span class="invisible">iversity-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingUsDown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <p>UC Davis, Yale, Columbia, and 57 others: List of 60 colleges and universities under investigation by Trump regime for trumped-up antisemitism claims:</p><p><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/uc-davis-yale-and-columbia-list-of-60-colleges-and-universities-under-investigation-for-antisemitism-claims-101741743761547.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hindustantimes.com/world-news/</span><span class="invisible">us-news/uc-davis-yale-and-columbia-list-of-60-colleges-and-universities-under-investigation-for-antisemitism-claims-101741743761547.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AttackOnEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AttackOnEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FascistTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistTakeover</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuckersBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuckersBalls</span></a></p>
Simon Brooke<p>"Everything I focus on is now a banned word"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stan</span><span class="invisible">ford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/</span></a></p>
Kent Navalesi ☕️<p>This bill is being voted on tonight, I believe. If you live in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kentucky</span></a>, please reach out to your representatives and tell them you support <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a> at our universities!</p><p>Bill would give <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KY</span></a> colleges new path to firing tenured professors</p><p><a href="https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-03-10/bill-to-give-kentucky-colleges-new-path-to-firing-tenured-professors-closer-to-becoming-law" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lpm.org/news/2025-03-10/bill-t</span><span class="invisible">o-give-kentucky-colleges-new-path-to-firing-tenured-professors-closer-to-becoming-law</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/acadmicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>acadmicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdlife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phdlife</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicsunite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicsunite</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uky</span></a></p>
Nicolas Barreyre<p>Histoire et enjeux de la liberté académique, menacée de toutes parts aujourd’hui : <a href="https://theconversation.com/liberte-academique-et-democratie-en-peril-comment-un-prix-nobel-de-la-paix-pourrait-les-defendre-251647" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/liberte-ac</span><span class="invisible">ademique-et-democratie-en-peril-comment-un-prix-nobel-de-la-paix-pourrait-les-defendre-251647</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/veilleesr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veilleesr</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/libertesacademiques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertesacademiques</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a></p>
MikeF<p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/11/mahmoud_khalil_ice_columbia_university_palestine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/11/mah</span><span class="invisible">moud_khalil_ice_columbia_university_palestine</span></a></p><p>“This Is All Retaliatory”: Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests</p><p><a href="https://birds.town/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/zionismisnazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zionismisnazism</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/academicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicfreedom</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a></p>
Moto<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E5%AD%A6%E5%95%8F%E3%81%AE%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E3%82%92%E5%AE%88%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>学問の自由を守ろう</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E5%AD%A6%E8%A1%93%E4%BC%9A%E8%AD%B0%E3%82%92%E5%AE%88%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>日本学術会議を守ろう</span></a><br>Protect the Science Council of Japan.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a></p><p>In Japan, researchers resist ruling party’s push to rein in national science academy | Science | AAAS</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/japan-researchers-resist-ruling-party-s-push-rein-national-science-academy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/ja</span><span class="invisible">pan-researchers-resist-ruling-party-s-push-rein-national-science-academy</span></a></p>
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