Summary
Trump is considering executive actions to dismantle the Department of Education, following Elon Musk’s push to slash government spending.
Officials are discussing shutting down non-statutory functions or moving them to other agencies. Dozens of employees were placed on leave under Trump’s order banning diversity programs.
Trump, who promised to eliminate the department, awaits Senate confirmation of Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon.
While Congress must approve agency closures, Trump’s team may replicate its aggressive approach used against USAID.
Yes, but what can I do about it personally? You’d need a million people to march on Washington D.C. for anybody to notice at this point.
Well, there’s this on Wednesday https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
Women’s March is also organizing https://www.womensmarch.com/
Which will be totally meaningless and completely ignored if everybody just goes back to business as usual February 6th.
I feel your first comment too. What can 1 person do? Honestly not much imo. And these strikes haven’t accomplished much since its business as usual they day after lol. I dont use amazon, i dont get things delivered to the house, i try to shop local, etc.
People might call this a “negative attitude” but have you seen what’s going on? It’s pretty god damn negative. I think it’s ok to feel a sense of dread and hopelessness, it’s ok to feel all the emotions. But the insanely tricky part is figuring out how to express those emotions in a constructive way.
I’ve always talked about a making a veggie garden in my backyard, maybe doing that will help me feel less shitty about food prices going up. Just an example I guess.
It’s a start. Protests can get people connected and involved and build towards more effective action.
If i didn’t have a 9-5, I honestly would drive the hour to the capital of my state and protest. Might even drive the other 2.5 to D.C. Nothing short of overwhelming backlash is this going to stop.
Request the day off? I understand there might be more to your situation but just having a 9-5 seems like an exceptionally lazy excuse considering the position of your country.
Unfortunately this is why the capitalist oligarchs have insured we do not have universal healthcare. If we lose our job we lose our healthcare. So we can’t protest in fear of losing our lives.
Lucky me, my company just did an audit of my hours from last month and decided I didn’t work enough to qualify for health care.
I guess I got nothing to lose in that regard.
Yeah, okay. That explains it really well and is so fucked. I’m sure you don’t need to be told that though.
Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury. Nothing about a 9-5 preventing them being there is “exceptionally lazy”. It’s a reality people face. Especially when everything’s about to skyrocket here in price. Job security is kinda important too.
Hence the reason I started my response with acknowledgement of possible other factors. If the only reason is having a 9-5 though… Take one (1) day off. You’re walking into a dictatorship.
I’ve seen a lot of peaceful protest in my life, and it’s never changed a damn thing. Unless ppl want to start fighting for it I’ve written the country off
Then it seems you are younger than 40 years old. Because the fall of the socialist bloc in east europe was achieved by peaceful protests.
Edit: I do not mean that I think peaceful protest alone will save the USA, but it’s the start. If that doesn’t change enough things, then you start the non peaceful protest.
Only because the cops wouldn’t fire on them.
So you would say they were… peaceful?
I’d suggest you don’t reject imperfect action while you wait for something better. The more people who show at a protest, the stronger the message to everyone that they are not alone in resisting. Just being there won’t change things immediately, but it will add momentum to the resistance by encouraging and emboldening people, and that’s an essential step.