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This song is getting old. Two weeks ago, the Arkansas Department of Education told child care providers their funding was being cut. Why? Because the federal Child Care Development Block Grant—slashed by President Donald Trump, who carried Arkansas 64–34—is drying up. Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva told lawmakers that, starting with the new fiscal year, those federal dollars are gone, with no guarantee they’ll return. “The current model that we have is unsustainable,” he admitted, adding it would cost Arkansas $80 million to make up the shortfall. Arkansas is a moocher state. It has the 14th largest gap in the… [...]
The week began with President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth making their most authoritarian military threats yet. Since then, the government has shut down, thanks to Republicans’ refusal to support Americans facing the consequences of their reckless budget cuts to Medicaid and other critical programs. And it was all on video! Trump sleepwalks through unhinged rant to military leaders x x YouTube Video President Donald Trump said he wants to use U.S. cities as training grounds for the military, a dangerous and disgraceful incitement of violence against civilians that further slides the country into an authoritarian hell hole.… [...]
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. Fam, is it good when a judge compares ICE to the Ku Klux Klan? Because that’s exactly what Judge William Young, a radical woke leftist—oh wait, he’s actually an 85-year-old Reagan appointee—had to say about President Donald Trump’s weaponization of immigration laws. The Trump administration has suppressed the free speech of international students, particularly those who have made pro-Palestinian statements or participated in protests, by threatening, imprisoning, and deporting them, even if they are here… [...]