This is a consistent them across Florida higher ed. They remove real scholars in order to create cushy gigs for unqualified party members, sometimes with no-show jobs. They are turning public institutions into a lucrative spoils system. - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 4 days ago

This is a consistent them across Florida higher ed. They remove real scholars in order to create cushy gigs for unqualified party members, sometimes with no-show jobs. They are turning public institutions into a lucrative spoils system.

Reposted from Bill Grueskin

So @garrettshanley.bsky.social, the Univ of Florida student journalist who broke the Ben Sasse scandal wide open, has another banger today about Florida's surgeon general, who has almost nothing to show for his six-figure, second job as a tenured prof at UF

www.alligator.org/article/2025...

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ildon.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's been the most consistent part of DeSantis' tenure. Giving away public state funds to his donors through various forms of grift. Even his deportation flight stunt was actually just giving money to a donor through private jet rental.

mmlarthur.bsky.social•1 day ago

And they think the rest of us have no-show jobs too. They want to create a self-fulfilling prophecy that then destroys the institution.

peanut24.bsky.social•4 days ago

And this is the grift we’ll see throughout the federal govt soon. Corruption and autocracy go hand-in-hand. And really important to point this out to low info voters who might not mind “strong” leader but hate corruption.

mraulston.bsky.social•4 days ago

UF grad here. The thing that really grinds my gears is that the student jounalists dig into the investigative work, report it out, and then.....crickets. No one runs with it. Sasse was in the news for about 3 days and this probably won't even make it 24 hours....

momsbluedress.bsky.social•4 days ago

Every day that goes by the US is looking more and more like the corrupt admins in the global south that they so love to criticize.

powerfromspace1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah f@scist grift at expense of others at end day always the Depts of Inefficiency point.🤷🏽

steveohw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fascism Playbook 101

profmisterlizzie.bsky.social•4 days ago

They spend their legislative careers bashing FL universities and then once they are term limited they glom onto mysteriously high salaried university jobs. By now, when there is a university president opening, we just wonder which Republican former legislator will be hired.

penguins18.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sometimes the grifters hide pretty well. Sometimes, not so much.

splitrailfence.bsky.social•4 days ago

Most Americans don't care, Don. Can't you tell by now?
Everything representing our existence is as vapid and hollow as most Americans are.

donmoyn.bsky.social•4 days ago

New College has become a lucrative haven for second-rate talents and political hacks. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-college-is-a-warning-about-the?utm_source=publication-search

daisygrace.bsky.social•4 days ago

New College used to be one of Florida's crowning jewels. A source of pride. No more.

capitolhunters.bsky.social•4 days ago

Students are fleeing as well - New College is crashing in the rankings and keeping enrollment up with athletic scholarships. Already 35% of the student body are athletes and they project that to rise. It's financially unsustainable.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/09/30/new-college-national-ranking-drops-double-digits/75375011007/

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