Oh… just the VP, SECDEF, DNI, CIA, NSA, DoS, etc. exchanging messages on a civilian app regarding an upcoming military strike while also having accidentally added a civilian reporter…

A fucking leak?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts

“We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know that it was us that scorched the sky.”

The Matrix (1999), spoken by Morpheus

Big oil…

For sure. 70s sci-fi art is pretty bitchin, too.

The sun is best.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Bigfoot might share some anti-tech views but I’d like to think he would recognize the futility of trying to blow up the system and focus instead on cultivating top shelf weed deep in the forest. Stay off the grid and tune into the trees.

Keeps a copy of “Industrial Society and Its Future” under his moss pillow.

Check out Against Civilization it argues we’ve just industrialized our self-destruction

If the Department of Education goes away, rich states can still spend lots of money on schools, but poor states might not have enough. That means some kids get great teachers, new books, and nice schools, while others don’t. The government helps make sure all kids have a fair chance, no matter where they live. Without it, some schools might get worse, and some kids might not get the help they need to learn.

Agreed on all points.

Exactly. Democrats need to stop acting like scared centrists and actually fight for what they claim to believe in. Education and feeding kids should be non-negotiable, and if conservatives want to argue against that, let them expose themselves as the ones who are fine with starving children.

Instead of constantly playing defense, push the vision. Schools are already set up to distribute food efficiently. Letting kids go hungry because their parents are struggling is not just wrong, it is deliberate cruelty. Call it what it is. Stop accepting conservative framing and start forcing them to defend their own rotten priorities.

Agree with that. People make that seem impossible though, to revert citizens united. What about laws limiting its impact?

Surely it must be intentional. We have the largest GDP, have metrics showing where we are failing, and have examples of countries that are excelling which we could emulate.

I don’t think banning private education would be desirable. Agreed on the education requirements.

I feel the same as someone that’s from Massachusetts and has lived in Mississippi.

Sure, that would be the assumption. What are your thoughts on the ebst way to handle education in the United states?

That was the thought for USAID, as well, and that seems to be turning back around.

Edit: here’s a recent article I just came across…

https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-shutdown-b1d25a2e1bdcd24cfde8ad8b655b9843