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Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Yale Fascism Expert Flees the U.S. for a Chilling Reason
A Yale University professor who studies fascism is leaving the U.S. for Canada, warning that the future of academic, and personal, liberty in the country is in pressing danger. 'This crackdown, Columbia's capitulation to this, is a grave sign about the future of academic freedom,' philosophy professor Jason Stanley said Monday in an interview on MSNBC's Ana Cabrera Reports. 'In addition to, say, hauling people off the street and sending them to Louisiana prisons like they did at Tufts University for co-authoring op-eds in the student newspaper,' he continued, referring to Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk who was detained last week for what her attorneys believe is retaliation for a pro-Palestinian essay she co-authored last year. The academic explained that his decision ultimately came down to the safety of his children and his desire to 'send a warning to Americans' that's consistent with all his work on fascism. Stanley has authored several works on the subject matter, including a 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, and 2015's How Propaganda Works. 'The message is that they're going to do a kind of stochastic terrorism against our country. They're going to target people one by one so that those who are in fear will shut up, essentially,' Stanley added. 'Universities are filled with fear already. They're ceasing to make public statements. They're not banding together. Right now they're targeting non-citizens for, you know, writing in student newspapers.' 'I'm sure, or I suspect, they'll start pulling people's passports, targeting U.S. citizens for various reasons, and exploiting Americans' ignorance,' he claimed. The Trump administration has commenced a crackdown on a handful of prestigious universities including Columbia and Harvard for allowing students to protest for Palestine on campuses last year and fueling what they have described as antisemitism. Shortly after a $400 million cut in federal funding was announced for Columbia, the Ivy League school was quick to succumb to the Trump administration's demands including enhancing security, cracking down on protests, and internally reviewing academic programs like the Middle Eastern studies department. 'I have two Black and Jewish kids. I think my kids actually are more important to me than anything else. So they're using my religion to go after academic freedom, crushing universities supposedly in the name of protecting my people, Jews, American Jews,' Stanley said. 'My kids are Jewish. My kids are Black. They're attacking their history, and I want to send a political message as I've been doing with my work.' According to The Guardian, Stanley has accepted a position at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Fox News
11-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Democratic lawmaker says kids will be in teacherless classrooms, won't have lunch if DOGE, Trump get their way
A Democratic lawmaker said in an interview on Monday that kids won't be served lunch and will be in classrooms that don't have teachers if President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency get their way. "That's the word that has to get out … Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn't have a teacher," Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said on Ana Cabrera Reports on MSNBC. Trump, who campaigned on eliminating the Department of Education during the 2024 presidential election, has enlisted the help Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla Inc, to review the efficiency of the agency. Trump is expected to issue an executive order calling for the elimination of the department. On Friday, Democratic lawmakers surrounded the Department of Education protesting the Trump administration over a "lack of transparency" but were denied entry by security. During the CNN interview, DeLauro said that students will not be able to get lunch in school under Trump. "The other piece of that is the outrage of the American public," DeLauro said. "And when you … think about there is the legal issue, but you have to think about what the, you know, what are the repercussions to American families. You take education, you're looking at denying people school lunches." She also said that special needs students would suffer and that Congress would fight to stop the Trump administration. "The Congress will not let this succeed," DeLauro said. "And the courts are important… While we do not have standing to sue, we are working with the organizations that are bringing suit."
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Inspector general dismissed by Trump calls mass firings a threat to democracy
A former inspector general (IG) who was dismissed on Friday said President Donald Trump's decision to fire 17 independent watchdogs at various federal agencies constitutes a "threat to democracy" and government transparency. Trump dismissed IGs at agencies within the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Veterans Affairs, and more, notifying them by email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, the Washington Post first reported. Mike Ware, who served as the chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, told MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" that he and other federal watchdogs were informed of their firing via email on Friday. 'Flooding The Zone' Trump Hits Warp Speed In First Week Back In Office Ware said it was "alarming" that the Trump administration had fired them over what he described as "changing priorities"—noting that IGs are not part of any administration and merely ensure there is no fraud, waste and abuse in how taxpayer funds are expended. In 2022, Congress passed reforms that strengthened protections for IGs and made it harder to replace them with political appointees, requiring the president to explain their removal. Read On The Fox News App Ware suggested that Trump failed to provide a comprehensive reason for the mass firings and may have potentially violated the protections afforded by the reforms. Trump's Federal Dei Purge Puts Hundreds On Leave, Nixes $420M In Contracts "We're looking at what amounts to a threat to democracy, a threat to independent oversight and a threat to transparency in government. This is no doubt. The statute isn't just a technicality, it's a key protection of IG independence is what it is," Ware said. He also claimed that the U.S. government might as well not have an independent oversight mechanism if the new administration only adheres to the IG Act in a "piecemeal manner." The mass firing is Trump's latest attempt to force the federal bureaucracy into submission after he shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs, rescinded job offers and sidelined more than 150 national security and foreign policy officials. Click Here For The Latest Media And Culture News Trump began his second term with the intent of purging any opponents of his agenda from the government and replacing them with officials who would execute his orders without hesitation. During his first term, Trump fired four IGs in less than two months in 2020. This included the State Department, whose inspector general had played a role in the president's impeachment proceedings. Fox News' Chris Pandolfo and Lucas Y. Tomlinson contributed to this article source: Inspector general dismissed by Trump calls mass firings a threat to democracy
Fox News
27-01-2025
- Politics
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Inspector general dismissed by Trump calls mass firings a threat to democracy
A former inspector general (IG) who was dismissed on Friday said President Donald Trump's decision to fire 17 independent watchdogs at various federal agencies constitutes a "threat to democracy" and government transparency. Trump dismissed IGs at agencies within the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Veterans Affairs, and more, notifying them by email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, the Washington Post first reported. Mike Ware, who served as the chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, told MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" that he and other federal watchdogs were informed of their firing via email on Friday. Ware said it was "alarming" that the Trump administration had fired them over what he described as "changing priorities"—noting that IGs are not part of any administration and merely ensure there is no fraud, waste and abuse in how taxpayer funds are expended. In 2022, Congress passed reforms that strengthened protections for IGs and made it harder to replace them with political appointees, requiring the president to explain their removal. Ware suggested that Trump failed to provide a comprehensive reason for the mass firings and may have potentially violated the protections afforded by the reforms. "We're looking at what amounts to a threat to democracy, a threat to independent oversight and a threat to transparency in government. This is no doubt. The statute isn't just a technicality, it's a key protection of IG independence is what it is," Ware said. He also claimed that the U.S. government might as well not have an independent oversight mechanism if the new administration only adheres to the IG Act in a "piecemeal manner." The mass firing is Trump's latest attempt to force the federal bureaucracy into submission after he shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs, rescinded job offers and sidelined more than 150 national security and foreign policy officials. Trump began his second term with the intent of purging any opponents of his agenda from the government and replacing them with officials who would execute his orders without hesitation. During his first term, Trump fired four IGs in less than two months in 2020. This included the State Department, whose inspector general had played a role in the president's impeachment proceedings.
