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veny20on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes

Public funds should not be subsidizing wealthy private universities. The end.

veny20on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

Europe has been more or less militarily occupied and subjugated for that time. Conquered nations tend to be pretty docile on the international level and generally don't go around waging war independently.

veny20on US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'

If it was reported in a newspaper, then it was deemed to be newsworthy, and that record should be preserved for posterity, for myriad reasons.

veny20on US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'

This is Orwellian gaslighting. These papers should no longer be viewed as authoritive keepers of the public record. Any institution that engages in this kind of memory-holing forfeits all credibility. They can no longer be trusted whatsoever.