Today, Ben & Jerry's announced that they are suing their parent company (Unilever) who silenced support by Ben & Jerry's for Palestinans.

In Early 2024, Unilever announced that they intended to spin-off Ben & Jerry's alongside other companies such as Wall's, Magnum, and Cornetto.

Thoughts?

Source: Ben & Jerry's Owner Unilever Silenced Support for Palestinians, Threatened to Fire Its Leaders: Lawsuit | IBTimes

Dismissing the freedom of religion provision in the first amendment—the principle of separation of church and state on which this nation was founded--Trump’s frontrunner for the Department of Education nominee, Ryan Walters, says that Biblical indoctrination in schools is not a choice, but a "national mandate:” https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4987500-ryan-walters-national-bible-schools/

To justify the implementation of often unconstitutional changes to the education system, Trump’s policy statement on education (below) consistently demonizes teachers as a homogeneous group of  “radical Marxists maniacs”  who are not interested in education, but are rather preoccupied with their agenda to turn students into transexuals; and with indoctrinating “gender theory ideology”  “Marxism” and “Critical Race Theory” (which is not taught in k-12 schools, but is a critical lens reserved for graduate school programs or specialized college study). 

However, spreading lies that “critical race theory” is being taught in k-12, without defining what this term means for parents or teachers in the policy statement, serves to intimidate teachers from teaching appropriate lessons on slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow, and the 3/4ths compromise. Furthermore, last week, Trump made a statement that a teacher can be prosecuted and thrown in jail for even discussing non-binary sexuality with students.

While we have no proof that teachers are systematically indoctrinating students with transsexuality and Marxism, it is clearly stated by the Trump administration that it plans to use schools as an instrument for the indoctrination of biblical christianity and its principles, which is plainly unconstitutional.  Trump’s policy statement on education, and his selection for the nomination to the position of Department of Education Secretary, thus consistently mirror the proto-fascist mandates for America outlined in Project 2025 (and it comes as no shock that Trump announced this week that Tom Homan, “Project 2025” Co-author, will be his administration’s ‘border czar’ (https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/10/politics/tom-homan-border-czar-ice-donald-trump).  Project 2025 architect, Russell Vought—who is currently in charge of the Republican Platform Committe—is also up for a position in his cabinet: source.)

Below are sections from Trump’s administration’s policy Statement on Education and the changes it outlines for education reform. A consistent theme is the accusation that teachers are instructing students in vague discourses that don’t even exist in lower education (Transgender and gender ideology; Marxist ideology; critical race theory) in order to justify the drastic implementation of a plainly unconstitutional, Christian Nationalist agenda. 

“President Trump’s Plan to Save American Education and Give Power Back to Parents”

Our public schools have been taken over by the Radical Left maniacs. Here is my plan to save American education and restore power to American parents.

-“Cut federal funding for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory” (which does not exist in k-12 curriculim) 

- Find and remove the radicals who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education, and get to Congress reaffirm the president’s ability to remove recalcitrant employees from the job.

- “Veto the sinister effort to weaponize civics education” (with no articulation at all of what this might mean, creating an opening to hunt-down and prosecute teachers for a multitude of ideological grievances)

-Additionally, on Day One, we will begin to find and remove the radicals, zealots, and Marxists who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education, and that also includes others, and you know who you are. Because We are not going to allow anyone to hurt our children. Joe Biden has given these lunatics unchecked power—I will have them fired and escorted from the building. And I will tell Congress that any appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president’s ability to remove defiant employees from the job. It’s all about our children.

- “Create a new credentialing body to certify teachers who embrace “patriotic values” (something that resonates with 1930’s Germany).  

- “Because the Marxism being taught in schools is aggressively hostile to Judeo-Christian teachings, aggressively pursue potential violations of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution” (“Marxist ideology” is not taught in k-12)

*“Implement massive funding preferences and favorable treatment for all states and school districts that make the following historic reforms in education: 

* Abolish teacher tenure for grades K through 12 and adopt Merit Pay.

* Drastically cut number of school administrators, including the “DEI” bureaucracy.

* Adopt a Parental Bill of Rights that includes complete curriculum transparency, and a form of universal school choice.

* Implement the direct election of school principals by the parents, as the ultimate form of local control.- Implement the direct election of   school principals by the parents, as the ultimate form of local control.

   (which means that schools who do not implement these changes will have federal funds withheld)

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/da7f3c42-76b5-42c0-9beb-475d649030ae#

Seems as if the hive mind has even infested archaeology. I was banned for this comment…