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32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Our Democrats would never do that.  Too close to a dirty word.  The closest we'd get is "I'm looking for Amanda Huginkiss."  Nope, wait, scratch that - that's kinda homophobic.  Maybe "I'm looking for a Hugh Jass.  Has anyone seen a Hugh Jass?"

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15 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Now the only question is what do we do about it? 

Everyone knows what the ultimate answer is.

Everyone is just afraid to say it.

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On 3/12/2025 at 5:45 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just wanted to remind everybody that this is what JD Vance looks like after he shaves.

 

JD vance with no beard.jpg

the war on masculinity is over! have you said thank you!

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2 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Most American's can't even name 5 Canadian provinces. I tried earlier this week and could only name 7.

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There are 13. Which, probably 10% of American's know this factoid.

 

There are 10 provinces and 3 territories.

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Mr. "We can't have weaponization of the justice department!" today went to the justice department and talked all about how he is going to have them prosecute people he doesn't like. 

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9 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

There are 10 provinces and 3 territories.

without looking

Spoiler

quebec
ontario
manitoba
alberta
saskatchewan
BC
newfoundland
PEI
ninevut
nwt

and... uh...

edit: kinda think yukon but not sure that's not part of nwt

 

Spoiler

nova scotia and new brunswick


 

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Gosh, I hope they don't get TP'd or (heaven forbid) egged.  Did they get any recent"is your refrigerator running?" phone calls?

Not going to happen with today's prices.

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25 minutes ago, elfenix said:

without looking

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quebec
ontario
manitoba
alberta
saskatchewan
BC
newfoundland
PEI
ninevut
nwt

and... uh...

edit: kinda think yukon but not sure that's not part of nwt

 

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nova scotia and new brunswick


 

That is better than most. I can name the provinces and territories but struggle with the capitols. I got to 7 before I folded.

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22 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

That is better than most. I can name the provinces and territories but struggle with the capitols. I got to 7 before I folded.

Manitoba always seems like one I made up. I know it’s real but whenever I have cause to think of it (so not often), I have some self-doubt that perhaps I imagined it. 

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Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising.

AP Link

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulledover allegations of antisemitism.

Across academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

President Donald Trump has been threatening to withhold federal funding from colleges that do not get in line with his agenda, from transgender athletes’ participating in women’s sports to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Friday, his administration announced investigations into 52 universities as part of his DEI crackdown.

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But he has held particular fervor for Columbia, the Ivy League campus where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring. Officials continued to ratchet up pressure on the school Friday, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the Justice Department is investigating whether it hid students sought by the U.S. over their roles in the demonstrations.

Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Trump and other officials have accused the protesters as being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity “or intimidate others,” adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”

The letter “obliterates the boundary between institutional autonomy and federal control,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.

For generations, the federal government has given colleges space to manage their own affairs, within the constraints of federal law. The Supreme Court has long treated academic freedom as an extension of the First Amendment. Higher education leaders say autonomy is what sets America’s colleges apart and makes them a destination for top international scholars.

Trump has never hidden his contempt for the country’s most prestigious colleges, and he’s aggressively pressing his will. The federal government has almost never used its authority to cut off money from schools and colleges. But along with the initial action at Columbia, a Trump administration letter sent Monday to 60 colleges promised that penalty if they fail to make their campuses safer for Jewish students.

Still, few predicted the Trump administration would pursue the type of control it’s demanding at Columbia.

Putting an academic department under receivership is “beyond the authority of the federal government and would violate academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Berkeley School of Law.

“It is chilling to see the government try to control universities in this way,” he said.

Academic receivership is a rarely used practice that puts an academic department under the oversight of a professor or administrator outside the department. It’s sometimes used to reset a department in financial or political turmoil.

The letter didn’t specify who should take control of the department at Columbia. Scott, of the AAUP, said the department appeared to be singled out because it was viewed as being overly critical of Israel.

“Receivership is a nice way of basically saying get rid of the department,” Scott said.

The Trump administration announced last week it was pulling $400 million in contracts from Columbia and reviewing another $5 billion in grants over complaints of antisemitism. The cuts have already affected research studies at Columbia’s medical center, which has long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health.

U.S. government agencies said they made the cuts because of the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Some Jewish groups and the president’s supporters have argued the government should be free to condition funding to colleges as it does other entities.

The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, it’s leaving college leaders across the U.S. on edge. Mitchell, of the American Council on Education, said college presidents he spoke with were aghast at the letter.

“It doesn’t matter whether they’re in red states or blue states or whether they’re religious institutions or sectarian institutions. This is not the government’s role,” he said.

The letter was condemned by some faculty members and free speech groups. 

“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a Columbia professor of classics. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called it “a blueprint to supercharge censorship” at colleges.

“Our colleges need to protect free expression and comply with anti-discrimination laws, but important civil rights investigations cannot be resolved by ad hoc directives from the government,” said Tyler Coward, the group’s lead counsel for government affairs. ___

Binkley reported from Washington, D.C.

 

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13 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

I definitely didn't foresee that it'd be a bunch of mega rich Stanford and Ivy League douchebags who dismantled academia. 

These sick fuckers who already have more many than god and live like kings yet instead of just enjoying life and (God forbid) trying to help other people instead somehow have insatiable drive to stomp on people below them and accrete more power are the absolute biggest pieces of shit not named Donald this country has ever produced. 

And, they really haven't innovated all that much.  After whinging about patents and how everything should be free, they flipped the script and all their shit was unpatentable. And it took most of them a decade or more to figure out how to generate revenue and profit from their bullshit.

For a long time, I have observed that these software-silicon valley types have a really over-inflated sense of their own worth and a strong belief that the rules of business, and the world, and life just don't apply to them.

Note that the real innovators at Google/Alphabet, Apple, etc. aren't really part of this.  It's just social media and payment system/crypto bros that are part of this.  Don't think I'm giving them a pass, but they do their corrupt, evil shit in the old-fashioned corporate way of lobbying and influence peddling.

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7 minutes ago, Mole said:

Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising.

AP Link

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulledover allegations of antisemitism.

Across academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Read More

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

President Donald Trump has been threatening to withhold federal funding from colleges that do not get in line with his agenda, from transgender athletes’ participating in women’s sports to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Friday, his administration announced investigations into 52 universities as part of his DEI crackdown.

RELATED COVERAGE

Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump’s orders restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs

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Judge rules against advocates trying to help migrants sent to Guantanamo and to stop more transfers

But he has held particular fervor for Columbia, the Ivy League campus where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring. Officials continued to ratchet up pressure on the school Friday, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the Justice Department is investigating whether it hid students sought by the U.S. over their roles in the demonstrations.

Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Trump and other officials have accused the protesters as being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity “or intimidate others,” adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”

The letter “obliterates the boundary between institutional autonomy and federal control,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.

For generations, the federal government has given colleges space to manage their own affairs, within the constraints of federal law. The Supreme Court has long treated academic freedom as an extension of the First Amendment. Higher education leaders say autonomy is what sets America’s colleges apart and makes them a destination for top international scholars.

Trump has never hidden his contempt for the country’s most prestigious colleges, and he’s aggressively pressing his will. The federal government has almost never used its authority to cut off money from schools and colleges. But along with the initial action at Columbia, a Trump administration letter sent Monday to 60 colleges promised that penalty if they fail to make their campuses safer for Jewish students.

Still, few predicted the Trump administration would pursue the type of control it’s demanding at Columbia.

Putting an academic department under receivership is “beyond the authority of the federal government and would violate academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Berkeley School of Law.

“It is chilling to see the government try to control universities in this way,” he said.

Academic receivership is a rarely used practice that puts an academic department under the oversight of a professor or administrator outside the department. It’s sometimes used to reset a department in financial or political turmoil.

The letter didn’t specify who should take control of the department at Columbia. Scott, of the AAUP, said the department appeared to be singled out because it was viewed as being overly critical of Israel.

“Receivership is a nice way of basically saying get rid of the department,” Scott said.

The Trump administration announced last week it was pulling $400 million in contracts from Columbia and reviewing another $5 billion in grants over complaints of antisemitism. The cuts have already affected research studies at Columbia’s medical center, which has long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health.

U.S. government agencies said they made the cuts because of the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Some Jewish groups and the president’s supporters have argued the government should be free to condition funding to colleges as it does other entities.

The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, it’s leaving college leaders across the U.S. on edge. Mitchell, of the American Council on Education, said college presidents he spoke with were aghast at the letter.

“It doesn’t matter whether they’re in red states or blue states or whether they’re religious institutions or sectarian institutions. This is not the government’s role,” he said.

The letter was condemned by some faculty members and free speech groups. 

“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a Columbia professor of classics. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called it “a blueprint to supercharge censorship” at colleges.

“Our colleges need to protect free expression and comply with anti-discrimination laws, but important civil rights investigations cannot be resolved by ad hoc directives from the government,” said Tyler Coward, the group’s lead counsel for government affairs. ___

Binkley reported from Washington, D.C.

 

He didn't get in to Columbia, obvs.

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3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

And, they really haven't innovated all that much.  After whinging about patents and how everything should be free, they flipped the script and all their shit was unpatentable. And it took most of them a decade or more to figure out how to generate revenue and profit from their bullshit.

For a long time, I have observed that these software-silicon valley types have a really over-inflated sense of their own worth and a strong belief that the rules of business, and the world, and life just don't apply to them.

Note that the real innovators at Google/Alphabet, Apple, etc. aren't really part of this.  It's just social media and payment system/crypto bros that are part of this.

Aka “fake it till you make it”.  The Theranos chick didn’t make it. Others obviously have. 

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7 minutes ago, Mole said:

Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising.

AP Link

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulledover allegations of antisemitism.

Across academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Read More

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

President Donald Trump has been threatening to withhold federal funding from colleges that do not get in line with his agenda, from transgender athletes’ participating in women’s sports to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Friday, his administration announced investigations into 52 universities as part of his DEI crackdown.

RELATED COVERAGE

Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump’s orders restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs

‘Scum,’ ‘crooked’ elections and ‘corrupt’ media. What Trump said inside the Justice Department

Judge rules against advocates trying to help migrants sent to Guantanamo and to stop more transfers

But he has held particular fervor for Columbia, the Ivy League campus where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring. Officials continued to ratchet up pressure on the school Friday, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the Justice Department is investigating whether it hid students sought by the U.S. over their roles in the demonstrations.

Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Trump and other officials have accused the protesters as being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity “or intimidate others,” adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”

The letter “obliterates the boundary between institutional autonomy and federal control,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.

For generations, the federal government has given colleges space to manage their own affairs, within the constraints of federal law. The Supreme Court has long treated academic freedom as an extension of the First Amendment. Higher education leaders say autonomy is what sets America’s colleges apart and makes them a destination for top international scholars.

Trump has never hidden his contempt for the country’s most prestigious colleges, and he’s aggressively pressing his will. The federal government has almost never used its authority to cut off money from schools and colleges. But along with the initial action at Columbia, a Trump administration letter sent Monday to 60 colleges promised that penalty if they fail to make their campuses safer for Jewish students.

Still, few predicted the Trump administration would pursue the type of control it’s demanding at Columbia.

Putting an academic department under receivership is “beyond the authority of the federal government and would violate academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Berkeley School of Law.

“It is chilling to see the government try to control universities in this way,” he said.

Academic receivership is a rarely used practice that puts an academic department under the oversight of a professor or administrator outside the department. It’s sometimes used to reset a department in financial or political turmoil.

The letter didn’t specify who should take control of the department at Columbia. Scott, of the AAUP, said the department appeared to be singled out because it was viewed as being overly critical of Israel.

“Receivership is a nice way of basically saying get rid of the department,” Scott said.

The Trump administration announced last week it was pulling $400 million in contracts from Columbia and reviewing another $5 billion in grants over complaints of antisemitism. The cuts have already affected research studies at Columbia’s medical center, which has long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health.

U.S. government agencies said they made the cuts because of the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Some Jewish groups and the president’s supporters have argued the government should be free to condition funding to colleges as it does other entities.

The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, it’s leaving college leaders across the U.S. on edge. Mitchell, of the American Council on Education, said college presidents he spoke with were aghast at the letter.

“It doesn’t matter whether they’re in red states or blue states or whether they’re religious institutions or sectarian institutions. This is not the government’s role,” he said.

The letter was condemned by some faculty members and free speech groups. 

“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a Columbia professor of classics. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called it “a blueprint to supercharge censorship” at colleges.

“Our colleges need to protect free expression and comply with anti-discrimination laws, but important civil rights investigations cannot be resolved by ad hoc directives from the government,” said Tyler Coward, the group’s lead counsel for government affairs. ___

Binkley reported from Washington, D.C.

 

An astonishing letter, really. I can’t think of a precedent for this much interference into the structure and policies of a private university as a condition to receive federal funds. 
 

Conservatives have long warned that letting federal money into ed would lead to federal overreach and censorship but they left off the part where it’s them doing it. 
 

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

Mr. "We can't have weaponization of the justice department!" today went to the justice department and talked all about how he is going to have them prosecute people he doesn't like. 

Did Hitler ever declare himself to be his country’s “ Chief law enforcement officer” as Trump did today?

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You mean we’re not gonna be able to say _lack anymore? Damn.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html
 

According to the New York Times , 199 words and phrases have been flagged to be barred from use in the Trump administration as the president works to reverse efforts made by Former President Joe Biden 

The censured words include “Black,” “anti-racism,” “discrimination,” “racial justice,” “diversity,” “trauma,” “at-risk,” “minorities,” “underprivileged,” “biased,” “climate science,” “women,” “female,” “socioeconomic,” “climate change,” “cultural heritage," and more. 

This isn't the first time words or phrases have been secured by a presidential administration. 

In 2021, Biden moved to ban words, including "illegal alien," and mandated that the word "Tribal" be spelt with a capital T when referencing Native Americans. 

The Trump administration's censured words have reportedly been removed from government websites and documents. More words and phrases removed from use, include “pregnant person,” “equality,” “inequality,” “sex,” “gender,” “LGBTQ,” “advocate,” and “institutional.” 

There are likely more words that have been banned that have gone unreported, according to the Times.

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Manitoba always seems like one I made up. I know it’s real but whenever I have cause to think of it (so not often), I have some self-doubt that perhaps I imagined it. 

As a former IHL Aeros fan I remember the Manitoba Moose. Otherwise I might not know it

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7 minutes ago, Satchel said:

 

You mean we’re not gonna be able to say _lack anymore? Damn.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html
 

According to the New York Times , 199 words and phrases have been flagged to be barred from use in the Trump administration as the president works to reverse efforts made by Former President Joe Biden 

The censured words include “Black,” “anti-racism,” “discrimination,” “racial justice,” “diversity,” “trauma,” “at-risk,” “minorities,” “underprivileged,” “biased,” “climate science,” “women,” “female,” “socioeconomic,” “climate change,” “cultural heritage," and more. 

This isn't the first time words or phrases have been secured by a presidential administration. 

In 2021, Biden moved to ban words, including "illegal alien," and mandated that the word "Tribal" be spelt with a capital T when referencing Native Americans. 

The Trump administration's censured words have reportedly been removed from government websites and documents. More words and phrases removed from use, include “pregnant person,” “equality,” “inequality,” “sex,” “gender,” “LGBTQ,” “advocate,” and “institutional.” 

There are likely more words that have been banned that have gone unreported, according to the Times.

The New York Times working overtime to normalize that bullshit. 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Manitoba always seems like one I made up. I know it’s real but whenever I have cause to think of it (so not often), I have some self-doubt that perhaps I imagined it. 

I feel that way about Nova Scotia and Halifax its cap. I always feel like they are in Europe somewhere. Now where I get really lost is trying to name all 32 states in Mexico.

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30 minutes ago, Satchel said:

 

You mean we’re not gonna be able to say _lack anymore? Damn.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html
 

According to the New York Times , 199 words and phrases have been flagged to be barred from use in the Trump administration as the president works to reverse efforts made by Former President Joe Biden 

The censured words include “Black,” “anti-racism,” “discrimination,” “racial justice,” “diversity,” “trauma,” “at-risk,” “minorities,” “underprivileged,” “biased,” “climate science,” “women,” “female,” “socioeconomic,” “climate change,” “cultural heritage," and more. 

This isn't the first time words or phrases have been secured by a presidential administration. 

In 2021, Biden moved to ban words, including "illegal alien," and mandated that the word "Tribal" be spelt with a capital T when referencing Native Americans. 

The Trump administration's censured words have reportedly been removed from government websites and documents. More words and phrases removed from use, include “pregnant person,” “equality,” “inequality,” “sex,” “gender,” “LGBTQ,” “advocate,” and “institutional.” 

There are likely more words that have been banned that have gone unreported, according to the Times.

Not fascistic. No way, no how. 

Posted
4 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Saw this on LI

DARK MAGA*

If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here's the breakdown:

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel cofounded a company that became PayPal. 

Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms. 

This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley. 

Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm. 

Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience. 

Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign. 

The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug. 

Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled. 

He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator. 

Says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:
-  Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs. 
- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society
- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves. 

The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating. 

Then to replace government with private corporations.
 
To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"

To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance. 

Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control. 

This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"

This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
- JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.
- The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.
- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
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That's it. Now that you understand that you can see how everything that's happening fits within that lens. 

Now the only question is what do we do about it? 

That's my Dark Ted Talk. Thanks for listening.
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Sources:
Shane Almgren, Author of "The Trumpland Diaries"
https://lnkd.in/eCHvt4Cj
The Financial Times
https://lnkd.in/ed_7Fv8Q
The New Yorker
https://lnkd.in/e7XDZFyV

 

1 hour ago, Mole said:

Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulledover allegations of antisemitism.

Across academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

President Donald Trump has been threatening to withhold federal funding from colleges that do not get in line with his agenda, from transgender athletes’ participating in women’s sports to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Friday, his administration announced investigations into 52 universities as part of his DEI crackdown.

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But he has held particular fervor for Columbia, the Ivy League campus where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring. Officials continued to ratchet up pressure on the school Friday, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the Justice Department is investigating whether it hid students sought by the U.S. over their roles in the demonstrations.

Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Trump and other officials have accused the protesters as being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity “or intimidate others,” adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”

The letter “obliterates the boundary between institutional autonomy and federal control,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.

For generations, the federal government has given colleges space to manage their own affairs, within the constraints of federal law. The Supreme Court has long treated academic freedom as an extension of the First Amendment. Higher education leaders say autonomy is what sets America’s colleges apart and makes them a destination for top international scholars.

Trump has never hidden his contempt for the country’s most prestigious colleges, and he’s aggressively pressing his will. The federal government has almost never used its authority to cut off money from schools and colleges. But along with the initial action at Columbia, a Trump administration letter sent Monday to 60 colleges promised that penalty if they fail to make their campuses safer for Jewish students.

Still, few predicted the Trump administration would pursue the type of control it’s demanding at Columbia.

Putting an academic department under receivership is “beyond the authority of the federal government and would violate academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Berkeley School of Law.

“It is chilling to see the government try to control universities in this way,” he said.

Academic receivership is a rarely used practice that puts an academic department under the oversight of a professor or administrator outside the department. It’s sometimes used to reset a department in financial or political turmoil.

The letter didn’t specify who should take control of the department at Columbia. Scott, of the AAUP, said the department appeared to be singled out because it was viewed as being overly critical of Israel.

“Receivership is a nice way of basically saying get rid of the department,” Scott said.

The Trump administration announced last week it was pulling $400 million in contracts from Columbia and reviewing another $5 billion in grants over complaints of antisemitism. The cuts have already affected research studies at Columbia’s medical center, which has long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health.

U.S. government agencies said they made the cuts because of the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Some Jewish groups and the president’s supporters have argued the government should be free to condition funding to colleges as it does other entities.

The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, it’s leaving college leaders across the U.S. on edge. Mitchell, of the American Council on Education, said college presidents he spoke with were aghast at the letter.

“It doesn’t matter whether they’re in red states or blue states or whether they’re religious institutions or sectarian institutions. This is not the government’s role,” he said.

The letter was condemned by some faculty members and free speech groups. 

“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a Columbia professor of classics. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called it “a blueprint to supercharge censorship” at colleges.

“Our colleges need to protect free expression and comply with anti-discrimination laws, but important civil rights investigations cannot be resolved by ad hoc directives from the government,” said Tyler Coward, the group’s lead counsel for government affairs. ___

Binkley reported from Washington, D.C.

 

 

you know what? fuck all you surly fuckers that are jacking off to this. insanity. you have literally destroyed this country and history will record it as such. 

i'm grateful i'm on the downslope of life. this country is going to be...i don't even know. i don't want to know. unrecognizable. i want to be gone. i'm even more grateful i have no children. ancillary children elsewhere in my family are enough of a worry.

i've done my part to help equip them best i can for the future. some may remember...my niece had wanted to be a ranger or some other role with NPS, USFS, BLM, etc, it's what she studied for, and she graduated magna cum laude...in fucking December. 🤣🤣🤣🤬 so tragic it's funny. know what job she got instead? farmer! she's getting tf out of Texas this month and will be starting a job on an independent owner-operated community farm in another state! she's been expecting this bullsht since high school. some of GenZ have been preparing for this, the resilient ones will make it.

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2 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

I definitely didn't foresee that it'd be a bunch of mega rich Stanford and Ivy League douchebags who dismantled academia. 

These sick fuckers who already have more many than god and live like kings yet, instead of just enjoying life and (God forbid) trying to help other people, somehow are insatiably driven to stomp on people below them and accrete more power are the absolute biggest pieces of shit not named Donald this country has ever produced. 

Yep. Buncha 'Yertle the Turtle' little bitches. 

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2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

An astonishing letter, really. I can’t think of a precedent for this much interference into the structure and policies of a private university as a condition to receive federal funds. 
 

Conservatives have long warned that letting federal money into ed would lead to federal overreach and censorship but they left off the part where it’s them doing it. 
 

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They need to suck it up, give Trump a big middle finger, forego the Fed funding, and figure it out going forward with a big push for donors to help offset the loss etc. Obviously would make things tough for a while, but cutting the umbilical would be far better for them in the long run. Even if they do what the MAGAts want right now, that won't be the end of the bullshit. Blackmail is the gift that keeps on giving.

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7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Everyone knows what the ultimate answer is.

Everyone is just afraid to say it.

I have a hot couch, I mean this couch is sexy. Think Corithian Leather hot.

It's not a stretch that JD randomly meets up with said hot couch and can't handle it.

I don't know, whatever. It's a fanfiction/Netflix documentary I've been kicking around. This is where I'd need our old friend @YGIFS to come in. Miss that guy.

 

 

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