This Account Kills FascistsMay 7

Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, sent a letter to Harvard. They responded by grading it.

Honestly, this is the level of petty I aspire to.

EDIT: MOST LIKELY NOT FROM HARVARD

#uspol #fucktrump #trump #harvard

Show threadRustyRingMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity

Not petty at all. It's about who's educated, and therefore qualified to determine education policy, and who's not.

Show threadBodhipaksaMay 7
@RustyRing @violenteastcoastcity Whoever put this crude fake together doesn’t seem particularly well educated. Many of the annotations don’t even make sense.
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@bodhipaksa THIS
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This Account Kills FascistsMay 7

Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, sent a letter to Harvard. They responded by grading it.

Honestly, this is the level of petty I aspire to.

EDIT: MOST LIKELY NOT FROM HARVARD

#uspol #fucktrump #trump #harvard

Show threadDatalineMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity Okay, this is lit
Show threadRustyRingMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity

Not petty at all. It's about who's educated, and therefore qualified to determine education policy, and who's not.

Show threadBodhipaksaMay 7
@RustyRing @violenteastcoastcity Whoever put this crude fake together doesn’t seem particularly well educated. Many of the annotations don’t even make sense.
Show threadJay StephensMay 7
@bodhipaksa @RustyRing @violenteastcoastcity yeah, not great.
Show threadacmMay 7
@bodhipaksa THIS
Show threadcroutonMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity this must be Harvard's equivalent of saying bless you
Show threadErgative AbsolutiveMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity Sorry, but is this real? All of the corrections seem kind of bizarre. For example: Things that are not run-ons are circled and labeled 'run-on', there are multiple things labeled 'incomplete' that seem to be grammatical sentences to me. On the second page, a use of 'its' is circled and the comment reads 'its or yours', even though the rest of the sentence has been consistently talking about Harvard in the 3rd person, using 'its'.
Show threadErgative AbsolutiveMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity At one point, some square brackets within a direct quotation are questioned with 'Why []?'.

It's perfectly clear that the square brackets are used because the quotation in its original context once started with a capital letter, while in its quoted context it's put into a sentence, and so the capital has been removed. This is textbook use of square brackets within a quotation. A Harvard-affiliated composition professor would absolutely know this.

Show threadErgative AbsolutiveMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity I'm not saying the letter is a good letter, or that I agree with its content.

But grammatically, it's pretty sound.

Show threadAndreas KMay 7
@ergative @violenteastcoastcity It's almost for certain an Internet fake, there is no mentioning or endorsement of a marked up letter by Harvard on any of its communication channels.
Show threadMighty OrbotMay 7

@ergative @violenteastcoastcity “The markup of the Secretary of Education’s letter was made by user @danielluo_pi and is not an official response by Harvard.”

Still awesome, though.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/linda-mcmahons-scathing-letter-to-harvard-university-draws-attention-for-glaring-grammatical-errors-101746577505122.html

Show threadsuzanneMay 7
@ergative @violenteastcoastcity
I think it was put up on social media by a grad student, not a reply "from Harvard."
Show threadAlice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️May 7
@violenteastcoastcity The red ink is a nice touch. I used many colors of ink, but never red.
Show threadMistonasMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity oh my god. If you are going to try and make an arrangement to put someone down, at least make sure you don't embarrass yourself.
Show threadChristine Lemmer-WebberMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity I don't think it was Harvard's administration who graded it from what I understand, it was various people on social media, but this IS very funny, and is great
Show threadwuffelMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity

🙃
#Mademyday

Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀May 7
@violenteastcoastcity Whilst I enjoy it, what is the source please?
Show threadFrankieBeastMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity What good is a sword when you have a red pen?
Show threadHavyhh2May 7
@violenteastcoastcity clearly an F…..remedial help a must..
Show threadPeet TetterooMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity The letter is correct - doubt whether Harvard would make a grading like this - looks to be someone else that made the grading ..
Show threadAllan Svelmøe HansenMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity Grade it A1

:x

Show threadChuso PérezMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity What's the source?
Show threadDopes The FrogmanMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity now that is brilliant
Show threadsheislaurenceMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity it came from this Twitler post https://x.com/DougWahl1/status/1919871292875973114. Multiple media outlets have confirmed there is no official source from Harvard to back this up, and multiple versions are circulating on social media. I personally think that's the kind of "humour" that's classist and divisive, "basket of deplorables" type of exercise. What's deranged in the letter isn't the grammar which is perfectly fine, it's the implications for academia at large.
Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog (@DougWahl1) on X

HARVARD WON THIS ROUND! Secretary of Education Linda McMahon wrote a letter to Harvard. The university responded by marking up the letter for spelling and punctuation mistakes- and then shared it on social media. Your thoughts?

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Show threadIshitonyoutankieMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity this is just gold
Show threadStanislav OchotnickýMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity I clicked boost and then realized this is all fake. funny, but fake. I think a lot of people would have appreciated a disclaimer. It could still be enjoyable, just not pretend to be real.
Show threadDziadekMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity

Looks to me like it was written by human with TEA of 16 and then “corrected by AI.”

Show threadBill, organizer of stuffMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity Funny, but fake...
Show threadBlowUpRadio.comMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity Just to be clear and factual, the markup was done by people on Social Media, not the school itself

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/05/barely-literate-education-secretarys-deranged-letter-gets-major-red-ink-corrections/

#FactsMatter

'Barely Literate': Education Secretary's 'Deranged' Letter Gets Major Red Ink Corrections

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is facing criticism for a hyper-partisan letter she sent to Harvard University, riddled with grammatical errors and dubious claims. In the 979-word statement, the Trump administration—through Secretary McMahon—condemned Harvard’s admissions policies, staffing decisions, and institutional leadership, and informed the nation’s oldest university, a 388-year-old private Ivy League institution, that […]

The New Civil Rights Movement
Show threadSludgeMay 7
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Show threadSludgeMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity laughing my ass off at the "staunch democrats" boosting this. Americans are too stupid to realize when they're getting made fun of.
Show threadLarryMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity
Just surface errors corrected, I see.
Show threadlunchablesMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity that's funny. and while the letter certainly is not at all well-written, the marked up version does not appear to be any sort of official Harvard communication.
Show threadEnara ❔May 7
@violenteastcoastcity spite is a great and very valid fuel
Show threadJakub GładykowskiMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity Could you please remove this as most probably fake info? Unless you can provide a source for your statement
Show threadJeremy BurgessMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity my housemate from uni had his bedroom ceiling collapse. Landlord blamed it on our friend, the tenant upstairs.

Landlord's insurance company wrote up an engineers' report on the cause including some very made up physics. We had it marked in red ink by prof of mechanical engineering and sent it back. "C-, should try harder"

Landlord accepted all liability.

Show threada fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️May 7
@violenteastcoastcity reading the explore feed and it's two things in a row on this. 10/10.
Show threadKevin RussellMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity

Stand up like Harvard. Be ready. Harvard with its loins girded, its a good look.

Show threadJohn CoatesMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity Cute but fake.

Harvard would note obvious lies

-- widespread reporting Harvard did comply with SFAA Supreme Court case

-- Harvard still requires standardized test scores from applicants

-- "remedial" course same as in past, just over five days instead of three, and I'm fairly sure McMahon couldn't do the math,

and obvious omissions

-- Ackman has a grudge and is making stuff up,

-- no evidence presented of "racism"

etc.

Show threadLeah PriceMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity Sadly, no: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/05/fact-check-harvard-letter-corrections-linda-mcmahon.html. Sadly, because it would have been nice to find a way to describe what's wrong with the parallelism in"is run by strongly left-leaning Obama political appointee Penny Pritzker, a Democrat operative. who is catastrophic and
running the institution in a totally chaotic way." On the other hand, we all need this on a Tshirt: "The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward."
Fact Check: Harvard Did NOT Publish Red Pen Corrections of Linda McMahon Letter

Did Harvard University publish a corrected version of a letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon, complete with red pen markups? No, that's not true: the corrected version was posted by an X user in May 2025. Harvard's website and social...

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Show threadThe TurtleMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity it is good and useful to mock the fuck out of the trumpys. Do it at every possible opportunity.

Didn't she used to run fake wrestling?

Show threadThis Account Kills FascistsMay 7
@the_turtle Yes I think that was her. This administration is unreal.
Show threadStone1gloMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity We used to do this when I taught Lit in high school. We would send back corrected memos to Superintendents office😬🙄
Show threadFrançois @PragueMay 7

@violenteastcoastcity

'When they go low, we go high' did not really work for Dems.
Harvard's response is perhaps mean, but MAGA deserve every bit of it.

Show threadMemento Mori📍🇪🇺🇩🇪May 7
@violenteastcoastcity 😆
Show threadkampfschwaetzerMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity Das würde bei Frau #BildungsministerinKarinPrien vermutlich nicht besser aussehen. Ich erinnere nur an ihre unsäglichen Aussagen während der Pandemie.
Show threadHarryKrischnerMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity
still like the idea
Show threadCat WestMay 7
@violenteastcoastcity this was epic
Show threadsanguishMay 10
@violenteastcoastcity apparently not real
Show threadThis Account Kills FascistsMay 10
@sanguish I know. See my edit in the post.
Show threadsanguishMay 10

@violenteastcoastcity oh, my apologies

She probably wrote it with A1

Show threadThis Account Kills FascistsMay 10
@sanguish Sounds delicious 😂