🖍️ The Kids Are Alright

And fighting for your rights too

📡 On my Radar

Columbia University agreed to put an entire academic department under special supervision. Johns Hopkins University instructed its staff not to "intervene" when immigration agents come for their students. Law firms like Paul Weiss pledged free work for the new administration to avoid losing clients and federal funds. Dozens of major corporations have reneged on pledges, fired staff, and eliminated funding for employee resource groups and climate change goals.

Yet, as always, young people—accustomed to confronting bullies—show us the way forward, even at great personal cost:

• Law students at Georgetown Law are leveraging their collective power by refusing to work at firms that have capitulated to the new administration's demands.

• Rutgers University students are organizing a "Mutual Defense Compact" to resist free speech suppression.

• Students are making their voices heard through radical action, sometimes even walking out of class to protest immigration policies.

As one of my students said: "The path forward isn't through appeasement or silence—it's through principled collective action. Punching back forces my government—that I fund—to prove why it should stay in power."

📈 By the Numbers

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