President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. The Education Department oversees the country's $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio, provides funding to low-income students and enforces civil rights across the country. Only Congress can unilaterally eliminate the Education Department. But the Trump administration can starve the agency of resources. read more
A professor CUNY history professor named Angus Johnston posted a pretty good thread over at Bluesky yesterday about the current Constitutional crisis. I think he nails it perfectly. I've pasted his handful of posts together here for readability purposes read more
The story which had appeared there was entitled "Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier." It has, thankfully, been archived at the Wayback Machine.
This is why Kamala Harris really lost. The Democratic firm Blue Rose Research recently synthesized such data into a unified account of Kamala Harris's defeat. read more
Tesla, the most valuable automaker in the world valued at over $1 trillion, did not pay any federal income tax last year. read more
Foxworthy stole from Corky. Fact!