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Monday, April 20, 2026

Straws in the Wind - Part 318

From the Yale Daily News: Sen. Rick Scott called... for the federal government to cut off funding from Yale over the Yale Political Union’s decision to host the left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who previously suggested that Scott should be killed. Scott — a Florida Republican who spoke at the political union last semester in favor of the resolution “Buy American” — posted on X that the government should “IMMEDIATELY revoke” Yale’s federal funding. 

While Republicans were developing President Donald Trump’s 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Piker said during a livestream — responding to comments by House Speaker Mike Johnson that Republicans were focusing on Medicaid fraud — that “if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.” Scott was the chief executive of a hospital company that later paid $1.7 billion in settlements to the government relating to fraud...

Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/senator-calls-for-government-to-revoke-yale-funds-over-ypu-speaker.

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