Harvard tell Trump to pound sand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they are so "smart" they should be able to invest their massive money pile in ways that pay for their research mission.

If they aren't smart enough for that then I don't trust their "research"

Blah blah blah.

That's the best you can come up with? Harvard's endowment is $53b and they currently have (had) $8b in grants. My 6th grader would never be able to go Harvard because by the time he has graduated, they will be gone. According to your reasoning.

[Anonymous]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/

"The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out....The [Trump] administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students. The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they are so "smart" they should be able to invest their massive money pile in ways that pay for their research mission.

If they aren't smart enough for that then I don't trust their "research"

Blah blah blah.

That's the best you can come up with? Harvard's endowment is $53b and they currently have (had) $8b in grants. My 6th grader would never be able to go Harvard because by the time he has graduated, they will be gone. According to your reasoning.

In every developed country with a reputation for advanced science, government funds R&D and innovation. That’s how advanced countries stay advanced. But in this Trump vision, we will produce students to work at shoe factories, not to do biotech and cure cancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/

"The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out....The [Trump] administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students. The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal."

That’s the bottom line. Four years of revenge, no real governing.

[Anonymous]

You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

Blah blah blah.

So now you’re concerned about the taxpayers. Where have you been for the past, oh 200 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

So should we defund Catholic universities and Liberty university as well? How is that any different than defunding Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

No ones funding "opinions"; the government funds research, much of it scientific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/

"The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out....The [Trump] administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students. The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal."

Replace liberal with anti-Israel and then you've got the truth.

[Anonymous]

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter, to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.

https://bsky.app/profile/societyschild.bsky.social/post/3lojzklj2hc2w

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

Can you follow you own damn advice on Israel then?

[Anonymous]

Foreign Policy =/= Higher Education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter, to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.

https://bsky.app/profile/societyschild.bsky.social/post/3lojzklj2hc2w

Can’t read, don’t have a Bluesky account. I’m sure it’s entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

Can you follow you own damn advice on Israel then?

No. Israeli citizens deserve free healthcare, education, and subsidized housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can have whatever opinion you want.

Just don't ask tax payers to fund it.

No ones funding "opinions"; the government funds research, much of it scientific.

Same speech where Eisenhower talked of the military industrial college, he warned of research funding being captured by a scientific-technological elite.