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• Aug 06 l The Post Millennial l 2.2K Engagements: “Trans activist (University of California, Santa Cruz PdD, candidate) accused of sexual abuse boasts of plans to illegally distribute hormones to children. "If you need hormones, I’m working with a distribution network to get you access. Everything is free, no questions asked." Popular social media account Libs of Tiktok uncovered an instagram post from May by Eli Erlick, a trans-identified biological male, that publicly detailed the scheme to send prescription hormones to "trans youth" through a distribution network.”
   
• Aug 09 l Twitter l Matt Walsh l 638 Retweets: “Now @EliErlick (University of California, Santa Cruz PhD. candidate) says it’s “targeted harassment” for me to encourage followers to use publicly available contact information to get in touch with public university officials about Erlick’s admitted drug trafficking scheme. Sorry Eli, not going to work."

• Aug 09 | Twitter l John Ourand | 940 Retweets: "ESPN has pulled out of Big Ten media rights negotiations, ending one of the longest sports media relationships in the business. ESPN said no to the conference’s final offer of a 7-year/$380 million per-year package, sources tell SBJ. Story to be filed soon."
   
• Aug 08 | Twitter l Brett McMurphy | 885 Retweets: "Big Ten finalizing media rights deal w/Fox Sports, CBS & NBC, sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. 1st reported by @Ourand_SBJ. Unless there’s a last minute change, this will be 1st time in 40 years Big Ten football & basketball games will not be on ESPN, @Ourand_SBJ reports"

• Aug 10 l Twitter l PETA l 54 Retweets: "Hey @TAMU, You left Pee Wee to die in a cage with a pile of vomit 💔 We’re demanding justice for him and the nine remaining healthy dogs imprisoned in #TAMU's vet school at today's Board of Regents meeting."

• Aug 09 | ABC | 101 Engagements: "Bowling Green State University is denying allegations in a lawsuit from the family of a fraternity hazing victim. The family of Stone Foltz, who died from alcohol poisoning after an off-campus fraternity hazing event, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university earlier this year."
   
• Aug 03 | ABC | 64 Engagements: "U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) have cosponsored bipartisan legislation to address hazing incidents on college campuses. Since 2000, there have been more than 50 hazing-related deaths on America’s college campuses, including that of Adam Oakes, a Virginia Commonwealth University student who died in a fraternity hazing incident. The Report and Educate About Campus Hazing (REACH) Act would require hazing incidents to be reported as part of a college’s annual crime report and establish a definition of hazing to clarify what constitutes a reportable offense."

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• Aug 04 | Twitter l Kennedy Arie l 4,080 Retweets: “Financial Aid gotta be the most aggravating part of college.”
   
• Aug 05 l Twitter l Nick Adams l 704 Retweets: The more government loans to students, the more colleges will charge for tuition.

• Aug 10 l Twitter l Prof. Akiko Iwasaki l 2.3K Retweets: “Very excited to share our latest research on immunological features of #LongCovid. Our 2+ year collaboration with @PutrinoLab with many other fantastic colleagues and patients - Mount Sinai Yale Long COVID (MY-LC) study by @sneakyvirus1 et al. (1/)”
   
  Aug 08 l Twitter l Toby Young l 2.3K Retweets: "Ultimately, New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure," writes Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr Jay Bhattacharya.”

• Aug 09 | Twitter l Hubert Nakamoto | 264 Retweets: "We must protect universities’ ability to consider race in college admissions. The races that are too weak to master the new living conditions must make way. Ending these considerations would ignore our country’s present-day racial inequality and threaten diversity everywhere."
   
• Aug 03 | Twitter l Kenny Xu | 142 Retweets: "Asian-American admittees to Harvard had SAT scores about 120 points higher than African-American admittees in 2017.  That is a low estimate, as 35% of Asians would score ABOVE the max score if allowed.  This is not "race as a tiebreaker."  This is real discrimination."

• Aug 08 | The New York Times | 5.3K Engagements: “I’m mentally preparing to protect my students from an active shooter,” writes Beth Ann Fennelly, a University of Mississippi teacher, in a guest essay. “This fact splits my sternum with an ice pick of despair. But please don’t offer me a gun.”
   
• Aug 09 | Twitter l Brittani Moncrease | 229 Retweets: "Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. is back in court for a bond and preliminary hearing. He is being charged with murder in the disappearance of Ole Miss student, Jimmie “Jay” Lee."

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• Aug 09 | Twitter | Matt Walsh | 1.6K Retweets: "I have reached out personally to the chancellor of @UCSC to ask her if she will investigate one of her university's PhD candidates, @EliErlick, who has admitted to trafficking prescription drugs to minors. I have not heard back yet."
   
• Aug 06 | Twitter | Orietta Rose | 106 Retweets: "I think it's an indictment on @EliErlick's education @UCSC, too. What kind of school is leading students to believe that sending drugs to minors is okay? Not a single faculty member noticed anything? Or, they just didn't care? Should the school be investigated as well"

• Aug 07 | Washington Post | 129.5K Engagements: "Some 7 million Americans require insulin daily. A Yale University study found that 14 percent of those insulin users are spending more than 40 percent of their income after food and housing costs on the medicine"
   
• Aug 10 | Medrxiv.org | 3.1K Retweets: "Distinguishing features of long COVID identified through immune profiling [...] this study was approved by the Mount Sinai Program for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB #20-01758) and Yale Institutional Review Board." 

• Aug 10 | Twitter | USA Today  Sports | 143 Retweets: "Nick Rolovich has filed a claim against Washington State University seeking $25 million for wrongful termination after he was fired last year for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19."
   
• Aug 10 | KIR07 | 75 Engagements: "3 WSU police commanders retiring after mishandling of investigation into officer's misconduct"

• Aug 06 | Twitter | Field Yates | 151 Retweets: "The Browns have activated rookie WR David Bell off of the PUP list. The 3rd round pick out of Purdue was a consensus All American last year and is a really intriguing prospect. He could earn playing time early as a slot option in Cleveland."
   
• Aug 10 | Twitter | Jake Franklin Football | 61 Retweets: "If you're looking for a trick play for one week, look no further. Purdue runs an Outside Zone Fake Reverse with TE Delay. Beautifully executed!"

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• Aug 08 | Twitter | Robert Reich | 381 Retweets: "JD Vance, Yale class of '13, Blake Masters, Stanford '08, Stanford Law '12, Ted Cruz, '92, Harvard Law '95, Josh Hawley, Stanford '02, Yale Law '06. These scions of the most prestigious halls of American academe are intentionally abetting Trump's continued attack on democracy."

• Aug 06 | Twitter | Kareem Carr | 861 retweets: "Pursuing a statistics PhD at Harvard was one of the best decisions of my life. Statistical thinking is a superpower that gives you powerful frameworks for simplifying the complexity of daily life."
   
• Aug 05 | Twitter | Ken Klippenstein | 662 Retweets: "Former White House Economic advisor and Harvard economist calls decrease in unemployment 'uncomfortably hot,' says increase in hourly wages 'worries' him and laments that there isn't more 'wage moderation.'"
   
• Aug 05 | Daily Wire  | 561 Engagements: "Author James Lindsay Banned From Twitter, Trans Harvard Law Instructor Claims Credit"

• Aug 10 | Twitter | Ballsack Sports | 2.3K Retweets: "Justin Fields says the WR talent in Chicago is far below what he had at Ohio State" 
   
• Aug 08 | Twitter | Ben  Stevens | 2.1K Retweets: "Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and then Texas getting 1st place votes in the coaches poll."
   
• Aug 10 | Twitter  | Holly Williams  | 646 Retweets: "George Clooney's Ohio State Abuse Documentary...'It's a devastating story about people in power abusing and then covering up their criminal actions against students. The fact that it hasn't been resolved as of yet is deeply disturbing'”

• Aug 04 | Twitter | Jennifer Van Laar | 1.2K Retweets: "Did you know that LA County DA George Gascon is not only Soros-funded, but that he STARTED the Progressive Prosecutor Project w/Soros and convinced him to provide $50M in seed funding to the ACLU in 2014 to get it started? He spoke about it in 2020 at USC. Here are a few clips"
   
• Aug 09 | LA Times | 906 Engagements: "BREAKING: A donor-run NIL collective is coming to USC football. 'Student Body Right' is planning to provide 'the equivalent of a base salary' to every Trojan football player... and it's planning to do so against the school's wishes."