Weingarten: It’s really only the Congress that can abolish the Department of Education. So, what the president can do is make government basically ineffective—not work—by a thousand cuts. And that’s what they’re doing.
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I think the white Gen Z men skipping college who were offered a chance to make a quick buck by taking the Wynne Casino odds Trump would lose then voting for him to win money would probably do that again.
Same kids raised by 52% of the white uneducated women who hid their racism behind egg prices.
They may if their Dems do something.
Those that vote for cabinet members, to censure Al Green or say we've gone too far with gender need to be shown the door loudly.
He's also trying to blame diabetes, as if it were deliberate, and covid vaccines, which he has no proof of. Straight up propaganda. This won't age well for Marj when Krasnov invades Canada and Greenland.
The prev pres of Mex did just that to their soc med. In my mom’s town there was a regional clinic functioned like a hospital emerg room. Over 4 years, AMLO cut funding so much, now they don’t even have an x-ray machine or meds. They’ll give you a ride to a hosp 70min away that can’t treat you.
Well, perhaps it's time to fight fire with fire. Tell the teachers not to go to work leaving schools closed. How long do you think it'll take for parents to start complaining? School is like free child care. There's nothing like riots or civil disobedience to prove a point.
Yes Trump is destroying government so he can say it doesn't work. Israel destroyed 90% of Gaza homes & is starting on West Bank. Trump should not continue Biden's genocide. Make peace not dead civilians.
Surround every department of Ed building in the country. No one who is not an employee gets in the building without a warrant, signed by a judge. STOP COMPLYING WITH THESE THIEVES.
This is what Republicans are good at. They know the limits yet push the limits. The Trump regime is especially good at this. They can't legally do away with Federal agencies but they can starve them for funding and fire their employees. And if they get sued and lose, they will appeal.
They are way beyond that point by now - they simply do what they want and so far, no one's going to stop them.
Either the Dems do finally face this truth and take appropriate action or they are to blame as well if the USA becomes another oblast of the Russian Empire.
If you create long delays in being able to get a newborn's birth certificate and social security number... someone can step in and argue that the child isn't a US citizen... if the baby is the "wrong" color.
No hurricane watch? Including the Gulf of America? Hurricanes for 2025 are planning to hit on the Gulf of America side, travel and across the state to sneak in and hit MarALardo. Hopefully he'll be home then. I'd love to see a video of him floating around in his living room. 🤣🤣🤣
Not being American, it seems strange to me that a President can talk about abolishing the Department of Education, and no-one in his party would say "Are you absolutely SURE about this?" Let alone "Have you lost your fucking mind?"
The Republican Party has always been angry that it even exists and have been talking about abolishing it going back to the 1992 presidential race between Clinton and Bush the elder.
This is Russia 1999 I read per one historian. The services the federal government provides are destroyed and then put up for sale to the highest bidders. It’s going to all be privatized. In which case none of us should pay any tax. Why pay the government for any service it does not provide?
This administration is giving way to lawlessness. They're reverting the country back to the 1800's in the wild west with regard to federal laws and protections
While we sat idly by while charter schools exploded, educators lost any power we had as a voting block to protect education. When a decade of headline after headline of charter "Superintendents" stealing tax dollars isn't on the front page of every union newsletter, we are part of the problem.
Clearly Trump is a DEI hire, because the three national elections he participated in, the other choice had more merit each time🇺🇸Including the incompetent candidate tests our Constitution: will it prevail?Will Congress survive?🇺🇸Will we change course midterm? Will the elected women unite and end this🦅
Our Congress has failed the American people. And we the people need to 'fire' them. Afterall, we pay their salaries and benefits. We are their bosses.👩⚖️
In order to privatize - to auction off to oligarchs. I would bet anything to include citizenship in the deal if they are Russian. Dual citizenship by then..
Why did she film this in his car? Is it for optics? Randi Weingarten is like super wealthy. It's seems kind of artificial — I suppose optically it's supposed to be nice or something though.
Yeah, it’s not about the budget or saving money. It’s about hamstringing these government agencies and then telling the public that their missions were flawed and should either be privatized or done away with altogether. That’s the plan. It’s always been the plan.
Friday Kahlo's painting, "A Few Small Nips" embodies what is being done to the government in the States.
The painting’s theme is based on a newspaper account of a real murder. After a man stabbed his girlfriend 20 times, he protested his innocence, saying, “But I only gave her a few small nips.”
Hi, Mexican reader here. An even better translation could be "pricks" instead of "nips". In any case you're right. What the world is seeing is a crueler version of the "death by a thousand cuts".
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trump will get McMahon to cut Dept of Education and then stick her with the blame...trump has been advised that he cannot abolish a cabinet, only the Senate may, but he seems to keep forgetting this...curious...
With no government you'll have only slave masters. Government is where people have held their human rights. There is no bill of rights in a corporation.
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This is how they get the public to support what they're doing. Break the government, then say Look! Government doesn't work! Then set about privatizing everything.
"not to eliminate universities, but..give them a choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching. [The government should be] aggressively reforming institutions...where they’re much more open to conservative ideas”-Vance
This all has a direct line back to 2000 and the Bush W administration. There was a "wrecking crew" that wanted to make all of these departments dysfunctional. It didn't really work, so now, circumvent or ignore law, and kill it all that way.
This is a Hitler style move to go after education, government accountability, legal system, military, and so on. Wake up America because Trump & Elon are coming after Canada & Greenland too:
musk and trump and republicans are cowards, afraid to act out so they will be blamed when it all crashes down on americans. so they kneecap these departments so brutally that they cannot serve the people they were created to serve. it's only a matter of time until americans hurt and hurt badly.
This is a kinda infinite loop. Execution of law is left to the executive branch. Even if the judiciary tells him no (and I do not have your faith in SCOTUS), the judiciary cannot execute a single thing. They don't even have bailiffs, they have the US Marshals - which answer to the executive branch.
Executive branch often acts via White House counsel or DOJ lawyers, who cherish their ability to practice law for livelihood, and who must follow court orders or risk suspended license or permanent disbarment.
Contempt and bar referrals for noncompliance can be effective, even w/o loyal marshals.
That reminds me, Pam Bondi's brother and some other Trumpy lawyer are running for President and Treasurer, respectively, of the DC Bar. They're trying to take over that avenue of accountability too. Election opens April 15, so if you know any DC Bar members, talk to them.
Read Barrett’s Concurrence in Trump v US carefully. She and Roberts are not a rubber stamp for this administration, and I suspect they may be able to peel off gorsuch or kavanaugh as well depending on the issue.
Further, if the executive simply chooses to ignore the courts it endangers the entire federalist society project and they will exert political pressure through other means. Every member of congress lives or dies on law firm money.
I hope you're right. I've been wondering how the Fed Soc would feel about their decades-long takeover of the courts getting snubbed. But there's plenty of law firm money to be had, and so much other money to go around, I'm not sure that they'll object so long as it's Their Guy in control of the WH.
That's the thing, none of those guys who actually are currently in a position to Do Something about republican recklessness are Magat delusional who think Trump is permanently transformative.
They know there will be another democrat in the white house, and right now their biggest fear is that it…
Can it legally be argued that intentionally rendering a department ineffective by forcing terminations and thus achieving the same result of abolition through indirect means is also... unconstitutional?
They're coloring outside of the lines, but they're staying on the page. They know what they are doing. Time to take away their crayons, judiciary. Time to bring out the permanent markers and redraw the lines, Congress.
The fascist filth, leadership of both parties and our billionaire oligarchy have been at it for 44 years in the US. What is happening with the unmentionable embarrassment marionette under the psychopath megalomaniac Elon Musk is just the denouement. It is time to arrest the wealthiest billionaires.
They want to destroy the education system I'm referring to Trump and his sycophants, so they can have poor, uneducated, compliant workforce that the can throw crumbs at. It reminds me of a movie I once saw where the rich aristocratic family would give scraps to the servants and did it proudly.
As in Europe when they have nationwide general strikes, pre-2020 Yellow Vests (Jilets Jaunes) in France with their well developed list of policy demands is what we must now do in the US and should have already done with all policy regressions going back 44 years. We must revolt against billionaires.
The G(ang) O(f) P(utin), the Gang, is allowing him to do that...but to be fair, anyone who stands up will be bullied from on high, bullied by true worshipping peers, will be primaried, will face a horde of on-line Sturmabteilung (SA), receive death threats, and maybe face a violent lone wolf...
Withholding funding that Congress appropriated is also illegal though. The problem is that no one is holding Trump accountable. This is an auto-coup by a criminal party that has abandoned democracy. There's really only one remedy for that.
It's what they're doing for now, but a Republican Congress will not vote against Trump's wishes so if it comes b4 Congress while it's in a Republican majority? Kiss it goodbye.
I believe it’s also about control. Don’t give the people the tools to know any better and you can be their sole source of information. You can get them to do whatever you want when you alone control the flow of information. Weaponized knowledge.
We are seeing the biggest democracy falling.
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Whoever dumps handler is...that person is hitting each pillar institution at the elbow joint. It will heal eventually but you won't be playing pro ball buddy.
Trump and Musk are doing the same thing with social security: fires 50% of the SS workers and that cripples the system so that Senior Citizens don’t get SS checks!
This hard: who is going to do that? Law enforcement is in the executive branch, so under Trump and his toadies, and the Republicans in Congress will not impeach.
If there is a will, there is a way we can defeat this orange bucket of pus. We just have to figure out four brave heroes to conquer the beast and the evil that surrounds him! They feed off of the greed of the billionaires it’s like a feeding frenzy!
We can’t sit back and wait for Trump to destroy our nation. We must do everything that we can to save it, striking protesting, boycotting, writing, calling our congress people calling their business. A lot of these congressmen have businesses.
Then I guess we just need to have a revolution kinda like the French revolution where middle class is tired of the oligarchs making all the money! Just like come to that
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All for Trump and Trump for One. Enjoy you Red states when grandpa gets no healthcare or social security. And you get no mail and your autistic children are left behind with no Dept of Education to protect them. The GOP has turned a class system into a caste system. Enjoy.
It was all pre planned in PROJECT 2025. Prior to the election and now we are seeing it all coming together by the 78 year old convicted felon with dementia.
What I don't understand is, how can he even do that? Outside of an emergency where there's no funding how can he arbitrarily decide he's just going to fire most of the workforce? It seems that would naturally conflict with an obligation to make sure the laws are faithfully executed.
Congress creates these Departments and agencies, and funds them to fulfill those statutory obligations; it just seems like that would inherently be illegal.
Y’all keep citing the Constitution or laws about what the MAGATS can’t do. They don’t give a damn about the Constitution and have a puppet SCOTUS. Law won’t stop them- we must do it ourselves.
I am in education people keep saying only Congress abolish the DOE. And not to worry.. But This admin isn't following any rules so why should we expect him to now? @rweingarten.bsky.social
No shit. The supposed “smart people” are slow as shit to catch on. Hey Dumbasses: just so you know, the United States is being setup. Since there is no one left to defend the country, we will have to figure out ‘what’ we are being setup ‘for’ on our own.
National union and wildcat strikes are the only solution. I doubt it's happening, but I hope AFT, AFSCME, IBT, USW, UAW, SAG, Railroad, ILA, etc. etc. are planning NATIONAL strikes starting yesterday. Europeans know how to do it. I'm not sure u s workers will ever be ready to operate at that level.
Agree. Congress has power of purse and can institute agencies. So how did DOGE come into existence? And how did USAID get summarily dismantled in a matter of months?? 😡
When congress creates and funds these departments, isn't it with the intent that the president will effectively staff them so they can carry out their intended purpose?
I know judge alito is too stupid to get this, but I think any judge with an ounce of brains would.
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It should be crystal clear to all, that Trump's traitorous deception and betrayal of The People will result in the fall of this nation. His motivation is one of greed and corruption. He has allowed a Nazi to buy his election and dismantle our Democratic and financial system. We must rise up!
Yes, they’re picking apart all social services. They want to dismantle it and have us to rely on them. WE ARE NOT GOING BACK! We must resist this madness. #havesandhavenots
Public education is the ONE WAY to untie a country. Unite around shared ideals. Ideals which used to be: democracy, equality and rule of law. Attacking public ed is dismantling democracy.
Call your reps and Senato and demand a stop to this dismantling of our government ..we need to get loud and act with urgency as the situation demands!!!
In the face of dooming fascism your Democratic Party leaders who took oath to defend and protect the Constitution are spineless cowards. These are no MLK, JFK, John Lewis or John McCain.
Democratic leaders are only good at collecting checks. First ones to hide and run. That will be their legacy
he has no clue how government runs! He’s just lazy all he wants to do is sign executive orders and eat junk food. Oh yeah, and play golf. In the meantime, he’s creating havoc and ruining the lives of American people. He needs to go.
So you are saying that Congress makes the laws. As I recall, Trump swore an oath to uphold the laws. If he doesn't, what is Congress's recourse? Apparently, roll over and play dead.
It's a ludicrous thought on its face, isn't it? That the government of the world's most consequential nation doesn't need a cabinet level agency focused on education. We will survive Trump. The open question is how long will the clean up take.
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Problem solved.
Same kids raised by 52% of the white uneducated women who hid their racism behind egg prices.
Those that vote for cabinet members, to censure Al Green or say we've gone too far with gender need to be shown the door loudly.
Musk is recklessly slashing jobs & invading our computers.
Both are wrecking our republic & pushing us toward oligarchy.
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The majority (56%) of suicides are by firearm.
Very tragic, but I don't believe for a second that Tucker Carlson and MAGA are willing to do a damn thing about these.
They are using them as an excuse.
And, there is a trade war with Canada.
....Republicans would not hold any executive branch
If they were, they can still fuck right off.
Either the Dems do finally face this truth and take appropriate action or they are to blame as well if the USA becomes another oblast of the Russian Empire.
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cut the hell out of funding they say "look it doesny work"
sell to the highest bidder...who then makes more cuts
This means on Jan 20th, 2029, President AOC can immediately instruct her DOJ to seize Emo's assets to pay for rebuilding all he's illegally breaking.
The painting’s theme is based on a newspaper account of a real murder. After a man stabbed his girlfriend 20 times, he protested his innocence, saying, “But I only gave her a few small nips.”
Now they appoint a "President" that does nothing but that, lol.
What I hate about #MAGA is they can't even follow their own values for long before they embrace the complete opposite out of "necessity"
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"not to eliminate universities, but..give them a choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching. [The government should be] aggressively reforming institutions...where they’re much more open to conservative ideas”-Vance
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That's inconsistent with his affirmative duty as expressly stated in Constitution Art. II §3 to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
Supreme Ct will continue to enforce this requirement.
Contempt and bar referrals for noncompliance can be effective, even w/o loyal marshals.
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I believe that would balance the US budget.
The American Revolution was undone in broad daylight on 11/5/24.
"We the People" is now "We the Extremely Rich & Powerful".
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Or, better yet, tell them that the school is cutting sports to pay for special education.
Sorry, Karen, your doughy bitch boy can’t play JV football next year. Those NFL dreams are gone.
Fuqking yikes.
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This is just the "Starve the Beast" playbook on steroids.
I know judge alito is too stupid to get this, but I think any judge with an ounce of brains would.
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