#CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.

“The only way fascism works, the only way authoritarianism works, is if the country is in chaos and mis-educated. So year after year, attacks on public education were not by accident. They were by design, they were strategic.”

~ Jamaal Bowman

Returning control of education to the states will assure poorer education, and also religious intrusion in the educational process.

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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https://zeteo.com/p/deportations-and-dumbing-down-trump-attacks-education

"The politics of shutting down the Department of Education is another massive leak in his boat."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/trumps-politically-insane-decision

"The bulk of the education department’s budget is made up of federal grant and loan programs, including the $18.4bn Title I program that provides funding to low-income K-12 schools and the $15.5bn Idea program that helps cover the education costs for students with disabilities."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/first-thing-trump-signs-executive-order-to-dismantle-us-department-of-education

"The governors who were there to cheer on this latest attack on public education all have one thing in common beyond their party affiliation: they are all pursuing disastrous education privatization schemes in their states."

~ David Pepper

Returning total control of education to the states will not only assure poorer educational outcomes, but will speed privatization.

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #privatization
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/the-giveaway-trumps-anti-education

"In Trump’s America, quality education will be the prerogative of people who are wealthy, people who are white, people who are neurotypical. If your kid needs service for English as a second language or special education, you’re going to be out of luck if the administration gets its way."

The word "federal" linked to "education" has stuck in the craw of Trump's white Southern base since the integration period.

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #class #income
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"The story the evangelical movement tells about itself is that it is a Bible-honoring rebuke to mainline churches that were absorbing progressive values and abandoning the historic tenets of the faith. In actuality, the evangelical movement became a vehicle driven by a culture war agenda that used its religion mostly to grant theological justification for its political ambitions."

~ Benny Belvedere

#ChristianNationalism #race #gender #Trump #evangelicals
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/we-need-to-restore-a-healthy-protestantismthe-us-into-a-recession-in-charts

"To maintain this charade, they have brandished the Bible like a cudgel, bludgeoning poor people, people of color, the Indigenous, women, LGBTQ+ people, and others with tales of their supposed sinfulness meant to distract, demean, divide, and dispossess."

#religion #politics #ChristianNationalism #race #gender #Trump #evangelicals #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #WhiteSupremacy #LGBTQ #women
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"The Christian nationalism, exceptionalism, and white supremacy ascendant in Trump 2.0 has evolved from a long genealogy that has enabled an elite strata of mostly white Christian men to rule society and amass enormous wealth and power throughout American history.

Such Christians have always anointed themselves with the lie of divine righteousness, while insisting that they are God’s chosen representatives on Earth."

#ChristianNationalism #race #gender #Trump #evangelicals
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As Silky Shah says, the Khalil case shows how migrant justice and Palestine solidarity are tied together:

"The Trump regime is now using the immigration enforcement apparatus to target people who criticize its policies or support ideas that it doesn’t approve of.:

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy #race #gender #DEI #purge #migrants #Palestine
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https://truthout.org/articles/khalil-case-shows-how-migrant-justice-and-palestine-solidarity-are-tied-together/