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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/18
« Last post by SVPete on November 18, 2025, 02:37:23 PM »
This Black College Is A ‘Criminal Enterprise,’ Ex-Top Official Says In Lawsuit

https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-black-college-is-a-criminal-enterprise-ex-top-official-says-in-lawsuit

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A historically black university whose president is under scrutiny for plagiarism allegations reported on by The Daily Wire is a “criminal enterprise to divert federal and state funds,” according to a federal lawsuit filed by the school’s former Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.

It is one of four similar lawsuits filed in the last few months against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, its president Heidi Anderson, its provost Rondall Allen, and its diversity, equity, and inclusion czar Jason Casares, that all follow a similar pattern: A faculty member allegedly discovers wrongdoing at the university, and then is retaliated against by the university’s DEI office.

Claims from the suits paint a picture of a university with almost no academic standards, that admits 90% of applicants and looks the other way at cheating and truancy to avoid worsening its 17% on-time graduation rate and keep the federal student loan money flowing.

The lawsuit filed July 28 by Sandeep Gopalan, a Rhodes scholar who until recently was the school’s vice president for research and vice provost for academic affairs, said that after he claims to have exposed a scheme by Anderson and other top administrators to steal thousands of iPads, the university axed Gopalan’s program and Ph.D. students in retaliation.

The students were funded by a $4.6 million grant from the federal Department of Education that Gopalan had secured and the university had no ability to terminate, but it dismissed the scholars anyway, falsely suggesting that the Trump administration had cut off funding to the historically black college, he said.
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As part of his duties monitoring compliance for the university’s accreditor, “Gopalan learned that Rondall Allen and Heidi Anderson were embezzling iPads intended for poor minorities and diverting those resources to their cronies. The thousands of iPads were purchased from a federal grant awarded by the US Department of Commerce,” the suit said.

“After being convinced that the scam was organized criminal activity based on direct observation of the devices’ stealthy storage, destruction of evidence, fraudulent documentation, attempts to trick the auditors, the apparent enablement of concealment by University System of Maryland apparatchiks, Dr. Gopalan sent whistleblower letters to federal agencies, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, and the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland in June 2024,” it said.

It takes a special kind of A-hole to exploit and defraud needy persons.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/18
« Last post by SVPete on November 18, 2025, 02:35:26 PM »
Beloved steakhouse chain is making a comeback

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/beloved-steakhouse-chain-making-comeback

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Steakhouse chain Sizzler is making a comeback with a new refreshed look even as the quick-service restaurant sector continues to face a challenging environment that has prompted countless closures.

Creative agency Tavern, tasked with helping the brand reinvent itself, said the steakhouse had been a pop culture icon in the 1980s and 1990s on the West Coast, but "over the years the brand faced an identity crisis and lost its way." Today, the agency said, "most Californians don’t even know where the nearest Sizzler is (if they even know the brand is still in business)."

The company is trying to change that, announcing its plans to refresh the brand last year. The company said in a 2024 press release that it's tapping "into the sentimental value associated with the brand" and plans to "compete with fast-food giants like McDonald's and offer a more appealing alternative for parents seeking a dining experience that evokes comfort and familiarity."

I was not sure if there were any Sizzler locations in our area any found there were two. My parents enjoyed the Sizzler in our hometown, going there many Sundays after church.
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The DUmpster / Re: Now hear this!
« Last post by SVPete on November 18, 2025, 01:46:15 PM »
 :rotf: :rotf: "The latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll ..." :rotf: :rotf:
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The DUmpster / Now hear this!
« Last post by CC27 on November 18, 2025, 01:37:44 PM »
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surfered (10,347 posts)

Now hear this!

The latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds 67% of Republicans want the Epstein files released, meaning 33% of the GOP are willing to protect child predators.

That is all.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220813677

Uh huh.... Keep telling yourself that.
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The DUmpster / Re: Hang on to your hats...
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 18, 2025, 01:22:17 PM »
The second and third to the last paragraphs (= buried where few will read):

If Summers were a Republican, it would be in the headline and repeated every other sentence.
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The DUmpster / Re: Hang on to your hats...
« Last post by SVPete on November 18, 2025, 01:06:29 PM »
Treasure Secretary to who, AP?

The second and third to the last paragraphs (= buried where few will read):

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Summers served as treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 under President Clinton. He was Harvard’s president for five years from 2001 to 2006. He is currently a professor and is a director of the school’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, from Massachusetts, told CNN she believes Harvard should sever ties with Summers, saying he “cannot be trusted” with students.
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The DUmpster / Re: Hang on to your hats...
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 18, 2025, 12:44:32 PM »
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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers steps down from public commitments after Epstein emails

BOSTON (AP) — Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University who once served as U.S. treasury secretary, says he will step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl in 2008.

Summers said in a statement that he would step back to “rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”


https://apnews.com/article/larry-summers-jeffrey-epstein-emails-f6692249871db293adbbb1ebddb78037


Treasure Secretary to who, AP?
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The DUmpster / Re: Hang on to your hats...
« Last post by SVPete on November 18, 2025, 12:37:53 PM »
Well, Clinton-Obama operative Larry Summers's request to Epstein for romance advice has come to light. Then there's ...

Protection Racket Media Circles the Wagons Around Epstein Pal Stacey Plaskett

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/11/18/protection-racket-media-circles-the-wagons-around-epstein-ally-stacy-plaskett-n3809017

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On Friday, the Washington Post blew the lid off a major scandal involving influence from Jeffrey Epstein and a member of Congress. Had that member been a Republican, it might have dominated the weekend headlines, the Sunday talk shows, and social media to this very moment ... . And even a little bit of digging would have exposed far more meaty connections between the Representative and the ephebophilic sex trafficker.

Instead, the Stacey Plaskett scandal could've been called The Dog That Mostly Didn't Bark.

Let's start with the WaPo's devastating article and work our way forward through the silence. Bear in mind that Epstein's sex-trafficking crimes had once again popped up on the national radar in early February 2019, thanks to a Miami Herald exposé on the slimy plea deal he got from Alex Acosta – a new look prompted by criticism from then-Senate Republican Ben Sasse in November 2018. Epstein had become toxic already, but not to Larry Summers and not to Plaskett, as the WaPo reported to their readers:

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The newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that the convicted sex offender texted with a Democratic member of Congress, Del. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, during a congressional hearing with Michael Cohen, and that those text messages may have influenced the congresswoman’s questions of Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer.
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Though the name of Epstein’s texting partner is redacted in the documents, time-stamps on the text messages matched up with video from the hearing, as well as the messages’ contents, indicated that Epstein was texting with Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands as its nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives.
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One would expect that such a story would dominate the headlines and the talk shows, especially given the Democrats' months-long, full-court press on the Epstein Files. The Protection Racket Media has other ideas about what makes news in the Epstein case, as Jorge Bonilla discovered watching the Sunday news shows:

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The Plaskett story early enough for pre-production of This Week, and yet there was no mention whatsoever of what would otherwise be a scandal. There was likewise no mention of Plaskett on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, or CNN’s State of the Union.

As is the case with “news” in the Trump Era, the durability of a story is directly proportional to its ability to (a) cast aspersions on Donald Trump, and/or (b) cover up some other, more nefarious scandal. ...
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The DUmpster / Re: Hang on to your hats...
« Last post by ADsOutburst on November 18, 2025, 12:24:33 PM »
Is "Hang on to your hats" the new "The walls are closing in"?
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In the real world, the Bloomberg "reporter" disrespectfully interrupted Trump while he was answering another "reporter"'s question, and Trump faced her down. He told her not to interrupt his answer to a question, and called her the "worst". In no way did Trump refer to her sex, and anybody who has observed Trump - and is honest - knows Trump would have said the same to a disrespectful male "reporter" (and probably has).

These are "perceived" sexist remarks simply because President Trump dared to tell a female reporter that she asked a stupid question. "Journalists" need to grow a thicker ****ing skin. If women want true equality, they too have to accept criticism.
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