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In It to Win It

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 12:44 PM Friday

BREAKING: Cornell caved. 🧵 [View all]

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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