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Trump promised to eliminate the Department of Education during his campaign. According to Public Notice, Trump’s use of the agency to harass marginalized groups is even worse. Trump DOE ignores legitimate civil rights complaints in favor of whinging about woke The DOE received more than 18,000 complaints alleging civil rights violations in 2022. When the…
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Anti-vaxxer and raw-milk advocate RFK Jr. is now the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Trump has already issued an executive order claiming that in his first 100 days he will: The EO also claims that U.S. citizens experience cancer, asthma, autism, and autoimmune diseases at higher rates than other nations…
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One of Trump’s big talking points during the election was eliminating the Department of Education and turning control of schools over to the states. This TikTok video from a teacher who goes by the screen name mrs.frazzled, talks about some of the ways Trump gets education in the U.S. wrong. The United States vs. the…
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The America First Trade Policy EO is relatively long, so here are the highlights for those who don’t want to read the whole thing: On January 20, 2025, Trump issued the America First Trade Policy executive order. It opens with dubious claims that Trump’s policies in his first term “spurred an American revitalization.” Trump goes…
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In what seemed like a baffling move, President Trump announced he would levy a 25% blanket tariff against Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on all Chinese imports. Trump claimed these moves were necessary to punish Canada and Mexico for not doing enough to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigrants into the…
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If you’ve been on social media at all, you have probably seen the outcry from confused, scared, angry people unhappy with the response to Trump and Elon’s coup from Democratic leadership. This is understandable, given the general lack of information provided to the public. However, we are starting to see signs of activity, as outlined…
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A lot has been said about whether Trump is a cult leader. I think that he is and Daniella Mestyanek Young, known as the Knitting Cult Lady on TikTok, and author of the book uncultured, agrees. In this video, she talks about how exhaustion is a technique cults commonly use to break you down. In…
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This is the first of many posts I will be making about actions you can take to combat the political coup by Donald Trump and his associates. These suggestions come from Jamelle Bouie’s TikTok account. Bouie stresses that the most important thing we can do is convince the public that something terrible is happening right…
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A coup is a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government. Are we witnessing one in the United States? According to the journalist for the Today’s Edition Newsletter, Robert B. Hubbell, the answer is, “Yes.” Hubbell, writes, “On Friday, January 31, 2025, Trump moved to complete the coup he began on January…
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I’m no kind of expert on public policy, authoritarianism, fascism, or really much of anything else. I’m just an average citizen who was starting to slip into a doom spiral thanks to the unending barrage of terrible executive orders and backroom shenanigans coming out of Washington, just two weeks into President Trump’s second term. I…