United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Many media and technology mega-corporations, elite universities, and prestigious law firms have folded under political and economic pressure from the Trump regime.

The ancient admonishment, often cited by the founders of the United States,:

“United we stand, divided we fall.”

has never been truer than now.

Brown University

On July 30, 2025 Brown University agreed to pay a $50 million penalty and adhere to a number of government edicts in return for the reinstatement of $510 million of previously approved research grants¹.

Brown didn’t unite with other universities to confront the Trump regime’s attempts to control how universities manage themselves and their student bodies. Instead, they negotiated on their own and capitulated like the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University recently did.

Capitulation

Media and technology corporations, universities, and law firms are expected to inform, educate, and protect the People. They are failing. One-by-one they are folding under a blitzkrieg of political, economic, and judicial pressures inflicted by the Trump regime, the Federal Government's Executive Branch.

Media and technology corporations, universities, and law firms are expected to be purveyors of truth, sources of education and enlightenment, and ensurers of justice. Instead, when attacked by the Trump regime they abandon their core principles of independence, impartiality, and truth-telling.

Why have they capitulated to the illegitimate and illegal (in some cases) political dictates of President Trump and his handlers? The answer is greed and self-interest!

If they don’t “bend the knee”, pledge fealty, kowtow, and pay what amounts to Mafia style protection fees, they face lawsuits, canceled government contracts, withheld congressionally approved funds, and canceled or delayed research grants.

What Happens Now

The media and technology corporations, universities, and law firms attacked by the Trump regime could have stood firm in defiance. Instead, they caved in. Trump and his handlers won. The media and technology mega-corporations, elite universities, and prestigious law firms that capitulate survive — for now. Who loses? You do.

Now more than ever before, you can not rely on:

• Many print or social media content creating corporations (The New York Times, Washington Post, et al.) to tell the truth regarding world, national, or local politics and events.

• Communications technology platform mega-corporations (Meta, Amazon, Apple, Google, Disney, X, TikTok, et al.) to deliver fair and balanced media content.

• AI researchers and product developers (OpenAI, Meta, Google, et al.) to create apps and large language models (LLMs) free of fake or censored²³⁴ content and propaganda.

• Elite universities (University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Brown, et al.) and others to provide a student community free from government interference in what is taught, by whom it is taught, and how it is taught.

• Law firms⁵ to represent their clients against government entities without compromising their legal counsel for fear of reprisal from the Federal Government.

The media and technology mega-corporations, elite universities, and prestigious law firms attacked by the Trump regime are betraying Americans and breaching America’s de facto social contract. They no longer can be trusted to live up to their obligations and the People’s expectations under American society’s social contract.

The Concern

The concern here is not the Federal Government’s right to administer the distribution of monies previously approved by Congress to fund corporate services and research or university grants.

The concern is the President’s use of executive powers to punish law firms, corporations, and universities for not conforming to the administration’s version of some of the core clauses of Our nation’s largely unwritten social contract.

In effect, the Trump Administration is rewriting Our social contract without Our approval. The Trump Administration is unilaterally changing America’s social contract expectations concerning:

• Economic, gender, and racial equality,

• Environmental protections,

• Health care,

• Social security,

• Economic security,

• America’s status as a world power and leader.

They didn’t ask. They just did it, and continue doing it.

America is now in the last phases of morphing into what Republicans, backed by a ultra-wealthy oligarchy, have wanted America to become for the past 55 years — an internationally isolated, oligarch-controlled, Christian Nationalist autocracy.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/brown-university-trump-administration-agreement

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5. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/law-firms-deals-trump.html