The place is a Liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE. It is truly horrific! Now, since our filings began, they act like they are all âAmerican Apple Pie.â Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. Heâs not that good, anyway, and I hope that my very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!
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Trump Directs Sons to Fire Trump Org. Lawyer Because of Harvard Ties
In a statement, one of the sons, Eric Trump, confirmed that the Trump Organization intended to cut ties to Mr. Burck over his decision to represent Harvard.
âI view it as a conflict, and I will be moving in a different direction,â he said.
Mr. Burck declined to comment.
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
(April 21, 2025)
Harvard filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, arguing its freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and âflatly unlawfulâ and calling on the court to restore more than $2.2 billion in research dollars.
The filing, in U.S. District Court in Boston, requests that the court vacate and set aside the funding freeze to allow previously approved funding to flow and halt administration efforts to freeze current or deny future funding without engaging in procedures contained in federal law.
Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:
It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvardâs efforts and instead presents demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court.
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The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.
Harvard wonât comply with demands from Trump administration
Harvard on Monday rejected demands from the Trump administration that threaten $9 billion in research funding, countering that the changes pushed by the government exceed its lawful authority and infringe on both the Universityâs independence and its constitutional rights.
âThe University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,â Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a message to the community. He added: âNo government â regardless of which party is in power â should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.â
With billions at risk, Harvard rejects Trump administrationâs request for policy changes
The Trump administration has threatened numerous colleges across the U.S. with funding cuts if changes in school policy werenât made, and Harvardâs move appears to mark the first time an elite university has rebuked the White House over those demands.
Among the mandates in the administrationâs letter are the elimination of Harvardâs diversity, equity and inclusion programs, banning masks at campus protests, merit-based hiring and admissions reforms and reducing the power held by faculty and administrators âmore committed to activism than scholarship.â
Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administrationâs Demands
Other universities have pushed back against the administrationâs interference in higher education. But Harvardâs response, which called the Trump administrationâs demands illegal, marked a major shift in tone for the nationâs most influential school, which has been criticized in recent weeks for capitulating to Trump administration pressure.
Knesset Passes McCarthyistic Law Allowing Far-Right Government to Fire Teachers
The bill was attacked during the debate in the plenum by Hadash-Taâal MK Ahmad Tibi, who retweeted a statement by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) arguing that its purpose was âto regulate the discourse in schools and to harm teachers whose statements and worldview do not coincide with those of the education minister and the political parties controlling the Education Ministry.â
âThe purpose of the law is to threaten teachers and principals of Arab schools, to mark them and make them a target for surveillance and persecution,â the rights group stated, arguing that the tools already at its disposal before the current law were âadequate and sufficient.â âThe law severely violates the rights to expression, employment and pedagogical autonomy of teachers and administrators,â it added. The teachersâ unions also opposed the bill.
Were young American Jews lied to about Israel? A new documentary says yes
(February 24, 2023)
From directors Eric Axelman and Sam Eilertsen, Israelism follows two millennial Jews â Simone Zimmerman, co-founder of IfNotNow and Eitan, an American former IDF soldier who didnât want to use his last name in the documentary â as they talk about becoming disenchanted with the Israel they were taught to defend and believe in growing up within the American Jewish system. (Filmmakers Axelman and Eilertsen are also millennial Jews, and in a directorâs statement, Axelman wrote about their own, similar arc with Israel.)
Possible Eoarchean Records of the Geomagnetic Field Preserved in the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Southern West Greenland
(24 April 2024)
The preservation of a temperate climate and liquid water on early Earth depends critically upon the strength of the magnetosphere (Sterenborg et al., 2011; Tarduno et al., 2014). Recent atmospheric escape models have suggested that both weak (<10 ÎŒT) and strong (>1 mT) magnetic fields could substantially enhance atmospheric escape under present-day solar wind conditions via the polar wind or cusp escape, respectively (Gronoff et al., 2020; Gunell et al., 2018; Lundin et al., 2007). During the Archean, the Sun was rotating faster, generating a stronger stellar dynamo and therefore the solar wind was more intense than today (Vidotto, 2021). An increased solar wind strength causes greater interaction with the upper atmosphere and greater escape of ions assuming a constant level of protection from Earth‘s magnetosphere. Previous magnetohydrodynamic simulations have suggested that if Earth‘s magnetic field was half its present day strength 3.5 Ga ago, the area of the polar cap (the area containing open dipolar magnetic field lines, allowing atmospheric escape via the polar wind) could increase by up to 50% (Sterenborg et al., 2011).
The Earthâs Magnetic Field Is At Least 3.7-Billion-Years Old, New Evidence Shows
The age of the Earthâs magnetic field remains under question in part because we donât fully understand what causes it today. We know it is a product of movements in the molten outer core, whose high iron content turns convection currents into a dynamo, and these currents in turn are produced by the solidification of the inner core.
Earth‘s magnetic field formed before the planet‘s core, study suggests
(24 April 2024)
Today, the magnetic field is driven by the churning of the liquid part of the core and the transfer of heat from the solid inner core to the convective outer core as the former cools. But researchers think the core didn‘t solidify until about a billion years ago.
How does the Earth‘s core generate a magnetic field?
The Earth‘s outer core is in a state of turbulent convection as the result of radioactive heating and chemical differentiation. This sets up a process that is a bit like a naturally occurring electrical generator, where the convective kinetic energy is converted to electrical and magnetic energy. Basically, the motion of the electrically conducting iron in the presence of the Earth‘s magnetic field induces electric currents. Those electric currents generate their own magnetic field, and as the result of this internal feedback, the process is self-sustaining so long as there is an energy source sufficient to maintain convection.
Watch: Israeli children sing, âWe will annihilate everyoneâ in Gaza
The sweet faces of children make an incongruous accompaniment to the genocidal lyrics of the so-called Friendship Song 2023.
âAutumn night falls over the beach of Gaza, planes are bombing, destruction, destruction,â the children sing in angelic voices. âWithin a year we will annihilate everyone, and then we will return to plow our fields.â
The lyrics were translated for The Electronic Intifada by independent writer and filmmaker David Sheen and you can watch a subtitled video of the song above, or in the tweet below:
Israeli children sing to âannihilate everyoneâ in Gaza in genocidal war anthem This Nazi-esque ethnosupremacist propaganda was published by Israelâs national broadcaster, @kann_news, and subsequently deleted
Between Oct. 2021 and Sep. 2022, the U.S. spent $877 billion on the military, more than the next 10 countries combined. These huge military expenditures, along with the rising costs of a for-profit healthcare system, have driven the U.S. national debt to over $31 trillion, nearly $5 trillion more than US GDP. #Kennedy24
Imagine how we could rebuild our nation if we brought even half that amount home. Let‘s take care of those left behind. Let‘s fix our infrastructure. Let‘s clean up our environment. Let‘s make our nation strong and prosperous again! #Kennedy24
Education Minister Tweets: âOne Nation, One Flag, One Stateâ, on Holocaust Day
(20.04.2023)
âDoes the Minister of Education know the source of the quote,â asked Communist Party leading member and lawmaker Ofer Cassif (Hadash). Prof. Hagai Levine, the past chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians, said that it was âreally sad to read such a tweet on such a day from an uneducated minister.â
Israelâs New Proposed Civics Curriculum Favors Loyalty to State Over Equal Rights
Israelâs new junior high school civics curriculum highlights Jewish aspects of Israel and the power of the government while reducing the focus on civil and human rights, the status of the Arab minority, judicial oversight, equal rights and other components of democracy.
According to sources in the Education Ministry, the curriculum, which was formulated over the past year by five members of the curriculum committee (all Jews, and three are religiously observant), is expected to serve as a basis for a new high school civics program in the future. It is pending final approval.
Die Hauptstadt des ganz normalen Wahnsinns
Schlagzeilen der derben Sorte aus dem Berliner Alltag lauten gerade âLĂ€den schlieĂen und verwandeln sich in teure Ferienwohnungenâ, âKaufhauskette stellt Insolvenzantragâ, âTipps fĂŒr die Zeit ohne Strom in Berlin haben Hochkonjunkturâ, âDie FlĂŒchtlingsströme sind fĂŒr Berlin nicht zu stemmenâ, âBĂ€cker, Fleischer, andere Handwerksbetriebe geben aufâ, âStaus wegen junger Menschen, die sich auf die StraĂe klebenâ, âBundesprĂ€sident hĂ€lt Rede an die Nationâ, âGesundheitsminister erklĂ€rt, dass Kitas in der Pandemie nicht hĂ€tten geschlossen werden mĂŒssenâ, âMieterhöhungen von 15 Prozent bedrohen Mieter in Moabitâ, â5 Euro fĂŒr einen GlĂŒhweinâ, âBriefe werden von der Post unzuverlĂ€ssig zugestelltâ, âBerliner Feuerwehr in Notâ, âSozialĂ€mter ĂŒberlastetâ, âZahl der Obdachlosen steigtâ, âParagrafenĂ€nderung durch Regierung schrĂ€nkt Freiheit der Rede, der Meinung, der Wissenschaft einâ, âAufarbeitung des RBB-Skandals ist einzige Veralberungâ, âMĂŒllgebĂŒhren steigenâ, âKochen ohne Strom â Empfehlung dagegen: Rotkohlsalatâ, âDrama um Berufsausbildung â die Lage ist schlechtâ, âSanierungsstau bei der U-Bahnâ. Und so weiter.
Kinder malen Menschen ohne Mund und Nase
âSo war das in Corona-Zeiten. Wir beobachteten das immer hĂ€ufiger: Die Kinder nahmen uns mit Maske nicht so wahrâ, kommentiert Engelhardt. Sie erlĂ€utert, dass fĂŒr die Sprachentwicklung Mimik und Gestik unerlĂ€sslich seien und durch das Maskentragen den Kindern viel davon genommen worden sei. Aussprache und SprachverstĂ€ndnis seien schlechter geworden. Und sie fĂŒgt einen besonders besorgniserregenden Umstand hinzu: âEs erschreckt mich, wenn ich sehe, dass Kinder Gesichter nur noch mit Augen malen, Nase und Mund einfach vergessen.â
100 Jahre Paulo Freire: Gedenken des brasilianischen PĂ€dagogen
Er entwickelte erfolgreich eine Alphabetisierungsmethode fĂŒr Erwachsene, wurde aber bald von der MilitĂ€rdiktatur verfolgt und musste Brasilien verlassen. Im Exil verbreiteten sich seine Ideen, und er erlangte internationale Anerkennung.
Uruguay: Proteste gegen Reformen im Bildungswesen
Unter dem Motto „Die staatliche Bildung verkauft man nicht, sondern man verteidigt sie!“ haben Gewerkschaften einen Generalstreik ausgerufen.
Erste öffentliche indigene UniversitÀt in Kolumbien erkÀmpft
Die Autonome Indigene und Interkulturelle UniversitÀt (UAIIN) bietet heute als öffentliches Bildungsinstitut attraktive StudiengÀnge an.
Ungarns Regierung sichert sich mehr Einfluss auf Unis
Das Parlament verabschiedete heute eine Reform, wonach Stiftungen eingerichtet werden sollen, die die UniversitÀten betreiben. Die Kuratoren der Stiftungen werden von der Regierung ernannt.
Pupils across Italy protest against distance learning
Pupils and teachers in 60 Italian cities were striking and staging protests against distance learning on Friday.
The protest-strike was called by the PrioritĂ alla Scuola community and some unions.