The administration’s demands included auditing viewpoints of the student body to address antisemitism at the expense of federal funding.

The federal government on Monday night said it was freezing more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school said it would not accept Trump administration demands that included auditing viewpoints of the student body.

Earlier Monday Harvard rejected the administration’s demands.

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the university’s X account said in a statement posted Monday. “Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”

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    Please don’t capitulate. Stand your ground Harvard, fucking please. We need places like this to have and keep a fucking spine against trump.

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    Harvard University’s endowment is approximately $51.977 billion as of fiscal year 2024. It is the largest academic endowment in the world.

    Harvard doesn’t need that funding, they’ll be just fine.

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    I have a working theory the reason Trump has not been assassinated is actually because world leaders and powerful institutions recognise how laughably incompetent he is and do not want someone more qualified to fill the role of Dick-Tater.

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      But at the same time nobody in Germany even knew about any of the times there was an attempt on Hitler unless they wanted the people to know for some reason. There were many attempts, it’s just that most went unnoticed until the end of the war.

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        I think he’s a lot more ambitious and dangerous than people give him credit for. I love the image edits of the fat couchfucker, but his gravitation towards Peter Thiel and his affection for Curtis Yarvin’s writings, coupled with the presence of Musk and Zuckerberg who are actively trying to get smart tech into your brain through their Neuralink chips should raise way more alarm bells than it is.

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    Havard can always go to china for money or just charge student higher fees.