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Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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Also it really can’t be understated how much the voucher scam has helped to take a sledgehammer to public education here. Just a regular stream of these kinds of headlines ever since:
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Also it really can’t be understated how much the voucher scam has helped to take a sledgehammer to public education here. Just a regular stream of these kinds of headlines ever since:
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I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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The attitude of the Trump administration is to blame organizations like CDC, rather than ask why America can't be more like other countries
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The attitude of the Trump administration is to blame organizations like CDC, rather than ask why America can't be more like other countries
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“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about Oklahoma's efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
Oklahoma Is Ground Zero in Trump’s “America First” Education Push
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about Oklahoma's efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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Also the Tylenol thing is unfalsifiable. By saying there is an association between something MOST pregnant people do, especially without an alternative, they can claim to have “solved” it. It’s no different than if they said autism was caused by wearing shoes. They get credit without burden of proof
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Also the Tylenol thing is unfalsifiable. By saying there is an association between something MOST pregnant people do, especially without an alternative, they can claim to have “solved” it. It’s no different than if they said autism was caused by wearing shoes. They get credit without burden of proof
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September 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Some folks are still surprised--despite all the data that told us that this was happening and was going to happen--that vouchers and ESAs since their expansion go predominantly to families already in private school or who already homeschool.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
September 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Some folks are still surprised--despite all the data that told us that this was happening and was going to happen--that vouchers and ESAs since their expansion go predominantly to families already in private school or who already homeschool.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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Texas Private Schools, Set to Receive Voucher Money, Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders — ProPublica
“If I were a taxpayer in Texas, I’d be asking, who’s going to be looking out for me?”
“If I were a taxpayer in Texas, I’d be asking, who’s going to be looking out for me?”
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
www.propublica.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Texas Private Schools, Set to Receive Voucher Money, Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders — ProPublica
“If I were a taxpayer in Texas, I’d be asking, who’s going to be looking out for me?”
“If I were a taxpayer in Texas, I’d be asking, who’s going to be looking out for me?”
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Vouchers are a scam.
Why Florida school vouchers can pay for Disney tickets while draining billions from public schools
WESH 2 Investigates uncovers how many families paid for theme park tickets with state-funded vouchers
www.wesh.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Vouchers are a scam.
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Not to mention they’re doing this a few weeks before school starts.
To put it simply: We have a regime focused on eliminating federal support for public education in the U.S.
This administration has canceled grants, withheld funds, fired staff, & is proposing cuts to essential programs students rely on.
It’s chaos. Students deserve better.
This administration has canceled grants, withheld funds, fired staff, & is proposing cuts to essential programs students rely on.
It’s chaos. Students deserve better.
July 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not to mention they’re doing this a few weeks before school starts.
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the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️
Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week
Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season
michaelrlowry.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Great job cutting cancer research, everybody! This is so much fun!
-Russell Vought
-Russell Vought
July 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Great job cutting cancer research, everybody! This is so much fun!
-Russell Vought
-Russell Vought
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Creating labor shortages, weakening higher ed, defunding science, raising prices on inputs - all create an incentive for American companies not to reshore but to move production and operations outside the US. It's literally the opposite of what they are promising or perhaps even understand.
Trump's tariffs increase the prices of many materials used in products, including groceries and items that can't be produced in Colorado. This hurts consumers and encourages companies to build factories in other countries to avoid these tariffs.
www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
July 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Creating labor shortages, weakening higher ed, defunding science, raising prices on inputs - all create an incentive for American companies not to reshore but to move production and operations outside the US. It's literally the opposite of what they are promising or perhaps even understand.
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NEW from @emtseffos.bsky.social: Defund, discredit, dismantle: The GOP’s quiet war on Wisconsin’s public schools
Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...
Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...
Defund, discredit, dismantle: The GOP’s quiet war on Wisconsin’s public schools
The rapid rise of school funding referendums makes it all the more clear that Wisconsin lawmakers need to better invest in public funds for public schools in the next state budget.
www.therecombobulationarea.news
April 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NEW from @emtseffos.bsky.social: Defund, discredit, dismantle: The GOP’s quiet war on Wisconsin’s public schools
Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...
Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...
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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
March 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
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“We wanted to learn the truth about the concerns and the science behind vaccine safety. So we talked to two uneducated, elderly, white, millionaire conspiracy theorists in a Steak & Shake.”
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“We wanted to learn the truth about the concerns and the science behind vaccine safety. So we talked to two uneducated, elderly, white, millionaire conspiracy theorists in a Steak & Shake.”
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Most folks on either side of the school voucher question want what’s best for kids—and want to do right by their communities.
The problem is in the results. And a handful of billionaire-backed lobby groups selling parents a story to score subsidies for a private school system.
The problem is in the results. And a handful of billionaire-backed lobby groups selling parents a story to score subsidies for a private school system.
January 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Most folks on either side of the school voucher question want what’s best for kids—and want to do right by their communities.
The problem is in the results. And a handful of billionaire-backed lobby groups selling parents a story to score subsidies for a private school system.
The problem is in the results. And a handful of billionaire-backed lobby groups selling parents a story to score subsidies for a private school system.
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man how did tiktok get so good at playing to the whims of autocrats
January 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
man how did tiktok get so good at playing to the whims of autocrats
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This is exactly what happened in 2001, driven by the tax preparation industry, in order to kill a public option for tax reporting. The goal, then and now, is to force citizens to pay private companies in order to do their tax returns.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...
December 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM
This is exactly what happened in 2001, driven by the tax preparation industry, in order to kill a public option for tax reporting. The goal, then and now, is to force citizens to pay private companies in order to do their tax returns.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...
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This is literally true.
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
December 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This is literally true.
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT: