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Yahoo
13-05-2025
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MAGA Melts Down as GOP Senator Torpedoes Trump's Attack Dog
MAGA's online power brokers unloaded on Republican Senator Thom Tillis Wednesday after he said he would not vote to confirm Ed Martin as Washington's top prosecutor. Martin had been nominated to be U.S. attorney for Washington D.C., a job he is temporarily holding in an acting capacity and which he has turned into an attack vehicle against Trump's perceived enemies and to promote MAGA's culture war topics. Tillis, who is up for re-election in purple North Carolina next year, said on Tuesday: 'I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on Jan. 6. 'At this point, I've indicated to the White House I wouldn't support his nomination,' he added. The comment was a reference to Martin's support of the January 6 insurrectionists and his move to demote prosecutors who oversaw cases linked to the invasion of the Capitol in 2021. If he carries out his threat not to vote along party lines to confirm Martin, who has been described as Trump's 'attack dog', Tillis could sink the prosecutor's chances despite being picked for the top job by the president. Tillis is a member of the Judiciary Committee, and by voting against, he would deadlock it at 11-11 if the other Republicans continue to support Martin. While the committee's vote is only a recommendation to the whole Senate, it is rare for a Senate majority leader to bring a nominee to the floor without committee approval. The Republican majority leader, John Thune, would also face difficult prospects of getting to the crucial number of 50 with Tillis seen as mirroring the views of Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, the former majority leader, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, Maine's Susan Collins and Utah's John Curtis. Instead, Trump supporters started a pressure campaign to make Tillis change his mind, with right-wing podcaster and Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk writing on X: 'Tillis' logic is absurd. He ignores or forgets that many J6ers who entered the Capitol were waved in by Capitol Police. Many simply looked inside the building or took a selfie and left. Those people did NOT deserve to spend a day in prison. 'Tillis is handing this critical post to the Democrats. If Ed Martin is not confirmed by Senate Republicans before May 20th, Trump-hating Judge Boasberg gets to choose his replacement.' Rogan O'Handley, known by his MAGA online name DC Draino, referencing Tillis' upcoming election, wrote on X: 'Hey North Carolina, PRIMARY THOM TILLIS. Stop making us all suffer this RINO.' The National Pulse, a pro-Trump publication, called Tillis a 'traitor.' The Trump administration didn't sound so concerned at the uproar. 'He is the right man for the job, and we look forward to his confirmation,' said White House spokesman Alex Pfeiffer in a statement. Trump's MAGA base has helped force through a series of nominees initially seen as difficult for moderate Republicans to swallow, including Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at HHS. The only high-profile nominee to be lost so far was Matt Gaetz as attorney general, but there have been some less well-known nominees withdrawn including David Weldon for the Centers for Disease Control, and Kathleen Sgamma, as director of the Bureau of Land Management—ironically for her condemnation of the January 6 rioters. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has not scheduled a vote for Martin, leaving his nomination hanging indefinitely. However Martin's ability to be the acting U.S. attorney in Washington D.C. does have a drop-dead date: He can only stay in that role until May 21.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
MAGA doesn't want you to think
The University of Florida Campus in Gainesville, via UF Why are right-wingers so scared of ideas? Are their minds so weak that mere exposure to certain books will infect them with what Elon Musk calls 'the woke mind virus'? They don't want you inoculated against measles, but they're doing their damnedest to inoculate Americans against knowledge. Novels upset them; poetry upsets them; science upsets them; history upsets them; art upsets them; questioning of authority upsets them. Universities really, really upset them — all that interrogating norms; all that challenging orthodoxy; all that critical inquiry. To that end, Donald Trump's going to war with Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, even Penn, his alma mater. Ron DeSantis beat him to it: The governor's been trying for years to regulate speech, impose restrictions on what teachers can teach, and decree which books the state of Florida finds 'acceptable.' While he's had some success in K-12, enabling Moms for Liberty and their ilk in their book-banning crusade and threatening educators with dire consequences if they mention the existence of gay and trans people, some judges, unsurprisingly partial to the First Amendment, have slapped him down. DeSantis, nothing if not energetic in his rage, is now determined to shield our precious college students from Dangerous Thoughts. Choose the administrators. Choose the presidents. Control the universities. The University of Florida needs a new dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences — with 40 majors and more than 10,000 students, it's the largest college at UF. They got as far as interviewing four highly qualified candidates: two mathematicians — UF's own Kevin P. Knudson and Maggy Tomova, dean of UCF's College of Science; Ryan Schroeder, dean of Georgia Southern's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences; and Robert Brinkmann, a professor of Geology and dean of Liberal Arts and Science at Northern Illinois University. But two weeks ago, the governor blew up the search. Demanded UF stop it. Seems the finalists, admired scholars and seasoned leaders, are crypto-Marxist, Trump-hating eggheads bent on destroying America. An anonymous social media account calling itself 'Commies on Campus' ran shrieking to Bryan Griffin, DeSantis' communications director, calling all four 'radical DEI progressives.' The Commies posted slick, selectively edited videos of candidate interviews, slamming Brinkmann for stating the obvious: 'We have people in charge of things in our country that don't have any business being in charge of those things,' and Knudson for being proud that as head of UF's Honors Program 'we were able to increase the number of African American and Hispanic students in the program.' As if that's somehow shameful. Kent Fuchs, UF's invertebrate of an interim president, sent out a memo pretending 'terminating the search' was the only thing to do, what with the university also in the middle of hiring a permanent president. Fuchs has never said no to DeSantis. He does as he's told, facilitating the hiring of our data-challenged surgeon general at UF's medical school and trying to stop professors from testifying on voting rights. Academic freedom doesn't matter; the professors' expertise might pose a 'conflict of interest to the executive branch of the state of Florida.' As if serving the interests of the executive branch should somehow be the mission of a university. UF remains a distinguished institution, though slipping in national rankings of public universities. It was No. 5 a couple of years ago but is now No. 7. Still pretty good, especially given DeSantis' obsessive attacks on higher education in the state. But allowing some trifling X account to dictate policy at Florida's flagship university won't exactly burnish UF's reputation. Whoever the 'Commies on Campus' may be, they weren't paying attention in political science class. They call anything they don't like 'communist:' LGBTQ, feminism, secularism, programs for the poor, addressing the climate crisis, taxing the rich, giving anyone without one of those useful White Man Cards a fair shot in life. 'Communist' is MAGA's all-purpose insult. Read a book, kids: While real live commies like the ones in North Korea, Cuba, or China may think religion is the opiate of the masses and rich folks (except the leaders of these countries) shouldn't exist, they're not keen on stuff like feminism, they persecute gay people, and they sure as hell don't favor DEI. Ask the Uighurs. Yet DeSantis, a man educated beyond his intelligence, takes what these nameless chuckleheads say at face value. There are in fact a number of well-regarded Marxist scholars at American universities. Yale, the governor's alma mater, has a reading group studying Marxism and Cultural Theory. Nevertheless, DeSantis emerged from the Red Menace of New Haven untainted. He's also unimpeded by understanding what universities are supposed to do. An academic's job is to research everything from the Roman Republic to astrophysics to Norse sagas to gene structure to the ideology of slavery to economic and political systems, which requires reading across the spectrum from 'Das Kapital' to 'The Road to Serfdom' and presenting their data and knowledge to students. We call this 'education.' It's embarrassing how MAGAs deem Hungarian (or Putinist) authoritarianism OK, even admirable, while 'communist' is the gravest of insults and socialism is a mortal sin. Perhaps they're unaware socialism is viewed favorably by around 36% of Americans. That's almost the same number who say they strongly support Donald Trump. The point is, ideas are not viruses: Mere exposure to communist thought doesn't turn you into a communist, any more than reading James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room' makes you gay, any more than reading 'The Wealth of Nations' ensures you'll become a rabid capitalist. But MAGAs don't do high-level thinking: It makes their heads hurt. They simply react. Loudly. Ignorantly. Irrationally. Commies on Campus now has a new project: trying to influence who will become the new president of the University of Florida. UF has announced a finalist. One finalist. Chosen in secret. He is Dr. Santa Ono, a Canadian American immunologist. The Commies say he's some kind of woke monster who, as president of the University of Michigan, created 'THE LARGEST #DEI EMPIRE in the country.' Their evidence? Christopher Rufo, the febrile New College trustee last heard claiming immigrants were eating cats and dogs, calls Ono 'left-wing' and points to a 2023 commencement address in which he made the unimpeachable statement, 'The climate crisis is the existential challenge of our time.' Florida gubernatorial candidate and Trump acolyte U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, never losing a chance to ingratiate himself with MAGA voters, demands UF 'go back to the drawing board.' Donalds' hair is on fire because Ono once said, 'Racism is one of America's original sins.' Deep breath, people: 1. Both of Ono's statements are perfectly true; and 2. Rufo, Donalds, and the Commies need to update their intel. Ono has changed his tune. No longer a champion of diversity, he's now singing from the DeSantis Hymnal, declaring himself in 'total alignment' with the governor's anti-woke crusade. 'I have the same views as this governor,' Ono said. During his three years at Michigan (the shortest tenure of any president in the university's history), Ono initially won praise for prioritizing sustainability and anti-racist projects. Students say he was personable and accessible. Then Trump happened, and, like too many university administrators, he bent the knee, shutting UM's DEI office, cracking down on student protest, and creating, as one faculty member said, 'a surveillance state.' Seems he deployed plainclothes officers police to trail and photograph people on UM's campus. No wonder DeSantis likes this guy. Santa is a real scholar, a proper scientist, with academic and administrative qualifications that could have been a great fit at UF. He's streets ahead of DeSantis' last hand-picked president, the empty, in-over-his-head Ben Sasse, whose one discernable talent was spending other people's money. In a Trump-free world, Ono might have become the leader who could protect the institution. He might have pushed back against the governor's determination to reduce Florida's universities to football factories with libraries curated by the likes of Christopher Rufo and courses insisting on the divine greatness of America. Alas, Ono has made clear that's not him, not anymore. This is what you get when one incurious, anti-intellectual, and perpetually angry man chooses university presidents in secret. This is what you get when there's only one finalist. Yes, the trustees officially make the job offer, but there's no chance they'd hire someone DeSantis didn't like. This is the reality of higher ed in Florida today. FIU has one finalist for president. No shock that it's DeSantis' former lieutenant governor and Interim President Jeannette Nuñez. In its presidential search, FAU announced three finalists. Maybe this would be a real contest? Two had and solid higher ed experience. One was a Republican political hack. You can guess who got the gig. Florida A&M, still in the process of choosing a president, has four finalists. Promising, right? There were initially three on the shortlist, all with extensive university experience. Then a fourth candidate, a woman with ties to top Republicans, appeared. She's Marva Johnson, a communications company executive, appointed by then-Gov. Rick Scott to the Florida Board of Education and chosen by Ron DeSantis for the Florida Scholars Academy Board of Trustees. Commies on Campus have not yet weighed in on this one. FAMU alumni say she'd be a terrible choice, calling her 'a plant' and likening her to a Trojan Horse hostile to the university's mission. But what the alumni want, and what the university wants, probably won't matter. What DeSantis wants matters. As everyone in the unfree state of Florida knows, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
New York Post
07-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Miranda Devine: Confirm Ed Martin to take on the swamp!
Republican Senator Thom Tillis has declared he will block President Trump's choice for the crucial position of US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin. His no vote will sink the nomination and if Martin isn't confirmed in time, his replacement reportedly could be chosen by Trump-hating US District judge James Boasberg. Tillis doesn't even have a plausible reason, telling reporters that his difference with Tillis is over the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Martin believes that some J6ers were unfairly over prosecuted and Tillis believes they all should have been jailed 'for absolutely destroying the Capitol' — which never happened. Advertisement President Trump nominated Ed Martin for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File Since Trump has pardoned all the J6ers, Tillis' objection is absurd in every way. How come the North Carolina senator had no problem waving through Joe Biden's various activist picks? Anthony Blinken, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and Matthew Graves were involved in protecting Hunter Biden and lawfare operations against Trump. Perhaps the real reason for Tillis' destructive decision is that as acting US attorney Martin has proved too aggressive in pursuing deep state wrongdoers for his liking. Advertisement For instance, Martin is questioning the Wikipedia Foundation, aka Wikipedia, on whether its propaganda activities violate its non-profit status in DC. In a letter to the biased online encyclopedia last month he suggested that Wikipedia is 'allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public … including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and other interests of the United States. Advertisement 'Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia's 'educational' mission … 'Moreover, we are aware that search engines such as Google have agreed to prioritize Wikipedia results due to the relationship that Wikipedia has established with these tech platforms. If the content contained in Wikipedia articles is biased, unreliable, or sourced by entities who wish to do harm to the United States, search engine prioritization of Wikipedia will only amplify propaganda to a larger American audience. 'Lastly, it has come to our attention that generative Al platforms receive Wikipedia data to train large-language models. This data is now consumed by masses of Americans and American teachers on a daily basis. If the data provided is manipulated, particularly by foreign actors and entities, Wikipedia's relationship with generative Al platforms have the potential to launder information on behalf of foreign actors.' Kaboom! This is our man against the DC swamp. He must be confirmed.
Fox News
05-05-2025
- Business
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WATCH LIVE: Will Cain gives his take on today's biggest topics
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Fox News
05-05-2025
- Politics
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Trump plots Alcatraz comeback and more top headlines
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