“I am one of those who feel that trying to calm down an authoritarian government will never really work.”
This is not an excerpt from the “no kings” protests of this weekend. This is what the Director of the Harvard University Institute of World Literature told journalist Rebecca Barker for her Rewire News Group History about how universities fight Trump’s attacks on higher education.
David Damrosch is one of the nearly 100 Harvard teachers who decided to lose their salary to help the university as he tries to return more than $ 2 billion to federal dollars canceled by President Donald Trump. The Ivy League is not the only target of the White House: Columbia, northwest, Brown, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania had millions or billions in federal funding and frozen grants. At least 60 more schools have received letters from the Ministry of Education informing them that they are under investigation.
It is an obvious attack on a pillar of American Republic.
“We are the envy of the world because our educational systems are free from unjustified political interference and ideological agendas,” said Lynn Pasequerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU), he said, Rewire News Group.
University schools and managers across the country do not take the attack that was sitting down. Dozens of schools, 21 General Lawyers, 12 Boston Hospitals and hundreds of graduates have also submitted newsletters to support Harvard’s pipelines against Trump. Several Big Ten births have formed a mutual mutual mutual compact, which promises to support legally and financially through the attack of the government by their campuses. And the US University Professors Association, which has about 50,000 members of more than 500 schools, has filed five lawsuits against the Trump administration.
Barker’s piece is the latest version of Rewire News GroupSeries of Campus Shipping. Read it here.
One Programming Note: Executive dysfunction will not publish next week, because I will be on vacation! The next newsletter will hit your inbox on June 30.
Wins democracy
- About 5 million people participated in over 2,000 anti-Trump “No Kings” protests in all US on June 14, According to the US Association of Civil Libertiesco -funded the event. Protesters gathered large cities; suburbs; small cities condemn what they consider to be the monarchical abuses of Trump’s power. It was the biggest protest against the president during his second term. The demonstrations coincide with the military parade of Trump celebrating the 250th anniversary of the army – and his own birthday. THE New York Times referenced “A time performance and the crowds are scattered early.”
- A federal judge in California on June 9 said that the White House cannot exclude funding funding funding whose programs promote diversity or recognize trans people. Reported the Associated Press. Health Centers and LGBTQ+ groups receiving federal money had filed the lawsuit in Februaryarguing that they could not continue their work, following the executive commands of Trump and Anti-Trans.
- Another federal judge said last week that Americans do not need to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, calling a Trump administration order that requires such proof of “unjustified interference” in the federal elections, CBS News reported. This is the second time Trump’s March 25 executive He has lost in court: In April, a federal judge had also been blocked parts of the order. A found a recent NBC News poll This 81% of US adults believe Trump should obey judicial decisions.
Anti -democratic acts
- Minnesota police arrested the suspect On June 14th Murder of the Democratic Legislator of Minnesota Melissa HortmanWHERE He was a vocal supporter Rights of abortions, family license and other progressive gender policies. The 57 -year -old suspect also allegedly killed his wife Hortman and shot another Minnesota legislator and his wife. They both survived the attack. Suspicious shooter’s target list included abortions and supporters, Mother Jones referenced. “There were clearly some through abortion,” Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn) said June 15th.
- Judicial immunity should not protect Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested in April for allegedly helping an immigrant without documents to avoid the ice in the Wisconsin hall from the accusations of obstruction and concealment, The Ministry of Justice supported June 9. If convicted, Dugan could face six years in prison and a fine of $ 350,000, the Journal Milwaukee Sentinel referenced.
- A appellate court judge said the troops of the National Guard who left Los Angeles to eliminate the continued protests of the city could remain in California at least until a hearing is scheduled for tomorrow, June 17, June 17, Los Angeles Times referenced. Governor Gavin Newsom had requested that the guards be withdrawn, arguing that a commander should consent to military development in their state, and a federal judge on June 12 agreed, issuing a decision that prevents Trump’s administration from mobilizing the National Guard. On June 9, Trump Administration also sent about 700 marines In Los Angeles.
- Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was violently removed from a Los Angeles press conference after asking the Homeland Manager Kristi Noem a question on June 12, Guardian referenced. Officers from the Secret Service and the FBI nailed to the senator on the ground and put him out of the room.
- Republicans of the House moved to codify Trump’s proposal to recall $ 9.4 billion in approved federal funding in NPR, PBS and foreign aid, According to NBC News.
Migration
- Trump stopped immigration raids to meat packaging factories, hotels, restaurants and agricultural businesses on June 13 New York Times referenced.
- On June 13, a federal judge underlined Trump’s claim that Mahmoud Khalil-a postgraduate student at the University of Columbia, who was held for his role in driving at the University of Palestinian protests. for his green card. Male referenced. The June 13 decision came shortly after the Ministry of Justice said that Khalil will not be released After the same judge he ruled on June 11 that Halil could not be held or held as a supposed national security threat.
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia – a Maryland man who fell wrongly deported and held in a detention facility for El Salvador and then returned to the US – he has admitted that he is not guilty of charges of people smuggling, According to NBC News.
- After Political reported on June 10 That the White House was planning to steal at least 9,000 immigrants to transfer to the infamous Gulf of Guantanamo Gulf, the The post was reported on June 12 That these plans seem to have been on hold. Since June 12, Guantanamo’s Gulf – a US military base in Cuba converted into a notorious extracurricular detention center after September 11 terrorist attacks – holds 43 immigrants in the facility, which can currently have less than 200 people, New York Times referenced.
Health and science
- The collective collections of Seattle workers have long provided Community care to vulnerable groups where traditional healthcare systems could not. Two groups in the city, strippers are workers and the Green Light project spoke Rewire News Group About how their programs meet people where they are and how their work could serve as a national model for providing healthcare to marginalized communities: “The city or county may offer a clinic, but the peoples are not going to come to anywhere”, “they must be”, “they must”.
- All 17 members of the Center for Disease Control and the Prevention Vaccine Advisory Committee were rejected on June 9 New York Times referenced. Minister of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He has used eight new members for the committee, including several well -known skeptical vaccines, According to NBC News.
- On June 11, more than 460 former CDC employees who had been arbitrarily fired in April said they would be restored, the Reported the Associated Press. Their repetition was also arbitrary: HHS officials gave no reason for the decision.
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Unwind
I have some good news for you this week! A few weeks ago, I wrote in this newsletter for Tiki, a terrible rescue dog pulled by ASPCA and underwent a viral legendary recovery Isabel Klee. When he arrived at Klee’s apartment in AprilHe was closed, scared to leave the boundaries of his box. But slowly, during six weeks, he began exploring Klee’s apartment, allowing people to throw him away and eventually dare to the Klee threshold.
I am excited to say that after 44 days in the underwriting, Tiki was adopted (!!!) through the Muddy Paws rescue (through which, for complete transparency, I adopted my own Tuey dog in 2023). And yes, I’m ugly when I saw the video. Now you can follow Tiki’s journey as he continues to be very brave at his home forever here.
