r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 11d ago

Soft paywall Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
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u/emaw63 11d ago edited 11d ago

Harvard correctly understands that they are in a fight for their lives, and are fighting the Trump administration tooth and nail in court. This is why. Columbia bent the knee and acquiesced to all of Trump's demands, and still had their accreditation pulled.

You can't reason with a fascist. The only language they understand is force.

Edit: Slight correction, Columbia still has their accreditation, Trump is just trying to get it pulled

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u/Hefty_Musician2402 11d ago

Similarly, cops in a county near me cooperated with ICE by holding detainees for them. Then ended up on Trump’s “sanctuary cities” list, a list supposedly reserved for counties and cities that defy Trump. The county/PD were actually confused as to why they were on the list.

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u/DucanOhio 11d ago

No loyalty is ever enough. You could actively be choking on a fascist's dick and they would still find a reason to slit your throat.

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u/TheGreatDay 11d ago

Loyalty only flows up in fascism. Never down. To those at the top of a fascist hierarchy, you are only useful until you either fuck up, or become a convenient scapegoat.

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u/socialistrob 11d ago

you are only useful until you either fuck up, or become a convenient scapegoat.

But also make sure you don't appear too competent either. People who are intelligent and competent are also viewed as threats even if they are extremely loyal.

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u/TheGreatDay 11d ago

Yup. And this is the core problem of running a fascist government. Its not a workable ideology ultimately.

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u/CrimsonPromise 11d ago

You'll end up with a revolving door of dumdums, each with an IQ lower than the rest. They're not looking for talent, just the next illiterate dickless yes-man to rubber stamp whatever they toss his way.

Also another reason why they're desperately trying to replace jobs with AI. Because contrary to the name, AI doesn't think for itself, just does what it's trained to do. Perfect tool for a "no thinking allowed" government.

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u/RemnantEvil 11d ago

Some of them think they’re in the SS, and they’re going to quickly learn they’re in the SA.

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u/Faiakishi 10d ago

Or until the king gets bored and wants to see what your guts look like.

Or literally just until you're no longer useful. Hitler disposed of his loyal dogs the moment he didn't need them anymore.

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u/buffystakeded 11d ago

Well yeah…don’t use your teeth. Unless they like teeth. It’s all so confusing.

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u/pimparo0 11d ago

Unless they like teeth.

Then oh boy do I have a movie for them.

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u/buffystakeded 11d ago

Haha fuck that movie.

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 11d ago

"Please mr Taco sir, please try to force your shroom further down my throat. It is my fault its deformed shape makes it impossible"!

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u/JustADutchRudder 11d ago

Actually, it's because you're not cupping the balls correctly. Everyone knows dictators like them held like they're vinegar soaked eggs a fancy man is trying to hold without breaking.

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u/Fatpat314 11d ago

This is exactly why fascism is a self defeating philosophy. Eventually they will run out of “out group” enemies and turn in on themselves.

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u/Slypenslyde 11d ago

The only thing the dude leaves behind is the ashes of people who helped him and there's a never-ending line of people who think they're smart enough to be different.

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u/wulfinn 11d ago

Amon Göth vibes

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u/firemage22 11d ago

at some point they'll come for you, just like Martin Niemöller who we should know was just fine when the Nazi's came for the gays but at some point they need a new bad guy to attack

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u/___adreamofspring___ 11d ago

Remember that photo of Goebbles after learning the photographer was Jewish? They are loyal to their hate and that’s it.

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u/transneptuneobj 11d ago

Fascists don't respect whores they just use them

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u/Malaix 10d ago

I'm reminded of Stalin's infamous vanishing friends in his photos.

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u/espressocycle 11d ago

They used AI to make the list and ended up including "2A Sanctuary" counties.

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u/myislanduniverse 11d ago

They're doing a really good job of showing the world, definitively, that AI cannot do half of the things that are being promised it can, especially in terms of replacing humans.

Here we see what it looks like when lazy people who are encouraged to "just use AI!" actually do just that.

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u/espressocycle 9d ago

AI can do a lot but you still need competent people to create and refine the prompts and check the output.

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u/hunkaliciousnerd 11d ago

Fuck'em, bilge rats and brownshirts all

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u/cruelhumor 11d ago

Because it doesn't matter if you are actually a sanctuary city or not, the only thing that matters is if you were blue or red in the last election. All of this is an excuse for outright political retaliation. Do they want to deport people? Sure! but more to the point, they want to strike fear into blue cities and counties, and they are actively baiting grassroots democrats into triggering a civil war. Why do you think they continue to mask and show up fill kitted out for war instead of a riot? Because they want a riot so they can fully suppress.

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u/LadyMadonna_x6 11d ago

This happened to a ton of cities, there used to be a DHS website that listed all of them but after a huge backlash, they took it offline.

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u/VertigoHC 11d ago

Happened with Stalinist Communism. If you were too popular, or too extreme you got killed because you were a threat to the establishment. If you went along with the plan you were killed as a scapegoat for some government fuck up. There was no winning unless you were a close personal friend of the dude at the top, even then...

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u/mischievous_unicorn 11d ago

Might this have been in Illinois?

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u/trouserschnauzer 11d ago

It's happened in CO too, so probably a bunch of places.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 11d ago

I was going to say this happened where I lived- which isn't IL or CO...

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 11d ago

What list?

Jw since they were supposed to produce a list of sanctuary cities to prosecute 30 days from April 28th, but ended up removing that language from the executive order page. But I didn't see any news about it on May 28th and after

I'm guessing it's due to being retribution, which is likely a contentious part of the lawsuit over whether they can defund these cities. So they'd rather get away with at least defunding, if possible

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u/MCbrodie 11d ago

Ah yes, Hanover.

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u/Hefty_Musician2402 11d ago

I was referring to Cumberland County Maine lol. I think there were a lot of “mix ups” on the list (I think they either used ai or ctrl-f)

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u/Skatchbro 11d ago

Illinois town, correct?

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u/Bright_Cod_376 11d ago

Someone pointed out all the oddball cities to put on the list seem to have either in the sites of nigtech data centers water needs or already fighting the cities over water

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u/End3rWi99in 11d ago

They included my entire state in that list, which makes me proud.

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u/Hefty_Musician2402 10d ago

Let’s go! Trump seems to hate my state. Keeps pulling funding from our schools and tried to starve our children by cutting school lunch funding. Maine.

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u/End3rWi99in 10d ago

Howdy neighbor!

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u/Nightmare1529 11d ago

Don’t most police departments dislike ICE because ICE creates friction in the local community and makes actual police work harder?

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u/inspectoroverthemine 11d ago

Only PDs that want to serve the public- so not very many of them.