Trump Executive Order Targets Foreign Funding in Higher Ed - "The Trump administration is curbing foreign influence on campus. In an April 23 executive order, the White House directed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to require universities to report the source and purpose of non-domestic gifts, subjecting those that fail to comply to potential audits and investigations. The order, which comes after years of university noncompliance with federal law, will bring foreign funding out of the shadows. The directive is a full-circle moment for the president. In Donald Trump’s first term, his administration found that several elite universities had collectively failed to report more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding from adversaries including China and Qatar. But even after those bombshell findings, schools continued to underreport non-domestic funding. Last year, after filing more than 100 public records requests and comparing the information with universities’ disclosures, I found that universities had failed to report at least $1 billion in foreign funding during the Biden administration. And that’s likely the tip of the iceberg: my review covered only 70 mostly public institutions. The new executive order empowers the White House to hold these noncompliant universities accountable... First, the executive branch should restore the foreign-gift database, discontinued in the Biden administration’s final months, to enhance public awareness of universities’ funding. Congress should pass the DETERRENT Act, which lowers universities’ foreign-funding reporting threshold to $50,000 and creates a penalty structure for those that fail to comply. The bill has already passed the House, and the president would almost certainly sign it. Finally, states should pass their own foreign-funds disclosure laws. Federal enforcement often varies with the president’s partisan affiliation. States shouldn’t rely on the political whims of the executive branch to ensure that their universities are free of malign foreign influence. State lawmakers can take matters into their own hands and pass straightforward legislation to protect their students from non-domestic actors."
If Trump wants transparency, transparency must be bad
Thread by @SwipeWright on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨BREAKING: A new report from @ncri_io uncovers a MASSIVE surge in foreign funding to universities under Biden, and a potential pipeline of foreign cash and public funds directly promoting radicalization and terrorism on U.S. campuses. 🧵
President Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the nation’s top universities, accusing them of failing to uphold civil rights, protect women’s sports, defend free speech, and prevent the spread of antisemitism. Now, with the NCRI report's new findings, Trump’s fight has entered a critical new phase: a confrontation over universities’ opaque financial ties that may be compromising their ideological independence and enabling radical, anti-American movements. In April, Trump signed an EO forcing universities to disclose their foreign funding, including the source, amount, and purpose of any foreign gift exceeding $250,000. What they found was shocking. From 2021 to 2024 alone (during Joe Biden's term), American universities pulled in $28.96 billion in foreign gifts—more than double the amount received during Trump’s first term ($13.72 billion) and exceeding all foreign money received over the previous 40 years combined(!). Even more alarming, yet perhaps unsurprising, the institutions that received the most foreign funding shared tremendous overlap with those engulfed in antisemitism scandals... This raises a serious question: Could foreign governments be using donations to quietly push anti-American and antisemitic ideas on campus, hiding behind the language of social justice? The circumstantial evidence keeps growing. But what we need is hard proof. That proof just arrived in a new intelligence report titled “Foreign Terror Pipelines in the Academy: The Case Study of SFSU and Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi,” published by NCRI and shared with me. The discoveries are shocking and disturbing.
San Francisco State University (SFSU), a publicly funded institution with about 22,000 students, had long faced accusations of antisemitism. Lawsuits in 2017 had already forced the university into settlements over the treatment of Jewish students. But instead of cleaning things up, SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) program, run by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, got even worse—turning into what NCRI describes as a radicalization pipeline linked to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). Since 2020, AMED used public money to host “open classrooms” and webinars featuring convicted terrorists and affiliates of groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—all designated FTOs under U.S. law... These were not academic discussions, but events that praised and celebrated individuals whose life work centered on violence against civilians. University-sponsored events normalized their actions and glorified their “resistance” narratives to a captive audience of students. Terrorist operatives were platformed through official university communications channels like SFSU’s Facebook and YouTube accounts. Taxpayer money was literally being used to push terrorist propaganda, all under the misleading cover of academic freedom. These weren’t lapses of judgement rooted in ignorance. It was a deliberate strategy to use the prestige of a public university to legitimize and promote violent extremist ideologies. This was not "free speech." It was the weaponization of academia. Trump’s aggressive approach—particularly his emphasis on transparency and accountability—is not only justified but necessary. Without strong oversight and enforcement, our universities risk becoming fully captured, promoting ideologies that oppose to our values or interests. Transparency alone won't cut it. Universities that platform terrorists must face consequences—loss of federal funding or nonprofit status, or criminal prosecution under anti-terror statutes. The time for warnings is over. It’s time for accountability."
Conflict of interest is only a problem if it hurts the left wing agenda
Meme - Lori Love @thereallorilove: "Propaganda vs. Reality"
"The Vatican asked Pope Francis funeral attendees to wear all black. Trump wore a blue suit"
*zoomed in photo showing only Trump in blue* *fuller photo showing many people in blue*
Some of the cope is that others wore dark blue, unlike him
Redditors defending the Catholic Church has been funny to see : r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes - "No one was offended when Kathy Hochul mocked The Eucharist with a Dorito or when a bunch of trans mocked The Last Supper at the olympics. They also don't take issue with Conclave or any number of celebrities and comedians who have mocked The Pope. They're only pretending to be offended because it's Trump."
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: President Donald Trump is about to take major action against ACTBLUE, the Democrats' fundraising arm - POLITICO THIS. IS. HUGE. Trump is set to sign a memorandum targeting foreign contributions in American elections. AG Pam Bondi is reportedly to be involved in the crackdown on ActBlue. ActBlue is reportedly BRACING for this action."
Matt Van Swol on X - "Maybe now someone can explain why donations were made, in my name, to Act Blue candidates in KANSAS... ...when I've never been to Kansas."
Meme - Blue haired mohawk woman with septum piercing and horn rimmed glasses to man in MAGA hat: "YOU VOTED FOR TRUMP BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT EDUCATED LIKE I AM" *Phd of Gender Study*
Man: "WHATEVER, I'M JUST HERE TO REPOSSESS YOUR CAR"
Shocked woman: *Overdue student loan debt*
Meme - NPC: "Make love not war!"
Trump: "I agree, let's end the war."
NPC: "Well I can't agree with Trump. Win the war no matter the cost!"
NPC: "Women's rights!"
Trump: "Yes, deport rapists and get men out of women's sports."
NPC: "Shit! Forget women. Rapist and trans rights are more important!"
NPC: "Big government is the enemy!"
Trump: "Let's slash the government."
NPC: "Elon Musk is a NAZI!!!"
ALX 🇺🇸 on X - "JD Vance says that the largest steel producer in America, Nucor Steel, stopped work in its West Virginia plant for years because of Biden’s Green New Deal regulations. 101 days later, U.S. manufacturing is being brought back."
Idiots. They're supposed to learn to code and hollow out the economy!
Laura Loomer on X - "WATCH: Radical left protesters were just caught on camera by @LoomerUnleashed @TheCharlesDowns being bussed into D.C. for the anti-Trump MAY DAY protests today. A “protester” from CASA, a Marxist and pro-illegal alien group that advocates for blacks and Hispanics was seen exiting the bus, and he became enraged at @LoomerUnleashed after we exposed CASA Protesters being bused into DC. The anti-Trump protester told Downs, "N*gga. I’ll bust your mother f**kin shit man. Say it to my face Homeboy. I will crack your head upside your mother****** head. That’s what I want to do.” 😳😳😳 Where does the left find such nice people to attend their anti-Trump protests?"
Meme - Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar: "Donald Trump arrives in Michigan today to celebrate his first 100 days in office. Here's how I'll be greeting him."
Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel: "This guy owned a pharmaceutical testing lab. In 2010 he went bankrupt, locked the doors and left all the puppies and monkeys he was testing inside to die."
"Rep. Shri demands Congress Impeach Trump"
Meme - MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice: "Trump just posted this. It should be in the Hall of Fame. This is literally Trump at his best"
Donald J. Trump: "Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in "repair" money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about "anything." Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens' Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our Sist State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World. Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!... Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, and are always going after the Great Citizens and Patriots of the United States but, in particular, their Political Opponent, ME. They know that their only chance of survival is getting pardons from a 'man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing, Also, to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden. I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky "souls" but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL! We had the Greatest Election in the History of our Country, a bright light is now shining over the U.S.A. and, in 26 days, we will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
Buzz Patterson on X - "I’m going to try one last time. The Qatar B-747 was built in the US by Boeing. They are offering a newer 747 to replace one of the two current AF-1s that have been flying for 40 years. Which are tired and need to be replaced. The wing based at Andrews has also purchased aircraft from other countries in the past which are currently flying our VP and senior government officials. This is NOT new. Qatar is offering the jet to the US military, not Donald Trump. The DOD contractor is based in the US, in fact my dad (a retired Air Force general) used to work for them. They are, not unironically, also working to upgrade the FAA technology as we speak. You know, Newark and elsewhere. They will get the aircraft and perform all of the security and the installation of the systems that AF-1 requires to safely move our president around the world. Not the Qatari’s. And you and I will pay for that but not the $400 million the 747 would normally cost. I could tell you exactly what is required to modify the AF-1 for safe flight but that is Top Secret and I’d have to kill you. This AF-1 will serve the sitting president, whether they be Republican or Democrat until Boeing gets their shit together to complete the new, upcoming improved 747s that started under Obama, was renegotiated under Trump, and was completely ignored by the Biden administration. It’s looking like 2029 to 2030 for delivery at the soonest. I love X but sometimes the “sky is falling” conspiracy crap grows tiresome. A little knowledge goes a long way. Having flown on the current AF-1s 100 hundred times, I have intimate knowledge. Now, come at me about “chemtrails.” 🤣"
Bill Ackman on X - "Why is not OK for the DoD to accept a $400 million plane from Qatar, but it is ok for our elite universities to accept billions from Qatar? How is one proper and the other not? Just asking."
Meme - Nicholas... @captgouda...: "The Trump administration is announcing price caps on medication. This is the worst policy decision that any administration has ever done. It is the moral equi... Note that the effect of the "most-favored nation" laws would be to prevent the entirety of Africa from getting any medicine. They simply will no sell it there."
9mmSMG @9mm_smg: "So, according to him, Africa will no longer be able to afford medicine, and they'll all die in exchange for cheaper drug prices in the US. Is it the responsibility of the average American to subsidize an entire continent by paying high prices? There are already many Americans who can't afford their medication and sometimes have to choose between heating their home and taking their medication. The USA shouldn't be financially responsible for the world, directly or indirectly. We have plenty of poor Americans to help."
Dash Dobrofsky on X - "If you voted “uncommitted” in Michigan instead of voting for Biden, you’re a Trump supporting terrorist."
David Neiwert on X - "This is straight up an Islamophobic dogwhistle. I don’t agree with the uncommitted voters, but you should take this down. Or maybe you’re unaware that Muslims have endured 23 years of being labeled terrorists simply for being Muslims."
The best way to defeat a left winger is to use left wing logic against him
Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously passed Trump's "No Tax on Tips" Act with a vote of 100-0 PROMISES MADE PROMISES KEPT 🇺🇸"
I saw left wingers crowing when the House bill came out and didn't have this provision. But of course they've moved on to the next nonsense in their gish gallop
Bill Maher blasts Democrats for messing up so bad, Trump 'cool now' - "Maher and Smith slammed Democrats for leaning so far to the left, allowing Trump to be re-elected. “The man was impeached twice. He was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said he’s closer to normal than what we see on the left,” Smith remarked... “Because something that pertains when you talk about the transgender community, for example, you talk about the issues that pertain to less than 1% of the population, the Democratic Party came across as if that was a priority more so than the other issues.”"
Bill Maher offers praise for Trump after White House dinner - "“Just as a politician, just understand that [you should] always lean in to being more who you are. The people are not savvy about issues but they smell a phony a mile away and that kind of s***, nobody else does it.”... Trump’s authenticity and dominance appeared to matter more than facts or policy, which Trump has largely managed to shrug off."
Meme - "The liberals are melting down. Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet."
Lillian Marie @libertine-lily.bsky.social: "KILL DONALD TRUMP. KILL HIS VP, VANCE. KILL HIS CABINET PICKS. That is the only way to save the United States of America. That is the only way to save this nation. I lose if I stand by quietly. There is no victory condition for me if I stay quiet. I support the assassination of Trump."
DOGE - Department of Government Effe...: "If Secret Service doesn't investigate her then we should investigate Secret Service."
Trump inciting violence again! Time to jail the "far right" to keep people safe
Meme - "Why didn't Democrats call for gun bans when Trump was shot?"
Brian Allen on X - "BREAKING: A post on Harvard’s Sidechat app; where users must verify with a .edu email, is going viral after calling to blacklist Trump supporters on campus. “Don’t let them into clubs. Don’t be friends with them. Don’t date them. Bring back real social consequences for politically affiliating with a fascist.” It’s anonymous, but it reflects a growing student backlash, not just to Trump’s policies, but to the idea that fascism can wear a suit and still get a seat at the table. The culture war just met the campus wall. And students are done playing nice."
Clearly, McCarthyism is good when it pushes the left wing agenda. The left really hasn't learnt anything
Charlie Kirk on X - "Let me get this straight: Democrats tried to put Trump in prison for 700 years, take his business empire from him, impeach him twice, take him off the ballot, and censor him on all social media - all the while they were sitting on info that Trump was on the Epstein list? This is total and complete nonsense."
Meme - Julie B(rooklyn) BAB... @JMeanypants: "Trump signed an executive order to make English the official language. He's a racist POS. I would love everyone to tell him fuck you in every language BUT English. ll start. Va te faire foutre - French to honor my great grandfather."
Ironically, the official language of France is French. Not to mention all the black and brown countries with official languages
Meme - Chris Freiman @cafreiman: "*Bernie Sanders* Pro tariffs
Pro drug price controls
Endorses greedflation theory
Thinks consumers have too many choices
Rich
Says immigrants take American jobs
President of the United States
(Photo unrelated)"
Unpacking claims Trump admin cut fines of Wells Fargo executives in return for donation to inauguration | Snopes.com - "Claims of corruption within U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and the banking industry spread on social media in late April and early May 2025. The allegations stated that in return for donating $1 million to the inauguration of Trump and Vice President JD Vance, those involved in a high-profile banking scandal received greatly reduced fines... Claims about the fine reduction and alleged corruption spread widely on social media through multiple posts on Facebook (archived, archived, archived), X (archived) and Threads (archived). The spread appeared to have originated with a post from Robert Reich, former U.S Secretary of Labor and well-known Democrat... the lobbying group Electronic Payments Coalition donated $1 million to the Trump-Vance inauguration... The coalition's website lists Wells Fargo as one of its members... However, though both elements of the claim were true, no evidence definitively asserts that the EPC's donation to the inauguration was the reason the OCC lessened the fines for Julian and McLinko."
Even for left wingers, this is a huge logical leap
Left wingers keep reading and sharing fake news memes, so they believe tons of misinformation. Of course, those like Robert Reich who keep spreading lies never have anything happen to them
Having made the case for violence, American moral crusaders deliver it - "In a September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden insisted: “We must be stronger, more determined and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to destroying American democracy.” On July 26, after assuming the role of Democratic standard-bearer, Kamala Harris called Trump “an existential threat to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms.” The day after the latest assassination attempt, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton castigated the press for its alleged lack of a “consistent narrative” about “Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world.”... In truth, the Manichean language of modern American politics almost seems crafted to drive mentally unbalanced people to find meaning in pursuing the violent defeat of forces they’ve been told will destroy everything they value. Such individuals take up righteous missions in the sordid business of politics... A May data review from the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Army’s West Point military academy even found that threats against public officials have steadily risen for the past 10 years. The number of people arrested for making threats in breach of federal law has almost doubled in the past six years from the previous four. Public figures like Trump are by no means the only victims. In July, an elderly Michigan man erecting a Trump sign was run over by a politically motivated attacker who took his own life the next day. Arsonists have targeted campaign offices, political signs and politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), but also the offices of conservative organizations in Minnesota, an Ohio church that hosted a drag event and even police cars and campus buildings at the University of California, Berkeley. People have killed each other in political disputes... Elections should never be seen as so high stakes that they justify violence. If Americans truly believe that Trump, Harris or anybody else would endanger the country upon winning the presidency, then the real problem is that government wields too much power. Election outcomes are unpredictable, so the offices to be won shouldn’t pose so much peril. Once control of government is less important, maybe we’ll learn to live alongside each other again."
Time to imprison all MAGAs for inciting violence
