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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/columbia-university-faculty-sue-doj-2625612

There’s a lot to unpack in this article—but what really stopped me cold was this quote. It throws Reagan’s famous “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” into a whole new, chilling light:

“We’re going to bankrupt these universities. We’re going to take away every single federal dollar… If these universities do not play ball, lawyer up, because the federal government is coming after you.”
—Leo Terrell, head of a Trump-era task force targeting higher education

Columbia’s Humanities Profs on the Faculty Union Suing DOJ | Artnet News An anonymous group of Columbia University faculty are suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) over the Trump administration's funding cuts.

Quoting the article says it best - but a full read is warranted. Our freedom of expression is at stake!:

“Attacking the idea that telling the whole story of the United States is an ideological plot to cast the United States in a negative light testifies to a stunningly brittle insecurity about our nation and its past,” said Chandra Manning, a professor of American history at Georgetown University. “It seems to suggest that if we allow anyone to hear the whole story of challenges that Americans have overcome, our nation will shatter. The American people are not so fragile as all that,” Manning said.

Trump’s executive order demands an “ideological purity test” and “restores neither truth nor sanity,” said Adam Rothman, an American history professor at Georgetown University. “The president’s proclamation disrespects the thousands of sincere and dedicated researchers, curators, scientists, guides, interpreters, docents and countless other people who work hard every day to preserve and tell the nation’s story truthfully, and in ways that educate and inspire the American public.”

Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian The order directs the vice president to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.