I’m surprised.
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Take a look at their endowment, even with the drop in all the markets. They can afford to be brave. (Which is good, because they ARE being brave in this instance.)
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It’s nice to see an educational institution doing the right thing, but Harvard has an endowment of over $53B, so they’re in a position where they can afford to stand on principle and risk losing Federal funding for the next 4 years without risking financial ruin. They might even get more alumni donations by doing so, especially over the long term.
I wish that more institutions were willing to stand up to the Trump administration but I’m not sure if Harvard is necessarily any braver than the others rather than just better positioned financially.
[edit: @chgoliz I owe you a coke]
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Exactly, compare to Columbia University which led ICE to foreign students’ apartments.
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Hopefully, that $53B is out of the reach of DOGE the government.
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This makes me so very angry. Of all the groups to get reparations.
And it feels to me this means he’s confirming it was an insurrection…can’t the 14th now kick in and boot his tangerine tush to the curb?
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80 law school deans released a letter a couple of weeks ago condemning the Trump administration. Harvard’s Dean was not one of them. Harvard is not leading the way here. They’re following.
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It’s been pretty clear from the start that they’ve been using hit lists from a couple right-wing groups as the basis for deporting students. Someone in those groups has a connection to - or has simply caught the eye of - someone in the administration. It helps explain why ICE were so confused about why people were being deported - not only had they not made the decision, no one in the administration had either.
And… we’re now at the stage where the President actively flouts the fact that he has no intention of following the constitution or Supreme Court, by hosting Bukele and having him declare that he won’t send anyone back, and also maybe we’ll build a bunch more prisons there for US citizens…
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/doj-jan-6-congress-00280031
DOJ: Some Jan. 6 defendants should be repaid money they sent to Congress
The article quoted in the tweet.
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Typical of the most prestigious universities… They often had to be dragged into change, kicking and screaming… I just hope that public universities that serve diverse populations (who have the MOST to lose from an attack by Trump) stand up to him and give the elite schools some more spine here.
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I’ve read multiple anecdotes along these lines from different parts of the country - ICE agents were looking for someone specific but ended up grabbing a bunch of random people who happened to be in the area, detained them, found out some of them weren’t citizens, and had them imprisoned with a view to deportation (even though they were here legally). And those are just the incidents where we know that’s what happened - how often it’s actually occurring is anyone’s guess, but must be orders of magnitude more common (since it’s, if not explicit policy, then at least given official approval).
So we’ve got a situation where ICE is indiscriminately grabbing random people without due process, and some of those random people are being sent to the El Salvador concentration camp without due process. On top of which, the administration has now made it clear that they’ll violate Supreme Court rulings on the matter, blatantly violating the constitution. It seems like the only reasonable thing to do, if one wasn’t a citizen, would be to carry a gun at all times and shoot any ICE agents one encountered, just from a position of self-defense. Though also from a moral perspective, who could blame them? To be an ICE agent at this point is to fully embrace lawlessness fascism.
All my life I’ve heard from gun owners that one of the main, constitutional purposes of guns were to respond to just such a situation. Guess we’re going to find out if that argument holds water…
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(Narrator: it does not. It never has.)
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I don’t like him. But he and his family don’t deserve to be a target of a violent hate crime.
If he’d spoken out against T****’s stochastic terrorism, he could have helped take some heat off of Maine instead of leaving them to face the brunt of T****’s hateful ire.
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I don’t remotely expect it to (because yeah, it hasn’t for the last 250 years for everyone who was denied rights), but at least now, the next time someone tries that argument, I can tell them to shut the fuck up, because it very clearly didn’t exactly work that way in reality, did it?
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