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    What has Trump done now?

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    BREAKING: Donald Trump escalates his fascist assault on Harvard University as it leaks that the White House will soon send a letter to federal agencies ordering them to "identify any contracts with Harvard, and whether they can be canceled or redirected elsewhere."


    And it gets even worse...
    A senior administration official informed ABC News of the plans, which comes amidst Trump's escalating war against the legendary university. Harvard is still refusing to provide the MAGA administration with data on its international students, a bold and commendable decision.


    The letter, which ABC News acquired a copy of, claims that being a federal contractor "comes with the deep responsibility and commitment to abide by all federal laws and ensure the safeguarding of taxpayer money."


    It alleges that Harvard University "continues to engage in race discrimination, including in its admissions process and in other areas of student life," constituting yet another assault on DEI from this administration.

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    Of course, these allegations are just pretext. Trump wants to bring Harvard to heel so that he can mutate it into another bastion of MAGA policy and thought. This is about his accumulation of raw power.


    The letter orders federal agencies to compile their list of Harvard contracts and suggest action to take by June 6th.


    The attacks have been relentless. Over the weekend, Trump launched another prong of his institutional siege by threatening to strip $3 billion in allocated funds from Harvard and funnel it to other schools.


    Last week, Harvard filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's authoritarian and blatantly unconstitutional executive ordered that barred the school from teaching international students.


    One need not care about Harvard as a school to care about this issue. This is a story about gross White House overreach, about a president who isn't content to simply tank the global economy with tariffs and alienate our allies on the world stage. He won't be satisfied until he controls every aspect of American society. 


    If we don't stand up now, it will soon be too late to do anything at all.

     

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    Photography.

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    Have you ever shot a short video on your iPhone but it's file size was too large to attach to an email or to post on these forums? iPhone video files are stored in .MOV format. I shot a video at our Men's Shed, but at 40.16 MB it was too large to upload, so I searched the web and found a website that compresses these files online with output in .mp4 format, with a filesize of 2.81 MB. The website is freecompress.com and the link is below. Simply upload the file, click on COMPRESS and download the .mp4 file when compression is complete.

     

    https://freecompress.com/compress-mov

     

     

     

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    The Random thought thread

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    I tested positive early in the peice, had the vaccine and 5 boosters. I've had shingles, recently had the vaccine, regularly have the flue vaccine for each new variant. I had the pneumonia vaccine 2 years ago and have been told that lasts a lifetime, no boosters required.

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    The Random thought thread

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    I got called in to watch a segment on the Channel 9 program Postcards. The Union Hotel in Ascot Vale was featured. Due to my deafness, I missed the discussion betwen my kids where he said he had to sell his share in the hotel when Dictator Dan screwed Victoria and banned hotel trading during his horrendous Covid lockdown. Craig was required to take his accrued long service leave and is now a permanent casual, often working seven days a week.

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    The Random thought thread

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    I have two small torches from Woolies which are each powered by two AA batteries. They give off a very bright light and the batteries last at least 6 months. They are 14cm long and 2 cm in diameter. They cost less than $10 each. They fit in the neck of a Daily Juice bottle which gives a solid base to bounce the light off the ceiling. One torch is sufficient to light a room enough to walk around safely without bumping in to things, and can easily be carried around. 

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