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Project 2025 Is Already Here

If you want a glimpse into what Project 2025's education agenda might look like if implemented nationwide, look no further than Florida

Florida’s New COVID Booster Guidance Is Straight-Up Misinformation

Arthur Allen, Daniel Chang and Sam Whitehead KFF Health News
Ladapo’s vaccine statement “aligns with Project 2025.” Several critics of Ladapo’s bulletin said it read like a tryout for a job in a Trump administration advised by longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Why Fascists Hate Universities

Jason Stanley Guardian
Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent. Attacks on universities are the canary in the coalmine of fascism.

Obsessive Culture War Is a Dead End. Just Ask Ron DeSantis.

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Ron DeSantis went all in on the niche fixations of online right-wing culture warriors. In the process, his failed presidential campaign proved that the Right’s obsessive “anti-wokeness” is a political cul-de-sac.

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Trump Plan To Gut Civil Service Triggers Pushback

Tim Reid and Nathan Layne Reuters
Donald Trump has pledged to revive an executive order known as Schedule F that would give him the power, if re-elected president, to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of government civil servants, a step toward autocracy.
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