Trump is escalating his war against American higher education and against the rest of the world. We will be the worse for this. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates - ThreadSky

rbreich.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Trump is escalating his war against American higher education and against the rest of the world. We will be the worse for this.

Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates

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cjdit.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thank you so much for always speaking out - I read you as many times a day as you write your column. Too bad there are no men like you in government today. God bless you.

delfinr.bsky.social•8 days ago

He is doing this because his own failure in a higher education institution. Release his university grades and prove he is a failure!

tfrex.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ideas must be stopped because they don’t require money, and that is all he has. Little does he know, no matter how many universities he strips of funding, knowledge is more powerful than even his dreams are capable of portraying, which is why he’s so afraid of it.

sghendricks.bsky.social•8 days ago

davysgirl66.bsky.social•9 days ago

I cannot imagine international students WANTING to step foot here. What’s to learn? Oppression? Make up tips from MAGA?

katznjazz.bsky.social•9 days ago

If you're smart and educated, you don't believe the propaganda lies.

clinkerbrick.bsky.social•8 days ago

Poor Donnie so jealous that other people are more intelligent than his pea size rotten brain 🧠 just the intelligence of a 3 year old child 🤣😂🤪

ostrakon.bsky.social•8 days ago

It’s an attempt to tie into the popular hatred of elites caused by neo-liberalist policies and the nature of a meritocracy.

Those left behind are pissed and resentful.

The GOP prescription won’t heal anything, but it makes people feel better by projecting their pain on the elites.

csapidus.bsky.social•8 days ago

Papa Drumpf loves us.

madcolorist.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump is intimidated by people who use bigly words. It makes him look stupid and that hurts his fragile delicate ego.

temnospondylus.bsky.social•8 days ago

Fascism has always been anti-intelectual.

No one shall teach the Bewegung ...I mean the Movement, actual facts.

lynnielu.bsky.social•9 days ago

He’s so stupid

bucketshopbob.bsky.social•9 days ago

I agree that this is stupid. The only argument that could be made for this is. The Chinese use the university's research to build out their tech. These university's get mobey for research then ccp gives them endowments and cap students work there. Of course this coukd be mitigated by proper regs

aqua369.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump thinks it's his way or no way at all. Meaningful learning requires the exchange of ideas, new theories, learning about other cultures, and how they view things.

cps10001.bsky.social•8 days ago

Indeed. He said he loved the poorly educated.

firstfleet.bsky.social•8 days ago

Always a target under Project 25

blueskyer124.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is it true that Barron could not get into Harvard and this is trump's retribution? I've heard it, but I can't verify it.

asinormalnoonehere.bsky.social•8 days ago

I think that Harvard should create an online version of in class attendance for international students so they could still attend and better yet from their home country. This would end any hold the orange Julius has over them.

bits12.bsky.social•9 days ago

The comfort of the rich depends on the ignorance of the poor.

stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social•9 days ago

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”
-Thomas Jefferson

stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social•9 days ago

mrniceguy00101.bsky.social•8 days ago

Parasites don’t need education. Leons beliefs, parasites don’t deserve to reap the benefits of their hard work. They want to be poor.

jettehoest.bsky.social•8 days ago

Orwell 1984 ... coming to reality? - at last

amatsero.bsky.social•9 days ago

The guys cutting your education don't want you to make informed decisions because smart decisions are not to vote for them. Smart people don't vote to cut their military members down because troop numbers are troop power. They don't piss off their neighbors after a close election and attack rights

charles-dillane.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ignorance and insecurity breed fascism.

chey0410.bsky.social•8 days ago

👍🏼

reindeerarebetter.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/reindeerarebetter.bsky.social/post/3lleekrh2yk2s

bluespots.bsky.social•8 days ago

We Need 12 Million To Show Up 6/14

bluespots.bsky.social•8 days ago

We Need 12 Million To Show Up 6/14

carlosgramsci.bsky.social•9 days ago

Why is simple - Musk told him about Curtis Yarvin. Yarvin wants to dismantle the "Cathedral". Trump likes breaking things. A synergy of sociopathic fascists.

patsy-h.bsky.social•8 days ago

Looks it is ridiculous that a president can have this amount of power.

counterpoint4.bsky.social•7 days ago

libtilend.bsky.social•9 days ago

No Shit!
Everything trump touches dies.

cathyginter.bsky.social•9 days ago

“Trump is disintegrating before our eyes and his need for control and attention will only get worse and the outrages more outrageous.” ~ Garry Kasparov

chey0410.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes it is!

thereishope-2030.bsky.social•8 days ago

He wants to further dumb up the world.

walterthepandacat.bsky.social•8 days ago

Do people not realize we are accelerating towards a civil war?

kurtl.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ignorance is Strength

silvershark69.bsky.social•9 days ago

He does not want an educated country, it’s much easier to be a dictator to a bunch of stupid people!

patrickhenry48.bsky.social•8 days ago

This isn’t about making America dumber or less attractive to foreign students, although it may do those things. It’s about a malevolent President’s obsession with power. If he gets well-endowed universities to cave, no university is safe.

danaaddydesigns.bsky.social•8 days ago

📌

kevin7bsky.bsky.social•9 days ago

libtilend.bsky.social•9 days ago

OMG. He went to the same dead ferret store for his toupee. And that “I’m as dumb as a fucken rock” look on his face. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

theoutlier1.bsky.social•8 days ago

Enemies of higher education are the enemies of humanity, which is how other nations on Earth will see us.

raudssus.bsky.social•9 days ago

Americans are cowards, that is clear.

mcmaryseltzer.bsky.social•8 days ago

True.

kumachopapa.bsky.social•8 days ago

UNITED is the response! The movement mirroring Polish worker union Solidarność movement, which invite everyone and later evolved in the powerful Democratic Party contributing largely to collapse of communistic regime. We need equivalent of Solidarność here and now.

tonia00.bsky.social•8 days ago

And just like that, foreign students became another target group for the admin.Then add the “big ugly bill” where access to grad loans is significantly limited/eliminated and capped for impactful professions. Future students will self select and not pursue law or med degrees due to fin barriers.

juvenilebum.bsky.social•9 days ago

And back this morning to threatening Apple & the EU with higher tariffs.
All to distract from the 747 sky-palace gifted to him, the recent crypto-grift dinner, and the huge tax break (for the wealthy) he’s poised to sign into law.
The media—like clockwork—simply moves on to the next shiny object.

uxchampion.bsky.social•8 days ago

If ignorance is indeed the handmaiden of tyranny, as Dr. Reich says, then massive hordes of 47-adoring women had best ready themselves for "The Ceremony, and the "rings" described in the television series. 🤨

vigeo93.bsky.social•8 days ago

Exactly.

drummerboy429.bsky.social•8 days ago

Revolution time!

libertyjustice.bsky.social•8 days ago

Let's face facts: dumbasses are running our government, they hate people who have a working brain, those who can't be hoodwinked, or won't follow their agenda.

papa714chef.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny and the orange felon ia a rapist

edv42.bsky.social•8 days ago

Fatty McFuckwit couldn’t make it in academia, so nobody else can either. 🤏

mad4sci.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump is killing every single thing that is good about US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/world/asia/harvard-china-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.wOHe.3ridaAmOeRBy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

est4-d.bsky.social•9 days ago

Robert, can you please weigh in on these two?
I keep thinking were sunk. Are we? What are the odds we’re gonna be able to avoid a full dictatorship at this point?

temnospondylus.bsky.social•8 days ago

Worse than for a civil war.

The US politicians, judiciary and society all failed so miserably that it's impossible to wrap your head around it.

All the screams of "We told you so, and worse is to come" drowned in a constant flood of shit.

est4-d.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’m hoping there’s enough Republicans and Senate to block one of them, I hope… but the other is a Supreme Court issue, right? I have no faith in that move.

radiostatik.bsky.social•8 days ago

You have to wonder if his vendetta against Apple is part of a tandem plan - remove a large source of information and communication. He’s gotta know that he can’t force them to lose money by relocating manufacturing, so their products be priced out of the market. Same with other device companies.

gdaltonbentley.bsky.social•8 days ago

It is not ignorance or lack of intelligence so much that is the problem with fascists, but more the inability of childish personalities to effectively apply whatever reasoning capacity they possess due to emotional motivations for particular viewpoints, i.e., they are "helplessly foolish."

sirskeltal.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is the inevitable result of pretending there's any meaningful difference between economic power and political power.

Humans are not inherently dumb, we're just gullible. And if those in power want us to be easy to control, they only need to indoctrinate us with stupid nonsense.

sirskeltal.bsky.social•9 days ago

The wealthy elite want us apathetic, ignorant, and intellectually lazy. They want us to hate and fear each other.

We cant allow the existence of a ruling elite. Whether it's the technocrats of Communism or the plutocrats of Capitalism.

We need a democratic economy. We need Democratic Socialism.

blathin384.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ignorance is the death of Progress!

schacks.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is gonna be a huge win for the EU. Not to the realization of the orange buffoon and his posse of grifters and criminals.

rugnerd.bsky.social•9 days ago

The intentional dumbing down of the American people has been going on for decades. There has been a systematic assault on public education from the GOP since the 1970s. Now our country reads below the sixth grade level. Guess which half voted for Trump

mad4sci.bsky.social•8 days ago

US never had a population that was educated and informed across the country. But at least we valued it. We gave lost value for knowledge in favor of money.

bilzenovic.bsky.social•8 days ago

Post a list of ICE agents that have violated peoples rights.
So they can be prosecuted after Trump is gone.
And their familes will be ashamed.

Hold EACH ICE agent accountable !

Thier names will be needed for the Nuremberg trials that will inevitably come from this criminal regime

gkc62.bsky.social•8 days ago

A white christian nationalist country needs its population to be uneducated and unquestioning so they can work for minimum wage until replaced by robots. Best of luck to you all.

nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social•9 days ago

Dictator dolt needs removed.

deepblue6.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is it just me or does all this * higher education attack *
have a tie to the past -
Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge's totalitarian regime..

billbeaux.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny"

~~and this is a bad thing?~~

~~*sarcasm*~~

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