Ed Martin probably believes that he was secretly appointed the head of the DOJ. And that Bondi is just the bubble-headed bleach blonde PR person for the DOJ.
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Italian PM.
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Meanwhile this right winger praises Trump’s Nazi Girls…
‘MAGA Mean Girls’: Conservative writer spotlights women mirroring Trump’s ‘bullying leadership style’
https://www.alternet.org/the-right-wing/maga-mean-girls/
Conservative political writer Myra Adams spotlighted the Trump administration’s top women officials in an article published in The Hill Friday, referring to them as “mean MAGA girls” for mirroring what she called former President Donald Trump’s “bullying leadership style.”
The list included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and rightwing influencer Laura Loomer.
“After nearly 100 days, Trump’s loyal Mean Girls are just warming up their ‘don’t mess with us,’ in-your-face bravado, so effective and pleasing to their man,” Adams, who served on the creative team of two Republican presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008, wrote in her article.
“These fine-looking ladies are always camera-ready for their frequent Fox News and social media appearances.”
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And this happened, as well:
“‘Distraught, disappointed, confused’: Jacksonville University students express frustration over school’s decision to cut fine arts majors.”
As one would assume was going to happen, considering the White House pressure on all schools now, Jacksonville University President Tim Cost says his school won’t be “asking people who like to play the piano to become engineers and nurses.” They are cutting fine arts and humanities as of yesterday across the board. In an interview Tim Cost cited the 100 executive orders by the White House, as well as Gov DeSantis’ state requirements for changes at colleges and universities—all threatening to pull funding out of their school. So the first to go with the DEI practices is: “the fine arts and humanities.”
40 faculty members were fired with no notice yesterday at JU, the locks on their offices were changed, including to the university recital hall.
If the attack on having any career in music couldn’t be more pronounced as it is today, you not only have a university president cutting music here, but at the same time he is saying it is not important to the economy, to the future of the community and what people want anyway. And Tim Cost was on the board of the Jacksonville Symphony (where I’ve performed as guest soloist).
Here is another way to look at this. Being educated is important, because young people must learn how to think. And it has worked for several generations. For decades we’ve been a country of thinkers, creatives and innovators. We have farmed out our manufacturing side of what we do to countries around the world. Yes, cheap labor. The U.S. has been in the services department, and we get people to make the stuff we develop on the cheap for us. This has saved Americans a lot of money, and likely why we’ve been the richest nation on earth. Otherwise, American citizens won’t work for those wages, and we assume they are deporting or restricting most all immigrants now. If my fellow U.S. citizen neighbor down the street was making my iPhone in a U.S. factory, and made it from all American manufactured parts, the estimated cost would be $3,500 to buy one. I assume the $5,000 laptop I just recently purchased would cost $10,000 or $15,000.
Tim Cost must believe there is little association between music, creativity, engineering and science. There are a good amount of science students at universities like Harvard who are in the school orchestra. You can find this around the country. Music training is also just good for music too. But music can make better students, more creative students.
And a music program also makes a marching band. Tim Cost is standing on a ball field in this photo. So there is not going to be a band alongside JU Dolphins now? The great American pastime. Remember this year’s Super Bowl half time with those hundreds of marching band students. The finest players are in a classroom for at least part of the day learning concert band repertoire.
As a string player, I always thought that band would be the last to go… because of the perfect tie in with America’s #1 passion; sports. Are they just going to have a DJ now? Spinning you some A.I. music?
What sadness for all of those faculty members who made their home there at JU, to abruptly come to an end like that.
““If you are asking me whether the music program made money, no,” Cost said.” -Jacksonville Today
-News4Jax: “…students like Savannah Ivey, who is a music tech major, said the recent announcement has left her and her classmates feeling “distraught, disappointed, a little confused, and angry.”
She also said that when students first received the email on Monday night about the Tuesday morning meetings, which was “very ambiguous,” they thought it was a spam email.
“There’s a lot of crying, there’s a lot of outrage,” Ivey explained. “We’re already very tight-knit, so we’ve all just been supporting each other and being there for each other.”
When students tried to rally and get together to attend the meetings, Ivey says they were “turned away” and locks were changed at Terry Concert Hall.
“They turned away faculty, like the head of the music department and the music staff, away from these meetings and wouldn’t tell people what that was about,” she said. “It’s very upsetting that not everyone is getting the same information; there have been about three meetings today in different locations, we’ve all been separated and everyone is being told something different.”
Ivey says she is already thinking about transferring to a different university after calling the decision to cut her major a “big slap in the face.”
“I don’t see myself staying at the university,” she said. “It’s to the extent where I performed at President Cost’s home for his holiday party in December and now he’s cutting my program. It feels like a slap in the face, it does.”
She also explained how the timing of the decision affects her ability to transfer to a school that offers the major she’s interested in.
“It is now April, usually transfer applications open in fall, and decisions are sent out by March at the latest,” Ivey said. “There’s not a lot that we can do with transferring, and I don’t think [President Cost] realizes that we have to re-audition for any of these BFA programs or music programs.”
[President Tim Cost] continued, “We’re not asking people who like to play the piano to go become engineers and nurses.”
Cost added that 38 faculty members were notified that they will be fired, and that the school has offered “full severance packages” and a full set of “wraparound services.””
-News4Jax
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That may actually be true.
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It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.
Hope is not a plan. Do something. Appealing to the current administration’s ‘better angels’ is a fool’s errand.
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Thanks. Now I recall that she was meeting with him.
In possibly related news: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who is now serving as de facto chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, … Lewandowski has no formal position at DHS but “he has used his close relationship with Noem to wield power” in his role as a “special government employee,” the WSJ noted.
Is he banging her too?
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It’s important for us to take care of ourselves in these dark days. I’m glad you’re finding some solace in the breaks.
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Yes, I remember that moment–a rebellion against the Cylon overlords who had suborned the human president. Seems relevant again!
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How do you cut programs during the semester? Those students paid tuition and activity fees to take those classes and access those facilities.
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Lewandowski’s “close relationship with Noem” …
winkwinknudgenudge
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Marcy Wheeler - propaganda works but maybe backfiring against Trump.
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That’s what makes it a bit more heinous. These students can’t transfer anywhere now or even for next semester, as the portals are already closed.
Not to mention, for the seniors that were graduating, graduation was only a few weeks away.
The cruelty is the point.
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Also, Roberts “helped” Jeb Bush (and, no doubt, the W campaign) with the Florida recount in 2000. SCOTUS was a little payback for a good soldier.
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No. You’re right. Trump said a day. It’s been almost 100 days and Putin wants a bloodbath. Lying little wankweasel.
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Disgusting.
Beyond disgusting.
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“The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.”
Ozymandias?
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