A lot of universities haven't exactly covered themselves in glory recently: Most of those bullied by Trump have opted to #SurrenderInAdvance. And the #EpsteinFiles provide more evidence of moral obtuseness every day.
♦️Has any university humiliated itself more thoroughly than Columbia?
Exactly:
♦️Brad Karp has suffered absolutely no meaningful penalty-- not for his Epstein ties, and not for his leading the column of Big Law collaborators who lined up to kiss Trump's behind and #SurrenderInAdvance.
♦️Same is true for every other Epstein pal & Trump sycophant.
So, has Trump actually backed off his extortion attempt on #Harvard? Press reports--even within NYT's own story-- are unclear.
Bottom line:
♦️Trump can never be trusted.
♦️Never #SurrenderInAdvance.
♦️If you're his target, don't give in:
-Make.
-Him.
-Take.
-It.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
Now, in addition to video and eyewitness testimony, we also have an autopsy showing that the bullet which killed #ReneeGood was fired from the side: No element of self-defense for shooter.
♦️Why on earth is there no State or local prosecution?
Yes, Trump will obstruct.
But why #SurrenderInAdvance?
Note to all the CEOs, news magnates, university presidents, and law firm heads who decided to #SurrenderInAdvance:
♦️If a nation with a population of less than 6 million can stand up to the mightiest military (commanded by the most pathetic leader) in the history of the world...
...so can you.
Yet another example of #SurrenderInAdvance leading to yet more bullying:
♦️GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy is a medical doctor, and the chair of the Senate committee that confirmed RFKJr. His vote put RJK in office.
His reward for betraying his Hippocratic Oath (and his obligation to the rest of us)? This:
Bard College-- with a tiny fraction of the resources of wealthier schools that have caved to Trump-- is standing up for its students.
Which should make Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Northwestern and all of the other #SurrenderInAdvance universities utterly ashamed.
Reminder: Cynicism and forgone conclusions are self-defeating. #surrenderinadvance
That's the way to do it.
We can criticize powerful institutions that #SurrenderInAdvance-- but unless there's some pressure on them NOT to surrender, it will all be empty words.
Every governor should follow suit:
Yet more #SurrenderInAdvance.
A student interrupted a professor's class, saying “According to our president, there’s only two genders.” The next day, the professor was fired. That wasn't enough for GOP politicians.
So the president of Texas A&M resigned.
Why surrender?
♦️Make them take it.
Yet another capitulation. As the Harvard case has shown, Trump's bullying of universities is blatantly illegal.
Every powerful person or institution that chooses to #SurrenderInAdvance makes life far more difficult for those who choose to Resist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Kamala Harris puts her finger on the saddest part of the past half-year (apart from the hundreds of thousands of lives needlessly lost by eliminating #USAID):
♦️It's not the assault on democracy. We knew that was coming.
♦️It's the fact that most institutions have decided to #SurrenderInAdvance.
The parade to #SurrenderInAdvance continues:
-Fed Governor Adriana Kugler resigns half a year early. She's a credentialed economist, so she knows the stakes. But decided to do it anyway.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Most of Trump's destruction has been caused not by direct government action, but by his targets' decision to #SurrenderInAdvance.
Here's the lesson: Don't.
Don't quit: MAKE him fire you.
Don't pay him off: MAKE him rob you.
Don't collaborate: MAKE him take it.
Don't WILLINGLY become his victim.
💪🏼✊🏼
Why do so many so-called tough guys #SurrenderInAdvance?
♦️FBI director Chris Wray? Meekly slinked away.
♦️Wolf of Wall Street partners at Skadden? Lined up to lick Trump's shoes.
Etc, Etc
They could all learn from National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet:
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
What happens when you #SurrenderInAdvance?
This:
#MIT joins the camp of #SurrenderInAdvance:
♦️Bans the class president from graduation. For the sin of supporting #Palestinians:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...
Reminder #5,467 for the #SurrenderInAdvance crew:
♦️ABC paid Trump off with a $16 million settlement for a bogus lawsuit. And here's the goodwill it bought them:
Note to #PaulWeiss, Skadden, and all the rest of the #SurrenderInAdvance firms in #BigLaw:
♦️You delivered Trump your basic dignity, and paid bribes worth $1 Billion.
♦️All for absolutely nothing:
While CEOs, university presidents and millionaire law firm partners all #SurrenderInAdvance, the defense of #democracy is left to pro athletes like #JalenHurts.
🙏🏽💪🏽
Dems need to send a message to #BigLaw and other #SurrenderInAdvance institutions: If you abet Trump, that choice will have a cost:
♦️When firms like #PaulWeiss sell out, they raise the stakes for other firms (and everyone else).
♦️They're afraid of Trump. Dems need them to worry about who comes next.
Trump loves #SurrenderInAdvance.
He likes the concept so much he's proposing to surrender Crimea (on behalf of #Ukraine) before Putin even sits down at the table.
Question for partners at #PaulWeiss, Skadden, and all the other #SurrenderInAdvance crew at #BigLaw:
♦️Are you proud yet?
Trump has no shame, but most of his #SurrenderInAdvance confederates do.
#PaulWeiss partners & #Columbia administrators like to see themselves as linchpins of a free society. They should be-- but haven't acted like it.
It's important to shame those who have the power to #StandUp-- and don't.
#Cornell joins #Harvard in standing up to Trump.
If #Columbia could revoke its decision to #SurrenderInAdvance, it would surely do so: It submitted, and Trump just raised his demands.
Lesson for all:
♦️NOW is the time to resist: If you delay, he'll pick each college off one by one.
Words I didn't think I'd ever type:
♦️Bravo, @harvard.edu.
This should have been a MUCH easier call: As @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's decision to #SurrenderInAdvance showed:
♦️Appeasement never works.
But give props to #Harvard for deciding not to cave.
(Here's hoping they stay strong).
🙏🏽💪🏽
As Tony Soprano tells his victim, "Guys like you are my bread-and-butter."
That's Trump, to the multi-millionaire hot-shot lawyers who've decided to #SurrenderInAdvance.
♦️All of them, until a few weeks ago, considered themselves sharks. They just revealed themselves as chum.
How much have #SurrenderInAdvance Big Law firms agreed to pay Trump as in-kind tribute?
♦️Over $1 Billion so far.
♦️And counting.
All that free work that #PaulWeiss, Skadden & other Vichy law firms have agreed to perform?
Remember, the work that they said would just be their ordinary pro bono, for worthy causes?
♦️It'll be legal work DEFENDING their new master.
♦️In lawsuits brought by lawyers who didn't #SurrenderInAdvance:
With his third cave over #tariffs, he shows us the basic truth about himself:
♦️Like all bullies, he's a coward: When people stand up to him, he folds.
Clear lesson for universities, law firms et al:
♦️Learn from Europeans (who have some experience facing guys like Trump). Don't #SurrenderInAdvance
