This is the way Democracy dies
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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On Friday, Columbia University’s administration agreed to demands from the Trump administration over the institution’s responses to pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Columbia faculty members Joseph Howley, associate professor of Classics, followed by Ester Fuchs, professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, weigh in. Then, senior editor Sarah Brown and staff reporter Kate Bellows, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, bring their reporting on the situation at Columbia and at other colleges and universities around the country where Trump has attempted to exercise control over issues including campus speech, DEI and Title IX. Plus, listeners who are part of the Columbia community call in with their thoughts and questions.
And another good one.
The Trump administration is intent on downsizing the Education Department, leading to confusion for the millions of people who hold federal student aid. Annie Nova, who covers personal finance for CNBC, reports on the state of Trump’s Department of Ed and the predicament for student borrowers.
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from the comments on that post:
sign reads -
“i am no longer accepting the things i cannot change…
i am changing the things i cannot accept”.
i am particularly cool with that sentiment.
“be the change you want to see”, right?
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I have never been good at the inverse of that statement. I’ve not been super good at creating change, but seething rage against injustice is one of my specialties. I have a hyperactive righteousness gland.
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I didn’t know where the Ann Arbor protest would be, I assumed downtown. Silly me. Jackson & Maple, drove into the area leaving the ice rink thinking the honking was just out-of-town jackasses who were leaving Hash Bash.
Here’s just one of the 4 corners, the one I had best view of at the traffic signal:
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50 Cent putting the “G” in “MAGA.”
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I keep thinking about how long the de-nazification program was in Germany, and this was after a very comprehensive and convincing defeat. de-magafication is going to be a necessary long slog too. Courage.
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The best hope there remains a schism in the GOP between the techno/$-crats and the MAGAts. They can keep fighting each other for decades, with a potential bonus upside of breaking down the two-party system, which we would be much better off without.
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“Was”.
It could be argued that AfD is evidence that the project is ongoing.
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Maybe “de-mainstreaming of nazification”?
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A program that failed miserably because -echoing what happened during the weimar republic era- they were more concerned about the socialists and communists than the nazis.
The conservatives though AfD would balance the socialist parties.
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Those last three are massive wishful thinking at this point, I’m afraid. I think it’s more likely he dies in office than impeached out of it.
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Come on, hamberders, do your thing!! MAGA is a cult of personality. When (not if) he finally shuffles off the mortal coil, it will fragment into lots of vicious infighting. Cannot happen soon enough.
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Allan Wernick, legal advisor to CUNY Citizenship Now! - CUNY’s free immigration law service program, offers guidance to tourists, visa-holders and permanent residents with green cards on their rights at the U.S. border.
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