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• June 19 | Time | 3.6K Engagements: "Title IX, the federal legislation mandating equal opportunities for men’s and women’s participation in sports, turns 50 on June 23. The golden anniversary offers opportunities to recognize the advancements of women’s athletics, such as the pioneering collective bargaining agreement, agreed to on May 18 by the United States Soccer Federation, the U.S Women’s National Team Players Association and the United States National Soccer Team Players Association, that creates true pay equity in the sport."
   
• June 22 | FOX | 1.6K Engagements: "Young women have their own instinctive sense of right and wrong. They may not grasp all the political and psychological intricacies of the transgender politics, but "fair?" Fair, they understand. The adults created this increasingly convoluted mess, but they have no intention of taking responsibility for it, even as we approach the 50th anniversary of Title IX—a law designed to protect fair competition for women—on June 23. No, instead, they’re hiding behind the athletes out on the track and in the pools. And it’s working."

• June 22 | Twitter l Hindu American Foundation | 84 Retweets: "Hateful tweets by an academic with a record of Hinduphobic activism, led to a watershed moment on the @RutgersU campus, Kalra says. @HinduStudentsC @HinduYUVAUSA activism led to Rutgers hosting the 1st ever @HinduphobiaConf conference. Meet hate speech with more speech!”

• June 17 | New York Post l 102 Engagements: "A wealthy father was acquitted of bribing a Georgetown University tennis coach with hundreds of thousands of dollars to get his daughter into the elite school in the final trial of the national college admissions cheating scandal."

• June 16 | Washington Post | 747 Engagements: "Authorities speculated that the man was seeking to gain access to information relating to the ICC investigations of alleged Russian war crimes." Alleged Russian spy studied at Johns Hopkins and won an ICC internship. 
   
• June 20 | Daily Caller | 541 Engagements: "One of the nation’s largest research universities that has contracts with the U.S. government has failed to report millions in funding from Russia and Qatar in possible violation of federal law, researcher Neetu Arnold wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Friday" 

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• June 15 | Twitter | Mark Warner l 2.3K Retweets: "BREAKING: my bill to allow people to sever their student loans from former partners – including victims of domestic abuse – just unanimously passed the Senate! This is a huge step for all those burdened by these loans."

• June 17 | Twitter | Nina Turner l 646 Retweets: "Black wealth would rise 40% if student debt is canceled."
   
• June 15 | Twitter | Ayanna Pressley l 556 Retweets: "Some mid-week reminders:
  - 20 years after taking out loans, Black borrowers still owe 96% of their debt, while white borrowers owe 6% - 40% of those w/ student debt never even obtained a degree - Cancelation at $50K per borrower would close the racial wealth gap by 30%"

• June 16 | VOX l 7K Engagements: "There’s plenty of blame to go around for the poor US performance during the Covid-19 pandemic, from the highly contagious virus itself to the Trump administration’s slow response to deep fissures in US politics and culture. But a new study from a group of scholars at Yale and UMass-Amherst says the US had more deaths per capita than most economic peers due to something more specific: the lack of universal health care."
   
• June 20 | Twitter l Martin Kulldorff l 812 l Retweets: "Tragic how CDC, FDA, NIH, university & pharmaceutical leaders abandoned evidence-based medicine during the pandemic. It is heartening how scientists like @MartyMakary, @TracyBethHoeg, @StabellBenn, @SunetraGupta, @DrJBhattacharya, @carlheneghan & @VPrasadMDMPH filled the void."

• June 17 | Twitter l Governor Glenn Youngkin | 59 Retweets: "Today is a big win for our HBCUs – providing 18.8 million dollars in resources, for our lab schools -- expanding their scope and opportunities in Virginia for preserving free speech & diversity of thought on college campuses"

• June 19 | ABC 7 | 68 Engagements: "UW-Madison, Wisconsin students lead stop Asian hate march after PhD student injured in attack"

• June 21 | Twitter | Richard W. Painter | 40 Retweets: “This video explains why I've called for 1) the resignation of the President and Regents of @UMNews who did nothing to combat gun violence on and near our campus, and 2) the resignation or removal of every U.S. office holder who won't fix our gun laws. We're fed up!”

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• June 22 | Breitbart | 31.8K Engagements: “Purdue basketball player Caleb Swanigan has died of natural causes at the young age of 25, according to reports.”

• June 21 | Twitter | Shams Charania | 2.7K Retweets: “Caleb Swanigan, the Purdue standout who played three NBA seasons with Portland and Sacramento, has passed away at 25 years old, his alma mater says. RIP.”

• June 22 | KHAK | 536 Engagements: “After asking for submissions from fans for a new song to accompany the Hawkeye Wave back in April, the University of Iowa announced Wednesday morning they're going in a different direction. There won't be a vote to determine the winner of the song that acts as the backdrop as fans and players wave to patients and their families at the end of the first quarter of every Iowa home football game. Instead, the choice of song(s) is being given to the kids.”

• June 20 | Twitter | Hugo Chrost | 41 Retweets: “Glial cells, such as depicted below astrocytes and microglia, provide a variety of supporting functions to neurons By @uiowa #neuroscience #neurotwitter #astrocytes #brain #Science #Biology #Neurology #Bioinformatics #biochemistry”

• June 22 | The Star | 1.2K Engagements: “Spreading information around the world about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is as important as distributing guns and bullets for the country’s defence, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy told students at the University of Toronto on Wednesday.”

• June 18 | Twitter | Trudo Lemments | 165 Retweets: “"Colin Furness, epidemiologist UofT, said companies should create office environments that can separate vaccinated and unvaccinated workers to help limit virus spread" There you go: calls for segregation based on pseudo-science”

• June 15 | Good Morning America | 61.7K Engagements: “Music icon Dolly Parton, already famous for her generous spirit, has donated $1 million to support pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.”

• June 21 | Vanderbilt News | 3.8K Engagements: “Vanderbilt University has named John Kuriyan, one of the world’s leading structural biologists, as its next dean of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced today.”

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• June 17 | USA Today | 17.1K Engagements: “Alabama teen Rotimi Kukoyi was accepted to more than 15 universities to tally a total of $2 million in scholarship offers. Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins were among the top universities Kukoyi had to choose from, but he ultimately went with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a career in public health.”

• June 20 | Twitter | Christina Pushaw | 2.6K Retweets: “Legacy media hit pieces on @GovRonDeSantis: “He grew up working class, athletic scholarship to Yale, studied hard, didn’t party, served in the military, kept to himself in Congress, isn’t influenced by corporate money, and spends his free time with his wife & kids. What a weirdo””

• June 17 | Just The News | 456 Engagements: “Yale Epidemiology Professor Harvey Risch says there is "no benefit and only potential risk" for healthy infants and children to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but the government has taken on a "very paternalistic attitude" toward the public during the pandemic. ”

• June 18 | FOX News | 18.7K Engagements: “Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is vowing to send back his Harvard University degree, and wrote "return to sender" on his diploma during Saturday's show. In Hegseth's book "American Crusade," he wrote a blunt message to Americans: "Stop supporting your alma mater!"”

• June 21 | Raw Story | 7K Engagements: “Harvard law professor calls upon Merrick Garland to charge Trump under mob racketeering law”

• June 19 | 247 Sports | 7.5K Engagements: “A&M ends Texas' season, knocks Horns out of College World Series”

• June 21 | Saturday Down South | 2.9K Engagements: “Texas A&M eliminates Notre Dame thanks to elite pitching performance by Nathan Dettmer”

• June 19 | Twitter | TexAgs | 833 Retweets: “This W is NOT of the “meaningless midweek” variety 🤘⬇️ #5 Texas A&M eliminates #9 Texas from the 2022 Men's College World Series #GigEm 👍👍👍”

• June 18 | Pig Trail Nation | 5.9K Engagements: “Arkansas takes down Stanford 17-2 in College World Series”

• June 21 | Twitter | San Francisco Chronicle | 305 Retweets: “Stanford infectious disease doctor @AbraarKaran argued that simply giving up and allowing infections to happen also has profound economic implications, as it can take many people out of work at the same time — as is happening in his own hospital.”