Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
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Anyone with even a quarter of a brain can see that he’s trying to dismantle our entire society and way of life. You can’t just stab the heart of the government and think operations are gonna continue how fucking stupid why was this guy allowed to run a second time infuriatingall of it
Have they ever gave any information as to why they’re doing this all I’ve seen when asked very important questions about the wise in the words they just refuse to answer. What the fuck are they doing? I think it’s time they’re physically removed
Theyve always had a bug up their ass about national data on schools. States hate not having control over who gets to observe there own metrics, theyd rather have less data, privately available, so you are never the wiser
I'd sure like to know what "cancelling contracts" means in this context. Eg, were they done per terms in the contracts? Or were contractors told, "We're not going to pay you anymore, so you should probably stop working"? Iow, while the work may have stopped, is the gov't really off the hook to pay?
And once again, the funding has already been appropriated. DOGE, Musk, Trump et al can’t arbitrarily just cut it out. I know they are and it’s unconstitutional. That should be lead in all media. “In an unconstitutional move today, the rouge Trump Administration today…. “
I want Elon Musk’s Social Security number and access to all of his finances to watch the money he is cutting everywhere flow into HIS accounts! My money being stolen by him leaves me a shit ton more angry then ever should happen to anyone let alone the 330+ million he’s screwing over!
This is going to lead to a massive recession, with hundreds of thousands unemployed. It’s time the Democratic Party starts to talk loudly about that. wtf are we doing?
There’s the federal unemployment, contractor unemployment, and then all the collateral unemployment from canceled or threatened contracts and grants. There’s purchases that will not get made, affecting small private businesses who will then lay off people.
There’s the slowed spending due to the instability. I know people who are not spending on anything that’s not essential, people canceling vacations and improvement projects, etc. This is going to decimate the economy. It’s about to get very bad.
I’ve been wondering this too, this will lead to so many people becoming unemployed losing their healthcare & homes. This is in addition to all the actual work these government employees did for safety and regulation not being done.
Trump supporters absolutely do not care. Not even when they’re screwed over, the foundation of the entire cult is that they hate us more than anything else in the world.
They straight up love that the country is being destroyed, that has been the goal since Reagan’s nine words.
Democrats are not going to do anything to respond to any of this. They just collect checks. Take direct action with people in your community. Join a union or two. Become a socialist. It is the only thing that will save anyone from anything.
They? You need to be saying 'I' otherwise we see you are full of shit. I'd bet you had a fine Thanksgiving w either maga relatives or non voters and said shit. Get out there, send us the pics.
They??? WTF is 'they' Do it! be the hero, you soft pos.
*I* would need an entire mob, representatives have infinitely more access and a major platform to make an entire spectacle out of real resistance to fascism. What do y'all think is the appropriate response? Do you think voting in 2 years is going to stop this train?
I have never seen an opposite party even in the 3rd countries staying so cool! I mean the Dem party leaders needs to be heard! Not only for votes and donations
Yes. Domino effect and we will have another housing crisis. Insufficient supplies, inability to build cheaply enough, and people who cannot pay their outrageous mortgages.
Hundreds of thousands of *liberals* unemployed. This is the retribution Trump promised to be. It's never about what they say it is: the cruelty is the point.
I think all the "normie" republican suburbanites are about to go apopleptic when they lose checks or jobs AND their blessed perfect college kids come back home as well.
University of Alabama Birmingham is a medical research giant and is the 2nd largest employer in the state with 26,000 employees…cutting those funds aren’t going to hurt just liberals…
That's what they think. The ripples will hit *everyone*
Farmers are about to get massively hit. He's not just causing a recession and spiking unemployment, he's closer to giving us a second Great Depression.
For example: the current employment insecurity with the federal workforce AND the shenanigans with VA healthcare has led to my friend’s job as a therapist in a spiral. The company she works for has a LARGE client base that is largely comprised of those two groups. They’re HEMORRHAGING clients. 1/
After the Great Depression the New Deal raised people out of poverty and created a middle class the boomed after WWII. Labor laws leveled the playing field just a bit and they want to undo every from the New Deal to Obergfell
The sad thing is no one took him seriously when he said he wanted to be a dictator. Trump has truly lost thr plot and I don't understand how there are no measures to stop the insanity
There are measures to stop this immediately but this Republican majority refuses to do their job. They’re allowing this to happen. Its just gonna get worse when all these dangerously unqualified cabinet nominees are all confirmed. This is what happens when you elect a felon to the Presidency.
That's what's so appalling, it's going to get so bad for those that are in the firing line literally. It must be awful for the affected employees of all the agencies that Trumps pack rat are attacking. I feel for you guys over there , it's going to get worse.
I realize this sounds ironic from someone with a crown, but my crown is sarcastic.
King Musk and Queen Trump are the law now. Nothing they do can ever be illegal. However, your mere existence offends them, so everything you do will be illegal. This will be the case until they are overthrown.
I’m pissed, called my reps in Iowa,Grassley, Ernst and Miller Meekes . I’ve shared the number , I ve shared info on my fb page , I’ve gotten into multiple fb fights with dumb ass MAGAs who think all this cutting will give us tax breaks ( I tell them only if you are a millionaire/ billionaire)
Look in the mirror. Our leaders are right there. We know the assignment.
#ExistAndResist
1. Do not surrender in advance.
2. Get the facts THEN form an opinion.
3. Do not give your representatives a moments rest. Call, write, visit.
4. Our new hobby is protesting.
5. Block rage baiters.
I completely empathize with your frustration. We are our champions in this situation! It’s essential to encourage more individuals to reach out to their congressional representatives, particularly in red states. Let’s apply that necessary pressure!
Anecdotally, people who voted for Trump have no idea what’s happening. They think Elon is making things efficient and slashing waste and fraud and they’re thrilled. And they love that all the “woke” federal workers are getting fired.
I’m thinking the average person can’t foresee the obvious. It’ll only be after unemployment jumps, services fall, and inflation soars, that folks will start to pay attention. By then so much damage will have been done.
But hopefully they’ll be acting attention by the midterms.
I keep thinking I am missing something. The only people I see concerned are those on Bluesky. The MAGAs I know are posting photos of their cats and gardens.
She’s amazing and right on this. What are our all our current and past leaders doing?? Everyone knew at least for a year that Project 25 was out there. Surely someone out together SOPs
With the exception of a few, i feel like the Demoractic party has just abandoned us. The 'leaders' are still acting like it's 2005. We are in a WHOLE NEW WORLD and need warriors, not weakness.
Vichy Democrats won't do anything. They're still getting paid. They have their inside info to beat the stock market. They still have their gold plated health insurance. They'll be ok.
The Dems are still in the business of playing by the book. Therefore we need to be patient/hope that by the time they catch up to Trump’s attempt to dismantle everything and crown himself king, or demand they start following suit and bending rules to stop madness. Create DemDOGE.
I have bad news. An end will not be put to this with conventional run of the mill politics. Henry Ward Beecher had it right. But this time the destination needs to be Washington DC. That’s the only way this ends. And they don’t have the courage for it yet.
They (the Dems) ARE screaming in the streets, we need a better game plan. I support anything they can do to help, but this is bigger than screaming in the streets. Most the world want us to remain a democracy, maybe those of us who want
democracy in the US, need a little help from
our friends. 🤷
Republicans are famous for destroying economies. The Trump economy lost jobs and I hope that every Trump supporter dies from rectal cancer who denies this reality.
What do they think the contracts pay for? Pencils? FFS, it’s probably largely salaries. So many jobs being lost. Not that we’ll ever see a real truthful jobs report, I’m sure.
Trump is in charge of the people that report recessions, unfortunately. We joked about the vibe-session for years after Biden admin coasted the economy to a soft landing. We are going to all be going on vibes from now on
A random, scrawny fraud stood in front of an unlocked set of doors and said, without any legal backing, "I have the authority to tell you to keep out" and they ALLOWED it
There will be lawsuits and this will not stand. Congress holds the purse. These funds have already been allocated for use. Executive orders cannot override this. Judicial is meant to check this kind of power grab.
What happens when all these get appealed to the blatantly corrupt and far right SCOTUS and SCOTUS rules that all the Executive Orders can stand despite what the law says?
Maybe that will be what finally breaks our back. Something is going to be eventually. The entire scenario of billionaires buying govt is thanks to Citizens United. We will not be able to fix this without overturning that anyway.
I don't know that they are, but that they're focusing on the cases in front of them with the federal courts. I think they're terrified of these cases going to the Supreme Court.
Who exactly is cancelling contracts and how are they doing it? And by how, I mean are they sending emails just saying the contract is cancelled? You can only go so fast physically. Why don’t people just slow down and have trouble finding things? Stall, for goodness sakes.
People at my former company who have Dept of Ed contracts, were told yesterday, they had lost three contracts and people were going to be laid off. The reason the government gave “in whole, for the Government’s convenience.”
Laura Meckler is the national education writer on staff at Washington Post where there's a paywall. That's as far as I could get since, you know, Jeff Bezos has a fleet of luxury yachts.
It’s worth noting that DOGE is not “saving taxpayers’ money” by cancelling programs. The next step will be announcing tax changes so that the uber-wealthy get more money. In other words, DOGE is REDIRECTING money FROM programs for the people, TO pockets of the wealthy. No savings.
I think they'll direct a tuppence to keep the peasants happy while they funnel the largest portion of any "savings" from massive cancellations of government programs, services, and contracts into the billionaires' pockets.
In actuality they know climate change is real, and this is the richest billionaires looking to streamline their survivability. It's going to be expensive, and they have plenty of distractions lined up to hide the $$$$ transfers. Don't wait too long to stand against this 💩
I still don’t understand how this works. I mean, who says what to whom? And how do Elmo’s people find the person who can say Yep cancel that $900 million program?
I think - they go the IT department and shut down access to servers under the pretense of "we're searching for fraud and waste and the server data can't be effectively accessed without it being pretty much static."
The lawsuits are going to be flying and there are going to be protests and the unions will get involved they already are. He flinched first and he's going to back pedal next. We will not give up
Any moron can go into any business and cut costs by just cancelling things. There’s no intelligence in that. The value of any audit is being able to discriminate between justified and unjustified costs. A chimp could do what DOGE is doing now.
The government is not a business/corporation. The goal of government is NOT to maximize profits. The goal of government is to improve the lives of the people, and to keep the people safe. The services government provides are not about making a financial profit.
GOP always try to conflate government and business, and make government subservient to business. If that happens, humanity is doomed to dystopia. Instead, corporations must be subservient to government, if we are to have any chance of survival.
They cannot CONCEIVE of the idea that there might be some societal goal other than making more money. Clean air/water? Worker safety? Equal access to education for persons of color? Woman having the right to vote, or even control their own body? How would Exxon/Dow/Tesla make any money off that
The idea that we are not just the dung in which the rich can grow their billions seems absolutely inconceivable to some folks. It makes me wanna slam my head in a car door.
I’ve said this same thing for years, whether local, state, or federal elections, always some republican telling us how they are the best choice because they’re a businessman…
Govt is a service, not a business!
We’re on the wrong side of all of this, protecting waste, fraud, & abuse. The party of government should be strongly in favor of smart government, helping weed out stupid spending. Trying to block Musk & company from killing spending that 70-80% of Americans oppose is suicidal. Let’s get smart!
I'm raging inside this is totally unacceptable our state governors have been mostly silent over the last few weeks🤬 while we are being destroyed by white Christian nationalist movement funded by NAZI oligarchs
How the fuck does an unelected apartheid South African billionaire take control of shutting down entire departments of the government? None of it makes sense, until we stop them.
Everyone now knows the young punk goons are making the rounds. Why folks don't literally stop them and bankrupt them by sending them to the local orthopedic surgeon just boggles my mind.
These are all services that Americans have paid for. This is outright fraud and theft. Americans need to mount massive class action suits, huge money, immediately.
Agreed, the entire country of the United States is the class, the suit is against Trump, Musk, DOGE, and anyone else who refused to take care that the laws be upheld. Damages are $10 trillion. Hmm, but who would sit on the jury?
More Americans Losing Their Trained Professions And Jobs!
Children, Poorest Children And Handicapped Children Losing Valued Education Resources, Edu. support Systems, Early Start Edu. Programs -More!! SPEAK UP AMERICANS! Trump/Elon Aren’t FIXING ANYTHING THEY’RE FASCISTS DESTROYING AMERICANS/USA!!!
One of our biggest grants just got a letter from the DOE due to “DEI practices”. The grant supports 250 future teachers each semester, it goes to all kinds of students who face challenges. The grant boosted our enrollment and was helping to mitigate a severe teacher shortage. It’s devastating.
This letter is in direct violation of a court order. Tramp met be immune, but his cronies are not. But who will hold them accountable? Pam Blondie? Crash Patel?
Yes indeed. And where will that come from? I was program manager on an Army contract that got “terminated for convenience” and was able to recover over 250,000 of company investment. This will be expensive.
My fellow Americans the only way we can win all these Elon distortion is to vote in midterms. You angry enough. Then vote! Too many of you just wake up. And find out they fuck.
I think this is the core of all of it. The uncertainty over the validity of these contracts is key. Undermine confidence in the entire enterprise and it won't much matter what the courts say.
We've already crossed the threshold. There is no going back. The future is to be decided.
There is NO more federal government. When the newly unemployed come out of their state of shock, then they will rise up. Elon and his pet clown are literally taking food of Americans dinner table. Hunger is a brutal motivator
It's weird because EIR is out of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education but the requirement for evaluation & publication is out of IES. So unless something else changes, EIR grants could ostensibly continue to find projects without any obligation for evaluation & publication? 🤷🏼♂️
This is my hunch only from understanding what was and wasn’t cut yesterday — I think the TROs are preventing grants from being cut right now so that hasn’t happened yet. Contracts all have a termination for convenience clause so much easier to achieve right now….
We’ve blown past the recent post re: we are not a serious people, true as it is. In fact, we are a clown nation run by clowns elected by a clown party. Here’s the real problem: Like Hitler, the top clowns, Trump and Musk, are killer clowns. Like Hitler the clown. We will be a killer clown nation.
It’s time for the states to protect their constituents and stop sending them more money. Feds can’t operate without the states. Especially the blue and swing states.
Aren't there Colleges w Professionals Teaching who know their subjects as Actual Lawyers Doctors Labor Rights Representatives Human Resources Union Folks
Any Deans Provosts Faculty that know how to protest sit in get in good trouble or able Speak Motivationaly or Organize Students Marches 🤔
Cute that you think we have a choice in any upcoming election. He is about to destroy that any minute. We have become Hungary because the lack of inaction by 5+m folks who couldn’t or wouldn’t vote for KDH. 😢
Why haven’t we hired security guards for every building they keep announcing they’ll target next like cartoon villains? Why are we waiting for them to start ransacking the place and trying to fix it in courts later? The govt will be ashes by the time they’re done. SHUT IT DOWN
Why don't you read more widely and not run your mouth on ignorance? Are you aware that congresspeople who went to the Dept. of Ed were stopped by locked doors and ARMED FEDERAL OFFICERS? Do you want a re-enactment of gunfight at the OK Corral? Why do you assume "nothing's being done"?
I didn’t say “nothing is being done”. I’m explicitly reacting to the fact they’re showing up to bldgs AFTER DOGE already entered and started wrecking things. Is there no way to secure places BEFORE they arrive?
And some of those guards are private mercenaries who have no business being there either
You also haven't the strategy to think moves ahead. Trump is just ITCHING for some Democrat to spark an illegal protest or action so he can invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law, then he can call out the National Guard, suspend court powers and we're ALL DONE.
You're giving up already. It's what they want. It HELPS them when we attack our own. There are limits to what anyone can do, but there is always SOMETHING each of us can do. I'll give you a quote from my life's guiding light - RFK SR. He said it in a speech in South Africa, 1/
If they're contracted for by the people Trump & his cabinet are giving permission to enter & work, then they're not illegal. WITHIN THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION the minority party in Congress has no ability to place armed guards into federal agencies to keep out the President's designated people.
If this is about "we" like you said in your 1st comment, then MAKE IT "we". Have you been calling your reps & senators, DAILY? Have you been thanking & supporting those leading the resistance? Have you been blistering the ears of the Dems you know who voted 3rd party or sat at home so that stops?
Can't tell why anyone can just walk into a department and shut it down. This is a joke. Anyone else that would do this probably would end up doing life in prison for espionage, and I hope they do, I hope people pay attention to these dimwits in this dog department so that payback can comeback.
More rhetorical questions: Why do we the people have to keep coming up with these common sense ideas? Why does it seem as if our leaders are always on the defensive?
I like this. Instead of planning for massive protests, we should have a couple hundred people protecting Federal Buildings. Like modern day Minutemen (bonus: using such a name will piss off the faux militia goobers that 'protect the border')
I think that's exactly why certain groups make a point of dismissing the importance of the "wine moms" and "lady gray hairs." We get shit done! So they have to put us down.
What I can't fathom is why journalists aren't following Elon Musk around like stray dogs to report on his every move instead of us finding out hours later that he'd already come and gone like an assassin, reported by some friend of a friend who worked there and saw 'something'.
Wait for the companies to sue - the payout will equal the cancelled contract with no e of the work being done.
Until Trump cancels the Courts, that is.
We’re joining the call for a National Day Of Protest on President’s Day — February 17, 2025. Important to remind Donald Trump that he isn’t qualified (or even eligible) for the office he holds.
We’re on the wrong side of all of this, protecting waste, fraud, & abuse. The party of government should be strongly in favor of smart government, helping weed out stupid spending. Trying to block Musk & company from killing spending that 70-80% of Americans oppose is suicidal. Let’s get smart!
Gotta free up all that money for Elmo’s companies. The next president should issue an executive order banning any entity associated with Musk from having a gov contract and prohibiting the use of twitter
YES! The dissolution of the Department of Education would mean we no longer have to pay off loans to an entity that no longer exists. Hope they’re ready for that fight.
Me too. I’m just so angry and despondent about what Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and their sheep dog DJT are doing to this country and to Constitutional and judicial oversight. I will celebrate quietly if Luigi makes appearances.
This is a too simplistic take. There are quite a few billionaires against what Trump is doing. Harris had much more billionaire funding than Trump. But we need serious taxation of assets.
Me = angry sarcasm. Yes, we need to return to appropriate tax brackets that actually advance our country’s interests and well-being. But, the right dominates the online/virtual landscape hands down. Dems/liberals need to take that space back and not rely on Harvard studies and well-crafted op-eds.
I find billionaires to be a crime against our general society. There shouldn’t be billionaires in a country where the same people working for said billionaires, can’t afford basic healthcare.
Billionaires don’t have to worry about healthcare and retirement income and, swimming in the cesspool of their self-adulation and generational corruption, they’re dead set on removing the federal systems that help (a little) the rest of us pay for those necessities.
I don't want to live in a goddamn Dickensian novel where starving children are dependant on the capricious goodwill of some benevolent billionaire benefactor.
Sin doesn't exist. It's a religious construct to control the masses and manipulate the gullible. Billionaires despise the sheep herders and peasants, though.
When I use the word "sin" in this context, I mean that is an action so contrary to the interest of humanity, that it ought to be expunged, reviled, cast on the fires in the public square.
There is something holy about humanity itself.
A billionaire is a sin against our collective good.
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country, they're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession
This is an atrocity & will affect everyone’s children. Private schools do not fund ed research but ed research benefits students in private schools every day. I know this because I was a learning specialist at a private school after 15 yrs in public schools. Just pathetically spiteful & stupid.
They really do not care, that is the point. Like all the dystopian literature foretell, first corporations will replace government, then Skynet will kill us all.
I’m thinking there’s truly nothing we can do. I’ve called my Dem reps. Unless they fight effectively, the destruction will continue unfettered. Courts will be ignored. Criminals pardoned, patriots jailed. Departments eliminated by the day. Anyone have any useful ideas? I’m at a loss.
I'm calling every day. My understanding is that when they get 20 calls in a day, they feel it is an overwhelming response. We want them to feel our urgency.
I found this Jared Yates Sexton article on Substack to have some more things that we can do at the end of the article. It's probably not the solution that you were thinking about, but it's good preparation for what is to come.
This is reallly good. Best I’ve seen. I’m going to read it a couple more times — and share it. His take on the disease as opposed to the symptom is illuminating. And this is a gem: “authoritarianism is weaponized abuse intended to pummel us into submission.”
Jared is my absolute favorite independent journalist out there. He has a podcast called the "Muckrake Podcast" and it's the one source of media that I never miss. He can keep me grounded better than most people out there because he explains things in a macro sense, unlike MSM.
Very intelligent guy. A lot of well-meaning commentators and journalists seem more focused on inculcating helplessness and doomerism than in clarifies what’s going on.
You're very welcome. It isn't revolutionary action in anyway, but it is practical advice for action to take given the circumstances, and factoring in realistic expectations. The body of the article also doesn't sugar coat where we are at, or what we can do. It just feels like the honest truth. 🙏
Yes,considering jenga is in every public school room, nurses/counselers, spec/ed included.Often with a missing block or two given to the gym, library and cafeteria. At least one in every classroom,left by previous teachers.It’s a last-picked, unenjoyable, mindless game when your phone is off-limits.
No savings. There aren't any cost cuts. Only stopped payouts; funding for programs. Since they seize power over processes and simultaneously gain control of the systems through which the money flows, they're able to sit on it and also divert it as they choose. Like wire transfer to any account.
..also the news reports about court injunctions halting the administration's funding freezes don't paint a clear picture. The injunctions don't reverse the actions, nor do they undo the effort/remove the access/people.
The people doing the work for the convicted criminal, are still breaking the law
Allocated, but not all dispursed. One of the things they claim isnt happening is an ongoing review of funding. There's compliance rules already. For instance, if you're out of compliance, pause payment. In most cases get back on track unless it egregious. Like the dogehead's companies' violations.
Corporate Tax cuts and the military. No savings for us though, States will have to take up the load which means increased State taxes or pure chaos. The state systems dependent on federal funding will collapse.
You do, I promise
It's the feeling of losing freedom because it's been 250 years since we had to fight for it. Freedom isn't free shouldn't be a 4 th of July talking point
They're like a gang just breaking in to offices and wreaking havoc. How are they still able to do this? They've been blocked by every court, and then just move on to the next agency. Why can't they just be stopped and sent home?
They haven’t canceled anything because they have no authority to do so. DOGE doesn’t exist. Why is this so hard for the media?! Federal employees: keep working/funding/fighting until *legally* separated and then sue the hell out of them. Media: Stop giving this fraud legitimacy by implying they can.
We need to track who was getting the funds Musk’s boys are cutting and I assume someone is tracking what are the red state population losses, ie NIH grant cuts hit some red state universities and their towns hard.
The first KZ Dachau was established in early 1933 about two months after Hitler was coming to power, first holding mostly political opponents without trial.
We’re on the wrong side of all of this, protecting waste, fraud, & abuse. The party of government should be strongly in favor of smart government, helping weed out stupid spending. Trying to block Musk & company from killing spending that 70-80% of Americans oppose is suicidal. Let’s get smart!
Musk is certainly acting like he thinks this there is not going to be an “after Trump.”
His companies have gotten like $20B in gov contracts in last 10 years, but his behavior is now so outrageous that it’s almost a given all of those SpaceX & Starlink contracts are GONE after Trump.
Probably in Asbury Park - 45 mins from me. A lot of hip people there. I’ll do a bookstore search for there… My town is mostly tech immigrants who are not at all interested in social justice and Saul Alinsky type disobedience.
And on the same day Trump placed tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum possibly world wide. That is a bad move, trump. You are going to be hit with more tariffs. Yes, other countries can and will retaliate.
Education and doge are dangerous but also distractions from trump. HOMESCHOOL time!!
When a lot of people are working 2 jobs I am not sure how they will do homeschooling, unless, oh yeah, women don't work...which is probably their plan.
No. She never learns. She just gets concerned and then disappointed. Granted she was disappointed enough that when he sent his followers to kill her, she voted to convict him. But now? She’s just troubled.
What we are seeing is the digital equivalent of the burning of the Reichstag. Trump intends to create mass chaos & then declare martial law. He's an inept sociopath & must rely on what has worked well in the past. In this case, that means reading from Hitler's script. I wish this were hyperbole.
Even before they were called Nazis these people existed ever since man crawled out of the mud. Ancient societies killed them for the public good but now they thrive.
They are dangerous predators and they should not be allowed to exist. The world needs another Nuremberg
Let's be honest, they also see an unrealized source of potential income they could exploit of there isn't a public option. You know, like insurance companies.
The dumbing down of 🇺🇸 has been accelerated. The effects of this will be felt over the coming months and years. Americans might not care about this right now, but, as others step in to fill the void that these initiatives are creating, what once made the 🇺🇸 what it is today, will be lost.
@sanders.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @senatorheinrich.bsky.social WTF is going on???? Stop him NOW. They are violating every process of these entities and you are doing nothing!! The thug warned you the rot was heading there, next the military. Our freedom is slipping, FIX IT
We’re on the wrong side of all of this, protecting waste, fraud, & abuse. The party of government should be strongly in favor of smart government, helping weed out stupid spending. Trying to block Musk & company from killing spending that 70-80% of Americans oppose is suicidal. Let’s get smart!
Can you please tell me who is organizing this or where you got the information?
I haven't heard of this but I want to participate if it's a real thing. I'd hate to drive clear across the state though if it isn't being widely promoted.
Thank you!
Right - like who needs to improve our education system.. good golly …. India, Pakistan, all of europe even the dump S.Africa is working on national improvement to education.
Any congressperson or senator that is just agreeing, watching this happen, and doing nothing is not on the side of American people or the rule of law.This is not about partisan politics anymore. It’s about a bunch of lawless people that have no respect for the constitution or its citizens.
Any elected official who is not doing what they can to get rid of this despotic corporate controlled government is complicit. The other word for them is collaborator because it will benefit them not to exist. People like that should be executed on the spot. Fear is motivating.
What if we just renamed it the Holy Institute of Educational Parables. Or Miracles? Or Mysteries? Or Myths? But Sciences will never fly with these Christofascists.
I don't like asking other people to risk their jobs, but what would happen if people working at these offices just refused to go along? We already know DOGE is breaking the law.
They come with armed private security. Federal officers have a directive to not interfere with Musk or his team under threat of DOJ prosecution. The little resistance has come from the workers and from places like the CIA who basically just told Musk and friends to leave.
Your guess is as good as mine. I think the real threat isn’t being convicted. It’s being arrested and held,it’s going through months or years of trials and litigation on your own dime that you’d never recover from the government. They don’t have to convict you to destroy you.
Courts make the ruling but Marshall’s report to the DOJ, and are part of the executive. The issue is that ALL of the armed personnel in our federal government are part of the executive. All the people who could enforce court rulings report to the President, technically
they'll just come from the private schools instead. their goal is to ensure their kids future by crippling as many other families upward mobility as possible.
Research on how to teach kids with Autism, hearing issues, cognitive disorders. Yeah total waste of money if they are planning to send them all to RFK Health Camps.
Yes, but about 50% of the voters STILL APPROVE OF CHEETO! Never thought many fellow Americans would vote against their OWN INTERESTS & applaud it. All in the name of d "ECONOMY & IMMIGRATION"! It'll take us back 2 d dark ages! Wow!
We’re on the wrong side of all of this, protecting waste, fraud, & abuse. The party of government should be strongly in favor of smart government, helping weed out stupid spending. Trying to block Musk & company from killing spending that 70-80% of Americans oppose is suicidal. Let’s get smart!
90% of kids go to public school in our country. Use this topic to help voters see this will hurt their schools and their children and end free education. It is a winning issue for Democrats.
No.
Here is a quote from their Web site:
“The U.S. Marshals Service is a bureau within the Department of Justice and receives direction from the Attorney General through the Director of the United States Marshals Service.”
All of enforcement has been captured by the cabal.
This crap has to stop!🛑 musk just does as he pleases, no matter what. I’m sure he’s been ignoring all the restraining orders as well! This is totally insane!
900m more for giveaways to the top 1% and of course Trump.
He’ll never leave this country better off than when he acquired it. He’ll plunder the country as he’s done with each of his businesses - profiting royally from their demise.
The judiciary is going to be busy & had better think damn quick about deputizing an enforcement arm for their decisions. DOGE has no power to cancel contracts established by congress through the Department of Education, and DOGE knows it -- this is blatant & deliberate unconstitutional violation.
We’re on the wrong side of all of this, protecting waste, fraud, & abuse. The party of government should be strongly in favor of smart government, helping weed out stupid spending. Trying to block Musk & company from killing spending that 70-80% of Americans oppose is suicidal. Let’s get smart!
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They straight up love that the country is being destroyed, that has been the goal since Reagan’s nine words.
They??? WTF is 'they' Do it! be the hero, you soft pos.
Farmers are about to get massively hit. He's not just causing a recession and spiking unemployment, he's closer to giving us a second Great Depression.
King Musk and Queen Trump are the law now. Nothing they do can ever be illegal. However, your mere existence offends them, so everything you do will be illegal. This will be the case until they are overthrown.
#ExistAndResist
1. Do not surrender in advance.
2. Get the facts THEN form an opinion.
3. Do not give your representatives a moments rest. Call, write, visit.
4. Our new hobby is protesting.
5. Block rage baiters.
Then many just don’t think it’s real. After all MSM isn’t warning ⚠️ everyone, right?
Then there’s those of use who have been yelling the last two years and have lose our voices from that effort!
But hopefully they’ll be acting attention by the midterms.
democracy in the US, need a little help from
our friends. 🤷
Kitchen table issues in the middle of an existential fight.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jobs_creation_per_month_under_U.S._presidents_from_Reagan_to_Biden.jpg
But they do seem a bit invisible.
But 40 years of compromise and being scared of being called a communist gets weak dems without spines.
The Democrats should be leading street protests and filing law suites.
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Institute of Education Sciences was created by Education Sciences Reform Act of 2001.
So, DOGE can't just walk in and close IES. Can they w/o a Congressional Authorization ???
https://www.ed.gov/media/document/aa-iespdf-39367.pdf
You can’t just cancel legal agreements
When is this insanity going to be stopped
if he’s owned by another nation, absolutely.
It must be fought!
Just my guess from reading some other posts.
Govt is a service, not a business!
🗣️The Russians are coming the Russians are coming
They will...
Iran, Iraq, Nazi China, Russia, North Korea etc
All waiting
FOX is a propaganda entity
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292444/trump-musk-education-department-schools-students-research-cuts
Its actions are not authorized by The Constitution.
DOGE will continue to be criminal, until and unless Congressional authority is sought and obtained.
They are going to be Rich-Rich after all of these shutdowns!
Children, Poorest Children And Handicapped Children Losing Valued Education Resources, Edu. support Systems, Early Start Edu. Programs -More!! SPEAK UP AMERICANS! Trump/Elon Aren’t FIXING ANYTHING THEY’RE FASCISTS DESTROYING AMERICANS/USA!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/covingtonedu.bsky.social/post/3lhu7kvxmd22g
We've already crossed the threshold. There is no going back. The future is to be decided.
If they sue for damages, or even just legal costs, the taxpayers absorb the cost of any payout…..
It’s a lose-lose for taxpayers either way.
I file my Federal tax. If I dont IRS comes for me eventually with ability to take my assets block banking etc.
People who try to stop them are removed from their jobs.
Any Deans Provosts Faculty that know how to protest sit in get in good trouble or able Speak Motivationaly or Organize Students Marches 🤔
So every 4 years from here on out is critical to stick together and vote for the same candidates or corruption will continue.
And some of those guards are private mercenaries who have no business being there either
🤷🏽♀️
That's why hired security guards won't work.
Until Trump cancels the Courts, that is.
Billionaires don’t have to worry about healthcare and retirement income and, swimming in the cesspool of their self-adulation and generational corruption, they’re dead set on removing the federal systems that help (a little) the rest of us pay for those necessities.
Period.
I don't want to live in a goddamn Dickensian novel where starving children are dependant on the capricious goodwill of some benevolent billionaire benefactor.
When I use the word "sin" in this context, I mean that is an action so contrary to the interest of humanity, that it ought to be expunged, reviled, cast on the fires in the public square.
There is something holy about humanity itself.
A billionaire is a sin against our collective good.
Sara Blakely, Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott (Bezos) are billionaires who do a ton of charitable work and are decent humans.
Notice what they have in common.
I’d be happy to donate to his one-way voyage. 🚀
Your oppression is their profession
All data on education will be pre-trump now
Somebody’s gonna rise up and do what needs to be done about Trump and billionaire criminals.
It should not be a Member of Congress. Dems desperately need help with messaging.
Hang in there.
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The plastic straws thing is being laughed at by some too.
The people doing the work for the convicted criminal, are still breaking the law
All of America will pay for pursing his crimes, past and present.
and never dreamt that I would feel so lost in my own country.
I don’t know this country any longer.
It's the feeling of losing freedom because it's been 250 years since we had to fight for it. Freedom isn't free shouldn't be a 4 th of July talking point
The public push back in the US is WAY too weak.
They must fear for their lives when proceeding.
ꓯSꓵ
Hitler won the election in 1933 and the Endlösung was decided in 1942.
What DID begin in 1933 was the dehumanization through language and media; like what Meta, X and so on are doing now.
The „Endlösung“ was decided 1942.
The first KZ Dachau was established in early 1933 about two months after Hitler was coming to power, first holding mostly political opponents without trial.
Trump’s Final Solution to immigration
We are too far removed from Hitler for many Americans to FEEL it.
There is no emotional understanding of the word "Nazi" with our youth anymore.
People aren't "getting it".
@maddow.msnbc.com
@joyannreid.bsky.social
@11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social
1/6 attackers were driven by passion. Very bad passion...
People fight for what they feel.
When they figure it out trump is done. It's just going to take time.
There's nothing left but protests.
Let THEM fix their fuckup. We just need to keep fighting and pushing.
Not many options. Pray the courts hold.
Two years. Mid-terms.
None of our options move quickly.
Didn’t Big J teach us “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s…”?—at least until Caesar ends up at a Nuremberg trial.
Meanwhile, they’re cutting education so hard, future generations won’t even know what Nuremberg or trials were...
His companies have gotten like $20B in gov contracts in last 10 years, but his behavior is now so outrageous that it’s almost a given all of those SpaceX & Starlink contracts are GONE after Trump.
https://bsky.app/profile/generalstrikeus.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible.org
https://bsky.app/profile/moveon.org
https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social
And start calling, everyday. They provide phone numbers and a script.
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Education and doge are dangerous but also distractions from trump. HOMESCHOOL time!!
They are dangerous predators and they should not be allowed to exist. The world needs another Nuremberg
That’s why our founding fathers stressed the need of public education. That’s why Republicans hate it.
But, yes.
I haven't heard of this but I want to participate if it's a real thing. I'd hate to drive clear across the state though if it isn't being widely promoted.
Thank you!
He hates our America .. Trump & Musk
May be ***
or the Federal Police are going along with the Takeover
Some type of interference of an official, blah, blah, blah?
When the pain hits them and they figure it out, this admin is FINISHED.
We don't have to do anything. He's hurting red states hard.
His base will go after him.
That's how this must end to be rid of trumpism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi
Here is a quote from their Web site:
“The U.S. Marshals Service is a bureau within the Department of Justice and receives direction from the Attorney General through the Director of the United States Marshals Service.”
All of enforcement has been captured by the cabal.
He’ll never leave this country better off than when he acquired it. He’ll plunder the country as he’s done with each of his businesses - profiting royally from their demise.
His base will rise against him.
THAT'S how trumpism goes away... his base needs to do it. 1/6 style.
Contractors were fired. No notice