You're exactly right and that nominee has some pending court cases against her too and her business of the WWE. This is why get a nomination or even be considered for it that they have a pending court case
I think growing demand for specialized knowledge plays a huge role in eroding civic knowledge. Even on a personal level, there's so much we're expected to pay attention to regarding our phones, computers, networks, finances, health care . . . I could go on and on.
Just like DOD, if you have no intention of defending anything, it doesn’t matter who leads it. If you don’t intend to actually educate, then any hack will do.
I’ve always thought that the dumbing down of America started w/Newt Gingrich. I believe their plan has been LONG n motion & w/an idiot like Trump, they found their puppet. Do people really believe that Trump has come up with all of this BS on his own?He’s not smart enough!
1/ Breakthrough line of the week - and hopefully much longer: "He's more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich."
Surprisingly, it's being WIDELY quoted (at least on this forum) in shocked, mocking posts. Appreciate your making it the opening of this Substack - about the plan ...
2/ to kill the Dept of Education, which I'm pretty sure normally would need congressional repeal of the law that created it - but de facto killing it and using its budget for religious schools maybe doesn't. And anyway who's gonna hold that action lawless?
Because the method used is death from inside. You hire polluters to oversee the EPA, and private corporate antagonists to lead each department. Republicans join government to “ham string” it.
I want education greatly increased. I am amazed too often with supposedly educated people, not educated. I've stumped Constitution Scholars multiple times, and I never graduated law school. High school grads don't know the words "We the people". Careful Joyce, MTG is contagious.
Demand Civics Education courses. So needed. There’s so many Trump supporters not educated on the actual policies and believe the lies that are so obvious to us. Defunding our education system would be the worse possible for our children. Already banned books, abolishing history. Linda McMahon NO
The notion - & one hears this a lot - that any Rs in the Senate who might be willing to rebuff Trump on these nominations would only feel they could vote agst 1 or 2 makes no sense to me. Once you're in the crosshairs of T & his flying monkeys, you're there; might as well vote agst several.
My office handled a lot of conspiracy cases involving drug distribution. The volume sold by the entire operation drove all sentences. The least successful & most peripheral players were devastated to learn that being in for a dime meant being in for a dollar.
GOP Senators: You won't say it, but you KNOW Trump is unfit. His goal is to have our entire government work for HIM, *not* the American people. For our children's sake be a PATRIOT, not an ACCOMPLICE!
Leave the cowards and cultists behind.
Look in the mirror, then vote for our *country* not him.
I really appreciate the irony of trump selecting some lady who claims she mistakenly thought her college degree was in education as his nominee to be the secretary of the Department of Education.
It is a combination of poor education, together with countless hours consuming fake information from TV and social media. The gap between reality and what the average American thinks is reality has never been greater.
100% indoctrination. Absorbing BS from 'certain' forms of media - calling themselves news channels when, in fact, selling 'inflaming' fiction (entertainment). Thx Murdoch. Having a complete lack of interest in researching facts. Raising generations of belligerent dummies set in their ways.
Civics education is more in the "book learning". Maybe trying to incorporate more information on govt functioning as it relates to the tech classes that many lower income students take may be an answer. Then expand that info into how the specifics fit into the total govt picture.
We need to raise educational standards, not continue to drop them. All Parents need to see education as important. Many haven't especially lower income families.
As a former educator, i and others in our district were asked over the years to lower our standards because students were failing because they refused to do the work. If parents didn't see education as important, the students didn't either.
If a country wants scientists and engineers it will need to inspire and excite children to dream and imagine the great things they can do, not teach them how to hide under their desks because other children are coming to kill them.
That's exactly the question I raised about the stupid idea of Greenland: while we were discussing that stupidity, the Project 2025 train was on the move.
Joyce Vance is on point again in her substack article about proposed nom of WWE Linda McMahon to run the Dept of Ed (run it into oblivion). Please write your senators opposing her nomination.
Musk and Ramaswamy support ending public education to dumb down your white American born children so they can hire immigrants for their high paying tech jobs.
I got to think purpose of Gaetz, Hegseth, prob Kennedy, Gabbard is to distract frm other nominees who are less outrageous, but still huge threats.
Congress isn't going to shoot down all.
If Trump sacrifices a few of the most egregious, then some less egregious but totally unqualified make it thru
We need to keep the very bad nominees in the news. We need to keep the pressure on republican senators. And also make sure that democratic senators don’t help
It was an unsurprising article when you really dig deep. I think I counted her saying or the phrase” I want to be taken care of three times” She picked the wrong horse
We're seeing results NOW for undereducating young humans. No Civics, no Ethics, no logical thot. MAGA is going along with dragon-pile wealthy types who think, the more ignorant the more profit. Keep 'em stupid and youse can do what youse want, eh?
Ignorance is the most fertile ground for racism, sexism and facism. And it always ends up being expensive, especially for the ignorant. https://Kandude.com
The biggest losers for a Trump administration is going to be the bag of people. They are going to be so surprised at what they lose. They’ll be jumping out of windows. Mag stands for make America gross again.
What % of Charter and Religious schools teach Civics? AZ TX OH are sucking funds from Public Schools to pay for them. Millions of students are not getting basic educations let alone Civics.
54% of Americans read at a 6th grade level or below. Consider the implications, vocabulary, critical & abstract thinking, & comprehension of 6th graders or below, voting to determine their futures; but unable to understand the issues without an interpreter. And if the interpreter is a liar…
Not my radar because I saw what DeVos was doing last time and I knew what Project 2025 called for well before it hit the fans. Blowing up the Dept of Education dumbs down our country and as a grandparent to minions that’s nothing I want to see happen.
I don't think it is so much flying beneath the radar as
'lost in the clutter of all of the bad choices'
that SOS Trump has nominated!
Keep providing that bigger radar screen and better quality 'threat assessment software' for the rest of USa!
The ONLY reason they want to shut down the department of Ed is to expand privatized student loans. Then they can set interest rates that interest the already wealthy. The plan is to find more ways to suck money up to the top.
It's almost like the democrats do not have a coordinated campaign to show the impacts of Trumps cabinet picks on Americans. I swear, sometimes it feels like we are all doing this shit ourselves? Super frustrating!
I mean he has flung a lot pooh around in 2 months it is a lot to keep up with. But we do need to make our feelings known that they need to stay focused on these issues without also hurting our own people too much in that endeavor.
Hey Joyce, and @barbmcquade.bsky.social I am having trouble listening to your podcast #Sistersinlaw because it tells me that there's a problem with a break from the source. I have no idea what this means or how to rectify it. Can you help me?
Test science and social studies again. When everything is focused on reading and math scores, science and social studies were shifted to second class status.
Schools aren’t graded on how well they know history.
Reminder, as a parent of two kids who spent ~19 years in the Special Ed system, that the Department of Ed is who enforces FAPE (Free and Appropriate Public Education) for Special Ed students. States, especially the very red ones, often don't willingly fund Special Ed services unless forced to.
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"MAGA candidates, who are inexplicably able to attract the voters who are harmed by the policies they subsequently pass".
The ill informed, uneducated, easily manipulated and handidly conned continue to vote Against their own self interests.
Surprisingly, it's being WIDELY quoted (at least on this forum) in shocked, mocking posts. Appreciate your making it the opening of this Substack - about the plan ...
But as for the near-term, a clear path ..
I'm just incredibly grateful to her for it. And to Ben Wikler. I'm a longtime fan of his, and I, like Jen, simply know he can do what we need done.
https://bsky.app/profile/jenrubin.bsky.social/post/3le3e2dejo226
My office handled a lot of conspiracy cases involving drug distribution. The volume sold by the entire operation drove all sentences. The least successful & most peripheral players were devastated to learn that being in for a dime meant being in for a dollar.
Leave the cowards and cultists behind.
Look in the mirror, then vote for our *country* not him.
He will be going against a Trumpanzee in 26 primary.
Congress isn't going to shoot down all.
If Trump sacrifices a few of the most egregious, then some less egregious but totally unqualified make it thru
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'lost in the clutter of all of the bad choices'
that SOS Trump has nominated!
Keep providing that bigger radar screen and better quality 'threat assessment software' for the rest of USa!
Why continue to help them become productive members of society when the corporations can make 💲💲 off them?
I'm guessing that's the plan.
They loved his rant and rave rallies, never thinking about the consequences of his "policies." It's appalling.
Schools aren’t graded on how well they know history.