Michael Connor

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish “Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
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Apart from everything else—his mendacity, his malevolence, his depravity—Trump is just … dumb.

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

Affirm announces JPMorgan Chase merchants can now offer installment loans at checkout The deal follows a similar announcement from rival Klarna last month, in which the Swedish fintech lender said it would be available to JPMorgan’s merchants.

Affirm says that it’s reached an agreement with JPMorgan Chase to offer its buy now, pay later loan services to merchants on the bank’s payments network.

The tell here is that Vance’s statement only makes sense if NATO ceases to matter. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Government efficiency at its best.

Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.