Business news story punchline:

"We are adjusting our ______ to account for current #MarketPressures and #FinancialClimate ...."

Pick a term to fill in the blank:

#Prices , #Earnings , #Workforce , #Investments , #Costs , #Locations , #Availablity , #Dividends , #Forecasts , #BuyBacks , etcetera...

Translation:

We can't use words like #tarrifs , #taxes , #capitulation , #blackmail , #cowardice , and #NutJob , to describe Uncle Donnie's #fascist #politics , to say just how fucked we are.

The more universities capitulate, the worse the deal becomes.

I’m not sure how this is hard to understand.

#kakistocracy #racism #whiteSupremacy #universities #capitulation

“Trump to require universities to hand over admissions data on race”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-require-universities-admissions-data-race-rcna223659

I absolutely support #Harvard telling #Trump, #MAGA, and #Republicans #gofuckyourself, and absolutely not surprised that the rumor of a $500 million dollar settlement probably originated with the #WhiteHouse. My reaction to that rumor stands, though. #Capitulation would be #enshittification.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yhwb4flopeavzkwbybtojo2s/post/3lvkc5535xc2k

Nieman Lab: A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies. “The [media advocacy group Free Press’] pointed new ‘Media Capitulation Index,’ out Tuesday, ranks the 35 largest commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, from ‘vulnerable’ (Comcast; Microsoft) to ‘propaganda’ (X/SpaceX; […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/03/a-chicken-for-the-new-york-times-a-star-for-bloomberg-a-new-media-capitulation-index-ranks-large-media-and-tech-companies-niemanlab/

"Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the deal preserves Brown's academic independence. The terms include a clause saying the government cannot dictate curriculum or the content of academic speech at Brown."

...unless, of course, you're part of any marginalized population. Some people will be freer than others at #BrownUniversity, in this deal with the Devil. And it's not going to end there. It never does with autocrats. #capitulation

Shame.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/30/brown-university-strikes-agreement-to-restore-federal-funding

The reward for capitulating to Trump is that Trump extorts even more from you. I don’t know how people fail to grasp this. Even when you cooperate, you lose.

“Trump, however, has also repeatedly hinted at a side deal with Skydance after a New York Post report indicated the company would allocate between $15 million and $20 million for such ads once it acquires Paramount.

“We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million—or maybe more than that in advertising," he told reporters earlier this month. “So it’s a combination of 16 plus 16 ... So it’s like $32 to maybe $35 million. I think that’s what they did.””

#kakistocracy #capitulation #complicity

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-touts-secret-paramount-side-deal-after-colbert-ouster/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/uRfBs

Did you know, President & CEO of CBS, which just bribed potus by settling a case and canceled Stephen Colbert's show, is named, not making this up, George Cheeks?

Sure they were bullied as a kid, but as CEO, George Cheeks laying down for fascists makes me theoretically ('cause violence is not a good answer) want to clap those cheeks (metaphorically slap him).

Stop returning Paramount & subsidiaries' (like CBS) calls. They wither w/no one to work for them.

Souveraineté défenestrée
Par Pierre Trudel, Le Devoir
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chroniques/898282/chronique-souverainete-defenestree
#USA #Canada #PLC #politique #numérique #Internet #IA #informatique #réseaux #économie #impôts #taxes #souveraineté #indépendance #capitulation

Thanks #ABCNews for being such an obvious source of #Trump #propaganda after the #NoKings Protest. Your constant #capitulation to an #authoritarian #traitor and #tyrant finally convinced my parents to stop watching your channel every night. #Boycott #Disney #DisneyPlus #ABC

Sofia Matson: At #Columbia Graduation Event, Student Voices Rose: This year’s Class Day ceremony included a referendum on the university’s #capitulation to the #tRump administration—delivered in boos.

#resistance #freespeech #university
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/at-columbia-graduation-event-student

Karen Dunn and Other Top #Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm. They are leaving a few months after Paul Weiss cut a deal with the White House to avoid an executive order that would have restricted its business.#lawfedi #legalresearch #democracy #law #constitution #litigation #legal #politics #corruption #capitulation #maga #trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/karen-dunn-paul-weiss-partners.html

Polish PM criticises presidential candidate for readiness to drop support for Ukraine’s NATO accession

Putin’s first and most important demand for #Ukraine and the West is to prevent Ukraine from joining #NATO. Nawrocki [opposition candidate] has just willingly subscribed to this demand. The next one will be the #capitulation and #partition of Ukraine. He will subscribe to that too. This is deadly dangerous for #Poland

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/21/7513397/

Аналіз на паразитів | Епізоди #trump #huylo #Ukraine #peace #capitulation
Про те, що знову українці стануть винними в провалі "миротворчих" ініціатив двох маніяків — дідів-нездар з минулого, обидва з яких хочуть назад в те минуле, але не самі, а тягнуть туди і увесь світ. Причому світ не пручається. Мабуть "стабільності" хоче

From relatively modest beginnings in 1888 in New York with four lawyers, Willkie Farr has bowed to a poisonous, treasonous, racist dictator. What a waste. What a shame.

Now that the law firms gave him “a lot of money” (no doubt a reference to the dollar value of legal fees that law firms he bullied agreed to provide him), he will “use” them how he wants.

Capitulation's a bitch!

'Implore you': Grandkids of famed judge tell firm that caved to Trump to stop using name
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2671663055/