I am sure you know that Trump has ordered his ridiculously unqualified Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to eliminate her department per Project 2025 and Christian Nationalist mandate. (Fun fact: in a recent STEM class observation, teachers tried to stifle embarrassment as McMahan repeatedly referred to AI as A-One) Also, Trump’s budget eliminates Head Start, a program that, for 61 years, has delivered early childhood education to lower income children, preparing them for future school success.
Christian Nationalism ideology allows for only “some people” to have a good education, so financially starving public education and ending Head Start should help them achieve that goal. Some states already have voucher programs that provide public school funds to parents to cover at least a portion of private school tuition, and the list is growing. But, information on the National Coalition for Public Education website (https://www.ncpecoalition.org/facts#Public-Schools )indicates that most voucher recipients are already attending private schools and are disproportionately white and wealthy. Without federal funding in public schools, we are intentionally taking away opportunities for the poor and creating a segregated education system.
When will we see more files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation? We are still waiting for the promised release of a second batch of Epstein files. On February 27, AG Pam Bondi released 200 heavily redacted pages which had already been publicly circulated. Even the MAGA crowd was furious. In response, Bondi blamed the FBI, and ordered treat Director Kash Patel release the rest by the next morning. She has since affirmed on Fox News that “a truckload” of files were delivered per her timeline, and the FBI is working on them. It has been two months, so I guess they are too busy trying to end due process to do much else. Also, why do they keep referring to the files as “declassified?” They were NEVER classified.
COVID.Gov is an embarrassing link of misinformation in an attempt to exonerate Trump from his total mismanagement of the pandemic which killed more people in the U.S. than in any other country. It accuses the dedicated and professionally acclaimed Dr. Anthony Fauci of lying about its origins, and it maligns others whose reports and testimonies the conspiracy theorists don’t like. Although identified as a coronavirus, it was unlike any other seen before, and scientists were scrambling to study its properties and to find a vaccine. Meanwhile, in frequent television appearances, Trump instructed us to engage in harmful practices to combat the virus. Remember, his promotion of the horse dewormer, Ivermectin? Or ingesting bleach? All because Trump is a severely malignant, narcissist who makes our country a joke on the world stage.