#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.

"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism

MA congressperson Jim McGovern condemns the execution of Ethel Rosenberg at the height of the #McCarthy era on the floor of Congress. "Let me repeat that: this government, the United States Government, knew way back then that she was innocent and executed her anyway". https://www.rfc.org/blog/2025-02/rep-jim-mcgovern-issues-ethel-rosenberg-apology-house-floor

The greatest legacy of the #BlackPanther Party is free #school lunches.

If you grew up poor and got free #lunch at school, you can thank the #BlackPanthers for that.

#McCarthy called them a threat to #America for a reason.

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 27 January 2025 :

#AphexTwin, #MathieuBoogaerts, #BrianCase, #ThFaithHealers, #BrigitteFontaine, #GrandVeymont, #Hyperculte, #Ignatus, #LaTène, #McCarthy, #Nonstop, #RienVirgule, #Wysteria,

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 20 January 2025 :

#RichardAmp, #ArashiwithTakeoMoriyama, #Brötzmann #NilssenLove, #BrianCase, #DhanaJeera, #BrigitteFontaine, #Hypo, #Jessamine, #RobMazurek, #McCarthy, #MissMend, #Nonstop, #Novak, #QuickspaceSupersport, #RienVirgule, #SoulCoughing, #KonradSprenger, #SufjanStevens, #TristwchYFenywod, #Various,

#Paul #mccarthy from the #beatles is warning agains the use of #ai, because it rips off #musicians
Right he is.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c8xqv9g8442o

#Disque du jour, bonjour :

McCarthy • The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mccarthy+the+enraged+will+inherit+the+earth

Avant d'être responsable du meilleur groupe du monde de l'univers de l'espace, #TimGane officiait dans #McCarthy, un groupe d'"#IndieRock" classique de l'époque. J'ai mis du temps à apprécier, ce n'est pas complètement ma came, mais j'aime bien écouté de temps en temps.

#McCarthy #Monetaries

https://youtu.be/bgfZfsFls5A

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 13 January 2025 :

#Accrual, #RichardWilsonAvena, #DhanaJeera, #BrigitteFontaine, #BenLaMarGay, #Goldfrapp, #GusGus, #HumanError, #InspiralCarpets, #PhilippeKaterine, #KosmischerLäufer, #Kraftwerk, #MarquisDeSade, #McCarthy, #MakayaMcCraven, #Moby, #PinkFloyd, #LucyRailton #MaxEilbacher, #PeterRehberg, #RienVirgule,

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/mccarthy-complete-albums-singles-and-bbc-collection

I miss #McCarthy. I wish more current indiepop bands ripped off their politics and not just their jangle.

Eine kleine schadenfreude: https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2024/11/toon-who-laughs-last.html
#editorialcartoon
#gaetz #mccarthy #congress #attorneygeneral #Republicans #GOP

Today in Labor History November 15, 1919: The main headquarters of the New York City Wobblies (IWW) was ransacked and destroyed by agents acting under the US Attorney General Palmer. The Palmer raids were part of the first U.S. communist witch hunt, starting well before the more well-known McCarthy purges. It was also where J. Edgar Hoover cut his baby teeth. Between 1917 and 1919, the IWW membership had plummeted from 300,000 in the U.S. to around 30,000, due in large part to the mass arrests, murders and deportations of IWW members, anarchists, and other radicals during the Palmer raids.

We could soon see a resurgence of this by the state, or by MAGA vigilantes, with a Trump presidency. However, their targets could be mainstream organizations like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, LGBTQ organizations, immigrants’ rights organizations, and even Democratic Party offices, all of whom have been vilified by the right as “communists.” Not to mention concentration camps to house immigrants pending deportation, and raids of workplaces and schools to round up immigrant workers and children. What are you doing to prepare?

Jenny McCarthy https://www.girlselfie.com/576932/jenny-mccarthy-2/ #BeautyInOurTime #GirlSelfie #girls #GirlsSelfie #jenny #McCarthy #pretty #PrettyGirls #PrettyGirlsInstagram #PrettyGirlsSelfie

"With new film, Adam Kinzinger slams Kevin McCarthy as Trump’s ‘chief enabler’ after Jan. 6"

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-09-06/adam-kinzinger-kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-jan-6-tiff-toronto-the-last-republican

“Donald Trump was a nonentity. No one even showed up at [Joint Base] Andrews when he left,” Kinzinger says in “The Last Republican,” premiering Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival. “And that’s when Kevin McCarthy goes to Mar-a-Lago. That changed everything.”

Lawfare Daily: Rachel #Maddow Talks #McCarthy, #Fascism, and #Ultra #theLawfarePodcast
https://podcastaddict.com/the-lawfare-podcast/episode/180817160