The DeSantis Orbanization of Florida's educational system per his Rufo-led inquisition proceeds apace. But, really, it's all find, they just fired some deadweight, no problem. www.politico.com/news/2024/09...

DeSantis pushed for post-tenure review of Florida professors. The first results are in.

Opponents of the law have said the reviews effectively wipe out the tenure system in the state’s public universities.

Orbánization watch. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/172... Via CNN's ReliableSources

It concerns me because I think a lot of the people who have influence (administrators) will more or less ride the wave of Orbanization of the university system, and a fair number of people in TT positions think It Can’t Happen Here. They still think the polite fiction of tenure will save them.

Not a lot of people realize the impact of the Orbanization of the Judicial system…

JFC: «In 2023, [Kevin] Roberts brought the Heritage Foundation into a formal partnership with Hungary’s Danube Institute, a think tank overseen by a foundation that is directly funded by the Hungarian government…» Project 2025 : Putin-Orbanization of America

July 4, 2024

Monday, July 1, was a busy day. That morning the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States that gives the president absolute immunity for committing crimes while engagin...

I don't know to what extent this is the mix of people's motives, but it frequently gets floated out there and it is such a short-sighted read of the risks that come with a second Trump term. Further Orbanization of the media environment is likely and there's some risk of flat gov speech oppression.

Welcome to the Orbanization of the US.

Peter Techet, Research Associate ▶ on the “Orbanization” of French Media in „Klubrádió“ ▶ about #Orbán’s#Orbán for “Le Figaro” ▶ on the 🇭🇷 Croatian Elections for “TAZ” 3/5

Welcome to the future at Columbia. The Orbanization has begun!

ECclancyny.bsky.socialApr 20, 2024 10:27pm

Since Wednesday, Columbia University has refused to allow credentialed reporters access to the campus. Now it has locked up the campus too. (Many gates now sport bike locks.) The J-school has been helping credentialed reporters to get on campus. Email columbianews@columbia.edu

Project 2025 is a project for the Orbánization of American "Evidence of widespread interactions between Heritage Foundation officials and Viktor Orbán’s regime show a deep relationship that would bring Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” to the U.S."

Evidence of widespread interactions between Heritage Foundation officials and Viktor Orbán’s regime show a deep relationship that would bring Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” to the U.S.

Heritage Foundation's Kevin D. Roberts aims to institutionalize Trumpism with Project 2025, backed by 80+ far-right groups advocating Christian Nationalism, limiting women's healthcare, and opposing L...