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• July 31 l Jonathan Turley l 347 Engagements: “The announcement merely said that Justice Thomas was now “unavailable” to teach. While the decision is being celebrated by both GWU and across the Internet, it is only the latest blow to free speech and the struggle to preserve a diversity of viewpoints in higher education..."
   
• August 1 l Twitter l The Post Millennial l 175 Retweets: “Attorney Cece O'Leary describes what the Biden admin's proposed changes to Title IX will have on free speech on college campuses, including saying that Matt Walsh @mattwalshblog
   could be labeled a "harassing figure" and barred from entry.”

• July 29 | Patch | 2.7K Engagements: "Representatives of NorthShore University HealthSystem and the group of 14 then-employees who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in October 2021 have agreed upon a settlement agreement to end the suit, court records show [...] According to the request for court approval of the settlement agreement, attorneys for both sides met in May for a daylong mediation session with an experienced Title VII class action mediator."

• July 30 l USA Today l 914 Engagements: "Michigan State University on Friday asked the Supreme Court to hear a case that could impact how Title IX, the federal law that bans sexual discrimination in education, is applied to college athletics programs."
   
• July 26 | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 125 Engagements: "A Ferris State University professor is suing the institution after he was suspended for a now-viral video for a course in which he refers to his students as “vectors of disease."

• August 2 | ESPN | 957 Engagements: "In an NCAA survey of more than 9,800 student-athletes released in May 2022, 69% of female athletes and 63% of male athletes agreed or strongly agreed they know where to go on campus if they have mental health concerns. But when asked if they feel comfortable seeking support from a mental health provider on campus, less than half of the respondents said they agreed or strongly agreed with that statement."

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• August 2 | Twitter l Nina Turner l 825 Retweets: “The only reason to oppose student debt cancelation is that you want people to suffer.”
   
• August 2 | Twitter | Ilhan Omar l 590 Retweets: “There are tens of thousands of people in my district who can't afford to buy a home, start a business, or raise a family because of their student loan debt. We could allow this to continue, or we could cancel it, today."

• August 2 | Twitter l Dr. David Jacobs l 199 Retweets: "The current vaccine is not very effective at preventing transmission of the Omicron variant and subvariants. The university student population is at very low risk for severe disease. I fail to see the logic in mandating a booster for this population."

• August 2 | The Daily Wire | 2.5K Engagements: "In the name of equity, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced on Monday that it supports allowing colleges to racially discriminate when deciding the admission of certain applicants."
   
• August 1 | Twitter l Erick Erickson | 302 Retweets: "These companies have jointly filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to allow race-based discrimination in college admissions."

• August 3 | Saturday Down South | 516 Engagements: "Auburn quarterback TJ Finley has inked a new deal with Amazon fashion, the first of its kind in college football, per On3 Sports NIL."

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• July 31 | Mercury News | 180 Engagements: "Bill Russell dead at 88. University of San Francisco Don became NBA great. 
   
• July 31 | Twitter | Mike Vorkunov | 72 Retweets: "Bill Russell, clearing 6-foot-8, during a track meet in 1956 for the University of San Francisco."

• July 28 | The Atlantic | 3.5K Engagements: "Manchin and Schumer's Astonishing Climate Deal 'It looks like the estimate from Senator Schumer's office that this will take U.S. [emissions] to about 40 percent below 2005 levels is accurate," Jesse Jenkins, a Princeton engineering professor who runs a team that estimate the emissions effects of climate policy, told me in an email. 'That's huge.'"
   
• July 28 | Twitter | SLC Junk | 1.8K Retweets: "Fun fact: Alito was a member of a group called the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which purpose was to raise concerns about women and minorities attending the school"

• July 28  | The Counter Signal | 2.9K engagements: "The University of Toronto has announced it's bringing back its vaccine mandate for students living on campus for the Fall semester and will require they all receive boosters." 
   
• July 28  | Twitter | Lisa Bildly | 151 Retweets: "This is insane. Utterly bonkers. Parents and students need to vote with their feet and refuse to attend any school forcing unscientific, unnecessary shots on young people. It's more risk than benefit for this demographic and what you are doing is unconscionable. @WesternU @UofT"
   
• July 28 | Twitter | Kulvinder Kaur MD | 146 Retweets: "Today, I'm grateful that UofT is NOT my alma mater."

• July 28 | USA Today | 941 Engagements: "Researchers at Rice University in Houston figured out how to give new life to dead spiders."

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• July 29 | ABC News | 2.3K Engagements: "Why Yale Law's dean says eliminating tuition for students in need benefits the legal profession" 
   
• July 28 | Twitter | Vernon Jones | 366 Retweets: "Why aren't white liberal democrat communities diverse? They preach diversity, but don't practice it. Let's bus in record breaking minorities, like what's happening at the border to Malibu, Burlington, VT., Wash DC, Martha's Vineyards, Cornell, Harvard, Yale & Princeton."

• August 2 | Twitter | Citizen Free Press | 4.9K retweets: "Joe Rogan discusses Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Harvard: 'They gave him [an office] at Harvard after he had been arrested for f--ing underage girls... He was arrested in 2006, after that, up until 2018 he still had an office there. That is WILD."
   
• August 2 | Twitter | TexasLindsay | 3K Retweets: "🚩Graduates of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, et al. All experts in their field of medicine and/or science- ALL censored by some millennial with a keyboard opting to protect Big Pharma's products and profits over "expert" voices of reason. Truly shameful times we're living in."
   
• July 31  | JonathanTurley.org  | 876 Engagements: "Harvard Study: J6 Rioters Were Motivated by Loyalty to Trump, Not Insurrection Against the Constitution"

• July 29 | Twitter | Fred Guttenberg | 1.8K Retweets: "Hey @Jim_Jordan, just head your offer to debate @RepMarcyKaptur. How about you and I debate. Let's put it on the calendar. Let's schedule it in the Ohio State Gymnasium." 
   
• July 30 | Twitter | MITTY | 201 Retweets: "Why not appoint a special counsel to investigate sex abuse of athletes at Ohio State when Gym was working there?

• July 30 | GatorSports | 1.3K Engagements: "Florida football: Four-star safety Jordan Castell commits to Gators
   
• July 28 | Bloomberg | 838 Engagements: "Gainesville, Florida, could be on the verge of eliminating single-family housing requirements. Single-family zoning could soon be a thing of the past in one of the nation's biggest classic college towns, with lawmakers set to vote next week on a proposal that would effectively eliminate it."
   
• July 31 | Twitter | Gators Recruiting | 138 Retweets: "5⭐ QB Derek Lagway on his visit to UF this weekend