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EDUCATION

TRUMP WILL DISMANTLE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

TRUMP’S MURIKKKA: Trump regime no longer requires ban on segregated facilities in government contracts. It’s only a matter of time before businesses start displaying the “No Blacks, No Jews” signs again.

The least educated states in the USA are all red states who consistently vote republican. Trump’s education cuts will devastate red states, slashing funding, killing jobs, and leaving kids illiterate. He’s sabotaging the very regions that back him, brilliant strategy, or just reckless ignorance?

When the Department of Education goes away and these states lose federal funding, teachers lose jobs, the children will be illiterate.
Trump fucked all the red states over by doing this.
STATE  ⇔⇔⇔⇔ ⇔⇔ OVERALL EDUCATION SCORE
West Virginia ⇔⇔⇔⇔ 24.3
Louisiana ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 28.6
Arkansas ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 30.3
Oklahoma ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 32.5
Nevada ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 34.6
Kentucky ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 35.8
Alabama ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 36.5
New Mexico ⇔⇔⇔⇔ 31.8
Texas ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 40.2
Indiana ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ 43

Meet the Educational Entrepreneurs Who Want to Teach a New Generation of Elon Musks
The billionaire’s admirers and ex-employees have launched online schools and an “unapologetically elitist” AI tutor.By the end of the month, the department had been stripped to the bone, dismantled by Donald Trump and Musk’s DOGE.

PRIVATEERS MILK THE TAX PAYER FOR THE FOR PROFIT “SCHOOL”

And on Thursday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who has said her agency’s “final mission” would be to send education programs “back to the states,” was on hand as the president signed an executive order to begin eliminating what remained of the department.
The companies’ founders share an admiration for Musk and desire to help their students replicate his success. At the same time that federal support for public education is imperiled, two private online education programs whose seeds were planted with Musk and SpaceX are getting a second wind. Both could see even more growth under the country’s emerging educational environment. So too could a physical, Musk-linked school that’s been newly opened near the Texas compound housing several of his companies.
Astra Nova School and Synthesis Tutor are two non-traditional, online educational programs that are intertwined, share a common origin, and both began with their creators’ admiration for Elon Musk. Synthesis Tutor was co-founded by Joshua Dahn and Chrisman Frank. Dahn is also the founder and executive director of Astra Nova, and helped found its precursor school, which operated at SpaceX teaching Musk’s and some of his employees’ children.

Nearly All Cybertrucks Recalled for Faulty Glue on Panel

Lewis Black Gives Elon’s Cybertruck Two Middle Fingers Up – Back in Black
Tesla’s stock price has plummeted over 40% this year, which is why they’re relying heavily on the success of their latest robo-car release, the Cybertruck. In a new Back in Black, Lewis Black explains that between a massive recall, rusted metal, and a flesh-eating automatic trunk, it looks like the Cybertruck might be cyber-f**ked.

Fuck Elon Tesla Bumper Sticker Decal – Mirror Image Funny Gift for Tesla Owners Regret Elon Musk is Crazy

Musk to receive Pentagon briefing on top-secret China war plans: NYT
Pentagon sources told The New York Times that the billionaire would receive the briefing on Friday
Musk’s ties with China could make his briefing a liability.
China is also home to a Tesla production facility responsible for more than half of the company’s cars produced in 2024. Musk and Tesla are still on the hook for a $1.4 billion loan from the country’s government to build that factory. At least one ex-defense official, former Lt. General Russel Honoré, sounded alarm bells late last year on Musk’s potential access to top-secret intelligence around China.
“Musk’s business dealings in China could require him to hand over sensitive classified information, learned either through his business interests or his proximity to [then] President-elect Donald Trump,” Honoré wrote.

Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Agency Heads To Grant Federal Official Access To Agency Records, Data, And Systems.

Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to share data across the government, part of his crusade to eliminate the waste and fraud that he says can be uncovered in many programs and departments.

The associate, Rachel Cohen, recently organized an open letter that called on Big Law to respond to Trump’s executive orders designed to sanction three prominent firms. The letter was signed by more than 300 Big Law associates.

European military powers are working on a 5-10 year plan to replace the US in NATO, per FT

New U.S. Intelligence: ‘Endemic’ CCP Corruption, Organized Crime, and Graft Tied to Xi’s Network

AT&T technician who helped expose NSA spying, dies at 79
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/att-technician-mark-klein-who-exposed-secret-nsa-spying-dies/
AT&T technician Mark Klein, who exposed secret NSA spying, dies
Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance by the U.S. government, has died at age 79. Klein went public in 2006 with documents revealing that the NSA was using a secret room in an AT&T hub in San Francisco to tap into the backbone of the internet.
Behind the door of the now-infamous Room 641A, optical splitting wiretaps were creating an identical copy of raw internet traffic and funneling it back to the NSA. Klein’s disclosure was confirmation that the U.S. government was accessing the internet data on millions of Americans using powers granted by Congress in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

“And when I say trapped, I literally mean the Republican Party and #Project2025 aim to make it impossible for women (especially White women SAHMs) to get divorced. They want women perpetually barefoot and pregnant – in the kitchen, who know their place and vote the way their husband tells them to.” ~ anon

ALL THE SINGLE DEMOCRATIC LADIES
Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce
The Conservative US lawmakers are pushing #GileadGOP #WarOnWomen
Apart from the Christofascist sadism of forcing people to remain in marriages they no longer want, the GOP’s intent on keeping as many White people married as they possibly can because married White women and men are much more likely to vote GOP.
In 2022, according to exit polls, unmarried women voted for Democratic House candidates at a slightly more than two-to-one ratio (68–31 percent). Every other quadrant of voters — married men, unmarried men, and married women — gave majorities to Republican candidates. Call it what it is…eugenics, meant to create a desired population with all the characteristics desired by Republicans — a white, straight, Christian, wealthy, R-voting tribe.

The Pa. Supreme Court expands the legal definition of parenthood
The decision in Glover v. Junior was seen as a win for LGBTQ families and those using assisted reproductive technology.

STRATEGIC #BITCOIN RESERVE
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ADMIN JUST SAID THEY ARE AGGRESSIVELY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO BUY #BITCOIN
YOU ARE NOT BULLISH ENOUGH!!! President Trump’s Executive Director says, “There’s been countless ideas” to buy #Bitcoin “The best ideas” will be enacted.
Bo Hines, President Trump’s Executive Director for Digital Assets, recently emphasized the administration’s intent to acquire substantial amounts of #Bitcoin likening it to digital gold. He highlighted that numerous strategies are under consideration to expand the U.S. government’s Bitcoin holdings, with the most effective ones set to be implemented.
This initiative aligns with President Trump’s executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, aiming to solidify the United States’ position as a leader in the cryptocurrency sector.
The administration is exploring “budget-neutral” methods to enhance the reserve, ensuring taxpayer funds are not utilized for these acquisitions. This approach signifies a strategic shift toward integrating digital assets into national financial strategies, reflecting the evolving landscape of global finance.

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Where did ethics in American politics go?

FUN FACTS:

– Elon Musk ‘may be going mad’ biographer claims.

CA FIRE Lots folks lost their Bitcoin because both their HW wallet and seed phrase was in the house. This should be a wakeup call to have multiple copies of the seed phrase plates, with pass phrases, in different geographies. Or to do this with multisig. Or to use the ETF.

Public confidence in the CDC isn’t great, and likely will only get worse in the next 4 years.  How many people will die because of this?
Elon Musk ex @elonmusk
Grok can diagnose medical injuries

The UK public overwhelmingly say US oligarch Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and trying to sabotage their country. The majority see him as a joke and opportunist.

WHY THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THE REPORT
Patel may have lied to a federal grand jury when he said he was there when Trump declassified everything. If released, the report might sink Patel’s FBI nomination.

– on 1/13/25 we should get a SCOTUS decision to deny cert on Facebook’s fraud metrics appeal, a significantly less redacted complaint in Facebook’s AI lawsuit, and a possible timeline on Mark Zuckerberg’s “stonewalling” court deposition in Delaware.

– Congress to probe Elon Musk’s Starlink over allegations Russia is using its technology MSNBC

– “Tesla has officially issued a recall on over 200,000 vehicles in the US over the self-driving computer inside the vehicle short-circuiting and failing to work.” https://electrek.co/2025/01/10/tesla-issues-recall-on-over-200000-for-the-self-driving-computer-failure/

You don’t cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations if you want to lower costs for working families. You cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations if you want to pay back Elon Musk, Wall Street, Big Oil, and CEOs for supporting your campaign.

– Now that Trump has felonies on his criminal record, he won’t be allowed to own a gun (per federal law) and he must provide a DNA sample for New York’s crime databank (per state law).

– Adolph Hitler was also a convicted felon when he took office in 1933.

– The biggest threat to democracy is uneducated citizenry. The West needs to prioritize education more seriously. Civics classes, critical thinking, and basic economics to start.

– The Wagner mercenary who was captured crossing the Rio Grande worked for an organization that ran a subsidiary that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016. Wagner’s Internet Research Agency or IRA.

– Special Counsel Jack Smith resigns from the Justice Department, officials say, as his Trump investigations conclude.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.690.0_3.pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/special-counsel-jack-smith-resigns-trump-rcna187280?taid=6782e28552f7720001bb374f

– When Michael Cohen gets 3 years in prison – while the convicted felon skates on an unconditional discharge for the same crime – our justice system is a fukking joke.

– Why does every Bitcoiner share Hal Finney’s “Running bitcoin” tweet on January 11th?
Let me explain why this post is iconic and why Hal is one of the most important figures in Bitcoin history.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1878179355244875935.html

– European MP says, “Donald Trump will create a Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve. What is the EU doing?”

!!! T H I S !!!
Treating IT as a cost center is like viewing your immune system as an expense.

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Joanna McClinton @RepMcClinton

THIS is how you handle the Republicans. THIS is how you fire up a crowd and get them to VOTE!

https://twitter.com/RepMcClinton/status/1545579407380725765

Schumer needs to watch this 5 or 6 times!

The 7 Pa. lawyers who partook in Trump’s illegal tactics to overturn the 2020 election should have their law licenses yanked away. They used their power to undermine America’s elections. Get busy, American Bar Association!

Unfortunately, even the new election map in PA is still gerrymandered to prevent Democrats from winning the state legislature. The GOP has won 1 gubernatorial election in the last twenty years but they still hold nearly 60% of the seats in both the state House and Senate.

@fred_guttenberg
What the hell is going on in PA? This is authoritarian and all to pass a constitutional amendment banning abortions and making it harder to vote.

Watch @malcolmkenyatta points out their lies as GOP shuts off his mic then shuts the public from the debate.

This is outrageous. This is how the @PAGOP is trying to sneak their agenda into law. We have passionate leaders like Mr. Kenyatta- and the GOP can’t stand that. Our state is gerrymandered and ruled by the minority. #VoteBlue2022

Pennsylvania’s Badass Lt. Governor Roasted Dr. Oz (With A Clown Meme) For Scrubbing Trump From His Campaign Website

ELON

Elon Musk‘s Twitter account was suspended, less than 24 hours after he announced he was terminating his $44 billion deal. #FreeSpeech

If Elon Musk is a bullshit artist, Donald Trump is a bullshit art museum. The bullshit Louvre. Maybe even the bullshit Smithsonian.

Just as Elon Musk is trying to rewrite history that he was a cofounder at Tesla despite only becoming CEO in2008 of a Co. that was founded in 2003. Today, a lot of the Tesla fandom know very little of Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning. Because of documentation, children are still taught in school that Thomas Edison “invented the lightbulb.” He did no such thing, but he had enough money and influence to convince the world that he did, despite losing the patent infringement case filed by the real inventor.

CIPOLLONE
Jan. 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger says on ABC that they will use former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone in forthcoming hearings and in the final report — adds: “At no point was there any contradiction of what anybody said”

 Elise Stefanik
Toby Morton @tobymorton
Elise Stefanik told the NY Post I launched sexist and false attacks against her and that I need therapy, all because I took her campaign domain and built this truthful website.

Who Is Elise Stefanik
I, Elise Stefanik, am a monster.
I am a vile and disgusting politician who is responsible for the Buffalo NY shooting spree.
How? What is in his manifesto is what I placed into his head.
Why? Because I want power. I want votes.

Cory Doctorow: Finance caused the fall of Rome

A politics of protecting contracts and property is a civilizational suicide pact.
https://doctorow.medium.com/finance-caused-the-fall-of-rome-fd091fa02973
It’s hard to overstate the impact that David Graeber’s 2012 blockbuster Debt: The First Five Thousand Years had on society; it’s a truly magesterial history of the way that debt — and debt forgiveness — played in the establishment of advanced civilization and its downfall:

https://www.tor.com/2012/04/16/the-best-science-fiction-ideas-in-any-non-fiction-ever-david-graebers-debt-the-first-five-thousand-years/

Graeber — a key Occupy activist who helped coin “We are the 99%” — drew heavily on the scholarship of Michael Hudson, an economic historian, who led a team of Harvard assyriologists, Egyptologists and archaeologists in a major project exploring the role of debt in antiquity.