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  1. MIT rejects Trump administration’s offer of priority federal funding – The Washington Post

    The Great Dome on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Cassandra Klos /Bloomberg)

    Higher Education

    MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

    MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

    October 10, 2025 at 11:16 a.m. EDTToday at 11:16 a.m. EDT, 4 min

    By Susan Svrluga

    MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding Friday, publicly releasing a letterthat emphasized the eliteuniversity’s values including free expression and “the core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

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    Last week, the Trump administration offered nine universities a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” presented as an opportunity to receive competitive advantages from the federal government and from private donors for institutions that sign on. It was the latest attempt by the administration to force colleges into compliance with President Donald Trump’s ideological priorities, after months of federal research funding freezes and investigations into schools’ adherence to civil rights laws.

    The administration asked the schools to, among other changes, agree to prohibit consideration of factors such as gender, race or political views in admissions, scholarships or programming; freeze tuition for five years; adopt a strict definition of gender; and maintain neutrality at all levels when representing the institution. In a letter to universities, administration officials asked for feedback to the compact by Oct. 20.

    One higher education leader in Texas immediately said it was an honor to be among the first schools asked to participate, and a White House official said other colleges had asked to sign on.

    Editor’s Note: See Also these reports, and see below for the compact document sent to universities and colleges; the link shows the Washington Post article with the document text.

    See Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/03/trump-administration-college-funding-compact/

    Compact Document – 22e45e59-75ac-4a81-b1c1-a0ca9753375cDownload

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: MIT rejects Trump administration’s offer of priority federal funding – The Washington Post

    #2025 #America #AntiDemocracy #Books #ConservativeValues #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Massachusetts #MassachusettsInstituteOfTechnology #MIT #Opinion #Politics #PriorityFederalFunding #Reading #RejectsTrumpCompact #Resistance #Science #Technology #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCompact #UnitedStates

  2. Sounds like an older WTO?

    > ICSID, established in 1966 as a means to resolve legal disputes between international investors and states, is an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) court under the World Bank. ICSID allows investors to effectively sue governments for investment losses, including future profits.

    archive.is/sFiJb

    #ICSID #ISDS #GuillaumeLong #InvestorsRights #AntiDemocracy
    #AntiSoveriegnty

    @bs2

  3. AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism

    "Real AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form. Like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. Case after case, from Australia to the Netherlands, has proven that unleashing machine learning in welfare systems amplifies injustice and the punishment of the poor. AI doesn't provide insights as it's just a giant statistical guessing game. What it does do is amplify thoughtlessness, a lack of care, and a distancing from actual consequences. The logics of ranking and superiority are buried deep in the make up of artificial intelligence; married to populist politics, it becomes another vector for deciding who is disposable."

    danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcheris

    #CapitalismKills #thatcherism #AI #ChatGPT #luddites #SocialEngineering #Austerity #Conservatism #AntiDemocracy #precarity

  4. @GatekeepKen @LindaCollins11 this all started when they fired their CEO and hired an alt-right CEO and unfortunately, Jake and Dana and the rest of them who used to be honest brokers of the truth and real news are willing to sacrifice their #integrity for a paycheck. #CashCows are #AntiDemocracy #DanaBash #jaketapper #CNN #MSNBC #lawrenceodonnell was the only one who stood up for democracy after the #debate.

  5. Worthy Read: @Teri_Kanefield wrote a seres of articles that explains our political dilemma

    About a third of the population is, by nature, authoritarian and #AntiDemocracy

    In the 1940s—when the world was reeling with shock over the rise of fascism that led to World War II and the devastating brutality of those regimes—German sociologist Theodor Adorno began studying what came to be called the authoritarian personality.

    The #authoritarian personality is also called an #AntiDemocratic personality.

    #fascism #republicans #republican #republicancult #nazi #trump #elections #election #vote #voteblue
    terikanefield.com/can-democrac

  6. "As more and more wealth accumulates at the top, the moneyed interests fear that democratic majorities will take it away through higher taxes, stricter regulations (on everything from trade to climate change), enforcement of anti-monopoly laws, pro-union initiatives, and price controls.
    So they’re sinking ever more of their wealth into #antidemocracy candidates.
    #Trump is going full #fascist these days, and gaining the backing of prominent #billionaires."
    alternet.org/neofascism/