BREAKING: Cornell caved. 🧵

[In It to Win It]

BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:11:43.848Z

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:21:45.679Z

Cornell agrees to "invest" million in things like AI farming.

Cornell also agrees to pay million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:25:18.762Z

Cornell agrees to turn over "anonymized" admissions data broken down to individual colleges and schools.

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:28:06.388Z

And, Cornell's president agrees to bow down to Trump each quarter.

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:30:09.192Z

Here is the email the "Cornell Community" received about today's capitulation:

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T18:05:08.018Z

[Chasstev365]

1. Profiles in Cowardice.

[efhmc]

2. Sad.

[UpInArms]

3. Stupid fukker

I hate cowards

[Solly Mack]

4. Poison Ivy League

[CTyankee]

16. some Yale profs just fled for teaching posts in Canada.

We used to attend Yale football in its historic Yale Bowl. They (and mostly their tailgating) were a highlight of our year in New Haven. No longer and I am sad that it's over.

[Solly Mack]

18. You were always so excited posting about it. I remember.

Paying Trump bribes serves no one but Trump.

[CTyankee]

19. We've moved out of our New Haven house and live in Masonicare in a nearby town, Wallingford.

It is odd not being a New Haven resident. And I miss the tailgate group we had joined. Those were good days!

Now we watch Ivy League games on TV. Unless we get into a group that goes to the Yale Bowl for season games we will watch only on TV. It's not the same, of course. I miss our friends at the tailgate party!

[walkingman]

5. Let's face the facts - there is nothing more important to our world than money. Nothing.

Not our children, not our planet, not even our own existence. Praise Jesus. Amen?

[Easterncedar]

6. Time for donors to yank back endowments

[yardwork]

7. Wow! Is this the first institution to agree to this?

[miyazaki]

8. Pathetic bastards.

I guess Carl Sagan's tenure there was lost on these fuckers.

Much of what he communicated espoused the equality of man.

[Initech]

9. Fuck this POS administration!

Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration! Fuck this POS administration!

[Blue Owl]

10. Propaganda is not education

[Bettie]

11. So, they've decided to turn their university

into a sycophant training campus.

Neat. Another MAGA U....sounds awesome, eh?

[MineralMan]

12. Very Sad. This will not serve Cornell well at all.

[AmandaRuth]

13. i wouldn't call that caving

more like bending over

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Pay the Trump regime $30 million for being their serf?

Wow, this is why Trump is seen around the world as the head of a crime syndicate.

I hadn't even heard there were major problems at Cornell that Trump could use as an excuse. What a cowardly capitulation. Of course the people who decided to pay the blackmail won't themselves have to pay anything.

[synni]

15. Keith Olbermann rant incoming in 3...2...1....

And it will be well deserved.

[uponit7771]

17. Epstein files are HUGE !!!

[mucifer]

20. This makes me so sad. I use their free birding app all the time.

[sakabatou]

21. I can see admittance numbers go down for Cornell in the future