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Originally posted by second:Quote:Does the Department of Education control curriculum? No. Curriculum decisions are made at the state and local levels. So, where did you get the idea it did, 6ix?
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Trump Worker Reportedly Sent Harvard Letter by Mistake
Published Apr 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-keveney-donald-trump-harvard-letter-2061
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Sean Keveney, the acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, reportedly sent the list of demands that prompted Harvard to openly defy the Trump administration.
In response, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in the college's federal grants, with Trump threatening to abolish the college's tax-exempt status for supporting "political, ideological, and terrorist inspired sickness."
Harvard President Alan Garber said in an open letter on Monday: "The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
I'm glad you agree that schools should be able to teach what they want to teach. That's the exact opposite of what has happened the last 50 years because of the Department of Education that no longer exists.
As for you...
You are constitutionally free to teach whatever the hell it is you want to teach and whoever it is you want to teach it to.
Just not on our dime anymore.
Good luck. You'll need it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+department+of+education+control+c
urriculum
State and Local Responsibility:
Education in the U.S. is primarily a state and local responsibility. States and local school districts are responsible for establishing schools, developing curricula, and setting requirements for enrollment and graduation.
Federal Role:
The Department of Education's role is primarily to support states and local districts in achieving their education goals. This includes providing funding, collecting and analyzing data, and identifying best practices.
No Federal Control over Curriculum:
While the federal government has a role in education, it does not dictate the specific content of what is taught in schools. States and local districts have the authority to determine what students learn.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
So what? You got a Google A.I. Response of 3 paragraphs for what is doubtless tens or even hundreds of thousands of pages of legalese regarding this topic.
Nothing you posted here discounts that the Federal Government absolutely forbids a long list of things being taught in schools, while heavily incentivizing them to stick to what they've determined to be the ideal curriculum, and it punishes them the further they deviate from it.
There's plenty of ways for the Government to bully compliance without needing to put any laws on the books. Money is the number one way to do that.
If you were bright enough to understand any of what I just said, you'd be bright enough to see that Trump is only doing to schools exactly what has been done to them this whole time.
You're only noticing it today because he's enforcing compliance with things you don't agree with after decades of schools propagandizing the youth with your favorite talking points.
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Quote:If you are so certain about that, show the list, give examples of punishment.
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Nothing you posted here discounts that the Federal Government absolutely forbids a long list of things being taught in schools, while heavily incentivizing them to stick to what they've determined to be the ideal curriculum, and it punishes them the further they deviate from it.
There's plenty of ways for the Government to bully compliance without needing to put any laws on the books. Money is the number one way to do that.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If you are so certain about that, show the list, give examples of punishment.
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Nothing you posted here discounts that the Federal Government absolutely forbids a long list of things being taught in schools, while heavily incentivizing them to stick to what they've determined to be the ideal curriculum, and it punishes them the further they deviate from it.
There's plenty of ways for the Government to bully compliance without needing to put any laws on the books. Money is the number one way to do that.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You're witnessing it happening right now, and you're only noticing it because you don't like what's now being enforced by the threat of withholding federal dollars.
This is how EVERYTHING works when it comes to the relationship between the states and the Federal Government.
Where they can't litigate a solution because the Constitution prevents it, they force compliance by withholding of the printing presses. Not just in education either.
Everybody in power was on board with how that all went down until January. You only discovered this is the way things get done now because your propaganda stations talk about it every day today.
I don't have to prove shit to you. If you want to disprove that this just the way it is, then that's incumbent upon you.
Good luck. You're not going to find the proof you're looking for because it doesn't exist.
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I've got an example of a court case that had a direct impact on my life that nobody was talking about except for 2 articles that were written over a few years apart in the Indy Star.
In the State of Indiana, the constitution specifically says that no law shall be enacted that impacts any citizen that does not impact all citizens.
But that didn't prevent a judge who allowed this to be held up in court for YEARS by a REPUBLICAN governor uphold how we go about doing emissions testing in the state. There are only two counties in the entire state that do it. Nobody else in the entire state is forced to comply with vehicle emissions testing, making this a clear victory against the testing, but we're still doing it anyway.
So why would a REPUBLICAN governor fight for this issue and win against DEMOCRATS that were fighting against it?
Seems pretty ass-backward on the face, doesn't it?
It's because all of the Federal Funding to the State of Indiana is predicated on having that program in place. If we said we weren't doing it anymore, that's the end of Federal Funding for Indiana's highway. At least under whatever the current agreement it is.
And why would the Democrats be the ones fighting against vehicle emissions testing in Indiana? Because the people who are most hurt by it in the entire state are the poorest and those least likely to be able to buy a better car in the first place. These emissions tests very disproportionately harm the poorest people in the state. That's why.
And so Asshole Holcumb wins this one and the poor people lose. All so we can keep tearing up the highway every summer and put a new one down and keep the union people working.
Good job everyone. Well Done.
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Quote:I get that Trumptards hallucinate that the Federal government is oppressing them. But what I see is Trumptards screwing up their own lives and denying it is their own fault. Blame it all on the Democrats, do not blame yourself and certainly do not change your own habits. Believe only Trump can fix it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Good luck. You're not going to find the proof you're looking for because it doesn't exist.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:I have no idea what you are talking about here because you didn't cite anything. I bet if there was an article, I'd see that you don't have any correct idea, either. That is my experience at work: an overly articulate Trumptard describes with complete confidence what he thinks is wrong with a machine but the Trumptard understood nothing, completely misdiagnosing the situation. If Trumptards can constantly be that absurdly wrong with straightforward mechanical problems, they can be even worse with abstractions. But does that make the overly articulate Trumptard more modest about his claimed abilities in the future? Never! I don't have to speculate why Trumptards suffer and don't prosper. They show me why but they can't see the why.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I've got an example of a court case that had a direct impact on my life that nobody was talking about except for 2 articles that were written over a few years apart in the Indy Star.
In the State of Indiana, the constitution specifically says that no law shall be enacted that impacts any citizen that does not impact all citizens.
But that didn't prevent a judge who allowed this to be held up in court for YEARS by a REPUBLICAN governor uphold how we go about doing emissions testing in the state. There are only two counties in the entire state that do it. Nobody else in the entire state is forced to comply with vehicle emissions testing, making this a clear victory against the testing, but we're still doing it anyway.
So why would a REPUBLICAN governor fight for this issue and win against DEMOCRATS that were fighting against it?
Seems pretty ass-backward on the face, doesn't it?
It's because all of the Federal Funding to the State of Indiana is predicated on having that program in place. If we said we weren't doing it anymore, that's the end of Federal Funding for Indiana's highway. At least under whatever the current agreement it is.
And why would the Democrats be the ones fighting against vehicle emissions testing in Indiana? Because the people who are most hurt by it in the entire state are the poorest and those least likely to be able to buy a better car in the first place. These emissions tests very disproportionately harm the poorest people in the state. That's why.
And so Asshole Holcumb wins this one and the poor people lose. All so we can keep tearing up the highway every summer and put a new one down and keep the union people working.
Good job everyone. Well Done.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The MAGA cinematic universe has gone into full meltdown after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest deportation push — targeting a group of Venezuelan men in Texas — to allow an ongoing ACLU lawsuit against the deportations to play out.
“Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense,” the Trump-appointed Department of Homeland Security liaison Paul Ingrassia wrote.
That the justices Trump appointed — Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared to side against him is an especially bitter pill for the MAGA faithful.
MAGA fury has not been solely reserved for the high court however, as judges across the country are demanding Trump follow proper legal procedures.
“We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Stephen Miller posted.
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) circulated a clip of Miller telling NewsMax the reason America no longer has a “functioning public school system” is because of “open borders.” “Who will compensate the American people for the lasting damage caused by mass illegal migration?!” she wrote, echoing Miller’s suggestion that “reparations” should be paid.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-goes-into-full-meltdown-mode-over-s
cotus-ruling-on-trumps-deportations/
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The DOGE leader is offering the Republican Party a very different vision of fatherhood.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, Musk is constantly scanning the horizon for new potential mothers for his children, using everything from X interactions and DMs to huge cash incentives to entice would-be incubators, whom he requires to sign legally binding payment agreements with nondisclosure clauses. As a result, Musk has an undisclosed number of children that is likely well above the 14 already publicly known, and he’s shown no obvious intention to stop sowing his seed. But perhaps more interesting than the presence of contracts between Musk and his harem of mothers is the apparent absence of traditional family ties. He appears to acknowledge few, if any, bonds of genuine duty and responsibility among family members, much less bonds of care or love. Musk seems to have reduced traditional family relationships to mere financial arrangements, undermining longtime conservative agreement around the importance of family.
There is a difference, after all, between being pro-natalist and being pro-family. Musk is by now infamous for his interest in raising the birth rate, which appears to be driven by his belief that a catastrophic global population collapse is imminent, as well as by his view that intelligent people in particular ought to be breeding more. (“He really wants smart people to have kids,” Shivon Zilis, Musk’s most favored concubine, told a biographer.)
Musk is especially well positioned to use money to fund and structure his preferred familial arrangements, effectively reducing those relationships to a vulgar cash nexus. Musk’s latest consort, the conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair, told The Wall Street Journal’s Dana Mattioli that Musk had offered her a $15 million lump sum, as well as $100,000 per month for living expenses—if she was willing to sign a contract that would require her to keep their arrangement secret. People familiar with Musk’s habits, Mattioli reported, said that this is a well-established practice for the billionaire, who threatens women financially if they hire an attorney or go public: In St. Clair’s case, Musk terminated his proposed $15 million payment and lowered her recurring payments to $40,000 a month (which, it’s fair to note, is still a lavish income) as the two went to court over paternity testing for their child.
“The timing of the reduction in payments from him are timed with disagreements on testing and gag orders,” Dror Bikel, one of St. Clair’s attorneys, told Mattioli, adding that “the only conclusion we can make is that money is being weaponized.” Money appears to be the only means by which Musk can persuade people who are not actually intimate with him and whose preferences and needs are not of much concern to him. Fatherhood, for Musk, ends with conception, except for lingering payouts. There is no discernible sense of mutual duty or responsibility between Musk and his children or between Musk and his children’s mothers, and no expectation of growth in such bonds or fulfillment in them either: A Musk aide told St. Clair that Zilis “goes in and out of finding contentment,” and that Grimes, another mother of Musk’s children, isn’t “ever going to find true happiness.”
That isn’t surprising—Musk’s family values seem similarly detached from the usual ties of familial love. According to Mattioli, Musk instigates what St. Clair called “harem drama” by lending some of his babies’ mothers, such as Zilis, special status both financially and socially, while others, such as St. Clair, struggle to get so much as responses to their texts, or, in Grimes’s case, their desperate X posts. Likewise, he takes an active interest in some of his children—such as X Æ A-Xii, his toddler son with Grimes, whom he totes to public appearances and state events—more than others. He refused to have his name on the birth certificate of St. Clair’s son, and is estranged from his daughter Vivian altogether. Although past generations of conservatives have hailed family as a “have
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Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney, Ed Martin, is a Russian-state-TV darling
April 19, 2025 From https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/19/trumps-pick-for-u-s-attorn
ey-ed-martin-is-a-russian-state-tv-darling/
Tom Nichols writes:
The United States of America is still a free country, and every private citizen has the right to speak to anyone, anywhere in the world, about anything. If the propaganda arm of an avowed enemy of the West calls and invites you to bash your own nation in public, you are free to do so. It might not be the most patriotic or sensible choice, but it’s your privilege.
If you also would like to join the Department of Justice as a United States attorney, however, you should expect that appearing on the state television outlet of a neofascist dictatorship and engaging in conspiracy-laden anti-American rants might attract some attention—especially if it seems like you’ve tried to hide those appearances from the U.S. Senate committee responsible for voting on your nomination. And if you’re an ordinary American citizen, you should certainly be wary of any aspiring Justice Department official who gladly contributes to Russian propaganda efforts.
Ed Martin is the Trump administration’s nominee to be the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. A failed political candidate and former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, he is now a right-wing podcaster and social-media figure—and a January 6 truther who believes that Justice Department lawyers are the president’s personal consiglieri. He has also, however, been a regular commentator on RT America, the English-language flagship for the Kremlin’s propaganda efforts until it was dropped by major content providers after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It has since gone off the air, but in its time, it featured Larry King, among some lesser American lights. (For example, have you been wondering whatever happened to Scottie Nell Hughes, who years ago shilled for Donald Trump on CNN? Me neither, but in watching Martin’s segments, I learned that she ended up at RT.)
Martin, according to The Washington Post, was a guest some 150 times on RT America and its sister outlet, Sputnik, from 2016 to 2024. Now, everyone can make a mistake; public commentators sometimes find themselves on outlets that turn out to be wifty venues, or unexpectedly paired with guests they might otherwise avoid. But to appear 150 times—occasionally partnered up for friendly banter with unsavory characters such as George Galloway, a pro-Putin British politician who was kicked out of the Labour Party more than 20 years ago for, among other things, encouraging Arabs to fight British soldiers, and who has long been accused of various extremist views—suggests a genuinely comfortable relationship with the outlet. (For the record, over the course of my academic career as a professor of national-security affairs, I was occasionally invited to appear on RT America. I always declined.)
Perhaps, one might hope, Martin agreed to appear so that he could be a voice of probity and reason in the face of Russian disinformation, exactly the qualities one would appreciate in a U.S. attorney. Not a chance: He was more often the source of conspiracy theories and anti-American accusations, all delivered with the kind of cheerful confidence that always translates well on television.
I watched several of his appearances, which are still available on RT’s website. One major theme emerges: Russia is usually right and America (at least when led by anyone other than Donald Trump) is usually wrong.
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The MAGA cinematic universe has gone into full meltdown after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest deportation push — targeting a group of Venezuelan men in Texas — to allow an ongoing ACLU lawsuit against the deportations to play out.
“Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense,” the Trump-appointed Department of Homeland Security liaison Paul Ingrassia wrote.
That the justices Trump appointed — Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared to side against him is an especially bitter pill for the MAGA faithful.
That's not what happened here.
We're creating lasting precedent that you dumb mongoloids aren't going to be able to reverse with a simple executive order the next time you get power, if you ever get power again.
There's a method to this. We can't just throw a court case on their laps if it hasn't gone up through the proper channels.
Thankfully, you dumb assholes have no idea what you're doing and in your panic you're fast-tracking cases you should have left for when you were in power, and the media is goading them into doing it everyday with articles just like this.
This will officially be before the Supreme Court soon enough and you're going to lose everything on this issue. Forever.
We can wait a month or two for that.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed your cheap hit of dopamine from the headline.
Tick Tock
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