Jennifer Durrett

Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department The complete elimination of the department would require the approval of Congress.

This will have devastating consequences. Nearly a million K-12 students in Minnesota rely on funding from the Department of Education.

Students in rural communities, low-income families, and those who need special education services will be hit the hardest.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.

Due process “is how any of us can have confidence that the folks being packed onto airplanes and whisked off to El Salvador are members of TdA—as opposed to US citizens; political dissidents; or others whom the Trump administration would just as soon be rid of.”

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

House and Senate republicans are actually calling out the Trump administration for their plans to withdraw from NATO's Supreme Allied Command Europe - the primary command that oversees support for Ukraine, and the first step in abandoning NATO allies.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

6/🧵 When judges across the ideological spectrum reach similar legal conclusions about attacks on our Constitution, we should see it for what it is: a flashing warning sign that we are facing a clear and present danger to our democratic and constitutional order.

5/🧵 Trump's attacks on judges—including Republican appointees—for unfavorable rulings reveals an authoritarian assault that should alarm us all. Demanding judicial loyalty over constitutional fidelity represents a dangerous erosion of separation of powers, the cornerstone of our Madisonian republic.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

mRNA is at the forefront of cancer research, as well as vaccines

National Institutes of Health officials have now told scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications.

This means that all research in the field will be stopped and abandoned.

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump is lying to you.

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy.

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

Totally agree!! I love her and the podcast is a real insight into how half of America thinks.

Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

Math is hard

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Make America Great Again by closing down our national park system for the summer.

Because the kids are struggling in school after COVID, amiright???

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

The Death of Government Expertise Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

GAME STORY: Hogs’ furious comeback falls short as No. 3 Alabama tops Arkansas, 85-81, on Saturday at Bud Walton Arena Getting back on track in the SEC is one thing, but bouncing the prohibitive league favorite and a Final Four contender in 3rd-ranked Alabama is quite another. Arkansas orchestrated a massive comeba…

GAME STORY: Hoop Hogs' furious comeback falls short as 3rd-ranked Alabama prevails, 85-81, on Sat at BWA as Arkansas (14-9, 3-7 SEC) had its 2-game winning streak snapped while falling to 1-4 in league home games

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Great thread to help us with calm in the crazy.

@jenhedeen.bsky.social this is helpful for me to remember for my sanity.

Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday | CNN Politics At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department ...

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

O em geee

We all need more fur baby pics in our lives. 🥰

Never Trumpers Were Right, Actually A response to Bret Stephens. Plus drone talk from the front lines.

"It is simply not true that Trump’s critics oversold the danger he represented. If anything, they underestimated it." Definitive takedown of Trump revisionism from @jvl.bsky.social, and I could not agree more. #NeverTrump www.thebulwark.com/p/never-trum...

Imagine a time traveler going back to January 7th, 2021, and telling you that this would happen less than four years later.

Public service announcement: when a rep or senator says something, they literally have the same info you do from the same sources.

We always pretended to have special knowledge, but rarely did.

Keep that in mind with the drone hysteria