Remember when the states had full control over their schools and blacks couldn't get a decent education; looks like ' What goes around comes around'.

Again, we are talking about vouchers that will divert public money to private schools and religious academies -- mostly religious academies. And every penny diverted is a penny less public schools will have to purchase supplies or pay teachers a living wage.

Public schools do not indoctrinate students (Christian madrassas do),do not try to sway the students into believing radical political aberration. They educate the whole child, and ignore right wing propaganda.

Keep reformist politics out of our public schools. and public money out of private hands.

This is how they lay the groundwork to control the minds of the children:

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders that could transform public K-12 education in the United States. The first is an order directing federal grants to help fund state-level school choice programs, and the second attempts to ban so-called "radical indoctrination" in K-12 education.

The school choice order directs the secretary of education to issue guidance on how states can use federal formula funds to fund "K-12 educational choice initiatives." The order also contains provisions to expand school choice opportunities for low-income families, military families, and those eligible for Bureau of Indian Education schools.

"When our public education system fails such a large segment of society, it hinders our national competitiveness and devastates families and communities," the order reads. "For this reason, more than a dozen States have enacted universal K-12 scholarship programs, allowing families — rather than the government — to choose the best educational setting for their children."

The second order denies federal funding to K-12 schools that engage in "illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology." Under examples of this "discriminatory ideology," the order lists teaching like "members of one race, color, sex, or national origin are morally or inherently superior to members of another race, color, sex, or national origin," or that "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race, color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously." The order also reinstates the 1776 Commission, a group dedicated to promoting "patriotic education."

While Trump's school-choice executive order primarily works to allow states to use federal funds to expand school-choice programs, his order against Critical Race Theory attempts to reshape the ideological tenor of many public-school curricula. Governments generally have wide latitude to direct curriculum decisions in public schools, but there's reason to be cautious of orders like this. Many "divisive concepts" measures, like this executive order, are "so vague that they arguably forbid teaching about slavery or racism at all, even uncontroversial and anodyne statements of historical fact," warns the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment group.

However, it's almost certain that the "radical indoctrination" executive order is constitutional. While similar laws have generally not been upheld when they've been applied to universities, laws like Florida's STOP WOKE Act have been allowed to go forward in their applications for K-12 schools. Public university professors have full First Amendment rights, but public K-12 teachers face much stricter limits on academic freedom.

"Imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation's children not only violates longstanding anti-discrimination civil rights law in many cases, but usurps basic parental authority," reads the order. "Demanding acquiescence to 'White Privilege' or 'unconscious bias,' actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-expands-school-choice-narrows-what-schools-can-teach/ar-AA1y8AGc?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=9ea99da8aba243e9a04ed718633f6e92&ei=95

MAGA, he promised you protection and prosperity, and typically he lied about that, too.

Now, no matter the demands your boss puts upon you, you have but two choices; submit or be fired!

Previously the National Labor Relations Board would be there to protect you from unreasonable demands being put upon you; but no longer. You see, Trump has fired the acting chair, and in doing so shuts down the entire Bureau.

Increase your working hours, reduce your salary, diminish your benefits, not a damn thing you can do about it!

This is the result the oligarchs paid him for, this is Musk's desire laid out on a silver plate, this is the beheading Bezos dreamt of.

Even if you have a union, there is no other entity to which they can appeal.

You laughed when you thought he would stick it to the liberals; look in the mirror, liberal!

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In his ongoing rampage against the laws of the land, Trump this week fired National Labor Relations Board acting chair Gwynne Wilcox — despite her congressional appointment not being up. Wilcox’s firing closes down the NLRB, because it’s left with just two members, and the Supreme Court has ruled that the board needs at least three to issue any rulings. Trump also fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, leaving board attorneys who investigate employee and employer complaints without any guidance.

Presto — American workers are no longer protected from illegal firings or unfair labor practices by their employers. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is effectively gone. Employers can now wreak havoc on their workers. Of course, most employers are already doing this, but at least the threat of unionization kept some from blatant bullying.

The backstory here is about power. Score another one for the oligarchs.

Across America, big corporations are treating their hourly workers like shite. Unions are about the only countervailing economic force and one of the last remaining political forces pushing for worker health and safety. But the latest data (out Tuesday) shows that unionized workers continue to lose ground — now down to under 10 percent of the workforce.

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key Trump adviser — who over the years has compiled a truckload of violations from the NLRB, including firing workers who tried to form a union, and who kept his Tesla plant open during the pandemic in violation of state law — says he’s “opposed to the idea of unions.”

Billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in America, who also stood prominently before Trump when he was sworn in January 20, has been waging an unrelenting war on Amazon’s warehouse workers. (When workers in a Quebec warehouse recently voted to unionize, Bezos responded by having the company order the closure of every Amazon warehouse in the province.)

Amazon owns Whole Foods. On Monday, workers in a Philadelphia Whole Foods market voted to unionize. Bezos is already taking aim.

An overwhelming majority of working-class people — especially men without college degrees, who form the bulk of hourly workers in Musk’s Tesla and Bezos’s Amazon — voted for Trump on November 5.

There are really two questions here:(1) How much more proof does the American working class need that Trump is not on their side but on the side of the oligarchs, who are siphoning more and more of the nation’s wealth to themselves from everyone else?

(2) When will Democratic leaders and lawmakers have the backbone to tell this to working-class Americans, and come down firmly against the oligarchy?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/does-anyone-need-more-proof-that-trump-doesn-t-give-a-crap-about-workers-opinion/ar-AA1y6HwN?

Trump is saying he'll go to war with the drug cartels, but not the Zapatistas. Additionally, the Mexican state doesn't war the Zapatistas to nearly the same degree as they do against the cartels. This must mean that there is a level of diplomacy between the anarchist territory and the nation-state. Could this proof of honorable diplomacy on behalf of the Zapatistas be used to garner support for th justice and liberation movements of the world, including the Zapatistas themselves? Perhaps we could use this historical occurrence to bolster the popularity and reputation for organizations like the Zapatistas, if after all, they aren't targets of direct wars or considered terrorists by nation-states, then they could be a shining example of a just alternative as a solution for the plight of the oppressed.

This excellent thread about why young men are getting more right-wing shows that liberals' demonization of young white males is driving them towards the far right. Someone may be a MAGA follower all because a 16 year old blue haired girl said "kill all men" on her Instagram story.

Similarly, I know a Latino who literally voted for Trump because "he hates the word Latinx and doesn't believe in 100 genders".

While it's not necessarily systemic like anti-POC racism or homophobia, young men are feeling like there's discrimination. How do we get them on board and understand that capitalism is everyone's oppressor?

This is something I wonder. Anti-black racism and xenophobia against Asians, non-Puerto Rican Latinos (our family is Puerto Rican), and other non-white immigrants are very common in my family, unfortunately. What I wonder is how likely will it be for anti-Semitism to become a part of it too? In general, how common is it for anti-black racists and anti-immigrant people/xenophobes to also become anti-Semetic?

For context, this family is also a very religious Catholic one, and they're all very pro-Trump and MAGA, or otherwise right-wing or conservative. I know Elon Musk is a part of the MAGA group, and we all know what he did recently, so it may be more likely than some people think.

This is a question I want to ask zionists, especially US-based zionists

If Britain declared that all US residents leave, because they’re giving the land back to native Americans, how would you feel?

I’m irritated and annoyed

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Sorry, meant to tag as RANT

If I was told a neutral version of how Israel was created, I would still be appalled at the “logistics” that exiled a whole people.

If Palestine was colonized before the 1900s, would have Zionists have gotten away displacing an entire population more easily? (Hawaii)

Visiting r / Jewish was disheartening — they’re so determined to claim a historical birthplace, as a way to avenge their ancestors and so that they can’t be victimized again? But be abusers instead?

Why are leftist movements in America not very visible? If people are so against MAGA why is all I see are MAGA rallies and red hats. Shoot even neo-nazis park out in cities and make their presence known. Maybe leftists should make more of visible presence in light of MAGA. Like why isn’t #trumpistheantichrist trending? Where are the rallies, the organizing, the banner drops? It’s like ppl just want MAGA happen.

Right along you have been warned that the Trump/Musk Manifesto, Project 2025, calls for a complete weakening of American healthcare through the elimination of the Affordable Car Act and a return to a system whereby insurance companies determine the extent of your coverage,

Remember preexisting conditions?

If you haven't been keeping up to date, Project 2025 will...

"...reform U.S. healthcare into a free market mostly regulated by states. This means patients will need to develop more healthcare expertise, rural areas may be underserved, low-income and vulnerable populations may be underserved, sicker patients may pay more, the system may be ill-equipped to handle public health emergencies, and it could lead to an overall decline in quality and safety standards. [450]

...reform the Affordable Care Act. This could lead to loss of coverage, reduced consumer protections and an increased financial burden for Americans. [469]

...reduce funding for public health by splitting the CDC and reducing its funding. This could weaken the nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies and address critical health issues. [452]

...prevent the CDC from advising that school children should be masked or vaccinated, saying such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. This could lead to increased disease outbreaks and a resurgence of preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough. [454]"

(Numbers in parenthesis indicate actual page numbers in the document.)

Yesterday Trump took the first heartless step in limiting your healthcare coverage,

Read this report from Newsweek:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-executive-orders-change-health-care-enrollment-millions-impacted-2018549