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Chuck Darwin

As the Trump administration intensifies its war on elite universities, one Ivy League school is lawyering up with a Trump ally.
#Dartmouth College announced this week that it has tapped #Matt #Raymer, the former chief counsel at the Republican National Committee, to serve as the college’s top lawyer and senior vice president.
Raymer will not only run the general counsel’s office, but also serve on Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership team and advise the college on “legal and strategic matters.”
⚠️Raymer, who in January publicly backed President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, will also oversee the school’s Office of Visa and Immigration Services.
Raymer’s selection comes as Republicans dramatically escalate their attacks on higher education
— training their ire on Ivy League institutions they’ve long accused of fostering liberalism and censoring conservatives.

It’s left university leaders balancing a series of competing demands:
preserving their relationships with an administration on which most rely for funding,
defending free speech on campus and protecting non-citizen student activists Trump campaigned on deporting.

“There is a need to be able to communicate across the political spectrum. I think every university is trying to find people from the moderate to right — and even more right — in the political spectrum to help deliver messages and help protect them from unfair and problematic attacks,” said Lee Bollinger, the former president of Columbia University. “I’m seeing it more and more.”
Columbia is at the center of the fight, facing a $400 million funding freeze as federal immigration agents moved to deport a former student with a green card and are combing campus looking for other non-citizen students who, the White House claims, supported Hamas during last spring’s pro-Palestinian student protests. Beilock, Dartmouth’s president, previously served as president of Barnard College, a Columbia affiliate institution and the current center of continuing protest activity at the university.

The Trump administration on Wednesday froze $175 million in funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its transgender athlete policies. Cornell and Yale are under investigation for allegedly prioritizing doctoral applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. And the administration has launched probes into alleged antisemitism at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
Dartmouth — the smallest Ivy League college, tucked away in rural New Hampshire and known for being less progressive than many of its peers — is the only school in the conference that appears to so far have escaped the administration’s wrath.
“We’ve done a good job in the past of permitting free expression and respecting others’ voices,” said Phil Hanlon, who served as Dartmouth’s president before Beilock. “We’ve worked hard at that over many decades.”
Raymer’s history on immigration could be where he faces the greatest opposition on campus, as his hiring appears to prioritize the political realities over universities’ long-held values. Universities have faced increasing pressure from students and advocates to answer questions about how they will protect students amid the president’s immigration crackdown, as Trump has changed policy to allow immigration enforcement at schools and fears percolate about data protection for undocumented students, as well those who have parents living in the country illegally.

politico.com/news/2025/03/19/t

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Matt's #Script Archive: where 1995 technology is still breaking the internet with *free* CGI scripts. 🚀 Welcome to the Jurassic era of web tools, where FormMail is still hailed as a "new" release in 2009! 🤖💾 Grab your floppy disks, folks—Matt's prehistoric scripts are here to crash your modern-day servers. 🎉🔥
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From 14 Feb: Ohio food banks warn over less funding in governor’s budget proposal - Eggs in a grocery store. (Stock photo from Getty Images.)Have you seen the price of eggs? The cost o... ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02 #allison-russo #brian-stewart #farm-bill #food-assistance #food-banks #food-pantries #matt-huffman #mike-dewine #ohio-association-of-foodbanks #politics-&-gov #snap #snap-cuts #u.s.-farm-bill

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Cabinet Watch: Governor-Elect Matt Meyer

Governor-Elect #Matt Meyer is assembling his Cabinet, retaining two Carney administration Secretaries and nominating seven others.

Key nominees include Don Clifton for Agriculture, Michael Smith for Finance, Josette Manning for Health & Social Services, Matthew Heckles for Housing Authority, Brian Maxwell for Office of Management and Budget, Greg Patterson for Natural Resources, Steven Yeatman for Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, and Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez for State. Shanté Hastings will be the Acting Secretary of Transportation.

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spotlightdelaware.org/2024/12/

Text Shot: New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer will assume the governorship on Jan. 21, 2025, and begin his first four-year term in statewide office. Before then, he is compiling nominees for his Cabinet and Spotlight Delaware will be updating this list over the next month. To date, Meyer has announced nine nominees for his Cabinet, including retaining two Secretaries from the Carney administration — Health & Social Services Secretary Josette Manning and Services for Children, Youth and Their Families Secretary Steven Yeatman. He has seven remaining positions to fill.
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Chuck Darwin

The House Ethics Committee plans to
✅ release an investigative report into the conduct of former Representative #Matt #Gaetz of Florida, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Mr. Gaetz had resigned from the House after Donald Trump named him as his pick for attorney general,
but Mr. Gaetz ended his candidacy after the weight of allegations of sex trafficking and drug use made it clear he would not be confirmed by the Senate.
He consistently denied the allegations.

#Robert F. #Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump’s selection for health secretary, is expected back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for more meetings with Republican senators.
His audiences so far have been friendly lawmakers but he may find a more skeptical greeting soon:
➡️ He is expected to meet with Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska who has said she wants to question him on his anti-vaccine advocacy.

Speaker Mike Johnson is defending the 1,500-page #stopgap #spending #bill unveiled on Tuesday.
It started as a simple measure to avert a government shutdown until mid-March
but became a magnet for more than $100 billion in emergency disaster and farm aid,
plus unrelated policy measures.
An array of House Republicans are unhappy with it.
Mr. Johnson went on “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday to defend the bill, saying his thin margin in the House and Democratic control of the Senate and White House meant
“any bill has to have Democrat votes.”

nytimes.com/live/2024/12/18/us

The New York Times · Latest Trump and Gaetz News: Live UpdatesBy Luke Broadwater
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Chuck Darwin

In a simpler time, when even a minor transgression like not paying taxes on your nanny might disqualify one from serving as the chief U.S. law enforcement officer,
#Pam #Bondi’s lie-laden history might have ended her AG dreams before they even began.

⚠️But in Trump’s America, Bondi has already positioned herself as the "safe, confirmable pick"
-- after the rapid withdrawal of #Matt #Gaetz, the subject of a still-sealed House Ethics Committee report about his alleged sex with a 17-year-old and other transgressions.

It’s a swap that no one should be celebrating.

🆘Instead, America should be alarmed by Bondi’s nomination -- because the Justice Department is still Ground Zero for Trump’s authoritarian vision of his second presidency,
🔥in which not only will felony cases against Trump himself disappear but
🔥hundreds of pro-Trump insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will be freed from prison
🔥while prosecutors, political opponents and journalists live in fear of banana-republic-style persecution.

archive.ph/2024.11.24-173559/h

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Chuck Darwin

Proximity to sexual abuse and scandal increasingly looks like a prerequisite for joining Trump’s upcoming Cabinet.

President-elect Donald Trump made yet another surprising pick on Tuesday,
naming former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO #Linda #McMahon as his intended nominee for education secretary.

McMahon, along with her husband, #Vince #McMahon, helped turn the WWE into the pervasive entertainment product that has become intertwined with modern North American culture.
Trump was a good friend to the McMahons during this time, even getting in the ring for the “Battle of the Billionaires” in 2007.

Linda McMahon stepped down from WWE in 2009 and launched herself in conservative politics,
serving on the Connecticut State Board of Education and running two unsuccessful campaigns for Senate in 2010 and 2012.
She then became a Republican megadonor, and was rewarded with an administrator position at the Small Business Administration in Trump’s first-term Cabinet.
On Tuesday, she was rewarded once again.
“Linda will use her decades of Leadership experience, and deep understanding of both Education and Business, to empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make America Number One in Education in the World,” Trump wrote in a statement.
“We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”

But much like Trump Cabinet picks #Pete #Hegseth and #Matt #Gaetz, McMahon has troubling skeletons in her closet.
The WWE has long been known for its highly questionable, borderline abusive work environment.
Linda McMahon and Vince McMahon
—from whom she is now reportedly separated
—are being sued by five anonymous plaintiffs who served as “ring boys,” essentially teenage stagehands.
The ring boys allege that they were being sexually abused by WWE wrestlers Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin.
The suit states that both Linda and Vince knew exactly what was happening to the ring boys but did little, if anything, to stop it.
Vince faces even more damaging allegations of sexual assault, trafficking, and more.
And although these are separate from Linda, almost all of these accusations date from when Linda was leading the WWE.
Trump has yet to comment on the allegations.
Linda McMahon also falsely claimed in 2009 on a candidate questionnaire for the Connecticut Board of Education that she had a bachelor’s degree in education,
-- when she only has a certificate.
Per The Washington Post’s recap of the incident, she resigned from the board as soon as she heard that local journalists intended to make her error public,
but claimed the timing of her resignation was merely coincidental.

If confirmed as education secretary, McMahon will be charged with carrying out Trump’s plan for the Department of Education:
specifically, to kill it completely.

newrepublic.com/post/188630/li

The New Republic · Trump’s Latest Cabinet Pick Is Also Mired in a Sexual Abuse ScandalAlso, what does a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment know about education?
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Chuck Darwin

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray
asking for
“the complete evidentiary file” from the agency’s investigation
into allegations of sex trafficking of minors against former Rep. #Matt #Gaetz (R-Fla.),
whom President-elected Trump has tapped to become the next attorney general.

The Democratic senators, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (Ill.),
say the allegations against Gaetz are “significant” in light of his associate,
#Joe #Greenberg, having pleaded guilty to the sex trafficking charge for which the Florida Republican was also investigated

thehill.com/homenews/senate/50

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Chuck Darwin

Republican lawyer #Boris #Epshteyn,
who in June pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges related to his 2020 effort to overturn Arizona’s electoral vote in favor of former president Donald Trump,
lobbied the president-elect to pick #Matt #Gaetz as attorney general, Politico’s Meridith McGraw reports.


Trump shocked officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday when he announced Gaetz as his pick for attorney general.
Shortly after, Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives where he served four terms as representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district.

The Bulwark’s Marc Caputo on Wednesday reported Trump sees Gaetz as “a loyal, longtime adviser, an acid-tongued debate champ, and an aggrieved target of the feds.”
And, according to McGraw, the plan to nominate Gaetz for attorney general came together “just hours before it was announced.”

“[The plan] was hatched aboard Trump’s airplane en route to Washington, on which Gaetz was a passenger,” Politico reports. “…
Boris Epshteyn played a central tole in the development, lobbying Trump to choose Gaetz.”

Trump’s chief of staff, Susan Wiles, “was in a different, adjacent room on the plane, apparently unaware,” Politico adds.
alternet.org/boris-epshteyn/

Alternet.org · Trump chief of staff 'apparently unaware' of Boris Epshteyn effort to lobby on behalf of Gaetz: reportBy Elizabeth Preza
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