This will, of course, not go anywhere. Pam Bondi will not go after Il Douche’s acolytes. But it’s good to see.
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only “the best people”
Trump’s Education Chief Linda McMahon Repeatedly Calls AI ‘A1’ in School Speech
Linda McMahon might need new reading glasses.
By Matt Novak Published April 10, 2025
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently working to shut down the Department of Education at the behest of President Donald Trump, leaving her plenty of time to talk on panels about the future of schools—or lack of a future, as it were. McMahon’s appearance at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego this week included a rather amusing mix-up. McMahon repeatedly referred to AI by the name “A1.” Yes, just like the steak sauce.
The video of the conference was livestreamed on YouTube, where you can hear it for yourself.
“I heard, I think it was a letter or a report that I heard this morning, I wish I could remember the source, but that there is a school system that’s going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-k’s have A1 teaching every year, starting that far down in the grades,” McMahon said.
And just in case it seemed like McMahon had misspoken once, she said A1 again, all while calling kids “sponges.”
“And that’s just a wonderful thing. Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything,” McMahon continued. “So it wasn’t all that long ago that we’re going to have internet in our schools. Now, okay, let’s see A1 and how can that be helpful? How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction?
(keeping well in mind that a trump appointment to be ‘secretary of Z’ means they’re assumed to be the best hope for the utter destruction of ‘Z’ @#$!! (egads, musk has ruined the variable formerly known as ‘X’))
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MAGA Rep. Just Gave President Trump A NSFW Nickname With ‘Freudian Slip’ For The Ages
TLDR; President Cunt
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Pissed Off Bartender says:
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He’s going to Texas A&M? Oh man, I hope it’s filmed. That should be fun.
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Pumpkin spice Palpatine…
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I also liked “Yeehaw! Fuck the Law!”
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The whole thing is worth reading, but since nothing one-boxes for me anymore, here’s a representative snippet:
But the video does more than broadcast a kind of debased BDSM, stripped of dumb humor, devoid even of the candor of the leer. Noem and her stylists—those who’ve arranged both the frightened men in the cell and Noem’s luxurious locks—have made her a model for Trump women, “sexy & strong”; a thirst trap for right-wing men; and bait for everybody else. That is, it’s an invitation to criticize her in the very terms we condemn as sexism. To talk about her look rather than her ideas. “See?” fascists say. “Who’s the sexist now? Hypocrites!”
The video is a trap because for fascism the aesthetic—the physicalized embodiment of a theory of power—has always been a central “idea.” But that trap only “works” if we judge its result by pre-fascist norms. The Noem video, like the ASMR video of faceless immigrants being shackled, dares us to name their intention: the sadistic eroticization of power. The trap is: name it, and then you’re the pervert, the one who makes something perfectly ordinary—a White House video (or fetish porn), a video of a cabinet secretary (or Lara Croft with shirtless caged men)—weird. Which is why we have to identify the whole apparatus of the trap, not just the bait.
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I liked and shared, since I cannot attend.
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I still don’t buy it. It stinks of people scrabbling to attribute reason to madness. It’s what his minions have been doing since 2015.
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Accidentally more correct than Microsoft, though.
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Yeah I can’t either, but it’s my alma mater, so I’m pretty familiar with the culture there. It’s not the most conservative place in Texas, but it is maybe the most conservative public university in the country, so . . . it should be interesting.
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Today I was about to refer to the orange cheeto as “Discount Mussolini” and realized that even though I loathe that petty dictator… it would be being too generous to compare that to “El Duce”.
Am I a bad person for thinking that finally someone topped the WW2 dictators in my “most loathed” chart?
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Maybe not based on damage actually done, but certainly on damage likely to do. The biggest difference is that the WWII dictators are at least dead and done. These assholes are in peak damage-infliction mode.
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Hmm, that doesn’t have the same headline as it does in my feed.
Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown
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https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-nih-scientists-barred-attending-conferences-their-own-time-dime-2025-04-10/
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
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