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muriel_volestrangler

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

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

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.

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Profiles in Cowardice. Chasstev365 Friday #1

Sad. efhmc Friday #2

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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