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Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture.

Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with specific privileges and responsibilities defined by law."Professional" has been devalued in recent decades by overuse, but do you really want to be treated by an unregulated doctor?

Whatever idiot drafted this guideline is clearly not a member of a regulated profession.

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The US Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider the following professional degrees:

Education (incl teaching)
Nursing
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech pathology
Engineering
Counseling & therapy

11:48 AM • 20 Nov 25 • 2,405 Views — Screencap via Bsky. Reads: @ChefSuziGerber Follow The US Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider the following professional degrees: Education (incl teaching) Nursing Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech pathology Engineering Counseling & therapy 11:48 AM • 20 Nov 25 • 2,405 Views

JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied · 3 weeks ago

@cstross

This one is undergoing Telephone Game alterations as it passes around social media.

What's actually happening is that #DonaldJTrump's new "big beautiful" law said that only "professional students" can have certain levels of student loans, and the RISE committee of the USDOE is having a bit of a barney about what "professional degrees" qualify for this because of a wording mis-match.

https://ed.gov/media/document/rise-2025-loan-limit-definitions-lily-112447.pdf

https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1087e#a_4

https://law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/668.2

#USPolitics #StudentLoans

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · 4 weeks ago

A MEASURED PROPOSAL:

Donald J. Trump is suing the BBC for reporting on him—they edited down an interview of his and made him feel bad.

It is NOT SAFE to report on Donald J. Trump.

So I suggest that for safety all news channels should replace every mention of him with the Hypnotoad:

GIF

JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied · 4 weeks ago

@cstross

#DonaldJTrump is *threatening to* sue, not yet suing, over editing of xyr speech at the start of the "Save America March", not over editing an interview.

And:

Damn it, Panorama! Didn't you bloody read my StackExchange answer?

I went through that very speech word by word to research it. *And* I had to endure a speech by Rudy Giuliani as well.

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/60042/18361

#BBCNews #Panorama #USPolitics

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JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · last month

@cstross

Erm …

… bomb the ships in the Caribbean that are transporting "supplies" to "migrants". Because the fake U.N. "illegal migrant organization" has steered its hurricane into the Gulf of America.

https://caribbean.un.org/en/304056-iom-mobilizes-early-response-jamaica-ahead-hurricane-melissa

It's bound to be madder than that, though.

Maybe one of those Trumpist shops will sell mugs with an offensive "Trump sends the hurricane" slogan, or something.

Aaaaargh!

#DonaldJTrump #fascism #HurricaneMelissa

the Caribbean

IOM Mobilizes Early Response for Jamaica Ahead of Hurricane Melissa

Kingston, Jamaica – 26 October 2025. In anticipation of Hurricane Melissa’s direct impact on Jamaica, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is coordinating an early response to support national efforts and provide relief and protection to vulnerable communities which could be impacted.

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · last month

Trying to predict the next week's news cycle, all I have to do is ask myself, "how could Trump/Project 2025 make the effects of Hurricane Melissa worse?"
https://journa.host/@WeatherGoddess/115452254681466820

JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied · last month

@cstross

Erm …

… bomb the ships in the Caribbean that are transporting "supplies" to "migrants". Because the fake U.N. "illegal migrant organization" has steered its hurricane into the Gulf of America.

https://caribbean.un.org/en/304056-iom-mobilizes-early-response-jamaica-ahead-hurricane-melissa

It's bound to be madder than that, though.

Maybe one of those Trumpist shops will sell mugs with an offensive "Trump sends the hurricane" slogan, or something.

Aaaaargh!

#DonaldJTrump #fascism #HurricaneMelissa

the Caribbean

IOM Mobilizes Early Response for Jamaica Ahead of Hurricane Melissa

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · 4 months ago

@JdeBP it's always DARVO with the right. Always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied · 4 months ago

@cstross

True, but the hypocrisy and self-contradiction is interesting. #DonaldJTrump went after Bolton's book on the grounds that every conversation with the POTUS is classified, but this is the same Trump that says that he can declassify things in his head and has declassified a bigly amount of stuff that way so it's alright to hoard documents.

I wonder whether the current bunch are so stupid that they've never cracked a history book to see what happens to them soon.

#USPolitics

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · 4 months ago

DEVELOPING: FBI Raids John Bolton’s House

In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.

(Yup, Trump has got the FBI working on his enemies list. We're only 3-12 months away from the show trials starting. (I think they'll be timed for maximum distraction potential—likely around the November 2026 mid-term elections.))
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/developing-the-fbi-is-at-john-boltons?triedRedirect=true

JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied · 4 months ago

@cstross

And of course we get to see the brazen chutzpah of #DonaldJTrump accusing someone else of hoarding classified documents.

#USPolitics #MarALago