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• Sep 1 | The Washington Post | 362 Engagements: "The rules around religious exemptions for coronavirus vaccines vary widely, state by state, institution by institution. But experts on religious freedom court cases believe lawsuits will become more common as vaccine mandates become more prevalent... 
  
  ...Religious exemptions cases are generally broken into two categories: employer-imposed mandates, where under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, employers are supposed to make reasonable efforts to accommodate employees with 'sincerely held religious beliefs.'"

• Aug 30 | Twitter | Brooklyn Dad Defiant | 2.5K Retweets: "Madison Cawthorn, who has been accused by 160 Christian college students of sexual harassment, wants to bring more insurrection to Washington DC. This should be a much bigger story."

• Aug 28 | Twitter | Rachel Bovard | 91 Retweets: "“Physics classes will include discussions of social justice such as kneeling during the national anthem, title IX, & paying college athletes while learning about concepts such as Newton’s Laws of Motion.” China doesn’t even have to out-compete us. We’re making ourselves stupid."

• Aug 26 | Twitter | Ben Crump | 34 Retweets: "I'm proud to stand with @LaurensKids in fighting for sexually abused student-athletes on college campuses! We cannot let this abuse linger in the shadows!! We must stand up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Learn your rights under Title IX & share your story:"

• Aug 31 | Twitter | LSU | 252 Retweets: "In order to give our students and employees more time to recover from Hurricane Ida, LSU will be closed through Monday, Sept. 6, and will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 7. Full message: https://t.co/pv6JVkWFtehttps://t.co/t0HGgzc96C"

• Aug 31 | Twitter | Clay Travis | 236 Retweets: "Props to Oklahoma, they are hosting Tulane this weekend but treating the game as Tulane’s home game, giving them the revenue for the game they had to move because of the hurricane."

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• Aug 27 | Twitter | Kyle Griffin | 1.9K Retweets: "Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced a new vaccine mandate, requiring teachers, healthcare workers and higher education students to either receive a COVID vaccine or submit to weekly testing through an enhanced protocols program."

• Aug 28 | Washington Post | 14.8K Retweets: "Liberty University in Virginia will enact a temporary campus-wide quarantine starting Monday because of a spike in Covid-19 cases among students and staff. The quarantine is scheduled to end Sept. 10, the university said."

• Aug 30 | The Hill |  26.2K Engagements: "The Department of Education has canceled more than $9 billion in student loan debt since President Biden has come into office with moves that will affect more than 563,000 borrowers"

• Aug 29 | Twitter | Mississippi State | 116 Retweets: "MSU moves to emergency operations for Monday, suspends classes and campus activities due to Hurricane Ida impacts."

• Aug 27 | CBS News | 9K Engagements: "The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, commonly known as Fiji, has a long history of inappropriate conduct, including sexual harassment. Now, the chapter has been suspended again after a member allegedly raped a minor on the night of the first day of classes."

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• Aug 30 | Nola.com | 2.5K Engagements: “Tulane said it will go to online instruction from Sept. 13 through Oct. 6. In-class instruction will resume after fall break, on Oct. 11.
  
  The university said it will begin evacuating the campus of all remaining students — graduate, undergraduate, in-residence, and off-campus — on Tuesday by bus to Houston.”
   
• Aug 30 | Twitter | Joseph Harrox, Jr. | 59 Retweets: “@UofOklahoma and @OU_Athletics will welcome the @Tulane family this weekend with open arms and heavy hearts. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those impacted by Hurricane Ida. https://t.co/o3MoCZs8hP”

• Aug 31 | Twitter | Senator Rand Paul | 9.4K Retweets: "University of Louisville study reaffirms mask mandates have not reduced incidence of COVID 19!"

• Aug 27 | Twitter | @redpomgranat | 218 Retweets: “Now, nearly 2 years into a mass eugenics event primarily targeting and massacring Black, Indigenous, poor, elderly, and disabled people, UC Berkeley has again decided to choose profit over lives to prematurely force in-person classes...”
   
• Aug 31 | Twitter | Britt H Young | 69 Retweets: “UC Berkeley had a .5% positivity rate the week of the 22nd, and this week it's 5.8%. And it's Tuesday.”

• Aug 30 | The Hill | 14.5K Engagements: “Duke University employees who are not vaccinated by Oct. 1 will face the risk of being terminated.
  
  Employees at the university will have until 10 a.m. on Oct. 1 to show documentation of their completed COVID-19 vaccination, according to a notice posted by Duke on Sunday.”

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• Aug 26 | The New York Times | 99.9K Engagements: “Harvard University, a school that was established to educate the ministry and adopted the motto “Truth for Christ and the Church.” It was named after a pastor, John Harvard, and it would be more than 70 years before the school had a president who was not a clergyman.
  
  Nearly four centuries later, Harvard’s organization of chaplains has elected as its next president an atheist named Greg Epstein, who takes on the job this week.”

• Aug 27 | Twitter | Scott Morefield | 1K Retweets: “Johns Hopkins' Dr. Marty Makary and Tucker Carlson discuss the latest slam-dunk evidence showing natural immunity to be superior. Yet, our completely discredited overlords continue to pretend it doesn't exist. https://t.co/nFaL7VMftO”

• Aug 25 | Cleveland.com | 1.5K Engagements: “Fans attending Ohio State University football home games this fall won’t need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, even though the school is imposing a vaccine mandate for students and staff, according to a spokesman.”
   
• Aug 25 | Twitter | The Recount | 111 Retweets: “Ohio State University President Kristina Johnson says the school won’t enroll unvaccinated students on campus next semester:
  
  “We’ll ask them to take their classes online.” https://t.co/W0WBK7hWxb”

• Aug 29 | Twitter | Ross Dellenger | 273 Retweets: “The #LSU football team left Baton Rouge at 9:30 pm last night and only just arrived at 8 am this morning in Houston, where they’ll stay and practice this week. Because of evacuation traffic, it took the team buses more than 10 hours to make the normal four-hour trip.”
   
• Aug 25 | Twitter | Robert Mann | 53 Retweets: “LSU is making it super-duper easy for students to opt out of the covid vaccine "mandate." State law requires the opt-out option. It does not require LSU to make it so easy. This is not a real mandate. https://t.co/NNJdWXOu4l”