#upenn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #upenn, aggregated by home.social.
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…The govt’s attacks on #HigherEducation during the past year have in part been aimed at tilting the #political balance of #academia, which #Trump views as hostile to his brand of “conservatism”. Some #MedicalSchools had been swept up in the campaign, but largely at #universities like #Harvard, #UPenn & #UCLA, where the full force of the govt was on display through investigations into “antisemitism” [#Palestinian Rights activism], protections for #transgender athletes & #admissions policies.
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Heng Yang, a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at #UPenn came to #Atlanta to visit #GeorgiaTech and his old physics instructor, yours truly, from when we were both at the #UniversityOfArizona. We got coffee, checked out the campus, and visited #Einstein.
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They’re #suing #UPenn to get a count of #Jews on campus. Phila district court to hear the case. Let’s hope the court remembers #history. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/trump-penn-list-of-jews-subpoena.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.0KEF.hADwEZxsNPSs&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The Trump admin is demanding a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at #UPenn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-listTrump's #EEOC asked for the list last July. Penn refused, and the EEOC sued the university in November. What's new is that several groups just filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the university -- the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP, national and UPenn chapters), the American Academy of Jewish Research, the UPenn Jewish Law Students Association, the UPenn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty.
From #StevenWeitzman, UPenn prof of religious studies and past member of its antisemitism taskforce: “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews. The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.”
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Trump #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Generalized symmetries of non-SUSY and discrete torsion string backgrounds
Noah Braeger, Vivek Chakrabhavi, Jonathan J. Heckman, Max Hübner
SciPost Phys. 19, 160 (2025)
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Entities rush to declare that data hasn't been stolen/they haven't been hacked. They often wind up looking like liars or just more incompetent when the hacker starts dumping or leaking data as proof.
This week's example: U. of Pennsylvania, which quickly declared they hadn't been hacked and it was just a vulgar email sent out. The hacker seems to have proved otherwise.
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started a #wikipedia article on American entomologist and college professor Caroline Burling Thompson (1869-1921): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Burling_Thompson @wikiwomeninred @wellesleyalums #UPenn #Philadelphia #termites #ants #WomeninSTEM
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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How can #AI and #cognitiveScience improve #healthcare?
We got some answers from the #NudgesInHealthcare Symposium at #UPenn.
Check out this summary of some themes in the write-up below:
#medicine #psych #econ #compSci #tech #LLM #edu #bioethics #xPhi
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@paninid #DonaldTrump ‘s #Economics professor at #UPenn Wharton School of Business knew his grades!
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Have you been to any of the many UPenn Hospitals in West Philly lately? I was amazed that they had so much staff literally on the street helping direct traffic and to help lost folks. They even had someone next to the parking lot ticket machine to help drivers get their ticket. Kinda shocked to see more than the minimal effort in healthcare.
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During the #2024election #NickOfferman sang “Proud to be a Kamala man” to parody the stale #MAGA anthem “Proud to be an American” by one-hit-wonder Lee Greenwood.
He continues to taunt #DonaldTheDeplorable with cutting analysis of the #math skills of the #StableGenius #POTUS who cheated his was into and to graduation from the Wharton School of Business at #UPenn. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-show-nick-offerman-trump-national-parks-funding-cuts_n_687b1855e4b02a024c983ada
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"Leges sine moribus vanae" is a Latin phrase that translates to "Laws without morals are useless." It emphasizes the importance of ethics and morality in conjunction with legal systems.
Not today, I guess.
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started a #wikipedia article on #Philadelphia heiress, social worker, writer and mountain climber, Lillian Gest (1897-1986): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gest @wikiwomeninred @vassar #UPenn #mountains #CanadianRockies @AlpineClub
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
MACK: Mismodeling addressed with contrastive knowledge
Liam Rankin Sheldon, Dylan Sheldon Rankin, Philip Harris
SciPost Phys. 18, 150 (2025)
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The #TrumpTaxes that #DonaldTheDeplorable calls ‘reciprocal’ #tariffs are what you’d expect from a #StableGenius that an #Economics professor at #UPenn said was “the dumbest goddam student I ever had!”
#Resist and #DoNotComply.
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Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette -
Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette -
Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette -
Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette -
Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette -
#Trump Freezes $175M in #UPenn #Funding Over #Transgender Athlete #Policy - ReviewDiv
https://reviewdiv.com/trump-freezes-175m-in-upenn-funding-over-transgender-athlete-policy/ -
#American families will start paying a #TrumpTax - and many will lose their export dependent jobs - after the #tariffs put on the largest trading partners of the #UnitedStates kickoff a #TradeWar.
It is yet another reminder of how an #Economics professor at #UPenn described his self-described ‘stable genius’ student, Donald Trump ⬇️ #USpol
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Posts from a now-deleted #Reddit account that reportedly belonged to #LuigiMangione - the suspected killer of #UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson - says that his health problems and "brain fog" started after a lengthy period of sleeplessness during the initiation 'Hell week' of his #IvyLeague fraternity at #UPenn. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/09/us/luigi-mangione-what-we-know-monday?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#BeLikeCanada - and not just by offering #UniversalHealthcare - #BanCollegeFrats !
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Good article in the #UPenn #gazette about humanity's reproductive outlook.
In short, we'll never see 10B people in a hundred years.
More likely, we'll peak around 8, and it will start dropping, fast.
I've been muttering this for years. This article lays it out quite nicely. -
Early Monday morning October 14 before the start of the work week the offices of local weapons manufacturers Ghost Robotics was targeted with a message for Ghost Robotics and their backer the University of Pennsylvania: Ghost Robotics and Penn, THERE’S BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!
The UPenn run campus known as Pennovation in the Grays Ferry neighborhood where Ghost Robotics has its offices was coated with a mix of red paint, broken glass, nails, and messages from Philadelphians to Ghost Robotics and their landlord and backer UPenn: no business as usual for evil fucks who make murder tech!
Ghost Robotics AI-enabled machine-gun-armed robot dogs have been used against Palestinians in Gaza and have been sold to the Department of Homeland Security for use in the US borderlands. Philadelphians won’t stand for the manufacture of killing machines in our backyard with our stolen tax dollars. Across the city people are taking action against Ghost Robotics, demanding an end to the manufacture and distribution of weapons of apartheid. We want Ghost Robotics out of Philadelphia, out of Palestine, and out of the borderlands. As long as Ghost Robotics exists and keeps peddling their killer robot dogs, there’s blood on all of our hands. We will not stop targeting Ghost Robotics and their backers. If you profit off of genocide, you are on notice.
As we cross the threshold of one year since the people of Palestine took a bulldozer through the apartheid wall, we must reflect on how far we have come, and how far we still have to go to see the liberation of Palestine and the liberation of all people from colonialism, militarism and imperialism. This last year of resistance to apartheid and genocide has mobilized millions, and support for the people of Palestine is stronger than ever before. Even still, the US and Israeli backed assault on the Levant carries on, with escalations in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran, and doctors estimating that 200,000 people have been killed. If the US government won’t stop sending weapons to Israel, we hope people will do what they can to stop the weapons themselves.
So long as Ghost Robotics exists and until Palestine is free, people in Philly and around the world will continue to fight against agents of genocide. Revolution until Liberation. Free Free Palestine!
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On the morning of October 10, an autonomous group targeted the home of Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO of Ghost Robotics. The group painted “Funded By Genocide” across his garage, and “I Make Killer Dogs” on the sidewalk, threw paint at the door and ring camera, and smashed windows. We firmly say — we don’t want your dog shit in Philadelphia! And we don’t want it anywhere!
Gavin’s home is currently listed for sale for a whopping $1.9 million dollars. While his autonomous robots are shipped across the world to patrol and surveil Palestinians, Gavin awaits the sale of his lavish home he’s made with dirty money.
Other manufacturers of autonomous robots have stated their commitment to not arming robot dogs, but Ghost Robotics has positioned themselves as the dealer for these weapons. They clearly have no shame or concern about their robot dogs being used to surveil and kill people.
No genocide profiteer should sit comfortably in their home — we commit to draining funds from Gavin, to reminding him that his robot dogs are agents of U.S. imperialism, and to closing down Ghost Robotics.
Until all people are able to live safely and freely in the place they call home, we commit to fighting for our collective liberation.
Source: Unity of Fields
#antiImperialism #DirectAction #freePalestine #ghostRobotics #imperialism #palestine #upenn #USBorder
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Early Monday morning October 14 before the start of the work week the offices of local weapons manufacturers Ghost Robotics was targeted with a message for Ghost Robotics and their backer the University of Pennsylvania: Ghost Robotics and Penn, THERE’S BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!
The UPenn run campus known as Pennovation in the Grays Ferry neighborhood where Ghost Robotics has its offices was coated with a mix of red paint, broken glass, nails, and messages from Philadelphians to Ghost Robotics and their landlord and backer UPenn: no business as usual for evil fucks who make murder tech!
Ghost Robotics AI-enabled machine-gun-armed robot dogs have been used against Palestinians in Gaza and have been sold to the Department of Homeland Security for use in the US borderlands. Philadelphians won’t stand for the manufacture of killing machines in our backyard with our stolen tax dollars. Across the city people are taking action against Ghost Robotics, demanding an end to the manufacture and distribution of weapons of apartheid. We want Ghost Robotics out of Philadelphia, out of Palestine, and out of the borderlands. As long as Ghost Robotics exists and keeps peddling their killer robot dogs, there’s blood on all of our hands. We will not stop targeting Ghost Robotics and their backers. If you profit off of genocide, you are on notice.
As we cross the threshold of one year since the people of Palestine took a bulldozer through the apartheid wall, we must reflect on how far we have come, and how far we still have to go to see the liberation of Palestine and the liberation of all people from colonialism, militarism and imperialism. This last year of resistance to apartheid and genocide has mobilized millions, and support for the people of Palestine is stronger than ever before. Even still, the US and Israeli backed assault on the Levant carries on, with escalations in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran, and doctors estimating that 200,000 people have been killed. If the US government won’t stop sending weapons to Israel, we hope people will do what they can to stop the weapons themselves.
So long as Ghost Robotics exists and until Palestine is free, people in Philly and around the world will continue to fight against agents of genocide. Revolution until Liberation. Free Free Palestine!
House —
On the morning of October 10, an autonomous group targeted the home of Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO of Ghost Robotics. The group painted “Funded By Genocide” across his garage, and “I Make Killer Dogs” on the sidewalk, threw paint at the door and ring camera, and smashed windows. We firmly say — we don’t want your dog shit in Philadelphia! And we don’t want it anywhere!
Gavin’s home is currently listed for sale for a whopping $1.9 million dollars. While his autonomous robots are shipped across the world to patrol and surveil Palestinians, Gavin awaits the sale of his lavish home he’s made with dirty money.
Other manufacturers of autonomous robots have stated their commitment to not arming robot dogs, but Ghost Robotics has positioned themselves as the dealer for these weapons. They clearly have no shame or concern about their robot dogs being used to surveil and kill people.
No genocide profiteer should sit comfortably in their home — we commit to draining funds from Gavin, to reminding him that his robot dogs are agents of U.S. imperialism, and to closing down Ghost Robotics.
Until all people are able to live safely and freely in the place they call home, we commit to fighting for our collective liberation.
Source: Unity of Fields
#antiImperialism #DirectAction #freePalestine #ghostRobotics #imperialism #palestine #upenn #USBorder
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Coining the term #BrainOverclaim
#UPENN #law and #psychiatry professor Dr. #StephenMorse
provides a unique and often overlooked assessment of how #neuroscience research can effectively assist the #Criminal #JusticeSystem» there's a difference between
how the #brain looks
and how the #behavior looks.
For #legal purposes you always have to believe the behavior «#brainsOnTrial #AlanAlda
+ #MIT #McGovern Institute panel incl. @NancyKanwisher
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After way too long, I finally used a GPT to track down the case citation for Houston Texas Central Railroad Company v. W.A. East, including an online copy of the case itself.
TL;DR: Hathi Trust for once actually comes through:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301Texas Supreme Court cases are recorded in West's South Western Reporter. WestLaw is famously obsessive with copyright, but all cases prior to 1928 are now in the public domain. Yay, P.D.
There's an online archive of South Western Reporter at Hathi Trust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100333420
(Via the Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=swreporter)
The full citation for the case, which gives the volume and page number, is:
H. T.C. Ry. Co. v. East
Full title: HOUSTON TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.A. EAST
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Date published: Jun 13, 1904
Citations
81 S.W. 279 (Tex. 1904)
81 S.W. 279So we want South West Reporter, volume 81, page 279.
Which is here:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301
(Hathi infuriatingly doesn't permit full-volume downloads, but you can download PDFs one page at a time...)
The process by which I'd done this seems interesting (IMO):
I'd turned this up using a GPT (FastGPT from Kagi), asking it what the early-20th century Texas case concerning rule of capture was, whether that case was online anywhere (reply: not really, though there are several discussions of it), and then where Texas State Supreme Court rulings were published. OCLC failed to give reasonable references, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to carry these, but the UPenn Online Books Page (Homepage: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/, a hugely useful tool I'm deciding) pointed me to Hathi.
On GPT: the ability to go through a series of questions about a topic, rather than just doing a keyword search, really is transformational. I'd been an early user of Google (1998/9), and online library catalogues for over a decade before that. Being able to inquire about topics and narrow down where to find things is tremendously useful, and I'm still wrapping my head around this as a tool.
cc: @pluralistic
#RuleOfCapture #HathiTrust #Texas #TexasSupremeCourt #FastGPT #GPT #Kagi #UPenn #OnlineBooksPage
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55U-mMJIsRM
Oinkers CRUSH #GazaEncampment at #UPenn - Where Are #FreeSpeech warriors now?
#ACAB #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine #PA #Pennsylvannia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55U-mMJIsRM
Oinkers CRUSH #GazaEncampment at #UPenn - Where Are #FreeSpeech warriors now?
#ACAB #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine #PA #Pennsylvannia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55U-mMJIsRM
Oinkers CRUSH #GazaEncampment at #UPenn - Where Are #FreeSpeech warriors now?
#ACAB #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine #PA #Pennsylvannia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55U-mMJIsRM
Oinkers CRUSH #GazaEncampment at #UPenn - Where Are #FreeSpeech warriors now?
#ACAB #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine #PA #Pennsylvannia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55U-mMJIsRM
Oinkers CRUSH #GazaEncampment at #UPenn - Where Are #FreeSpeech warriors now?
#ACAB #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine #PA #Pennsylvannia
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Brain Implant Reduces Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior: This first-of-its-kind-surgery has brought remarkable relief. #ocd #obsessions #compulsions #epilepsy #deepbrainstimulation #upenn #stanford
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Weekend Update:
#HunterBiden's Federal #Indictment, #UPenn President Resigns -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nRrBdg01HQChloe Fineman’s Save the Last Dance #HolidayGift -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jgHKLcBRmUMarcello Hernández on #Depression in Men -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWAhbaQFzRw#AlaskaAirlines Buys #HawaiianAirlines, Calendar of #Conservative Women -
SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFPs8HK6TpE -
Liz Magill resigns as UPenn president after disastrous hearing on antisemitism
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/business/upenn-board-of-trustees-meeting-liz-magill?cid=ios_app
#UPenn #LizMagill #resignation #antisemitism #hearing #boardoftrustees #Politics #News
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Liz Magill resigns as UPenn president after disastrous hearing on antisemitism
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/business/upenn-board-of-trustees-meeting-liz-magill?cid=ios_app
#UPenn #LizMagill #resignation #antisemitism #hearing #boardoftrustees #Politics #News
