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Business Insider: A judge blocks Trump’s plans to abolish the Department of Education, fire workers, and transfer student loans

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  • President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to dismantle the Department of Education.
  • The department has faced opposition since its initial establishment — and prompt closure — in 1867.
  • Concerns of government overreach and unnecessary spending have fueled opponents throughout history.

President Trump signed an executive order to start eliminating the Department of Education on Thursday, though he needs congressional approval before it can actually shutter.

Meanwhile King Donald and his sycophants are not above abusing the Department of Education as a bully pulpit to harass universities to support their anti-diversity and anti-transgender agendas.

A judge blocks Trump’s plans to abolish the Department of Education, fire workers, and transfer student loans
A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order to shut down the Department of Education and ordered fired workers to be reinstated.

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-blocks-trump-plan-to-shut-down-department-of-education-2025-5

Raleigh News & Observer: Another University Faces Investigation for Defying Trump

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The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Western Carolina University for allegedly violating Title IX and not complying with the Trump administration’s executive order on transgender women. The Office for Civil Rights claims the university has not ensured sex-separated facilities within federally funded institutions. Allegations include a female student being investigated for asking a male student to leave a women’s bathroom and cases of transgender female students being assigned to girls’ dormitories.

Western Carolina University stated it complied with all state and federal regulations and asserted it will adjust campus policies as necessary. Reports indicated violations related to ensuring sex-separated intimate spaces.

An investigation was opened after former student Payton McNabb filmed a male student in a women’s bathroom. McNabb noted that such policies violate individual rights and negatively impact female students seeking single-sex spaces.

So the investigation is based on the whining of a FORMER student., not on current conditions at the school.

Another University Faces Investigation for Defying Trump
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/another-university-faces-investigation-for-defying-trump/ss-AA1FixDk

Daily Caller: Trump Ed Department Rescinds ‘Largest’ Fine Ever Levied Against Christian School

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“Unlike the previous Administration, we will not persecute and prosecute colleges and universities based on their religious affiliation,” Ellen Keast, an ED spokesman, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Trump Administration will continue to ensure every institution of higher education is held accountable based on facts – but Department enforcement will be for the purpose of serving students, not political bias.”

That’s fucking hilarious! Their harassment of students and faculty at Columbia and Harvard universities for supporting Palestinians in Gaza instead of the Israeli theocracy is as political as it gets. King Donald & Co. are a bunch of lying hypocrites.

Trump Ed Department Rescinds ‘Largest’ Fine Ever Levied Against Christian School
The Department of Education on Friday rescinded

https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/trump-ed-department-rescinds-largest-fine-ever-levied-against-christian-school

USA Today: ‘We have to try lifting ourselves’: USAID workers fired months ago are still scrambling for jobs

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They were among the first of the federal employees to lose their jobs, and months later, laid off workers for the U.S. Agency for International Development are still struggling to regain their footing.

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Roughly 95% said they had lost savings and retirement funds, 60% lost access to health care, and 37% have already lost their housing. Many said they will have trouble paying their bills in the coming months. 

‘We have to try lifting ourselves’: USAID workers fired months ago are still scrambling for jobs
USAID’s former workers are used to helping people and projects around the world – but now they’re turning inward to support each other.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/19/usaid-workers-next-job/83332416007

National Review: Trump Administration Opens Investigation Into University after National Review Reporting

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The Trump administration launched a civil rights investigation into Western Carolina University for alleged non-compliance with the federal government’s Title IX policy after National Review reported on internal emails that appeared to show defiance of the president’s executive action.

The Department of Education announced the investigation Thursday and cited emails first reported by National Review indicating Western Carolina would not change its Title IX policy to comply with President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two biological sexes and updating federal policy accordingly.

“WCU’s reported contempt for federal antidiscrimination laws and indifference to, and retaliation against, girls who have spoken up about males invading their intimate spaces is simply unacceptable,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.

What they’re not in compliance with are not laws but executive orders — fiats — by King Donald that are in contradiction with established case law:

The school’s chief compliance officer said in January that “we are not making changes based on this EO,” the emails showed. In February, the administrator said “we will continue to analyze allegations of sex discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” a flagrant violation of Trump’s order. The compliance officer cited the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision barring employment discrimination based on gender identity and a lower court ruling prohibiting discrimination against transgender-identifying students.

Trump Administration Opens Investigation Into University after National Review Reporting | National Review
The Department of Education announced the investigation Thursday and cited emails first reported by National Review.

Speech of Sen. BernieSanders on the floor of the U.S. Senate

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Click here to read Bernie’s speech:

Sen. Bernie Sanders Speech
Speech of Sen. Bernie Sanders on the floor of the U.S. Senate: Mr. President, In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to travel in many parts of our country. And I have been able to talk to folks in Nebraska, in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona. And what I am hearing from in all of these states and in fact all over the country is that our nation right now faces enormous crises, unprecedented crises in the modern history of our country. And how right now at this moment we respond to these crises will […]