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To human beings who care about freedom, this should be extremely alarming.

The president of the United States is making demands and wielding the might of the executive branch to enforce them. These are not the actions of a free country. These are the actions of a dictatorship.

The MAGAts unfortunately will not care. They do not value freedom and they have abandoned their last iota of humanity.

They lack even the basic self-awareness to realize how this violates their own supposed principles of small government. Because they have no true principles. They are just mindless drones repeating whatever they are told.

Even trying to point out this blatant hypocrisy is a complete waste of effort.

But I feel it must be called out anyway...

The biggest focus from the media is on how this is going to hurt Harvard's bottom line. Being unable to enroll international students means a pretty large loss of income. International students tend to pay more while a lot of American students are subsidized through scholarship programs.

I expect that a court will try to prevent this order. But the Trump regime has little interest in obeying court orders anymore.

International students have been given the ultimatatum to either transfer or return to their home countries. If they are in the middle of their education and can't find another college to take them on such short notice, they will suddenly need to pack up with their education and finished. And if it's a specialized program that only Harvard can provide, all their work is for nothing.

And if they don't leave, there is a good chance that the Trump regime will round them up and deport them if not send them to a foreign prison just to make a point.

Either way, their lives are destroyed.

And that is the real tragic truth of this.

The MAGAts hate others to make themselves feel better. They will happily destroy good people's lives to cope with their own inferiority.

To these monsters, this is completely fine. No, it's better than fine. Because they enjoy hurting innocent people. The just need an excuse.

I hope that Harvard stands strong against tyranny. And I hope that they are able to protect their students from the evil that is coming to harm them.

"More than three-quarters of UK universities have pledged to exclude fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolios, according to campaigners.

The move, which is part of a wider drive to limit investment in fossil fuels, follows years of campaigning by staff and students across the higher education sector.

The student campaign group People & Planet announced on Friday that 115 out of 149 UK universities had publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels – meaning £17.7bn-worth of endowments are now out of reach of the fossil fuel industry.

Laura Clayson, from People & Planet, said it would have been unthinkable a decade ago that so many institutions had formally refused to invest in fossil fuels.

“That we can celebrate this today is down to the generations of students and staff that have fought for justice in solidarity with impacted communities. The days of UK universities profiteering from investments in this neo-colonial industry are over.”

People & Planet set up the Fossil Free universities campaign in 2013. As part of its efforts the group has highlighted the “struggles and voices” of communities on the frontline of the climate crisis in an attempt to bring home the real-world impact of investment decisions made by UK universities.

Clayson said: “The demand for fossil-free came from frontline communities themselves and it is an act of solidarity from global north organisers campaigning on this … We have a responsibility to speak the lived experiences of the communities resisting these inequalities into megaphones at protests and in negotiations within university boardrooms, to highlight their stories of struggle in spaces so often detached from the reality of everyday life on the frontlines.”

One of the projects highlighted by the campaign is the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) – a mega project that would stretch almost 900 miles from the Lake Albert region of Uganda to the coast in Tanzania, and release vast amounts of planet-heating carbon.

The pipeline is being built in spite of local opposition, and there are reports that protesters and critics have been met with state violence. Hundreds of student organisers have been involved in the struggle.

Ntambazi Imuran Java, the lead coordinator at the Stop EACOP Uganda campaign, said its members appreciated the efforts of UK students to bring an end to universities’ fossil fuel investments.

“[This] supports those who have worked tirelessly to stop deadly extraction projects like EACOP … Regardless of the arrests and violations on the activists, students’ activists and communities, we continue to demand for the Uganda authorities to stop the project and instead invest in renewables.”

People & Planet said four UK institutions – Birmingham City University, Glasgow School of Art, Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Bradford – had recently incorporated fossil fuel exclusions into their ethical investment policies, meaning 115 out of 149 UK universities have publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels.

Later this month, the group will group will unveil its latest university league table that ranks institutions by their ethical and environmental performance. Campaigners say they will then increase pressure on the remaining 34 UK universities yet to go fossil-free."