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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      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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        Whether he’s competent or not, he won’t receive the cult following that Trump does and will therefore be neutered. SCOTUS isn’t going to bend over for Vance like they do for Trump and the rest of the party will be scrambling trying to fill the power vacuum.

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        Ambition and being dangerousness necessarily mean competent.

        Hitler was incompetent as fuck; and he was both ambitious and dangerous.