My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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yes. conservatives looked at the american experiment in mass, high quality education over the course of the 20th century and concluded that it was a failure that threatened to overturn existing hierarchies of status.

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Yup. This is a key part of the "die on the vine" scheme — you push all the most costly students like those with special needs, onto the public schools, which give the private schools a comparitive advantage, and then as more non-special-needs kids leave the public schools go into a death spiral

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yup. private schools also usually have lower standards of qualification and vetting for teachers and less transparency re: stuff like abuse allegations than public schools. Not a coincidence why, for example, so many sex abuse scandals happened in Catholic schools. bsky.app/profile/hern...

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They absolutely do and might not even be wrong, since private schools can simply expel students that have disciplinary problems, while public schools are compelled to keep all students unless they are so violent that they get sent to juvenille detention bsky.app/profile/eins...

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