Stupid is as stupid does

Holy shit!!!!!!!!! This letter was prepared by none other than the US Secretary of (Mis) Education.

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— Jay_McGill94 (@jay-mcgill94.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Bezos making sure his nose stays up Trump's ass

I don't think a defendant in a child sex-trafficking lawsuit should be the federal official in charge of the nation's schools but I guess the Washington Post editorial board thinks different

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) January 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

How fucking convenient

This is an interesting development in the Linda McMahon situation. As you all know, Trump wants her to be the Secretary of Education. She has VERY limited experience in education and this lawsuit is extremely alarming. Now, conveniently, the lawsuit has been paused 1/ abcnews.go.com/US/linda-mcm...

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— Sari Beth Rosenberg (@sari.bsky.social) December 7, 2024 at 9:41 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Fuck the rich

Take your country back...from the rich

I had two takeaways from this video of Harvard students silently protesting a speech by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos:

First, it's how strong the resistance remains--from the marches on Trump's inauguration day to the travel ban protests to NFL players taking a knee to these students silently protesting a woman who got her job the rich people's way (she bought it) and the administration she represents, you have to feel that our hopes for taking back what will remain of America are strong.

The second one occurs at the end, when a student asks a perfectly reasonable question in a polite manner:  exactly how much money does billionaire DeVos, Wall Street, and other rich folks like the Koch Brothers stand to gain from turning our public education over to for profit organizations?  And at that point someone (presumably a member of Harvard faculty or one of its administrators) tells DeVos that she doesn't have to answer that question.  Why the fuck not?  It's a legitimate question and she's a public official getting paid by our tax dollars and answerable to we, the American people.

She most certainly has to fucking answer it and the fact that she didn't is entirely telling that her agenda isn't about helping America's children but is instead about making her greedy family even richer.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Evil personified

Future Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

From our next Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos:

“I have decided to stop taking offense,” she wrote, “at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right. We do expect something in return. We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues. We expect a return on our investment.”

“People like us,” she added archly, “must surely be stopped.”

And what American virtues would those be?  Racism?  Misogyny?  Homophobia?  How about unfettered greed?  Or psychopathy?  What about elitism?  And Nazism?  The War on Women?  The War on Workers?  The War on the poor?  How about hate crimes?  Lying?  Or plain old hatred?

I'll give DeVos credit for at least being right on two points:  First, billionaires like her and her husband, Dick DeVos, are definitely trying to buy our country, and second, even though it was said in sarcasm, she and her disgusting ilk must surely be stopped.

Democrats looking for a personification of all that is wrong with Trumpism would do well to start with the Wicked Witch of the White House, Betsy DeVos.

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

First they came for the kids

Apparently not content with running the state of Michigan, the DeVos family is now setting its sights on the entire country as family matriarch Betsy DeVos today was nominated to be Secretary of Education by Donald Trump despite having no qualifications for the job other than being rich.

For those not familiar, the DeVos family is known for being virulently anti-union and big supporters of the privatization of our kids education (this piece by Mother Jones is truly eye-opening--you're probably safer with Charles Manson as your next door neighbor than with the DeVos family located anywhere within 100,000 miles or so of the United States).  They're also known for having the cleanest asses in the state--Governor Rick Snyder (you probably know him better as the man who oversaw the poisoning of thousands of children in Flint) and republican members of the Michigan Legislature have their lips locked permanently to the butt cheeks of each individual DeVos family member.

Our governor is currently being sued by seven children in Detroit because his wonderful emergency manager plan has failed to fund education so miserably that they have no other recourse but to sue just to get educated.  Governor Child Poisoner's response?  Kid don't have a constitutional right to an education, even though our state constitution expressly grants them that right.

For those wondering what else your kids are in store for under Hitler's choice for Secretary of Education, the city of Detroit currently has a 47% rate of illiteracy, the city of Pontiac has a 34% rate of illiteracy, and the city of Southfield has a 24% rate of illiteracy, all of which are a direct result of republicans running the state of Michigan (they've held the governor's mansion for 18 of the last twenty-six years and both houses of the legislature all but four of those years) with their usual policies surrounding we don't give a shit about you if you're poor.

Do not underestimate the disaster this is for our kids education.

By the way, it also signals that the institutions of our government are now officially for sale to the highest bidder (which ain't you and me).

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee