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In It to Win It

(11,998 posts) Fri Nov 7, 2025, 12:44 PM Friday

BREAKING: Cornell caved. 🧵

BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:11:43.848Z

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:21:45.679Z

Cornell agrees to "invest" million in things like AI farming.

Cornell also agrees to pay million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:25:18.762Z

Cornell agrees to turn over "anonymized" admissions data broken down to individual colleges and schools.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:28:06.388Z

And, Cornell's president agrees to bow down to Trump each quarter.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:30:09.192Z

Here is the email the "Cornell Community" received about today's capitulation:
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T18:05:08.018Z

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BREAKING: Cornell caved. 🧵 (Original Post) In It to Win It Friday OP

Profiles in Cowardice. Chasstev365 Friday #1

Sad. efhmc Friday #2

Stupid fukker UpInArms Friday #3

Poison Ivy League Solly Mack Friday #4

some Yale profs just fled for teaching posts in Canada. CTyankee Friday #16

You were always so excited posting about it. I remember. Solly Mack Friday #18

We've moved out of our New Haven house and live in Masonicare in a nearby town, Wallingford. CTyankee Sunday #19

Let's face the facts - there is nothing more important to our world than money. Nothing. walkingman Friday #5

Time for donors to yank back endowments Easterncedar Friday #6

Wow! Is this the first institution to agree to this? yardwork Friday #7

Pathetic bastards. miyazaki Friday #8

Fuck this POS administration! Initech Friday #9

Propaganda is not education Blue Owl Friday #10

So, they've decided to turn their university Bettie Friday #11

Very Sad. This will not serve Cornell well at all. MineralMan Friday #12

i wouldn't call that caving AmandaRuth Friday #13

Pay the Trump regime $30 million for being their serf? muriel_volestrangler Friday #14

Keith Olbermann rant incoming in 3...2...1.... synni Friday #15

Epstein files are HUGE !!! uponit7771 Friday #17

This makes me so sad. I use their free birding app all the time. mucifer Sunday #20

I can see admittance numbers go down for Cornell in the future sakabatou Sunday #21

Chasstev365

(6,706 posts)

1. Profiles in Cowardice.

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 12:46 PM

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efhmc

(15,926 posts)

2. Sad.

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 12:47 PM

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UpInArms

(53,705 posts)

3. Stupid fukker

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 12:53 PM

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I hate cowards

Solly Mack

(96,050 posts)

4. Poison Ivy League

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 12:55 PM

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CTyankee

(67,537 posts)

16. some Yale profs just fled for teaching posts in Canada.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 7, 2025, 03:38 PM

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We used to attend Yale football in its historic Yale Bowl. They (and mostly their tailgating) were a highlight of our year in New Haven. No longer and I am sad that it's over.

Solly Mack

(96,050 posts)

18. You were always so excited posting about it. I remember.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #16)

Fri Nov 7, 2025, 04:33 PM

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Paying Trump bribes serves no one but Trump.

CTyankee

(67,537 posts)

19. We've moved out of our New Haven house and live in Masonicare in a nearby town, Wallingford.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #18)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 10:00 AM

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It is odd not being a New Haven resident. And I miss the tailgate group we had joined. Those were good days!

Now we watch Ivy League games on TV. Unless we get into a group that goes to the Yale Bowl for season games we will watch only on TV. It's not the same, of course. I miss our friends at the tailgate party!

walkingman

(10,088 posts)

5. Let's face the facts - there is nothing more important to our world than money. Nothing.

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:13 PM

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Not our children, not our planet, not even our own existence. Praise Jesus. Amen?

Easterncedar

(5,263 posts)

6. Time for donors to yank back endowments

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:30 PM

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yardwork

(68,551 posts)

7. Wow! Is this the first institution to agree to this?

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:41 PM

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miyazaki

(2,575 posts)

8. Pathetic bastards.

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:42 PM

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I guess Carl Sagan's tenure there was lost on these fuckers.

Much of what he communicated espoused the equality of man.

Initech

(106,872 posts)

9. Fuck this POS administration!

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:45 PM

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Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration!

Blue Owl

(57,890 posts)

10. Propaganda is not education

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:49 PM

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Bettie

(19,116 posts)

11. So, they've decided to turn their university

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:51 PM

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into a sycophant training campus.

Neat. Another MAGA U....sounds awesome, eh?

MineralMan

(150,208 posts)

12. Very Sad. This will not serve Cornell well at all.

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 01:52 PM

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AmandaRuth

(3,192 posts)

13. i wouldn't call that caving

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 02:01 PM

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more like bending over

muriel_volestrangler

(105,192 posts)

14. Pay the Trump regime $30 million for being their serf?

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 02:24 PM

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Wow, this is why Trump is seen around the world as the head of a crime syndicate.

I hadn't even heard there were major problems at Cornell that Trump could use as an excuse. What a cowardly capitulation. Of course the people who decided to pay the blackmail won't themselves have to pay anything.