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  1. Capitulation

    #Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with #Trump admin to restore #federal #funding

    #NorthwesternUniversity has agreed to pay $75 million to the US government in a deal with the Trump admin to end a series of investigations & restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal #research funding.

    #extortion #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Palestinian #HumanRights #protests
    apnews.com/article/trump-north

  2. Scientists Studied ‘SuperAgers’ And Found These Brain Results

    Northwestern University is conducting ongoing research into SuperAgers and just released a new study published in Alzheimer’s &…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #brainhealth #braintips #Cognitivefunction #dementia #memoryloss #memorytips #NorthwesternUniversity #SuperAgers
    newsbeep.com/us/240644/

  3. The president of #NorthwesternUniversity, Michael H. Schill, announced Thursday that he would resign, after a difficult tenure that included attacks from #Republicans in #Congress & cuts by the #Trump admin that forced the #university to lay off hundreds.

    #Northwestern became a target this year of Trump ofcls, who cut nearly $800 million of the university’s federal #research #funding, after months of intense scrutiny from Republicans.

    #law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #BrainDrain

  4. The #FarRight Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

    #BetarUS said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”

    "This conflation of speech critical to #Israel with #antisemitism or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said #JonahRubin, with #JewishVoiceForPeace, a progressive #JewishAmerican group that advocates for #Palestinian #HumanRights."

    Jonah Valdez
    February 6 2025

    "The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in #ProjectEsther: a treatise by the authors of #Project2025. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'

    "Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures.

    "#Academia is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages #surveillance in specific areas, such as #universities and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report #InternationalStudents for possible deportation.

    "On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — #ColumbiaUniversity; #UCLABerkley; #NorthwesternUniversity; #UniversityOfMinnesota, Twin Cities; and #PortlandStateUniversity — for #antisemitism, the first use of the executive order.

    "'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the #Israeli government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [#ICC], #AmnestyInternational, #HumanRightsWatch, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'"

    "Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On #SocialMedia, groups such as #MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism and the #ChicagoJewishAlliance have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/02/06/be

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/fCZve
    #McCarthyism #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #DontSnitch #ICE #ICERaids #ICEArrests #Deportation #CollegeStudents #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #USPol

  5. Storms that raked the Chicago area Tuesday night brought down tree branches and power lines, blocking roadways and knocking out power to tens of thousands.

    (wgntv.com/weather/chicagoland-)

    #Weather #storm #Chicago #Evanston #NorthwesternUniversity #wgn

  6. Spent last Apr & May in Chicago after a performance at NU's Block Cinema. One of many screenings I attended while there was “Adwa: An African Victory” w/Haile Gerima in-person, which drew many Black activists and artists. Found myself sitting next to travis of ONO; told him I had photos of their Lakefill gig where he was playing on the hood of an old Impala. Finally scanned the negs.

    Most likely 20 May 1984.


  7. @VOANews

    #USpol #Palestine #UniversityProtests

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    About 1,000 #US students have been arrested in the #ProPalestine protests. #Columbia has started #suspensions.

    This is crazy. Peaceful and legal protests are possible, as #NorthwesternUniversity's example shows.

    Via #VOA:

    "In a rare case, Northwestern University said it reached an agreement with students and faculty who represent the majority of protesters on its campus near Chicago. It allows...

    mastodon.social/@VOANews/11235

  8. I'm excited to announce that Lilli Carré's exquisite animated sequence "Chicago, Illinois, 1953," which is narrated by Lili Taylor and appears in my film ROY'S WORLD, will be part of the NU Animation Jam next Tuesday, November 14. The event is *free* and will include a whole bunch of other cool shorts, and I'll be participating in the Q & A. Hope you can make it!

    #roysworldfilm #barrygifford #lilitaylor #animation #northwesternuniversity #free #evanston #lillicarre

  9. NWU researchers develop a throat-worn wearable that could offer early warnings for COVID-19 patients - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is resulting in big shifts across industries, but the development of m... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #northwesternuniversity #ambientintelligence #coronavirus #infection #hardware #startups #covid-19 #biotech #chicago #illness #fever #kinsa #tc