Meanwhile, after two years during which big donors and the federal government punished colleges for how they handled pro-Palestinian protests, dialogue and pluralism programs ….
Apr 21, 2026
….Meanwhile, after two years during which big donors and the federal government punished colleges for how they handled pro-Palestinian protests, dialogue and pluralism programs and their funders can generate some skepticism on campus: How much are these programs just political ploys aimed at suppressing campus speech?
Ya think college students can protest their own departments where animal testing goes on or is part and parcel part of the programs?
Almost all of The Chronicle’s interviewees insisted that they didn’t want to eliminate campus protests entirely, but many declined to answer directly what they thought of recent campus pro-Palestinian activism, and what better protest would look like. Murray, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations’ president, was unusually game.
“What we would like to see is protest accompanied by something else,” he said. For example, protesters and counter-protesters could also come together, in a lower-temperature way, to better understand each other, “rather than just putting up signs that protest the caricature.”
According to CNN, as the U.S. and Iran appeared close to a deal, Donald Trump undercut negotiations by publicly discussing and overstating progress on social media, frustrating both Iranian officials and his own team. U.S. officials privately acknowledged his comments were damaging and showed concern about his inability to stay on message during sensitive talks. Conflicting statements from Trump and his administration further eroded credibility, creating confusion and weakening trust in the U.S. position. As a result, momentum toward a deal stalled, leaving negotiations uncertain. Here is a list of some conflicting statements from the President:
- Donald Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz situation “over” but tensions clearly continued right after. Iran has since closed the Strait again. For example, Donald Trump this morning claimed “We totally control the strait, just so you understand. For all the fake news out there,” projecting full U.S. control over a highly contested and volatile waterway.
- He claimed Iran agreed to never close the Strait again but Iran shut it down the very next day.
- He said JD Vance wouldn’t attend the Pakistan talks but his own officials contradicted him almost immediately. And now, Vance is currently on his way to Pakistan.
- He claimed Iran’s military was basically wiped out even though it still has major destructive capabilities. According to reports, Iran has been able to retain a significant portion of its missile capabilities, and is even able to quickly rebuild much of what the United States has bombed.
- He falsely said the pope supported Iran having nuclear weapons even though no such statement exists.
[Speaking at a peace meeting in Bamenda, Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV called out leaders who were spending billions on wars and said that the world “is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”.
The pope has emerged as an outspoken critic of the United States and Israel’s actions in the Middle East in recent weeks, emphasising that “it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild”.]
- He insisted Iran retaliating against Gulf countries was unexpected, even though it was widely anticipated by officials, according to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting.
- He said U.S. plane losses were mostly due to friendly fire, despite previously discussing Iran shooting one down.
- Trump this morning claimed: “I would’ve won Vietnam very quickly if I were president. Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes.”
- Donald Trump is taking part in a nationwide Bible-reading event celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by reading a well-known passage often used by the Christian right. His participation comes at a tense moment, after criticism over a social media post portraying himself as Jesus and ongoing disagreements with the pope. The situation reflects both his outreach to religious supporters and divisions among Christians about his behavior and messaging.
2 Chronicles 7:11-22 records God’s response to Solomon after the Temple dedication, promising to hear prayers and heal the land if the people humble themselves, pray, and turn from wickedness (2 Chron 7:14). God warns that abandonment of his commands will lead to destruction of the Temple and exile, making it a “byword”.
Key highlights of this passage include:
- God’s Promise (v. 12-16): God acknowledges Solomon’s prayer, choosing the Temple as a consecrated place of sacrifice and setting his eyes and heart there forever.
- The Conditional Promise (v. 13-14): If calamities such as drought, locusts, or plagues occur, God promises to “hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land” if His people humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways.
- Conditions for Solomon (v. 17-18): Solomon is commanded to walk in faithfulness like David, with promises to establish his royal throne if he obeys.
- Warning of Disobedience (v. 19-22): If Israel turns to other gods, God warns He will “uproot” them from the land and destroy the consecrated Temple, causing it to become an object of scorn.
All fucking free speech censorship, nanny gate bullshit, full of that admin class and deans and provosts culling critical thinking and engaged debate, and, yes, fucking yelling and fucking protest signs!
Meet the Donors Funding the Civil-Dialogue Boom at Colleges
Among the latest donors to campus efforts, The Chronicle found if not a full spectrum of political beliefs then at least some portion of the middle of it. What the donors shared was frustration at the breakdown in public discourse. Intervening with college students, they believe, can help repair Americans’ ability to debate productively. Examining the work and motivations of a few of these donors offers a glimpse of the kind of future they’re trying to create for higher ed.
The Libertarians
Charles G. Koch is notorious in higher ed for making gifts to university departments that came with what some saw as unacceptable influence over faculty hiring.
The Alumnus With a Named Center
The Kochs may be loud and proud — or at least have publicly known political stances — but in a field that’s about bridging divides, almost all of the donors The Chronicle spoke with declined to describe their politics.
Tom Woodley was no exception. He and his wife, Nancy, established the Woodley Institute for Civil Engagement and Humanistic Dialogue at Gonzaga University late last year, with a $1-million donation. When asked, Woodley said that the couple had no “political agenda or alignment.” But he spent most of his career as general counsel to a large North American union for emergency workers.
In his and Gonzaga’s telling, the gift went like a dream — the ideal big donation, from a college fundraiser’s point of view. Mia Bertagnolli, the provost, and Jeff Geldien, an assistant vice president in the advancement office, had been wanting to start a civil-dialogue program like the ones they had seen at other universities, but they needed donors’ help, Geldien said. Sometime after the Woodleys gave $1 million to the department of political science, which had been Tom’s major when he went to Gonzaga in the ‘60s, they indicated that they wanted to do more. Geldien saw an opportunity.
The Supporter of the ADL and Food Aid in Gaza
The Tepper Foundation was established in 1996 by David Tepper, a hedge-fund manager and billionaire. Traditionally, it funded poverty- and disaster-relief work. Randi Tepper, David’s daughter, became the foundation’s chief executive in 2020 and, working with the board, expanded the foundation’s purview, she said.
The foundation gave out $87 million in grants in 2024, the latest publicly available figure. The biggest recent donations have gone to antipoverty efforts, Jewish charities, and a donor-advised fund.
A few grantees are known to have been critical of the pro-Palestinian student movement. Since 2021, the foundation has donated annually to the Israel on Campus Coalition, which condemned Students for Justice in Palestine, the club that organized the encampments, for “glorifying terror.” Since 2020, the foundation has given at least $1.5 million a year to the Anti-Defamation League, whose president has said demonstrators in the encampments called for violence against Jewish students. (The protests and individual protesters varied in their views and messaging.)
In addition, between 2022 and 2024, the foundation gave about $3 million to World Central Kitchen, which provides food aid in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
The Would-Be Leader
One foundation is positioning itself as a leader and convener of these disparate efforts. The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations host regular meetings with the Lumina Foundation for civil dialogue funders; backed a 15-page guide for college leaders looking to start something at their own campuses; and have Murray talking to the likes of The New Yorker andThe Chronicleon the topic. (The foundations are also sponsoring a series of reports on civil-dialogue work on campuses through the Chronicle Intelligence division, whose reporters work independently of The Chronicle’s newsroom.)
Fucking lowest common denominator education — corporate influence, admin class, and the emptiness of a country based on genocide, the bible, land theft, rape, pollution, reservations, internment, ICE-Gestapo, and the Chlamydia Capitalism in its current Pedophile and Rapist in Chief VERSION.
- SJP chapters are holding “National Day of Resistance” rallies celebrating the Hamas jail break as a “historic win.”
- SJP marketing materials celebrate the image of a Hamas armed paraglider headed towards a group of Jews at a desert rave –
- SJP internal materials say the “total return and liberation to Palestine is near… armed struggle… is legitimate, and all of it is necessary.”
- SJP’s toolkits implicitly encourage similar rampages in the United States and Canada, referring to those countries as “occupied Turtle Island” and then saying “necessary struggle against an occupying and colonial state [is] not a “war” or “conflict.” It is a struggle for national liberation.”
- SJP’s social media platforms routinely promote calls to violence such as “Long live the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Yeah, fucking Gonzaga, where I was “fired” for disagreeing with the president about the Vagina Monologues he deemed “not on our campus.” I wrote an editorial supporting the Monologues and questioning the veracity of a priesthood with pedophiles and sexual abusers.
Can I as a faculty (I can’t teach no more cuz they Google me) bring in this shit and ask students to research the depth of the depravity of the military on campuses and associated with departments?
Paul,
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Senior representatives have already confirmed their attendance, including leaders from Echodyne, Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC), Office of Naval Research, Sykdio, Thales, the U.S Air Force, U.S Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and USSTRATCOM, to name just a few.
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Right, think of the dozens of colleges and universities around Arlington that could come out and PROTEST.
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Join newly confirmed keynote speaker, Major General AnnMarie Anthony, Director of the Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center, at USSTRATCOM, as she explains how the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is shaping control, telemetry, navigation, and surveillance in contested environments.
You think ANY of the colleges and universities in the Arlington Virginia, arena will go and protest? Be allowed to protest there on campus? This fucking event, which is an event that happens dozens of times a month somewhere, in the U$A, dealing with the weapons of death?
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are 60 four-year institutions in Virginia. Among these are some of the best colleges in Virginia, which include many different types of colleges.
14 Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, is the seat of the United States federal government, the U.S. capitol, and home to 20 colleges and universities. While DC is considered only the 20th most populous city in the nation, hundreds of thousands of commuters flood in from both Virginia and Maryland for work each week to this world political capital. Headquartering 177 foreign embassies, DC hosts the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of national security and international affairs.
The bulk of the city’s postsecondary institutions fall into two categories, public or private not-for-profit, and are distributed evenly amongst three types: research universities, master’s universities (like the aforementioned Institute of World Politics), or special-focus institutions. The oldest institution in Washington, DC, is Georgetown University, which was founded in 1789, and the same institution also claims the title of the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the US.
Civic Fucking Dialogue? Ya think we can teach this on campus without fucking JEWS cancelling the lecture, the course, the faculty? RIGHT!
A report says Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexual violence and harassment to pressure Palestinians to leave their homes in the Occupied West Bank. Victims have described abuse including invasive searches, threats, and public humiliation, with experts warning these acts are contributing to displacement and disrupting daily life. The report also highlights a lack of accountability, with few prosecutions and growing concerns about a broader culture of impunity.
Oh, shit, can we teach how corrupt the U$A is and throughout its history, and what fucking hell we have unleashed on Mexico since, well, 1800? RIGHT.
Sure, at those dens of CIA-NSA-Legal Thugs, all those universities! Lots of civil discourse on the United Snake$ of Israel…..
Claudia Sheinbaum is demanding a full explanation after two U.S. officials and two Mexican investigators died in a crash following an operation targeting a drug lab in Chihuahua. She said her administration was not informed in advance and warned that any cooperation with U.S. personnel without federal approval could violate Mexican law. Conflicting statements from Mexican officials and the U.S. Embassy about whether Americans were involved in the operation have fueled confusion and suspicion. The incident has intensified tensions over U.S. involvement in Mexico’s anti-cartel efforts, especially as pressure from Donald Trump increases and Mexico pushes to assert its sovereignty.
Civil fucking dialogue on campus my fucking ASS! Anyway we can discuss how broken the USA is, the branches of government, the executive, the Press? RIGHT. Insanity, there you go, Charlie and Erika Turning Point?
“Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power,”
Yeah, PETA on campus? RIGHT. Civil dialogue!
Animal activists swarmed a Wisconsin animal research facility on Saturday in an attempt to free 2,000 beagles from experimentation that continues under the Trump administration.
Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP), says that since Kennedy took office, more than $126 million in new funding has been awarded to facilities that experiment on dogs and cats.
“Starting over a year ago, at their request, we provided Kennedy and [NIH Director] Bhattacharya’s teams with info on taxpayer-funded grants paying for cat and dog testing, including Fauci-approved experiments on Ridglan beagles,” Goodman wrote. “Instead of shutting down the labs and retiring the survivors, the NIH gave the labs we identified more money. RFK literally lied to Congress about it this week.”
“Since day one of RFK‘s tenure, he has had the authority to cut funding for these grants overnight. He has even admitted this. But instead, he has kept them alive.”
In fact, documents obtained by WCWP show that beagles from Ridglan Farms continue to be used in NIH-funded experiments, including tick bite studies at the University of Missouri (originally approved under Anthony Fauci and continuing under the Trump administration).
Other funding sources include the Department of the Interior, National Science Foundation, and Department of Agriculture.
Involved universities include the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Colorado State University, University of Georgia, Southern Research Institute, Kansas State University, and Texas A&M University.
Unfortunately, as WCWP recently noted, since becoming HHS Secretary, Kennedy’s NIH has “renewed wasteful, deadly tests on dogs, cats, primates, and other animals,” which were first approved and funded by Fauci. To raise awareness of these facts, WCWP recently launched a national “WTF RFK?” ad campaign targeting Kennedy for continuing to fund Fauci-era animal labs.
“I saw compassion met with extreme violence—peaceful protesters met with tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets,” Logan wrote on Instagram. “I saw people show up with courage, love, and nothing but a commitment to peaceful change for the puppies at Ridglan Farms who are criminally abused.”
Not a huge fan of Attenborough, but check this PG-rated documentary. Gorillas have more humanity than, err, Chlamydia Capitalists.
Versus: These fucking animals!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, protests at Wisconsin colleges, allowed? NOPE.
In January 2025, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor, noting that the activists had established “probable cause to believe that Ridglan has committed crimes under Wisconsin’s animal cruelty laws, and the district attorney has failed to issue a complaint or commence an investigation into Ridglan’s conduct.”
[More LGBTQ news talking about her partner, that Jewish girl on the left.]
[Key Details About Tim Gruenke:
- Role: La Crosse County District Attorney (333 Vine St., La Crosse, WI).
- Experience: 25-year prosecutor, 13+ years as DA.
- Specialization: Sexual assault and homicide cases.
- Recognition: Twice named “Prosecutor of the Year” by Wisconsin prosecutors and the Wisconsin Association of Homicide Investigators; awarded the “Voices of Courage Award”.
- Recent Activity: Appointed as a special prosecutor regarding investigation into Ridglan Farms dog breeding facility.
- Public Engagement: Appears on WIZM 92.3FM’s La Crosse Talk PM to discuss local legal topics.]
On February 5, 2025, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was appointed special prosecutor to lead the investigation. Gruenke reviewed the documents used in the Dane County evidentiary hearing and information from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) regarding their investigations into Ridglan Farms.
The special prosecutor’s report identified five potential areas for charges: “cherry-eye” procedures, devocalization procedures, proper shelter and space requirements, sanitation standards, and improper enclosures causing serious injuries.
The report concluded that most claims lacked strong evidence. For example, when it came to devocalization procedures (removal of the vocal cords), the report found that witnesses had credibility issues, and the “only eyewitness evidence of devocalization was from a former employee who left in 2010.” They found no records, witnesses, or inspections that indicated any devocalization procedures were done within the last six years.
However, the report found strong evidence of violations in “cherry-eye” procedures, which involve removing part of a swollen or prolapsed eye gland.
The report concluded (emphasis added):
“Ridglan Farms routinely allowed non-veterinarians to conduct the surgery. They did not use general anesthesia, which resulted in pain to the animals and potential aftercare pain. Unlike other claims, the procedures were done well within the statute of limitations. The Vet Board and DATCP determined that the way Ridglan Farms personnel did the cherry-eye procedure (until recently) did not meet current standards of veterinary care in Wisconsin. The records provided by Ridglan Farms themselves showed proof of the occurrences. Gruenke concluded this procedure was in fact animal mistreatment as defined under the statute and could be charged.“
The report also notes that the Wisconsin Veterinary Licensing Board was investigating veterinarians employed by Ridglan Farms in connection with cherry-eye procedures. In fact, after the board ordered the emergency suspension of the lead veterinarian and facility manager at Ridglan Farms, Dr. Rick Van Domelen, a judge upheld the decision in September 2025.
Gruenke wrote in his report that despite the evidence of violations of Wisconsin state statutes, “Ridglan Farms made clear they would argue that because they conduct research, and all of the dogs being bred would also be for research purposes, the Wisconsin statutes do not apply to them.”
In the end, Gruenke and Ridglan Farms reached a settlement whereby Ridglan agreed to shut down its dog sale and breeding-for-sale operations and surrender its state breeding license by July 1, 2025, in exchange for no prosecution. The facility continued to deny any abuse or neglect.
The agreement states,
“the State of Wisconsin agrees… all alleged civil and criminal violations referred to in and contemplated by Judge Rhonda Lanford’s referral… will not be brought against Ridglan Farms and are forever barred from being brought in a criminal or civil action.”
Paul Haeder, Author 