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Roughly 3 weeks into Trump as PEOTUS...

ThinkingWithMyDeac said:
I bet birdman can't wait for the gutting of the endangered species act. The republican rationale being that only 70 species have ever come off the list. Solution lets fuck up the environment more so that we can get that number down to zero in the future.
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Edge of my seat. Endangered Species work is pretty much all I do...I might have to revert to my music career.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-praises-wrong-ivanka-111300764.html

LONDON (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wanted to praise his daughter on Twitter — instead he accidentally sent his message to another Ivanka.

Trump retweeted a message from a Twitter user that said his daughter was "great, a woman with real character and class."

But the user tagged the wrong Ivanka, a mistake repeated by Trump — and the message was directed to a woman named Ivanka Majic in Brighton, southern England.

The tweet quickly gained attention, with thousands of retweets and favorites overnight Tuesday.

Majic, a local government worker, replied to Trump Tuesday, saying on Twitter: "And you're a man with great responsibilities. May I suggest more care on Twitter and more time learning about climate change."
 
deactherunner said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-praises-wrong-ivanka-111300764.html

LONDON (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wanted to praise his daughter on Twitter — instead he accidentally sent his message to another Ivanka.

Trump retweeted a message from a Twitter user that said his daughter was "great, a woman with real character and class."

But the user tagged the wrong Ivanka, a mistake repeated by Trump — and the message was directed to a woman named Ivanka Majic in Brighton, southern England.

The tweet quickly gained attention, with thousands of retweets and favorites overnight Tuesday.

Majic, a local government worker, replied to Trump Tuesday, saying on Twitter: "And you're a man with great responsibilities. May I suggest more care on Twitter and more time learning about climate change."
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This never happened when we used couriers to deliver tweets.
 
A top government ethics official recently critical of President-Elect Donald Trump is resisting efforts by House Republicans to bring him in for a private interview.

Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, told lawmakers Monday that if members want to interview him about his recent critiques of Trump's handling of his business, the meeting should be in public rather than private.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314712-oge-chief-resists-house-gop-call-for-private-interview
 
WakeForestRanger said:
A top government ethics official recently critical of President-Elect Donald Trump is resisting efforts by House Republicans to bring him in for a private interview.

Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, told lawmakers Monday that if members want to interview him about his recent critiques of Trump's handling of his business, the meeting should be in public rather than private.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314712-oge-chief-resists-house-gop-call-for-private-interview
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Good for him. Ive been calling Chaffetz's office daily since this story broke to voice my displeasure over his continued hypocrisy. Have yet to get a staffer in either of his offices.
 
Makes me sick. She's going to bring the Florida and Michigan systems nationwide and completely abandon poor children to market force fraudulent charter systems.
 
Yep. Sadly, I doubt Trump will choose anybody who won't do the same.
 
TownieDeac said:
DeVos is a damned trainwreck of a nominee at Education. She couldn't answer basic questions from Franken today. Could t discern or describe the difference between proficiency and growth. Couldnt name indicators of school quality or success. Arguably his worst and potentially most destructive pick.
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Trump's Cathie Black.

Is it so hard to nominate someone with a background in education (pedagogy, not just philanthropy and administration)?
 
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TownieDeac said:
DeVos is a damned trainwreck of a nominee at Education. She couldn't answer basic questions from Franken today. Could t discern or describe the difference between proficiency and growth. Couldnt name indicators of school quality or success. Arguably his worst and potentially most destructive pick.
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She's also donated multiple times to FIVE of the senators on that committee.
 
PhDeac said:
Yep. Sadly, I doubt Trump will choose anybody who won't do the same.
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She's an awful pick, but we have had awful education policy for awhile now. The alternative is the bipartisan "reform" movement that's pro-charter, anti-union enough as it is.
 
Strickland33 said:
She's an awful pick, but we have had awful education policy for awhile now. The alternative is the bipartisan "reform" movement that's pro-charter, anti-union enough as it is.
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Exactly. I have no confidence in either party to produce effective federal education policy.
 
PhDeac said:
Exactly. I have no confidence in either party to produce effective federal education policy.
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I don't even know what an effective federal education policy looks like at this point, short of refunding the public education system (and probably abolishing charters).

Do you have any insight, Ph?
 
There is nothing inherently wrong with the school choice or charter movement, the problem is that Betsy DeVos platform sabotages poor public schools by promoting the cheapest unregulated charter system under the guise of providing free market choice. As charter schools save money through various infrastructure and beauracratic cuts, that money is used for vouchers. The cheaper that public schools become through competition and deregulation, the lower their yearly budgets become, and it's an unsustainable direction.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
There is nothing inherently wrong with the school choice or charter movement, the problem is that Betsy DeVos platform sabotages poor public schools by promoting the cheapest unregulated charter system under the guise of providing free market choice. As charter schools save money through various infrastructure and beauracratic cuts, that money is used for vouchers. The cheaper that public schools become through competition and deregulation, the lower their yearly budgets become, and it's an unsustainable direction.
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So there is something inherently wrong with the school choice and charter movements. What am I missing?
 
The harsh truth is that many shitty parents actually believe that a state provided 150$ chromebook and checking into a class website 3 days a week is a valid school "choice", when really the state and city government is just fucking them out of an real education.
 
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