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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Great story, gives hope to all the people who are being removed from swearing in ceremonies across the country!

Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This posting this morning and his earlier statement about the Brown University shooting ("things happen"), clearly demonstrate that the President completely lacks any level of empathy with others. This is embarrassing. 💔

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/12/2025

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Normally I would say "unbelievable" but that is the wrong statement these days. So what is next, delay mammograms or PSA screening?

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A U.S. soldier was executed on the streets of the U.S. capital, yet the flags remain at full-staff. But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days. WTH? Tonight...

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Feel free to share with any undergraduate students that may be interested!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just a nice memory on a gloomy and rainy day, this is how it looked 2 weeks ago (Price Lake, NC)

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BoomerBitch56 @cfelice.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

One of the few arrests that I have read about today. This is near Myrtle Beach, SC and she was driving around pointing a gun at protesters. Note the shirt.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley,
I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday.
I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing
partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research
universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic
excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the
government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led
White House-
is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities
on their teaching and research mission.
Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional
policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and
our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help
American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its
place as the envy of the world.
We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance
higher education.
Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

And people are surprised why tourism is down?!

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

May want to switch to a different TV channel occasionally?!

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Scary when you realize that your former trainee has not really learned much from you with regards to critical evaluation of scientific information. Fortunately for me, he is now distributing his opinions @casewestern.bsky.social

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So much for upholding the law.... As always, only the ones we want to uphold.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Anyone have any idea what type of caterpillar/insect this is? Touching it leads to really itchy skin… it is only about 1cm in size, sitting on a stalk from a strawberry leaf (or what is left of it)

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

For anyone still harboring the notion that everything will be fine, and we will be back to normal soon, wake up!

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

OMG... I guess having a privileged childhood, and growing up at a time when biomedical research and medicine where way behind its current diagnostic abilities and understanding allows you to make the most ignorant statements.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is unbelievably shortsighted (and moronic)! Are there plans to cancel protstate cancer consortia the same way since they focus solely on men?

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Interesting to see who has not signed yet…

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump justifies his war on foreign students with false accusations of antisemitism. It's a lie. They are kicking out people for speeding tickets and frog embryos. Vance gave the game away by saying foreign students are "bad for the American dream." www.salon.com/2025/04/17/j...

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"Bad for the American dream": Trump's war on foreign students is not about antisemitism

One arrested student actually denounced antisemitism on national television

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

In the letter Harvard received from the Administration, Harvard was essentially asked to implement DEI practices to ensure "Viewpoint Diversity in Admission and Hiring"... Do any of these clowns actually know what they are doing and saying?! drive.google.com/file/d/1lOXi...

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Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Anyone else gets the sense that this guy is Joseph Goebbels reincarnate? Similarly delusional, and in urgent need of anger management... www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Maybe the Columbia example is illustrating even to Harvard lawyers that bending to adhere to the bully's demands will not work: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/04/2025

Bukele said he wouldn’t be returning Abrego Garcia in today’s appearance with President Trump. It’s clear that anyone sent there cannot be given due process as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Trump, meanwhile, again floated the idea of sending American citizens to the CECOT prison.

24 minutes ago
Zolan Kanno-Youngs White House correspondent
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President Trump was beaming as President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador rejected any notion that he would help return Kilmar
Armando Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported, to the United States and insulted reporters pressing on the administration's compliance with the court order. Trump is clearly pleased with Bukele's performance.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This gets crazier every day. You would think humankind (and the U.S.) had learned from past efforts like this, but obviously not!

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I finally get it: Liberation Day liberated the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and other indices, they are no longer "stuck" in the high range they have been in for such a terribly long time... It obviously also liberated accrued funds in probably all our retirement portfolios.

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So, maybe follow the Columbia story and see where accepting the demands will get you? If any school should be able to fight and weather this, it should be Harvard... Let's see! Would Harvard want Princeton to be the only opposing school? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

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Trump Administration Sends Harvard a List of Demands to Protect Federal Funds

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Michael Olivier @omicsolivier.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Reciprocal Tariff (in my simpleminded view) means that you add a tariff to items imported from country X if country X also charges a tariff on items you export to that country. Does not have anything to do with trade deficits. If you use it to balance that, then it is a penalty, and not reciprocal.

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