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Mobsters don't hire family because family members are the most qualified. They hire them because family members are not likely to report your crimes to the feds.
#USPol #DEI https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-brother-signal-dhs-hired-68678a8a653c79a4c6ae31a8bee64836
AP News · Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon
Congressman Don Beyer and Jen Rubin on Institute of Peace raid and #Republican loyalty to #tRump
#DonBeyer #TheContrarian #InstituteofPeace #uspol #doge #musk #crime
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/congressman-don-beyer-and-jen-rubin
>I long ago noticed that when you save a man's life, oftentimes he's not all that grateful, but when you enlarge a woman's breasts, well, that's a real goldmine.
Learning that both Scripps and Pomona Colleges are under investigation by the Department of Education for "antisemitism."
And yesterday, the House Committee on Education and Workforce sent Pomona College a letter regarding "recent evidence of antisemitism" and requested identifying information on all "alleged perpetrators" since October 7, 2023 - including students at other schools in the Claremont Colleges.
Both the Scripps and Pomona administrations have indicated they plan to collaborate with the fascists and snitch on their students, putting a tremendous number at risk.
From WTOPNews.com: Federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
WTOP News · Federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The idea that AI can be neutral, even the potential of it, only exists in the minds of.. people who don't know what they're talking about. Such a clever trick to skip the impossibility of ontological neutrality because a bot is churning out opinions.
"A U.S. judge in Washington state has blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military, the second nationwide injunction against the policy in as many weeks."
AP News · Another federal judge blocks Trump policy banning transgender troops in the military
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2 days before Columbia announced its decision, the #Trump admin said it would withhold about $175M in funding to the University of #Pennsylvania because the school allowed a #transgender woman to be a member of its women’s swim team in 2022.
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#Columbia’s acquiescence drew significant condemnation on the campus & beyond. Other higher #education leaders watched nervously, fearing that the university’s decision, w/o mounting a court challenge that many felt stood a reasonable chance of success, would provoke the #Trump admin to target other #universities.
A thought experiment:
Name one thing that U.S. President Donald Trump has done since taking office that the Kremlin did not like. Crickets.
Why is comrade #Trump acting exactly like a Russian asset would?
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#putinspuppet #russianagent #russianasset #maga #runthemoutoftown #putin #russia #gremlinzoo #usa #uspol #agentkrasnov #resist #whentheygolowwegohigh #TrumpIsATraitor #foreignpolicy #fp #comradetrumpski #ComradeTrump #kremlin #trumpusefulidiot
Foreign Policy · Comrade Trump
Here, this is a pretty brutal set of statements from the judge which just ordered for the CFPB:
https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3llhoz4csk22b
Bluesky Social · Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)What an extraordinary way to start an opinion. (Spoiler: Judge Amy Berman Jackson holds that she must take action now to prevent the unlawful dissolution of the CFPB.) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_1.pdf
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The #Trump admin’s move this month to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in support to #Columbia — which draws roughly a fifth of its operating revenues from Washington — represented a dire #threat to the university. The govt told Columbia it would consider restarting those grants & contracts only if the university agreed to a list of demands.
Last week, it fell to Dr. Armstrong to announce that Columbia had done so.
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#Columbia announced Dr. Armstrong’s departure & Shipman’s appointment in an email to the campus community Fri night. The letter thanked Armstrong for her efforts during “a time of great uncertainty for the university” & said Shipman has “a clear understanding of the serious challenges facing our community.”
Shipman, a #journalist w/2 degrees from Columbia, was named acting president & assumed the top job at … an extraordinarily charged moment in American higher #education.
Who’s that good for?
#RachelMaddow looks at a string of peculiar behavior by Donald Trump & #Trump administration policies that don't seem to have the welfare of the #UnitedStates as their goal, & wonders who those policies are good for if they aren't good for the U.S. …
#putinspuppet #russianagent #russianasset #maga #runthemoutoftown #putin #russia #gremlinzoo #usa #uspol #agentkrasnov #resist #whentheygolowwegohigh #TrumpIsATraitor #trumpusefulidiot #ComradeTrump
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#ColumbiaUniversity changed its president on Friday evening, one week after the university bowed to a series of demands from the #Trump admin, which had moved to withhold $400M in essential federal funding.
The abrupt exit of Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, made way for the university’s 3rd leader since Aug: Claire Shipman, the co-chair of the university’s board of trustees.
#Columbia President Is Replaced as #Trump Threatens University’s Funding
Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.
#education #law #USpol #extortion #MafiaState #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #CivilRights #Constitution #ThoughtPolice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-universitys-president-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=404E7892-C925-4B3E-8805-4DB6629DBFDD
The New York Times · Columbia University’s President Resigns