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Geoffrey Supran
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A few hundred million $ of strategic philanthropy sure buys a nice obituary at MIT, even for arch-villains of science & democracy like Koch.

"brilliant"
"indispensable"
"friend"
"generous"
"wisdom"
"model philanthropist"
"benefited humanity"
"son of MIT"
news.mit.edu/2019/david-koc…
MIT is among many pawns in the Koch network's "Structure of Social Change" [desmogblog.com/2019/08/19/koc…] and has fallen victim to what @BenFranta and I term the "fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia". theguardian.com/environment/cl…
@BenFranta I just chatted to @latimes's @hiltzikm about @MIT's breathless, glowing obituary to David Koch here:
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MIT has a dirty money problem. From convicted sex-offenders, to undemocratic totalitarian governments, to climate denying/delaying fossil fuel interests & libertarian billionaires, there seems to be nobody my alma mater won't take cash from. THREAD. 1/n
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