Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours (www.nytimes.com)

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In the annals of ill will between California and the Trump administration, Thursday may have been a record-breaker.

The U.S. Education Department announced early in the West Coast morning that it would challenge a major state law protecting transgender students. Two hours later came the revocation of federal waivers that had let California colleges include undocumented students in certain programs that receive federal aid.

The afternoon brought a flurry of investigations into suspected affirmative action in California higher education: The Justice Department said it would investigate whether Stanford University and three schools in the University of California system were violating a Supreme Court decision that banned the consideration of race in admissions. Then the Health and Human Services Department said it was looking into accusations of similar discrimination at “a major medical school in California.”

By sundown, the Agriculture Department had sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a letter saying it would review its education-related funding in California in connection with transgender protections. And the Justice Department announced that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was under investigation for allegedly taking too long to approve applications for concealed-carry permits.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, good. Doesn't matter that all the rural areas are his supporters. We vote a different way in the metro areas, so everyone must be punished.

California's DOJ is hiring a ton of lawyers to fight the admin. Should be interesting.

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Time for California to secede before the Trump black hole sucks them into MAGAland

[-] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

Can we be part of canada

[-] d7sdx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

This looks more and more like like an episode of Community and Cali is the Air Conditioning Repair faculty.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Who's the Dean, Vice-Dean and Troy character. I have got to know.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Russian. Asset.

Even if the gop are so very jealous of California, most of the ones not under donvict's sway will admit that California is the crown jewel of the United States.

Anyone trying to bring it down is trying to crater this country.

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