It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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That’s right! It’s extortion mafia style!
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The Harvard Crimson student newspaper has been reporting on this, and disputes everything NYT has published.
I'd believe the Crimson more than NYT, given its track record of the past few years.
Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement, according to th...
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Might I suggest that Brown's 50 million was just a down payment.
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I can't see past the paywall, but if I had to guess, part of the point of this story is undoubtedly to do damage control after the Harvard Crimson ate the Times' lunch the other day
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It's extortion.
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The word they are looking for is "extortion," not "deals."
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When Hitler and the Nazis gained enough votes to demand control of ministries the insisted on education where they could then eliminate any instruction that didn’t align with Nazi ideology. Trump continues to work from the Nazi playbook that was clearly the guide for the Heritage Foundation.
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Could it be that Trump’s vicious and relentless authoritarian assault on Harvard and Columbia is because they rejected Barron Trump’s applications? Is that why he’s at NYU? Is this a partial glimpse at how petty and dangerous this psychotic criminal is? I’m only asking questions.
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NYT headlines are always written by a weasel.
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I'm disgusted by the media's willingness to adopt Trump's universal usage of the term "deal". We no longer have treaties or trade agreements, only "deals". We no longer have shakedowns, extortion payments, or protection money, only "deals". We no longer have bribes or payoffs, only "deals".
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See, the robber who points a gun at you and demands your money is simply engaged in "deal-making"
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Thank you.
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They try to imitate New Deal? The person can only go to Harvard extension school prime the jealous thought?
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Why are they calling it deal-making when it's extortion?
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Those "Elite Institutions" have produced the brain-trust of MAGA.
And those Institutions are regulating liberalism by proxy.
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Trump's Non-Profit Definition
Are you a church which practices anti-Semitism and tells your congregation to vote for me? You are a non-profit!
A university teaching freedom and critical thinking? Then you are anti-Semitic and will be fined and your non-profit status ended
Trump administration demands $1B from University of California-Los Angeles
The White House's negotiating demand is a major effort to expand the scope of its offensive against higher education institutions.
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Another stupid @nytimes.com headline. Try plain English:
Protection racket’s extortion of surrounding businesses makes it difficult for last guy on the block to hold out.
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If all these elite schools banded together and pledged to ban the heritage foundation, aei, Claremont and all trump aligned think tanks from campuses, Trump would fold
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Where does the money then go? Is the check made out to someone in the federal government or do they just use crypto? That presidential library is gonna be the biggest one in history…
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He is obsessed with Harvard & Columbia because Obama went there. That’s how his 2 brain cells work!
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Makes you think about education a little, when the most elite educated get taken down by the most corrupt .
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We have an extortionist in the White House. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
I Could Be Wrong.
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But the broken NYT goes along with the admin's framing of extortion as just deal making.
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So let me get this straight, ridding the swamp has included air traffic controllers, park rangers, academics and scientists? Have I got that right?
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NYT could easily have used pressure, extortion, unprecedented or any other vocabulary to report the extraordinary abnormality of all of this. Instead they emphasize deal-making to please Trump.
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What kind of person attacks higher education?
Lower educated and uneducated (un-woke ilk).
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Trump doesn’t do deals. Deal-making requires give/take - it’s pure extortion
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Yes. Donald Trump is a thug, and no one who still supports him can ever be forgiven.
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The New York Times is more blatant satire than The Onion these days.
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NYT sure seems like they're trying to speak a harvard capitulation into existence...
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Smart universities falling prey to the prisoner's dilemma
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So, fuck Cornell.
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hostage-taking would be a more apt headline
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Trump hates education & intelligence, since he has neither.
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It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.
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Pfft. Not extortion—capitulation.The “elite universities” could stuck to their core ideals and decided to stand firm. They didn’t. It was a choice.
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The times didn't know how to spell EXTORTION
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Deal making for what? He needs to fuck off and leave these universities alone.
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I’m guessing the NYT employs a large number of grads from these elite universities. If they all come in maga indoctrinated from school, it will be easier for the paper to continue to operate from their increasingly fascist point of view. My gawd. 😬😵💫
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Yeah but the NYT is just doing its part normalizing fascism to its dwindling readership
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We're a Brown family. I'm so angry with Brown's leaders. They use fed $ to do such good in the community: Providence has A LOT of kids in need who rely on Brown's commitment to serve the community.
I let the president's office know. A great university; their decision to appease trump: gobsmacking.
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You have to understand that the NYT doesn't try to do neutral journalism. They are consciously taking sides in support of Trump and Rufo against universities because Sulzberger, like many oligarchs, likes to watch higher education being destroyed.
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Exactly right. And it’s policy by extortion.
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Would just say “like” I do not repost anything NYT in general. Because of the link will only repost the other parts of the thread.
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Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
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Yup. It is "An extorsion racket" that is being run by The President of The United States of America.
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The New York Times is a cess pit now. Indulging into faciaism, white nationalism, and Christian nationalism. They just waited and wanted a way to normalize their delusional sadistic fantasies.
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The Godfather, a film analyzing the ins and outs of deal-making, won Best Picture in 1973.
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Just sickening. This is not deal making, fools. It's extortion. Criming 101
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The NYT has been profiles in cowardice along with WaPo while other publications The Atlantic and Rolling Stone continue to do their job. Don’t let trump get mad at us has become their motto.
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And makes campus administrators look shabby and complicit, or at least desensitized
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By doing so, NYT and other outlets get to avoid the truth that a sitting president and his administration are selectively targeting private institutions and businesses. What happened to free enterprise? Suddenly, it’s okay for government to extort corporations into compliance with personal agendas?
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I don't say this to excuse the NYT's actions, especially before the election, BUT... The pres. has repeatedly threatened to sue the Times for its coverage, and we know these aren't empty threats. This is what life under an autocrat is like. Harassment and intimidation of the press has consequences!
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has the NYT caught up with the student newspaper yet? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement, according to th...
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This is such fucked up reporting.
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NYT has a big Judith Miller vibe right now.
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In case you haven’t seen it, David Pozen has an excellent post about all that’s wrong with “regulation by deal” at Columbia.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
Earlier this evening, Columbia University announced an agreement with the Trump administration in which Columbia makes a host of concession...
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extortion? ain't that a strong word? like enabling vile atisemitiam? oh, but it all just depends on the context.
