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A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/07/te…

Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
She calls it “the final mission.”
But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down.
Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education,
she’s operated in what she calls
“a parallel universe”
to radically shift how children will learn for years to come.…

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Ukraine submits draft education language law to Hungary, awaits response: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/07/ukraine-submits-draft-education-language.html

Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to pitch in with work
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/06/education-department-civil-rights-office-trump/87643095007/

Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could follow (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/education-department-iowa-block-grant-mcmahon-trump-bd80ffce0d743e7d77efffc664bb225f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p85#a260107p85

Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/education-department-shutdown-emails-unconstitutional-judge-rules-rcna242653
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p90#a251107p90

Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months.
While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump administration’s top-down attacks and scramble to adjust,
workers on campus say that their universities are simultaneously expanding their own internal repression and surveillance apparatuses to squash dissent

Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’
As the federal government continues its top-down assault on higher education, universities are internally building repression and surveillance machines that mirror the Trump administration.

Judge orders Education Department to halt 'partisan' employee email messages (Juan Perez Jr/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/07/judge-orders-education-department-to-halt-partisan-employee-email-messages-00643270
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p68#a251107p68