War on Universities, Lawyers & Expertise

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altmin said:
gizmodo.com

Universities Can Do Research as Long as It's 'In Sync' With Trump Administration, Education Secretary Says

Science done at U.S. institutions ought to line up with "what the administration is trying to accomplish," Linda McMahon said in an interview Wednesday.
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Maybe the wrestling queen could explain just what it is that the Trump administration is trying to accomplish. So far the ‘second coming’ has done little more than run in circles tearing things up. You’ve heard of the ‘bull in a china shop’. Nothing, zilch, meaningful has been accomplished or even purposed. If you thought first administration was total BS… this one has diarrhea.
 
tarheelbillie said:
Maybe the wrestling queen could explain just what it is that the Trump administration is trying to accomplish. So far the ‘second coming’ has done little more than run in circles tearing things up. You’ve heard of the ‘bull in a china shop’. Nothing, zilch, meaningful has been accomplished or even purposed. If you thought first administration was total BS… this one has diarrhea.
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It's more like a horse loose in a hospital. No one knows what the horse will do next. Especially the horse.
 
tarheelbillie said:
Maybe the wrestling queen could explain just what it is that the Trump administration is trying to accomplish. So far the ‘second coming’ has done little more than run in circles tearing things up. You’ve heard of the ‘bull in a china shop’. Nothing, zilch, meaningful has been accomplished or even purposed. If you thought first administration was total BS… this one has diarrhea.
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What are you talking about!?!? She's providing A1 service.
 
mynameisbond said:
It's more like a horse loose in a hospital. No one knows what the horse will do next. Especially the horse.
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Once, there was a rumor around campus that NC State students took a cow up to an upper dorm floor, leaving the residents to find out how to get a cow to go downstairs. I fear Trump is going to leave us with a lot of analogous predicaments. For sure, he'll leave us with trillions of "cow$" in debt.
 
tarheelbillie said:
Once, there was a rumor around campus that NC State students took a cow up to an upper dorm floor, leaving the residents to find out how to get a cow to go downstairs. I fear Trump is going to leave us with a lot of analogous predicaments. For sure, he'll leave us with trillions of "cow$" in debt.
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No, I have it on good authority the big beautiful bill will not increase the deficit.

Karoline Leavitt: "I also want to take the opportunity to debunk some false claims that have been circulating in the press. The blatantly wrong claim that the one big beautiful bill increases the deficit is based on the CBO and other scorekeepers who use shoddy assumptions."
 
farce© said:
No, I have it on good authority the big beautiful bill will not increase the deficit.

Karoline Leavitt: "I also want to take the opportunity to debunk some false claims that have been circulating in the press. The blatantly wrong claim that the one big beautiful bill increases the deficit is based on the CBO and other scorekeepers who use shoddy assumptions."
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The gaslighting never stops.
 
farce© said:
No, I have it on good authority the big beautiful bill will not increase the deficit.

Karoline Leavitt: "I also want to take the opportunity to debunk some false claims that have been circulating in the press. The blatantly wrong claim that the one big beautiful bill increases the deficit is based on the CBO and other scorekeepers who use shoddy assumptions."
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Shoddy assumptions = assumptions that do not bathe Dear Leader in glory.
 
Gift article about 1950s deportation of a Chinese scientist which ultimately led to an ICBM capable China.


The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History​


At the height of his career, there came a knock at the door, and he was handcuffed in front of his wife and young son. Prosecutors would eventually clear Dr. Qian of charges of sedition and espionage, but the United States deported him anyway — traded back to Communist Beijing in a swap for about a dozen American prisoners of war in 1955.

The implications of that single deportation are staggering: Dr. Qian returned to China and immediately persuaded Mao Zedong to put him to work building a modern weapons program. By the decade’s end, China tested its first missile. By 1980, it could rain them down on California or Moscow with equal ease. Dr. Qian wasn’t just rightly christened the father of China’s missile and space programs; he set in motion the technological revolution that turned China into a superpower.

His story has been top of mind for me (I’ve been working on a biographical book project on him for several years now) as we’ve watched the Trump administration ruthlessly target foreign students and researchers. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio turned up the pressure, announcing that the administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.” There are some one million foreign students in the United States — more than 250,000 of them Chinese. Dr. Qian’s deportation should serve as an important cautionary tale. It proved an American misstep, fueled by xenophobia, that would forever alter the global balance of power.
 
altmin said:
Gift article about 1950s deportation of a Chinese scientist which ultimately led to an ICBM capable China.


The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History​


At the height of his career, there came a knock at the door, and he was handcuffed in front of his wife and young son. Prosecutors would eventually clear Dr. Qian of charges of sedition and espionage, but the United States deported him anyway — traded back to Communist Beijing in a swap for about a dozen American prisoners of war in 1955.

The implications of that single deportation are staggering: Dr. Qian returned to China and immediately persuaded Mao Zedong to put him to work building a modern weapons program. By the decade’s end, China tested its first missile. By 1980, it could rain them down on California or Moscow with equal ease. Dr. Qian wasn’t just rightly christened the father of China’s missile and space programs; he set in motion the technological revolution that turned China into a superpower.

His story has been top of mind for me (I’ve been working on a biographical book project on him for several years now) as we’ve watched the Trump administration ruthlessly target foreign students and researchers. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio turned up the pressure, announcing that the administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.” There are some one million foreign students in the United States — more than 250,000 of them Chinese. Dr. Qian’s deportation should serve as an important cautionary tale. It proved an American misstep, fueled by xenophobia, that would forever alter the global balance of power.
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Sigh
 


“… Consider the Nature Index, perhaps the most comprehensive guide to high-quality research in the sciences. It tracks contributions to the world’s leading academic journals. Its newest rankings show what scientists already know: China is leaping ahead. Of the top 10 academic institutionsin the Nature Index, nine are Chinese. But still sitting in the topmost position on that list is an American institution: Harvard. And it is this university that President Donald Trump is trying to destroy.

… The administration has never explained why it has singled out Harvard (and the problems that it claims to be concerned about are not particularly egregious at Harvard). Its main weapon — the withdrawal of federal research funds to Harvard — is aimed at the parts of the university that have virtually nothing to do with the “woke ideology” to which Trump objects. More than 90 percent of the funds that the government has threatened to deny Harvard are for research in the life sciences, studying diseases, medicines and other such topics.

Denying funding for cancer research will not affect people protesting for Palestinians. It will almost certainly knock Harvard off that Nature Index list.

… America’s universities have problems, and I have written about them, urging them to abandon fashionable political causes, end the obsession with diversity and marginalization, and return to a focus on excellence. But it is worth noting that these are still by far the world’s leaders in higher education when you consider teaching, research and the academic environment more broadly. This can be seen simply in the tsunami of applications that America’s top universities get from the brightest students around the world. It would be hard to find many industries in which America is more dominant.

Xi Jinping and his erstwhile rival for the Chinese presidency, Bo Xilai, disagreed about many things. But both believed that the best place in the world that their daughter and son, respectively, could go for higher education was Harvard. …”
 
“…an American misstep, fueled by xenophobia, that would forever alter the global balance of power.”

More of that make will make our authoritarian enemies happy.

Plain as day.
 
If Trump wants to win the hearts and minds of adversarial foreign powers to a more democratic worldview, one of the surest methods is to expose their best and brightest citizens firsthand to enlightened education and cultural immersion here in America. He's doing the opposite, because his motives are purely for the purposes of authoritarian control of our universities and indoctrination of students.
 
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The entire statement can be read here but, to me, it seems like a fairly good idea and it's one that most schools/corporations/businesses follow - stay out of politics and, in this case, focus on the fundamental reason for your existence, which is educating students, many of whom have paid a significant amount of money to be educated by you.

They may want to add in, as part of a public statement, something along the lines of "If something truly awful happens, we do not support it or the perpetrators of said event".
 
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ZenMode said:
The entire statement can be read here but, to me, it seems like a fairly good idea and it's one that most schools/corporations/businesses follow - stay out of politics and, in this case, focus on the fundamental reason for your existence, which is educating students, many of whom have paid a significant amount of money to be educated by you.

They may want to add in, as part of a public statement, something along the lines of "If something truly awful happens, we do not support it or the perpetrators of said event".
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You can call me an unrealistic idealist, but the problem I have with it is that education should be essentially a free market on an even playing field. Public funding shouldn't be used as a cudgel to enforce compliance with a particular political doctrine. There are plenty of institutions that are affiliated with political and religious organizations without the government being involved.
 
ZenMode said:
They may want to add in, as part of a public statement, something along the lines of "If something truly awful happens, we do not support it or the perpetrators of said event".
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I think they left that out because they didn’t want to sound like simpletons.
 
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