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Something has got to give here. Trump is now saying that he views “due process” — judicial hearings before throwing someone into a foreign dungeon torture site — as unAmerican.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/trump-harvard-deal-funding-billion-dei.html Harvard has $2.2 billion in grants frozen by Trump administration after rejecting demands The Trump administration on Monday night said it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University over concerns about antisemitism on campus and other issues. The freeze was announced hours after Harvard flatly rejected demands by the Trump administration to eliminate its DEI programs and screen international students for ideological concerns, including antisemitism, putting nearly $9 billion in federal funding for the university at risk. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a note to the university community detailing his reasons for not complying with the demands. “Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,” Garber said. The U.S. General Services Administration and Department of Education responded with a statement detailing the freeze of $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to Harvard. “Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws,” the federal agencies said. “The disruption of learning that has plagued campuses in recent years is unacceptable. The harassment of Jewish students is intolerable,” the agencies said. “It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support.” [...]

This should not surprise anyone. https://x.com/atrupar/status/1911813948912918658 (video clip at link) Trump says he'd like to deport American citizens to a gulag in El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I said to Pam, I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways ... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country."

Well, gee, you think that might have something to do with the policies themselves? Kind of hard to give a positive spin on the impact of the tariffs when even Trump says consumers should expect to experience "short term pain" And then there is this pesky thing where people here legally are being snatched off the streets and sent to a gulag in El Salvador without due process. Seriously, how could anyone expect to see positive coverage on that?

Spot on take by Carter.

Maybe the accelerator stuck.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1917223665717911756 Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department's civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they've been driven out by Trump officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities. https://nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/trump-doj-civil-rights.html

Trump getting things done in Canada.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/liberals-win-canada-election-thanks-to-trump/ Liberals Win Canada Election Thanks to Trump Trump’s tariffs and preposterous taunts Canada led to liberals to victory in Canada.

They may have been making a statement against the policies of Israel. That, as anyone should know, does not by itself make them antisemitic.

And not sitting well with opposition party leader Pierre Poilievre.

With this so-called Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, it is somehow fitting that Paul Rodgers' earlier and better band Free has not been inducted while Bad Company has been (It is true that Bad Company had some great songs and Free is considered on this side of the pond, a "one-hit wonder" but still I can't see how one could be inducted but not the other).

Listening to his recent speeches, he may indeed be suffering from dementia.

And she is being called a "DEI hire" - not too hard to guess who are probably the folks making that accusation.

So far silence from Trump on this tragedy:

Trump is bringing back Columbus Day. That's fine except It never went away.