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struggle4progress

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Sat Apr 19, 2025, 05:21 PM Apr 19

White House Officials Say They Sent Harvard April 11 Demands in Error [View all]

Updated April 19, 2025, at 9:05 a.m.

The White House had not intended to send its revised — and more aggressive — set of demands to Harvard on April 11, according to a report by the New York Times published Friday evening.

Trump administration officials claimed that the demands — which were seen as excessive and illegal to Harvard’s administrators — should not have been sent and were “unauthorized,” according to the Times, which cited two unnamed sources.

The April 11 letter was signed by Josh Gruenbaum, the commissioner of the General Services Administration, Sean R. Kevney, the acting general counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and Thomas E. Wheeler, the acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Education ...

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Oopsie! How did THAT happen? We were only trying to microwave the office cat
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Look! We have photos of Harvard's MS-13 tattoos!
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We're hoping this will keep the rubes from noticing our latest really really big fuck up
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Okay! okay! Calm down! we'll go bully Vanderbilt Medical Center instead
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