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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 02:50:46 JST Laffy

   EXCUSE ME?

   "Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher education and extract significant concessions from universities." https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/ucla-trump-administration-settlement?cid=ios_app

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 02:04:22 JST Nicole Parsons

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     Billionaires rely (temporarily) on voters with a 6th grade literacy level

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/12/29/history-student-loan-debt/

     https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

     https://medium.com/@AM-Rousseau/we-are-in-danger-of-producing-an-educated-proletariat-bd67be344d00

     https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers

     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/arizona-fight-koch-brothers-school-vouchers

     https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/12/20/charles-kochs-stand-together-donor-conduits-move-176-million/

     https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/11/koch-network-infiltration-public-schools-harms-students-teachers-and-our-democracy

     https://newrepublic.com/article/167002/council-national-policy-documents-right-wing-conspiracy

     https://publicintegrity.org/politics/inside-the-koch-brothers-campus-crusade/

     https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/07/03/the-right-wing-network-manufacturing-the-war-against-higher-education/

     https://thehumanist.com/commentary/saving-higher-ed-from-ultra-right-koch-network-influence/

     https://politicalresearch.org/2021/10/21/sowing-seeds-white-supremacy-through-education

     https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/09/the-scale-of-what-were-up-against

     https://truthout.org/articles/new-college-of-florida-is-desantiss-launchpad-for-attack-on-higher-education/

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     • Leslie Burns

     @LeslieBurns @GottaLaff

     Trump's fascist movement is funded by billionaires who want to remake American society into the worst parts of the 19th century
     https://theconversation.com/trumps-project-2025-agenda-caps-decades-long-resistance-to-20th-century-progressive-reform-247176

     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/23/koch-brothers-agenda-key-donations-promotions

     A nation owned by the rich.

     Oligarchy. Plutocracy. Technofeudalism. Kakistocracy.
     https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/trumpism-is-kakistocracy

     https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/american-kakistocracy-donald-trump-berlusconi/680675/

     Education & universities hamper those efforts.
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

     https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/03/organizing-against-koch-influence-college-campuses

     https://jacobin.com/2024/07/tax-foundation-public-schools-indoctrination

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     Leslie Burns (leslieburns@esq.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 02:04:24 JST Leslie Burns

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     @GottaLaff Why do they keep calling these things “settlements?” What is being settled? If (big if) there are individuals with claims of discrimination, there is a process and this ain’t it. These are just empty threats that are coercing payments; i.e., extortion.