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Summary
The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.
However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.
GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.
Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.
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Remember when Bush pushed the “No Child Left Behind Act”, and we all realized the federalization of control over education was deeply problematic and removed democratic control over education? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The government not handling every social function in society isn’t scary on its own. That in combination with the people as a whole having no control over the economy is when that becomes nasty (i.e., economic inequality). That is of course the vision of the ruling class.
Remember when Bush pushed the “No Child Left Behind Act”, and we all realized the federalization of control over education was deeply problematic
Yeah, that’s not the lesson I learned from that…
So, the DOE handles student loans. No DOE, what happens to the loans?
Yeah, you would think that would get rid of the loans, but realistically they’ll just sell the loans to some bank, and then a political solution to debt forgiveness becomes completely impossible.
I’m sure the “servicers” will continue to collect. Republicans went out of their way to file a suit on behalf of one of them that triggered relief getting blocked.
Don’t worry, they will make sure to close all of the loopholes that might actually benefit the working class.
As someone who’s got ~1 year left of payments on his Public Service Loan Forgiveness, I’m just waiting for the news that it’s been cancelled and my loans will not be forgiven.
Yep, student loan repayment is the one point on which politicians will grow a spine and object. God forbid they unite on anything else.
Just heads up, DOE is Department of Energy. Official abbreviation for Department of Educations is ED, an informal one is DoEd.
Also the student loans would be transfered to Department of Treasury, which they will likely try to do even if ED is not shut down.
They also manage the school vouchers. It’s literally getting in the way of their own goals. Something I mentioned months ago.
How about we abolish student loans instead.
Come on, other branches of government do your job. Even if you agree with the executive branch doesn’t have this power.
Almost forgot Congress was a thing since there’s been little to no mention about them in this shit circus
Don’t worry, Congress holds the purse/wallet so nothing can get done without their approval as they have the spending power. That is unless they hijack the payment systems to no longer require congress and making complete control one step closer…
Ohhhh… wait…
The Republicans have all the power in Congress and they are all afraid of Trump.
That’s by design, they stay silent and don’t take the polling hit.
Good luck to your kids and grandkids, education is fucked. Back to the feudal times where only royalty and the rich were educated. If this passes I am not paying student loans anymore. The department that issued them will be gone so why pay.
I mean that’s the point right? It took a lot of work to get the populous this dumb. Imagine what those that have risen to power can get away with if we make people even dumber!
I’m not eorried about it.
The planet is already going to purge humanity from its face by 2050 or so anyway from the Climate Change crisis.
That loan will just get transferred to DOGE dont worry.
Transferred to X cause it got the license to operate as a bank approved.
If the Federal Government doesn’t want to be responsible for anything, why even be a country? Each state be their own I guess /s
Also are they going to reduce taxes for all the cuts? Doubt it, but states would have to make increases to cover all the new work.
we live in the dumbest timeline.
Literally what the fuck are we paying taxes for, they are dismantling every bit of representation of the people possible. Well only have ruch fucks and bombs left to pay for.
The collective “we” voted to give all of our money over to Trump I just council of billionaires.
Right, but do away with the federal income tax, and good luck ever getting it back. That would be the final nail in the coffin, and the end of the United States of America.
The US is already over mate.
It’s not over until we have surrendered or they have killed us.
Dude, the US is already cooked. I’m not seeing a way back from this.
Legitimately considering calling my HR and changing my tax status so I don’t pay any tax on my paychecks. I won’t be filing. Why in the actual fuck would I continue to pay taxes. I cant even tell what it would go towards at this point. Can someone honestly tell me? Where are the taxes taken off my next paycheck going to go? I could just buy a blue checkmark if I wanted to enrich elon directly.
Literally DONT pay taxes.
Unless they do away with the IRS altogether, they’ll still use it as a cudgel against the poors, and political foes. I would not count on there being no enforcement there.
Their audit rate even on the poor was awful before they decided to duck up the IRS. I don’t think they could handle one or even two cycles if enough people did this.
Literally what the fuck are we paying taxes for
To provide funds that will be funnelled into the pockets of Trump, Musk and their cronies.
You laugh, this is literally Curtis Yarvin’s (one of Elon’s mentors) vision of America. A patchwork of corporatocratic fiefdoms, technically beholden to a federal government that basically only exists to be the arm of violence. The whole “no authority higher than a county sheriff” thing? Came out of his books. The idea of being “educated” will only be for the vaunted manager-class. All of us not lucky enough to be in the millionaire’s club, or one of their trusted lackeys, will be lucky to know how to read beyond a 3rd-grade level, or do math beyond simple arithmetic.
Welcome to Elon’s Brave New World!
So, neofeudalism.
Yep. The Endarkenment.
If NBC thinks he needs an act of Congress then they haven’t been paying paying attention to USAID.
Who the fuck am I kidding, they know damn well what’s going on and refuse to print it.
So how is Betsy DeVos gonna siphon money for public schools to provide schools?
This CollegeHumor video was 8 years ahead of its time: If the Other Party Wins
In case anyone is still wondering if Republicans are enemies of the United States of America, you need not wonder anymore.
Why use big words when small words do trick.
Soon enough, when you have to select a language on a devive, the difference between: english (uk) and english (american) will make a whole lot more sense.
It would have been possible, for example, to say Big Brother is ungood. But this statement, which to an orthodox ear merely conveyed a self-evident absurdity, could not have been sustained by reasoned argument, because the necessary words were not available.
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This is a good choice as they just sit around and do nothing all day anyway considering who got elected.
Smart voters are just no good.
Congress is required for all sorts of shit that Elon is doing but that isn’t stopping Elon.
Laws are not some sort of natural force. They are implemented by people and all of those people are either fascists or cowards.
Trumps immunity plus his pardon power make him king. All of his minions can do all the illegal things they want. Trump can then pardon them and he isn’t liable for their crimes if he is doing something roughly in line with his duties are President. John Roberts fucked us all.
The only way this is going to be solved is by people power. Organize. Fight these fascists.
HR 899
0 cosponsors and probably hasn’t even been looked at by the education committed it was submitted to.
We’re wasting time talking about theoretical nonlaws when theres actual real shit happening.
For real. Plus it’s Dem-sponsored, so until it gets an R cosponsor it’s likely not even going to make it to the floor.
Normally the state would have a lot less power over judges. In the US the state has power over judges AND there is a jury system.
This is exactly why musk is not appointed, he can’t be impeached and as you said DOJ and pardons will protect him.
You forgot money.
Excuse my ignorance but organize to do what specific actions?
Here is a single thing that anyone should be doing, there are other resources elsewhere. But everyone should be working with their unions or forming unions at their places of work. It is surprisingly easy to do, and even MAGA people can recognize they are being fucked by capital. Unionizing the workplace is where our power lies. It is the thing that fascists have always feared. Use those unions to gain concessions from the bosses. Get higher wages, safer work environments, set schedules, etc.
Ok, here is a second idea. Feed your neighbors. Go help feed the homeless folk in your community.
Showing compassion for everyone is a radical act. Build solidarity.
Sounds like something Jesus would do. Woke idiot.
/s, or is it
“The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”” John Scalzi
I’ve had the misfortune to know a lot of assholes in my life, and very few of them were clever. So, at very least, it’s the failure mode for a much wider staring group than the clever.
We’ll let you know when you have a need to know.
The most critical things that needs to happen right now is Removed by mod.
Nudge nudge wink wink say no more.
The thing to do to stop this was vote blue no matter who in the 2016 and 2024 elections. Failing that, you’ll have to convince 13 Republicans to impeach and remove Donald Trump.
But guess what? That won’t happen. No matter what, we’re going to see people suffer and violence in the streets. Whether you’re keeping yourself safe at home or contributing to the violence is up to you.
Correct. If you want to see how fascism ends, look at pictures of Mussolini’s corpse hanging in public. That’s the only way it ends. The sooner the better
That’s how fascism ended that one time. Francisco Franco died of old age in his bed. So did Pinochet. The generals’ junta in Portugal were eased out but the guilty were never held to account. The future is what we make it be. History doesn’t write itself.
The actual Fascist leader in Portugal was nota a military and also died in his bed and the guys who were in power after him and were eased out were also not military.
You might be mixing it with Greece which (if I remember it correctly) were a military junta, curiously militarily helped into getting power by the Brits at the end of WWII.
They already blocked organization by controlling the mass media and major social platforms are in cahoots.
Facebook, Twitter/X and tiktok all pushed trump and hid Kamala during the campaign. Not to mention the influencers that got paid to push Trump.
Any type of hashtag or trend that tries to fight back is just going to get pushed down in “the algorithm” or straight up blocked (search kamala on twitter)
That’s why word-of-mouth about the Fediverse is so powerful - and why it’ll become increasingly important to return to the old methods of organizing - in person, posters put up at night, meetings in basements and in homes, discussions in back alleys and storage closets. Zines and fliers.
I think WhatsApp groups might work to spread the word as well. It’s mainstream enough and can’t be banned like other platforms.
It’s owned by Meta, why would you trust them?
Its E2E messaging so no moderation.
Since it has widespread adoption one could use it to great local groups to share info and plan protests.
Its E2E messaging so no moderation.
It’s META so there’s no assurance they’re not giving you the MITM treatment.
And they can update this away any time
May as well use it until that happens, with a pre decided on backup plan so everyone knows where to meet up again when it does
Most privacy minded people don’t, but that is something that is a lot harder to get rid of for the majority of the countries where it is the default way of communicating these days
Huh… I’m tired of feeling helpless, and have been wondering what I can do. I’m so frustrated with the constant bombardment of awful news, and the fact that seemingly nobody I interact with in the real world has any fucking idea that it’s happening.
Maybe I’ll be that crazy guy that makes his own newsletter and hands it out at work.
Maybe I’ll be that crazy guy that makes his own newsletter and hands it out at work.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Never mind about zines and flyers. Do graff. Project images on the sides of buildings. Put up QR codes that point to ephemeral sites. Nothing persistent, nothing traceable.
nobody is forced to use these platforms and we were able to deal with worse restrictions.
