This is a pretty obtuse take on the Department of Education. When “massive cuts” equaling close to half of those who manage student loans within the department is less than 5000 people, you’re already looking at a starved and underfunded program. The DoE has been the punching bag of anti-intellectualism for decades. Of course there are much needed improvements to make for better efficacy. However, dismantling and fracturing it entirely, forcing state-run public education administrations to scramble around to various departments to secure funding, recategorizing professional degrees to invalidate loan programs, wiping other programs out entirely that fight food insecurity…the list can go on… These are not improvements to the current state of education.

This is intentionally removing one of the most important resources for social and financial mobility by fragmenting the foundation of education. We should be embarrassed.

Anonymous means that they don’t release their name to the public, not that they don’t know who it came from.

It’s upsetting every time I hear about another innocent person becoming a victim to this disgusting administration. I feel for the employees. I also hope he goes out of business. F* that guy

That’s how it played out in the US. More than 10 million less voters in '24 than '20. Political fatigue is insidious

Beefing up the gestapo under the guise of immigration enforcement. Meanwhile the shelves are starting to dwindle down and things might start to get a bit restless. The “homegrowns” are next…

This is just posturing to make people feel like we’re not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes

What a fantastic article to read with my morning coffee! I realize he’s one in a long list of shitbags who need their comeuppance, but little bits of happiness are still worth it

I’m sure this announcement will have them on their heels! After 60 days of destroying the administrative state, they’ll just have to acknowledge it was all a good thing and no big deal since he’s “stepping down” right? Right?

I think we’re seeing too short term with that perspective. It won’t discourage their loyalty in time for them to do anything about it. By the time they turn on Dear Leader, there will be little recourse to recover the country they once had. Driving out the rural populations so that conglomerates can pick up all the farm land and consolidating people fully into metro areas isn’t a far cry from Hunger Games districts establishing

Take your ba somewhere else. Worker protections have been proven necessary over and over again. This is a devolution of progressive society. Saying that these policies are already active elsewhere shouldn’t be an endorsement of their success rather than an indictment on Georgia still meeting to get their shit together. If a family finds it necessary for their 14 year old to work overnights to survive that’s not exactly a point of pride for country

Seriously. Gonzaga to take it all!

Seeing back alley abortions be a thing again, not so much.

That’s completely disingenuous. These are clinics being run in the city of Houston, not back alleys.

And you’re not having an honest conversation. You’re pushing why the law should be followed, not discussing the environment created by unjust laws. If you truly didn’t want back alley abortions, you would be defending this person’s right to maintain facilities in the light of day as they have been even in the face of this unjust law.

A bit of schadenfreude should be expected after a decade of listening to the schmucks spouting off “F your feelings” while getting offended that someone chose a different pronoun. That doesn’t mean that forgiveness isn’t possible from one side, but remorse is necessary for forgiveness to be available. That would mean remorse for creating the issue our country is faced with, not just for their personal circumstance. So far that’s all we’ve seen

Hot take, but the GOP has been using the technicality of shitty laws they pass to give cover for your hot take.

Parsing up the fine details of this completely avoidable, ridiculously stupid action taken by Texas officials is important to having an honest conversation

That’s really the issue. Americans have been brainwashed to think civil disobedience is what won their civil rights. The violence, often initiated by the state against the people, is whitewashed as small skirmishes rather than being prevalent in most protests and the resistance to it needs to be prepared.

Agree 100% and it has always been frustrating to see right wing groups get a pass for what boils down to “mild” terrorism. I just think that, given the current US political climate, it’s detrimental to lump the parties together. I’m only a defender of the Dem Party when in contrast to the GOP. Otherwise there’s a litany of grievances I’d aim at them.

That’s a BS “both sides-ism” that can result in people shrugging off the absolute destruction of the operational norms. I wouldn’t argue that the two primary parties are heading in the same direction of fascism. However, there’s a significant difference between the gleeful sprinting towards it by the right as compared to the Dems dragging their feet and enjoying the scenery.

While the 100 year result might be the same if there isn’t systemic change, one side (primarily by inaction) will provide more time to correct course before hitting the iceberg