Writers Protest Fed Crackdown On Iowa University Writing Program

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https://www.djournal.com/news/nation-world/writers-protest-fed-crackdown-on-iowa-university-writing-program/article_ac7d1ffe-e95d-5c61-81b7-cc8985ee16e1.html

IOWA CITY, Iowa, March 10, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In a letter delivered this week to Darren J. Beattie, a senior official at the US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the acclaimed Todos Santos Writers Workshop (TSWW) decried the bureau’s recent cancellation of federal grants to the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa.

TSWW co-director Rex Weiner said “Since 1967, over 1,600 writers from more than 160 countries have participated in the University of Iowa’s renowned program. At home and abroad, IWP is a unique conduit for the world’s literatures, and the administration’s attack on this writing program is an attack on writers everywhere.”

Trump is a convicted felon and a Russian asset. And he's a rapist.

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1. Darren Beattie

https://www.state.gov/biographies/darren-beattie/

Beattie is passionate about affirmatively advancing free speech as a diplomacy tool, and marshalling America’s exceptional cultural achievements in the arts, music, and academia in furtherance of the safety, strength, and prosperity of the American people

What an asshole. Mediocre white guy. Hypocrite.

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2. Darren Beattie, flaming asshole. Not a competent white man, himself.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-darren-beattie-state-department/

Trump appointee said 'competent white men' must be in charge for 'things to work'
Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter, will be joining the U.S. State Department.

Snopes excerpt:

Beattie did indeed make the above post in October 2024, as we found on his verified X profile. As such, we rate this a correct attribution.

On Oct. 4, 2024, Beattie wrote (archived) on X:

Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.

Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.

What a little, little man. Women and minorities run circles around assholes like this freak.

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3. Power of the pen

The Trump administration knows the power of the pen and is making every attempt to shut down the press, publishers, writers and writing programs that will not bend to Trump’s attempted suppression of our Constitutional rights of free speech.
“These are the times that trouble men’s souls.”
Thomas Paine

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