boydster @ boydster @sh.itjust.works

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This is the forward thinking we need right now.

The summoning ritual was a success

No, the decline started decades before COVID... Republicans, as an institution, have been destroying education in the US going back at least to Reagan. This has been a much longer play with a lot of dedication on the GOP side. As was stacking the courts with as many Federalist Society judges as possible. And creating obstacles to allowing people to exercise their Constitutional right and public duty to vote.

I just looked up the Heritage Foundation. They started in 1973. That's when the Christian Right started getting really involved in things, and Project 2025 is their dream project.

I heard reporting earlier (no links handy, sorry) that the US is requiring Iran to stop enriching uranium at all in order to proceed with any sort of negotiations. Not that we are requiring them to simply not enrich any further beyond the point where they can use nuclear energy, but that they cannot do any enrichment whatsoever, "not even one percent." That's gonna be a definite non-starter and set the stage for attacking Iran because "they didn't cooperate."

Apologies, I see mistakenly took your post adversarially

Maybe you haven't noticed the aggressive dismantling of what we have of an education system recently. It's actively being made radioactively worse.

Yes, that's literally why I said "Another". 27 Americans also just died in a weather event that they were unprepared for due to DOGE cuts as well. And orders of magnitude more people worldwide are dying or will soon die due to USAID cuts.

I only meant to point out this that is yet another stark example of Trump and his minions murdering Americans on American soil.

Another American is dead because of DOGE. DOGE is anti-American and pro-death.

Currently ruining education as fast as they can while Congress works on passing a budget to take food away from the kids.

Even Cato is trying to get away from this mess

No, that's MAHAA and it comes a little later

Upvoted purely for the use of the Oxford comma.

Luckily they've got Sharpies for that!

At least 23 people died. As if this administration didn't have blood all over its hands already, but they keep choosing to add to the body count

Food we've already bought and paid for - our tax dollars at work, literally - intentionally being left to rot. I hate all of this so much. They continue actively and aggressively hurting vulnerable people while putting money into the pockets of those with astronomical treasure piles already. Such efficiency. Very awesomeness.

I've only just learned that from another Lemmy poster recently, and had the same reaction, so now you too are cursed with the etymological knowledge and must share it far and wide.

Can't wait for We the People to bail out the banks again and lose our shirts along the way.

It's got to work this time!

The right answer in normal times would probably be a class action, but the govt lawyer was saying they'd probably fight that, meaning it will get hung up for a long time in the courts almost certainly, meanwhile they can seemingly keep stomping on our collective rights. It was very frustrating to listen to.

I don't have an answer, but wanted to point out: a fake grassroots effort is called astroturfing (due to it being fake grass)