Back to episode — Episode 2786 CWSA 03/22/25
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're doing a big dam project, no it's a big dam project not a big damn project, but apparently those usually displace a lot of the locals. And the researchers wanted to find out how bad the displacement was, and so they went to count the number of people who used to be there to compare it to the number that were there after the dam was done. And they found out there's no real way to know how many p…
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Meanwhile, Columbia University has folded to the Trump demands. So the Trump administration was withholding $400 million of federal funding until Columbia made some specific changes to fight anti-Semitism, which according to the Trump administration they had not done enough of. And you know there were a lot of anti-Israel protests which seemed very more anti-Jewish protests. And so the Trump administration was all over them. And apparently Columbia University has agreed to everything. I'm not sure I was expecting that, but $400 million, I guess that's a lot of pressure. And the things that were being asked for were don't let one class of people be discriminated against to the point of physical danger. That wasn't a big ask really. But still I thought there'd be more pushback. But Columbia University on Friday sai
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d yep, every single thing you asked for we're going to give you. So we'll see. Wall Street Journal was reporting on that. And just the news was also, according to New York Times writer Ezra Klein, and he's making a lot of news because he has a new book out. And as you know the Democrats are in bad shape. They don't have leadership and they don't have a direction. So when one of them writes a book…
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