It’s just sickening…
By the time the John M. Olin Foundation spent itself out of existence in 2005, as called for in itsfounder’s will, it had spent about half of its total assets of $370 million bankrolling thepromotion of freemarket ideology and other conservative ideas on the country’s campuses. Indoing so, it molded and credentialed a whole new generation of conservative graduates andprofessors. “These efforts have been instrumental in challenging the campus left — or morespecifically, the problem of radical activists’ gaining control of America’s colleges anduniversities,” Miller concluded in a 2003 pamphlet published by the Philanthropy Roundtable,an organization run for conservative philanthropists.
So, somewhere in the neighborhood of 185 million dollars spent to proselytize college campuses toward conservatism. How much good might that have done spent toward something decent? How much of what we see in this Trumpism mess is due to that?
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That was just the John M. Olin Foundation. The other groups, like the Koch Bros, Bradley Foundation, etc, were/are spending similar amounts. I call those groups The Usual Suspects, because they keep turning up everywhere, funding groups on the very far right. (The part of about the moral turn-around of the Ford Foundation panicking those old white right racist funds is bad for the tooth enamel.)
I love Jane Mayer articles, because the tags always turn out great. (With luck, I’ll be releasing my portable wiki today.)
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Ugh, these fucking assholes.
“Radical campus activists” really means “people who refuse to ignore truth.”
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More accurately, people who allow truth to inform policy, rather than vice versa. Can’t allow facts to determine policy, it might cost short term gains! Truth that conforms to preset policy is fine, though.
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, has ordered operational changes and a clampdown on overtime in a bid to fix the financially troubled Postal Service, which reported a net loss of $2.2 billion in the last quarter
Oh Reuters. No mention of why that loss exists. The way you report it one could almost think the Republicans are doing a reasonable thing, trying to get an ailing institution back on its feet.
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Boggles the mind. Every newspaper in America should have “Trump Blocks Covid Relief Checks” as a headline. Let his “grass roots” deal with the cognitive dissonance of that.
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There have been a few Reuter’s articles where I swear they could been written by the trump administration.
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The next question is why did they feel that they needed to bring their guns? I guess they regard their firearms as props?
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Case in point:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-idUSKCN25926W
You know trump didn’t do a f’ing thing. I suspect that Reuter’s isn’t as impartial as they seem.
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Well, not trying to hide it anymore, I guess.
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Gessens Law comes to mind.
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Oh, that wonderful smell in the morning of Republican desperation! 
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Unfortunately desperate people are extremely dangerous
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Yes, of course, especially when empowered as much as Trump and his minions are.
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