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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22h

I completed a PhD in Physics at MIT in '03. Even when the intensity seemed to be off-scale, there was one piece that I never doubted: the place had integrity, purpose, and passion.

It's clear the culture and drive of MIT remains.

MIT says no to the compact.

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT’s record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America’s research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.

Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, America, he is referring to the 100% peaceful No Kings rallies that have literally nothing to do with Hamas or antifa or hating America.

America has been gaslit by these lunatics every day for a decade, and at some point the other shoe will drop—though I have no idea what or when that will be.

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Roxine King @roxineking.bsky.social · 18h

Guess who didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize?
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 11h

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 17h

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 1d

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 16h

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soupkitchen8386.bsky.social @soupkitchen8386.bsky.social · 9h

Question for all the Trump supporters out there... why is he lying about this? You and I know the reason, I just wanna hear you say it!

falalala50.bsky.social @falalala50.bsky.social · 9h

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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 11h

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 19h

Virginia...

Please do not fuck this up, like 165M mofos did in 2024.

Pleaseeeeeeee.

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soupkitchen8386.bsky.social @soupkitchen8386.bsky.social · 9h

Dude literally looks like a rodeo clown

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Kid Rock, who clearly shops at the "Tacky Meth-heads Who Like Silly Costumes" outlet, really shouldn't open his stupid mouth to talk about how other people look.

And Laura Ingraham should never open her snarling mouth to talk about anything.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination @shoshanade.bsky.social · 15h

OMG - this is too good not to share on here 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 1d

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 1d

AOC “I am the people I work for.”

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11h

What fucking country is this?!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 14h

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#ONEV1
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#Voices4Victory

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 14h

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 23h

That was a substitute teacher and he got fired. That’s like having a guest stay at your house, who invites a bunch of people you don’t know for a party and they take your kids.
Like having a president destroy the country, then coming back 4 years later to do it again but even more illegal now.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 14h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

2017 TRUMP: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

2025 TRUMP: “Thank you, Qatar, for my free $400,000,000 personal jet!”

TRUMP, a few months later: “I'm letting Qatar be the first foreign nation to build a military base on US soil.”

www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

President Calls on Qatar to Stop Supporting Terrorism

President Trump says the nation of Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level and that it's time to stop this funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing. "We ask Qatar and other ...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 18h

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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