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MAGA’s Education Policy Is MEAN: Make Education Awful Nationwide

Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
March Madness brackets for which state will abolish education first

That leaked Signal chat from Trump’s national security team proves why this administration’s cuts to education are the bureaucratic equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face. So the dumbest administration in US history is dismantling the Department of Education. The irony would be laughable – if it weren’t so, well, Orwellian. Still,… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: anti-intellectualism, Department of Education, GOP extremism, MAGA, MEAN agenda, Political Irony, Project 2025, Trump education policy

Democratic Elections in Autocratic Iran and Russia? Why Do They Bother?

Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Iran and Russia hold elections.

Iran’s democratic charade  In the grand circus of global politics, few acts are more darkly comical than so-called ‘democratic’ elections held in autocracies. Take Iran, for instance.  Yesterday, Iran held parliamentary elections, exuding the enthusiasm of a tranquilized sloth. The economy’s languishing in the gutter, the populace suffers a collective Stockholm Syndrome, and the government is engrossed in… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Autocratic Elections, Electoral Farce, Iran Elections, Political Irony, Russia Democracy

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