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Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking a Page From the Confederacy

Layla A. Jones Talking Points Memo
By partnering with right-wing groups, Trump and his allies are exercising control over the retelling of history in hopes of shaping the political opinions of the youngest Americans, threatens to propagandize public education for generations to come.

The Equity Docket: The Architecture of Exclusion

Terrance Sullivan The Progressive
The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.

The Age of Tragifarce (and Pete Hegseth’s Rational Kernel)

Tom Gallagher The Stansbury Forum
To contest the legitimacy of Trump/Hegseth initiatives we need to intertwine empathy for rank and file members of the military placed in situations they never should have been, with antipathy for those decisions and decision-makers.

The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump

Paul Garver Chartist
While elite institutions capitulate, resistance to Trump’s neo-fascist agenda is building among large segments of the population. On “No Kings Day”, October 18, close to seven million people rallied in more than a thousand towns and cities.

Meet RFK’s Corporate Underlings

Julian Scoffield and Toni Aguilar Rosenthal The American Prospect
Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.

Russ Vought Is Going To Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Alex Shephard The New Republic
Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government. President Trump posted an AI video of Vought as the Grim Reaper. The Project 2025 architect has lived up to the billing

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A Spark of Hope From Scrappy Federal Workers

Hadas Thier Hammer & Hope
The federal work force, like much of the country, is in a do-or-die moment. As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.
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