An hours-long outage Wednesday on , the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education, as President Donald Trump aims to dismantle the agency.
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I'll never understand the the compulsion of the intellectual elite to attack higher education. Without higher education, then what need is there for an elite body within that organization? It's makes no sense to lower the bar.
@apnews.com I'm crossing my fingers hoping for the best. I had a $42k original student loan, been paying on it for 20 years, and now owe $186k due to interest compounding (a 342% INCREASE!) when my wife had cancer and I lost my job. Worried about what Trump/Musk might do to the payments!
With extremely high interest rates, I’m sure 🤨It took me 11 years to pay off my undergrad and last year I had the bright idea to get a masters. I just started paying those back in the fall. Sigh.
The article says, "Problems with the FAFSA had vexed the administration of former President Joe Biden." Do you think Putin had Trump sabotage the system during his first term with a timed program virus to disrupt the system? Maybe the system just sucks and they need to hire some competent people.
My son took a gap year after he graduated in 2024 in part because the FAFSA system was broken.. this year it was an easy and smooth process. Both systems set-up by Biden Admin. The latest system was much easier than what it was under Thump 1.0.
Well, we're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.
Part of the plan. Education promotes critical thinking skills - which are a threat to an authoritarian. Everything he has done so far benefits no one other than himself and the financial backers who paved his way to power. I suspect he is locked in for as long as he wants it. We let this happen.
The Trump regime wants to under-educate people, whether through misinformation, cutting research and demonizing DEI, or obstructing access to college through bottlenecking loan programs.
I saw a post that the last person out of the Board of Education should have cleared out all the student loan data. And then walked out like Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club while Don’t You Forget About Me played. I added that part to the fantasy.
Don't think I am not empathetic... thank God my kid already has his master degree, debt free & is not underemployed. I could not fathom my fear if he were to be starting this fall... truth: quality of education has already dropped. Graduate & internship programs R being cut
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This is a bad sign of what's to come. They better not mess with financial aid and student loans.
Without them, there are fewer opportunities for Americans to get a good education so they can succeed in the workforce and make enough money to support themselves.
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I get your point, but I don't think there are fewer risks in gutting it slowly.
I have faith in the power of the 99% against the 1%.
—Elon Musk, probably
How convenient
Also we are going to have to resort to guerrilla education.
The Five-Year Cover-Up: How Trump’s Racist Covid Strategy Got Buried
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-five-year-cover-up-how-trumps-956?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=302288&post_id=158944747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=f879&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Trump and COVID
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115435/
The Reagan administration’s unbelievable response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids
He, Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, many fake Republicans in Congress, corrupt judges on US Supreme Court are domestic terrorists and
“piece of human filth."
They are enemies of our Republic, Liberty, Soldiers, Veterans.
https://www.rawstory.com/sebastian-gorka-2671319106/
RFK cared about Native Americans, the poor, others.
https://popular.info/p/as-measles-cases-soar-rfk-jr-declares?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=158958525&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=f879&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolutionary-war.htm
Trump and the COVID‐19 crisis
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115435/
Federal government has spent great deal of money on prescription drug research.
Many Billionaires got to be Billionaires because of federal government research spending.
Many are ungrateful.
Dumb poor-the plan all along.
Fuckers.
Congress WE THE PEOPLE INVOKE you to impeach Trump!!
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Putin presses Russia's battlefield advantage as talks with US on Ukraine ceasefire begin - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-close-ejecting-ukrainian-forces-kursk-kremlin-says-2025-03-13/
Without them, there are fewer opportunities for Americans to get a good education so they can succeed in the workforce and make enough money to support themselves.