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No deal, no defiance: UC's Trump fight grinds on, leaving UCLA in limbo
School officials and the Trump administration have been at a standstill for months over $584 million in research grants.
The Shakedown
How Trump’s Justice Department pressured lawyers to “find” evidence that UCLA had tolerated antisemitism
The Trump Agenda: Judge Blocks Trump’s Threats to Cut Funds to U. of California
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/judge-blocks-trumps-threats-to-cut-funds-to-u-of-california
The order thwarts — at least for now — the government’s attempt to wrest a $1.2-billion settlement from UCLA and deny its researchers millions of dollars in grants.
4. Disagreement is treason
NSPM-7: Project Esther in Overdrive
from #TheVoiceMemo
by Stefanie Fox [Executive Director of #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace in #USA]
Oct 20, 2025
One year ago, the Heritage Foundation released #ProjectEsther, which is best understood as an addendum to #Project2025. It was released quietly, but with ambitious tactics; it contains everything needed to defame, defund, and ultimately dismantle groups like JVP “within 12-24 months.” This is the #Trump administration’s blueprint to destroy civil society, starting with attacking Palestine solidarity.
Twelve months in, and they are well underway, judging by the giant stack of paperwork on my desk from JVP’s lawyers laying out the active lawsuits brought against our organization from Trump-aligned law firms and government requests for information...
#FightNSPM7
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#NSPM7
#US #USPol #politics #Palestine
#news #press @palestine
A good take from Hannah Gais on Nick Fuentes' recent appearance on Tucker Carlson's podcast, the back-and-forth about it on the right, and what it all might say about where they're collectively heading.
She writes:
There’s plenty of hypocrisy to point out here. For one, Heritage is the author of Project Esther, a guidebook for cracking down left-wing anti-Zionist student protesters on college and university campuses. One of its top priorities is to “expose the critical resources fueling antisemitism” through what it dubs the “Hamas Support Network.”
But that’s not what I want to focus on here. Instead, I want to explore the question that has been nagging me since I first learned of Fuentes’ appearance on Tucker Carlson: How did we get here? And, in the long term, what does it mean?
#NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson #AlexJones #UniteTheRight #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #LeadershipInstitute #AltRight #ProjectEsther #antisemitism
If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought I’d write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the country’s leading white nationalists, I’d probably ask if you were drunk. But it’
"Project Esther" is a strategic plan to suppress the pro-Palestine movement in the U.S. by labeling it as "pro-terrorism" and leveraging state mechanisms. Backed by conservative and Evangelical groups, the project seeks to reinforce Zionist narratives and reshape American political discourse. #ProjectEsther #Zionism #Israel #USPolitics #Evangelicals #HeritageFoundation 🕍✝️
https://kokcha.news/9416/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
“Project Esther” is a strategic plan to suppress the pro-Palestine movement in the U.S. by labeling it as “pro-terrorism” and leveraging state mechanisms. Backed by conserva…
The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" purports to combat antisemitism, but its true objective is to dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement as part of suppressing all forms of domestic dissent in the US.