it’s a component of healthy boundaries
Data analytics is woke, at least in Ohio:
The University of Toledo is suspending nine undergraduate programs in response to a controversial new higher education law that is set to take effect this summer.
Admission to Africana studies, Asian studies, data analytics, disability studies, Middle East studies, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish and women’s and gender studies programs has been suspended starting with the 2025-26 school year “in compliance with SB1”, according to a Monday news release from the university.
Students currently enrolled in one of the programs can still complete their degree and all nine of these programs will remain available as minors.
“search …containing the letters ‘anal’…”
Here’s the original source: UToledo Updates Academic Portfolio Through Prioritization Process | UToledo News
Key passage:
I haven’t bothered to go check the actual bill to confirm that it’s in there, or to see the extent to which it is an anti-woke bill in addition to an attempt to prune non-in-demand majors.
New EO going after Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Title VI prevents discrimination by groups that receive federal funding.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals.
Sec 3. Revoking Certain Presidential Actions. The following Presidential approvals of the regulations promulgated under 42 U.S.C. 2000d-1 are hereby revoked:
(a) the Presidential approval of July 25, 1966, of the Department of Justice Title VI regulations (31 Fed. Reg. 10269), as applied to 28 C.F.R. 42.104(b)(2) in full; and
(b) the Presidential approval of July 5, 1973, of the Department of Justice Title VI regulations (38 Fed. Reg. 17955, FR Doc. 73-13407), as applied to the words “or effect” in both places they appear in 28 C.F.R. 42.104(b)(3), and as applied to 28 C.F.R. 42.104(b)(6)(ii) and 28 C.F.R. 42.104(c)(2) in full.
Another front opens on the war on education:
The victim complex that people in Trump’s orbit have is extraordinary.
The veterans affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of “anti-Christian bias” to a newly established taskforce, as part of Donald Trump’s push to reshape government policy on religious expression.
The VA secretary, Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration’s “treatment of Christians”.
What does persecution of Christians look like?
In addition, the department is seeking “any adverse responses to requests for religious exemptions under the previous vaccine mandates” and “any retaliatory actions taken or threatened in response to abstaining from certain procedures or treatments (for example: abortion or hormone therapy)”.
I don’t know what Christianity genuinely has to do with get vaccinated, and am curious as to how people are punished for “abstaining” from abortion. And who is forced to take hormone therapy? (outside of the fictional Dorley Hall where sexually abusive men are forced to transition, but again, that is fictional and also not set in the US)
“If Trump really cared about religious freedom and ending religious persecution, he’d be addressing antisemitism in his inner circle, anti-Muslim bigotry, hate crimes against people of color and other religious minorities,” the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Rachel Laser, said in a statement.
“This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it’s an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian nationalist nation.”
It is good to be part of the ruling class where insider trading is legal. Sucks for the rest. Interesting to me that the first source is Fox Business.
I think some Christians had issues around the use of fetal tissue in the development or testing of some of the Covid vaccines.
That reminds me. Does the Carlyle Group still have a big swinging Dick?
Well that’s clearly what the government is figuring out now. If you’re so sure it’s not happening, why do you want to stifle research into it? Maybe because you know it’s true and Obama wouldn’t allow people to know? I’ve done my own research and found the real facts. The government is good and takes care of us now that Trump is in charge, and if you don’t support the government you’re anti-American.
/MAGA
I don’t know that “Christianity” has objections, but some individual Christians and groups that cater to some of those Christians (I don’t think it rises to any entire denomination, save perhaps for groups like Christian Science whose objections to certain medical practices are well known), but I believe the vaccine objections include:
- Use of fetal tissue in the testing, development, and/or manufacture of certain vaccines
- Belief that disease protection should be left to faith in the Divine
- Rejection of government mandates as being akin to being ordered to take the Mark of the Beast
- (most likely) Using religion as cover for belief in conspiracy theory BS and the ever-popular “I don’ wanna; you can’t make me” reasoning.
Is the abstention from abortion and hormone therapy on the patient side or the provider side? I can easily believe that there are at least allegations that providers are required to at least learn how to do an abortion, etc. despite moral objections.
Faculty and staff at Barnard received messages from the government on their personal phones asking them whether or not they are Jewish or Israeli, with the nominal goal of trying to survey about whether or not they have faced antisemitism. Some of the Jewish faculty members found the idea of the federal government compiling a list of Jewish faculty and staff to be creepy at best.
RFK wanting to compile a list of autistic people and TX wanting to compile a list of trans people doesn’t make any of this feel better either.
I realize that a large portion of Americans don’t care very much about prison rape and it is something traditionally joked about, so this isn’t a move that will generate much outrage. But it should.
Of course you pardon grifters, especially those that would steal from a policeman’s memorial.
This woman is a piece of work. Link in that story to another:
How do you get appointed to be a judge when you don’t have a law degree? Per the above link she didn’t have a bachelors degree either. Apparently just the right brand of politics will do it.
Lets make the awful more awful. So dumb
The 19 richest US households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024. They have almost the same amount of wealth as the bottom 50% of US households.
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TIL that the bottom 50 of households are not all in debt.
Also noticed that the 33rd percentile of net worth is 67.5K in 2023. Wonder if that includes paid off cars and home equity. If yes, 
This is not a liberal vs conservative issue, and did not happen under previous Republican administrations.
The Justice Department’s division tasked with enforcing the nation’s federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass exodus of “over 100” attorneys, the newly confirmed official leading the division said in an interview this week.
“What we have made very clear last week in memos to each of the 11 sections in the Civil Rights Division is that our priorities under President Trump are going to be somewhat different than they were under President Biden,” DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with conservative host Glenn Beck. “And then we tell them, these are the President’s priorities, this is what we will be focusing on — you know, govern yourself accordingly. And en masse, dozens and now over 100 attorneys decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do.”
The resignations come as Dhillon and Attorney General Pam Bondi have made clear the priorities of the division – which was established in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s – would shift away from priorities like enforcing voting rights laws and cracking down on unconstitutional policing to culture war issues touted by President Trump in his 2024 campaign.
Appointments to the holocaust museum are supposed to be for 5 years. Trump hasn’t let that stop him before, and certainly not now. He cleaned house. Most likely new appointments will be those that buy the most Trumpcoin, but if there are no takers would not be at all surprised if neonazis looking to “reframe” the holocaust were the replacements.
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