Reese Waters.
He's right. It is hard to work up sympathy for people whining now that Chump is doing to them what he said he was going to do to others. Ann covered this two Fridays ago in "If you voted for Chump and you're being deported, that is the story."
Two Republicans -- both US senators -- are getting some bad news. First up, Andrew Stanton (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Republicans
have received a concerning update about the 2026 Senate election in
Iowa as a major election forecaster has reclassified the race as more
competitive.
Incumbent Senator Joni Ernst, who
is running for a third term, recently sparked backlash from many Iowans
after saying in response to concerns about potential Medicaid cuts,
"Well, we are all going to die."
[. . .]
Election
forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball announced this week that it was
reclassifying Iowa as a more competitive race, though Ernst is still
favored to win reelection next November.
The election shifted from "Safe Republican" to "Likely Republican" in the forecaster's latest Senate ratings.
That
is so perfect. Ernst thought she could mock her constituents. She
forgot that they are her boss. She works for them. Not the other
around. Her job is "public servant." She's clearly forgotten her
place. Now maybe she will learn it the hard way. As I said earlier this week, "That would be so great if her own hubris led Joni to lose her re-election bid."
Back to NEWSWEEK, Nick Mordowanec reports:
Senator
Lindsey Graham is running for a fifth term, though his approval numbers
pale in comparison to other Republicans lawmakers from South Carolina,
according to recent polling.
[. . .]
A
Winthrop University poll conducted in late May shows Graham's approval
ratings trailing Republican figures such as Trump (45 percent), South
Carolina Governor Henry McMaster (42 percent) and Senator Tim Scott (41
percent). Graham's rating is 34 percent.
About
40 percent of respondents disapprove with how Graham is handing his
duties, compared to 34 percent who approve and 25 percent who said they
weren't sure.
On the flip side, for the other
U.S. senator from the state, Scott has 41 percent approval while 31
percent are not sure and 27 percent disapprove.
Is Lindsey now our longest serving Senator of the LGBTQ+ grouping? No, our longest serving would be closet case Barbara Ann Mikulski. I believe Lindsey would have to win a fifth term to match Barbara.
Oh! Idea! Lindsey should propose to Barbara! They could beard for one another.
"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Friday, June 6, 2025. Con artists like Chump lie nonstop and embolden other grifters (like Matt Stoller) to lie as well.
2025, if you haven't caught on yet, 2025 is The Year of
the Con. And that's why Donald Chump is back in the White House.
Belongs in prison, but he's back in the White House. It's all about the
Convicted Felon tricking as many suckers as he can before even they
catch on. Sarah Jones (THE INTELLIGENCER) observes:
Six
months into the second Trump administration, it has become clear that
now is the time of con men. Scams and snake oil proliferate, as do the
hucksters who promote them. Before Mike Huckabee became our ambassador
to Israel, he advertised Relaxium, an herbal supplement whose makers
falsely pledged it would help a restless nation sleep. Other
supplement-makers see a champion in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., who not only opposes vaccines but has said the Food and Drug
Administration should free the nation from the “aggressive suppression”
of dubious vitamins and herbal substances. Kennedy has even hired David
Geier to conduct a study into the debunked link between autism and
vaccines, though authorities once punished Geier for experimenting on
autistic children in a basement laboratory. Like his late father, Mark,
Geier believes the puberty blocker Lupron can treat autism and says
vaccines caused the developmental condition. Neither claim is true, but
in the greater Make America Healthy Again universe, facts can be
inconvenient.
Dubious supplements
and false cures have always been part of the quack’s tool kit, but
Kennedy and his ilk aren’t limiting themselves to the mere promotion of
pseudoscience. They’re attacking scientific research at the same time.
Funding cuts and layoffs are weakening major institutions like the
National Institutes of Health and the FDA, which were established to
monitor our food supply and medicines for safety. The administration has
canceled research grants to universities, slowing the pace of
innovation. Scientists searching for cures and treatments for
Alzheimer’s, various cancers, and genetic diseases say their work is in
jeopardy — if it can continue at all. The MAHA war on expertise leaves
Americans ever more vulnerable to predators and scams, which in turn
exacerbates a much older problem: The quack has too much power and
prospers in times of inequality and mistrust.
In
2019, the Pew Research Center found 86 percent of Americans felt
confident in the work of the country’s scientists. That figure declined
during the pandemic, and though it rebounded slightly by 2024, it
remains lower than its pre-COVID levels. Behind the numbers are
hucksters who prospered during the pandemic thanks in part to Donald
Trump himself. Although the president’s first term oversaw the rapid
development of COVID vaccines, Trump also told people to inject
disinfectant to fight the virus. Grifters peddled ivermectin, a horse
dewormer, along with an anti-malarial drug called hydroxychloroquine,
which is not an effective COVID treatment. Trump would later tout it at a
press conference, leading to fatal consequences for at least one
listener. Hydroxychloroquine sounds a lot like chloroquine, a
non-pharmaceutical chemical sold to clean fish tanks. An Arizona couple
had purchased the substance to treat their koi pond and decided to drink
it after tuning in to Trump’s performance. The wife lived; her husband
did not. Meanwhile, luminaries like the disgraced televangelist Jim
Bakker sold colloidal silver as a COVID remedy.
There
is no evidence that colloidal silver can treat any physical ailment or
that ivermectin has a use beyond the elimination of parasites. Yet
people still take them, often to their own detriment. Scott Adams, the
right-wing creator of “Dilbert,” recently admitted he had used
ivermectin to treat his prostate cancer. It didn’t work, and Adams says
he expects to die from the disease this summer. Amy Carlson, the
QAnon-adjacent cult leader better known as Mother God, consumed so much
colloidal silver that her skin had turned blue by the time she died.
Both discovered what scientists and physicians already knew: Quackery
may promise good health, but it can’t make good on its pledge. At best,
it does nothing; at worst, it kills. Despite this, quacks endure, and so
does the risk they pose to public health. If MAHA sweeps the scientific
Establishment aside, history suggests a wild and dangerous era awaits.
It's all a con for Donald.
A
lot to cover but let's start with BLUESKY. Alien Musk's TWITTER is so
yesterday and just one of so many things he owns that no longer have the
same value. So congratulations and thank yous to all that migrated
over to BLUESKY.
One
account thats always a must-see for me is POST-LEFT WATCH. PLW demands
accountability and calls out those that need calling out.
Like
these posts on our Socialist pal Matt Stoller. Like many Socialists --
Ana Kasparian and Cenk being only two -- he's moving further right with
each year. DSA, kids, has always been a tributary to MAGA, it has fed
thousands and thousands to MAGA.
Socialist Matt Stoller, like many US Socialists, is White.
And what he wrote above screams Whitness.
#BLACKLIVESMATTER?
Matt's
White. But he thinks he can give the 'history' of Black Lives Matter
-- not the actual history of course but his unhinged perception of it.
And he thinks that, as a White man, his words matter more than facts.
BLACK LIVES MATTER did not transfer into BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER.
Racist, just shut up.
Black
men and Black women were being assassinated. That's the reality. And
they wre being assassinated by the police. It worried our community --
but clearly not Matt's -- because we were seriously worried that our
children wouldn't grow to an old age because they were forever being
attacked by those who are supposed to protect and serve.
Black Lives Matter continues to this day. It has not vanished.
Black
Trans Women? They are the targets of violence and that may sometime
include being targeted by police officers. But they are not behind the
bulk of the attacks.
Leave it to a White man to see two different Black movements and only see Black so think they're the same thing.
The
ACLU was one of the loudest and earliest voices with regards to the
violence Black trans women were facing (and continue to face).
Both movements continue to this day.
Black
Trans women was a topic that required education because the horrors of
Black people being executed by the police is not just of this century.
You can't be Black and not grasp that. We have to raise our children
differently and our parents had to raise us differently and their
parents had to raise them differently . . .
We
weren't taught that the police officer is our friend. We were taught
that at any stop things could turn violent so don't give any excuse for
them to go violent on you.
A
White teenager gets stopped for something? They're going to treat that
officer however they want -- might be respectfully, might not be. They
might tell him to go to hell, for example. We have had to socialize
and educate our children to the fact that they didn't have that option.
Their skin color made them suspect and a target to the police. They
didn't start off on equal footing with other children because of their
skin color.
We have known that in the Black community forever and a day.
With regards to Black trans women, education was needed.
Trans
people throughout society, regardless of color, do not get the
attention they have earned. Their stories are under-reported by the
media. And the violence being aimed at trans women was largely
ignored. It was treated as a one-off story when covered. Candi got
beat up, a nightly news program might report. They wouldn't note that
Candi was the third Black trans woman this month to be beaten up.
The
ACLU and others compiled statistics to show the violence against trans
women and those statistics told many horrible stories including the fact
that Black trans women were at risk of being attacked than other trans
women.
Matt lies and
makes them the same movement. They are not. It took a lot of education
by a lot of groups to explain what was going on. Even now with several
years of those explanations racists and transphobes like Matt don't get
it.
All he does in his
remarks is lie. And he's lying because, as a Socialist, he wanted to
destroy the system and then remake it. But Socialism didn't really grab
hold in the US. So now he looks around and there is money to be made
on the right and on the right there are the MAGA and they think they're a
MAREL character too, staggering around, muttering "Hulk smash!"
That's why Jimmy Doer went over to the dark side, whey Jackson Hinkle did, why Bri-Bri did, just go down the list.
Matt's a con artist and a liar. And you can read his remarks and you can see right through him.
And
I'm not going to waste my time on the nonsense narrative of The
Fragility of Adult White Males. I'm not that overweight Socialist
Krystal Ball. She's been pimping that trend story for years now. It
doesn't exist and it's appalling -- but telling -- when people create
and popularize trend stories. See Susan Faludi's BACKLASH for why liars
create trend stories and how they use them to propagandize the public.
The "more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to marry over X age"
NEWSWEEK trend stories is only one that Faludi exposes and demolishes in
BACKLASH. A recent trend story would include "They are eating dogs and
cats." No one was eating dogs and cats. Lies.
We're going to note at least one other POST-LEFT WATCH post but let's move on to a different topic for a second.
Chump
continues his war on immigrants. He does so by creating trend stories
-- trend stories pop up all over the media but are never true and can
never pass an actual fact check. So Donald and his lying administration
make false claims and the point is to frighten everyone of immigrants.
We
are a nation of immigrants -- some decided to come here, some were not
allowed to make that choice and were just dragged here. Unless you're
100% Native American, someone in your family tree came to this
country.
And we were
proud to be a home of immigrants. We were proud that people wanted to
come to this country and to take part in this experiment in democracy.
It
fed our belief systems and it fed our egos. And the overly inflated
egos? Worth it if it meant that people in need were being welcomed to
our country.
On
World Refugee Day (June 20), we will be called to be conscious of the
estimated 139 million people who are expected to be displaced in 2025.
Last year, more than 122 million people around the world were displaced
from their homes by war, disaster and persecution.
According
to the United Nations Refugee Agency, a staggering 40% of those
displaced — some 50 million — are children. Shuttering U.S. foreign aid
will only add to their numbers.
But as more people
are forced from their homes than at any previous time, the Trump
administration has shortsightedly closed the door to freedom for
millions.
The administration has paused all
funding for recent refugees already resettling in the U.S., including
the 45-year-old U.S. Refugee Admission Program. Congress has stood
aside, despite its duty to invest in these critical programs and ensure
their good-faith operation by the executive branch.
In addition, more than 10,000 refugees who have already been screened and approved to resettle in the U.S. are now in limbo.
No
one becomes a refugee or asylum-seeker by choice. Refugees who have
been forced to flee their homes often wait in camps for years before
their applications to enter a new country are approved. In the meantime,
they often become lost, their lives in turmoil. The asylum process,
meanwhile, requires people to enter or appear in the new country before
they can apply for protection.
As they settle into a
new home, learn a new language, navigate a new culture and get back on
their feet, they enrich our communities with their culture and skills.
When
I was growing up in rural Ohio, our community welcomed a Vietnamese
family who had fled the war in Southeast Asia. Our church sponsored the
newcomers under the refugee resettlement program at the time, and my
parents volunteered to act as their host. A family of seven, including
five children near the same ages as my siblings and I, became our
neighbors. They eventually became responsible, taxpaying U.S. citizens
and lifelong friends of ours.
Even after they
had built a new life and we all moved to different homes, they brought
us homemade egg rolls every year at Christmas and insisted on thanking
us beyond our due. One of the children is now my father’s dentist and
volunteers her dental services at a local prison.
That was the America before Convicted Felon Donald Chump re-entered the White House. Today?
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement made the highest number of immigrant arrests in
a single day in its history on Tuesday, detaining more than 2,200
people, according to one source familiar with the arrests and an ICE
spokesperson who confirmed those numbers, as the agency responds to
pressure from the White House to rapidly and dramatically increase
arrests.
Hundreds of the
people arrested had been enrolled in ICE’s Alternative to Detention
(ATD) program, three sources familiar with the arrests told NBC News.
Under the program, ICE releases undocumented immigrants who are deemed
not a threat to public safety and then keeps track of them through ankle
monitors, smart phone apps or other geolocating programs along with
periodic check-ins at ICE facilities.
At least
some of the arrests appear to be the result of a new tactic on ICE’s
part: Immigration attorneys across the country told NBC News that some
of their clients on ATD were asked in a mass text message sent out by
ICE to show up ahead of schedule for check-ins at ICE offices, only to
be arrested when they arrived.
An NBC News
reporter saw seven people who’d come for check-ins at a New York City
ICE office on Wednesday being led out in cuffs and put into unmarked
cars. One, a 30-year-old Colombian man, was followed close behind by his
wife, who was sobbing loudly, and his daughter, who tried to chase
after him as law enforcement agents in face masks led him and two other
men in handcuffs into waiting vehicles.
Welcome to Chump Land where the government hates and suspects all. Amy Larson (THE HILL) reports:
A
newlywed California woman said her husband was handcuffed and hauled
away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents moments after
he attended an asylum hearing at San Francisco Immigration Court.
Shaylyn Ordaz and her husband, Anyelo, went to the courthouse together on May 23.
“Imagine
this: you’re one month away from celebrating 6 months of marriage to
the love of your life. You’re in the honeymoon phase. You’re planning
your life together. Thinking that you’re doing everything right, you
walk out of an immigration hearing just to have your spouse immediately
detained without any explanation,” Ordaz wrote on a verified GoFundMe
page.
“That’s what happened,” she added.
Anyelo
reportedly arrived in the U.S. in early 2024 seeking asylum from
Colombia. He does not have a criminal history in the U.S. nor in his
home country, Ordaz said, and he moved to the U.S. seeking a better
life.
“My husband attended all of his check-ins
and asylum hearings as required by law. Then, thinking we were almost
through with the asylum process, the government lawyer in the courtroom
asked for the case to be dismissed,” Ordaz wrote.
No criminal record. Following the guidlines set up and yet kidnapped and kept from his family. Pedro Camacho (LATIN TIMES) notes:
A
new report has revealed that the Trump administration has removed
hundreds of migrant children from their homes and placed them in
government custody, often separating them from their families and making
it harder for them to be released.
CNN
detailed that approximately 500 children have been taken back into
government custody following "welfare checks" by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), often resulting from either concerns about child
safety or enforcement actions against sponsors—frequently the children's
own family members.
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the checks are
designed to ensure children "are safe and not being exploited," noting
that the effort has led to arrests of some sponsors and subsequent
transfers of children to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
However,
critics argue that these actions risk undermining child welfare systems
already in place. "They're trying to suffocate the program, which only
hurts the children we're statutorily and legally mandated to serve," one
source told CNN.
The FBI has assisted in some
of the welfare checks, which has drawn internal criticism, the report
noted. An FBI spokesperson said the agency "will continue to work with
our federal, state, and local partners to secure [children's] safety and
well-being."
In parallel, a makeshift "war
room" established at HHS headquarters is being used to coordinate
interagency efforts to track unaccompanied minors. ICE has reportedly
gained access to sensitive data within ORR's portal, raising concerns
over privacy and the agency's traditional child welfare mandate.
Those
aren't trend stories. These are actual events and they are destroying
people's lives and the destruction is felt in their circle of family and
friends and in their communities. These stories continue to multiply
and drive home just what a disaster Chump is and just how harmful is
actions truly are. Sophie Clark (NEWSWEEK) reports:
President
Donald Trump's administration has returned a Guatemalan man who was
deported to Mexico despite fears he would be persecuted.
The
man, referred to in court documents as "O.C.G," was brought back from
Mexico on Wednesday, but will still be held in a detention facility in
Arizona.
In May, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy
instructed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of the man,
following his deportation in February.
Initially,
the Justice Department said O.C.G. had stated he was not afraid of
being sent to Mexico, but after further investigation admitted this was
incorrect and based on an inaccurate ICE note in a database.
According
to court documents, O.C.G. claimed he had suffered "multiple violent
attacks" in his native Guatemala and was also raped and held for ransom
in Mexico before seeking asylum in the U.S. in 2024.
Murphy
concluded that the deportation of O.C.G. likely "lacked due process"
and that the individual should not have been sent to Mexico without
additional steps which "were ignored."
If
you're doing the right thing, you don't have to fear due process. But
when you are lying to the American people and trying to scare them into
supporting your illegal actions, you toss due process to the side. Brooke Shafer (NEWS NATION) notes:
Walmart,
the world’s largest retailer, is reportedly taking action. According to
Bloomberg News, the company has notified stores nationwide to identify
employees whose temporary legal work status may soon expire.
[. . .]
The decision has also reportedly impacted Disney, Florida’s largest employer.
According
to the Associated Press, the company has recently put nearly four dozen
Venezuelan workers on leave who were under Temporary Protected Status.
Florida
State Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, called the moves heartbreaking for
workers and families who have lived in the U.S. for decades.
California 4th grader detained by ICE at immigration hearing
“Terminating
someone’s employment because of changes in immigration paperwork —
especially when those changes stem from confusing or abrupt policy
shifts — should not be happening,” Eskamani said in a statement to
NewsNation. “We should be expanding protections for TPS holders, not
punishing them for political gain.”
The
ruling’s ripple effects have already been felt in areas like Doral,
Florida, home to the largest Venezuela-American population in the U.S.,
where advocates warn the ruling could lead to mass firings if employers
are forced to comply with stricter work authorization rules.
Lives
are being destroyed. The administration doesn't want to discuss this
anymore than they want to address the fact that ICE agents shouldn't be
wearing masks. Josh Marcus (INDEPENDENT) notes:
The
Trump administration and Democrats are locked in a fierce argument over
whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should be allowed to
continue wearing masks while conducting operations.
National
and local Democratic leaders, as well as immigrant advocates, have
criticized the practice, comparing the masked immigration agents to
figures from repressive fascist and communist regimes of the past.
“This
is America. This is not the Soviet Union,” House Minority Leader Hakeem
Jeffries said on Tuesday during a press briefing. “We’re not behind the
Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no
matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be
identified.”
The comments, which the White
House condemned as “sick,” came after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared
ICE agents last week to “secret police.”
Meanwhile,
Virginia U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine wrote last month to
immigration officials, arguing mask use violates Homeland Security
regulations and puts “everyone at risk – the targeted individuals, the
ICE officers and agents, and bystanders who may misunderstand what is
happening and may attempt to intervene.”
Not
everyone agrees, however. On the other side, there's Senator Marsha
Blackborn known for her low intelligence as well as the reported foul smell emanating
from her body. Apparently the time she doesn't waste on douching has
provided her ample time to think up The Protecting Law Enforcement From
Doxxing Act in which she hopes to turn ICE agents into super heroes who
need secret identities.
Yes, she is that dumb. In fact, I think there's footage of Marsha explaining her competency issues. Oh, yes, here it is.
Being
a Christian illiterate must be why she doesn't grasp that it's not
illegal to out an undercover CIA agent. For most of us. Poppy Bush,
angry over a book by a former CIA agent, was able to make it a crime for
government officials to do the outing -- though that would not apply to
anything done on the floor of Congress. But that's it.
Now idiot Marsha wants to make it illegal for ICE agents to be known?
What
a stupid woman, deeply stupid and ignorant of the law. Were I her, I think I'd spend a little more time
learning how to clean my own body and a little less time indulging in
crazy.
In new of other immigration stupidity, Kaitlan Collins (CNN) reports:
A
Department of Homeland Security official conceded Wednesday that an
undocumented migrant believed to have been framed with threatening to
kill President Donald Trump is no longer under investigation.
DHS
and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had initially highlighted
the arrest of Ramon Morales-Reyes in connection with the threat before
CNN reported law enforcement believed he was a victim of a setup. The
department has not issued a correction or taken down a news release on
the case since then, though the DHS official conceded Morales-Reyes is
no longer being examined for the purported threat.
“This
criminal illegal alien is no longer under investigation for threats
against the president, but will remain in ICE custody pending removal
proceedings as he is in the country illegally with previous arrests for
felony hit and run, criminal damage to property, and disorderly conduct
with a domestic abuse modifier,” the official said Wednesday.
Wednesday’s
admission came after CNN pressed White House press secretary Karoline
Leavitt about whether the Department of Homeland Security would issue a
clarification or correction to their previous statements. “We can ask
the Department of Homeland Security and get back to you,” Leavitt told
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at Tuesday’s press briefing.
Again,
they lie to scare. That's the whole point to make you so scared that
you'll go along with whatever because they're promising it will make you
safe -- even though it won't and it will actually expose you and the
country to many more dangers.
A
federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday issued a bombshell
ruling, holding that the Trump administration “plainly deprived” more
than 100 migrants of their constitutional rights by sending them to a
notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador without due process under an
18th-century wartime power.
“As
is now clear, CECOT Class members were entitled to notice and an
opportunity to challenge their removability pursuant to the
Proclamation,” U.S. District Judge James wrote in a 69-page order. “That
process — which was improperly withheld — must now be afforded to
them.”
Boasberg gave the administration one
week to tell the court how it planned to “facilitate” the migrants’
ability to contest their summary removals under the Alien Enemies Act of
1798 (AEA), making him the first federal judge to rule on the fate of
the men since they were deported on March 15 in defiance of a court
order.
The judge wrote that while his
prescribed remedy may “implicate sensitive diplomatic or
national-security concerns,” such issues fail to surmount the executive
branch’s constitutional duty to “make good the wrong done” by depriving
the migrants of their rights, borrowing a phrase from the 1946 Supreme
Court opinion Bell v. Hood. Regarding those issues, the judge directed
the administration to submit proposals detailing how it plans to provide
the migrants with the means to challenge their incarceration.
Musk and Chump.
What to say there? Many of you feel it's an important topic. To me it's a cat fight in the glorious tradition of Krystal versus Alexis on DYNASTY. Where will Musk and Chump face off next? The carriage house? Or will it be the lily pond?
I have no idea. But I know there's nothing I can say on the topic that Lawrence O'Donnell hasn't already so let's just note this from his Thursday night show.
Lawrence said it perfectly.
We've noted that video already (last night after it posted) and other videos on this topic as well. It is a story and it is a news story. But there's really nothing much that I can say that wasn't already covered by Lawrence. When I weigh in on something, I try to bring something in that's not already being noted. Like how the idiot US senator wants to create 'protections' for ICE agents that don't even exist for undercover CIA officers.
Which brings up back to POST-LEFT WATCH and the one thing I can actually add on this topic. Coach D and Tabitha Speaks Politics have already noted the grab the popcorn aspect. And they're right but at the third group we spoke to yesterday, people wanted recommendations on sides.
Who do they stand with -- Chump or Musk?
We're not idiots like Cenk. Two people in a battle does not mean that we have to choose either side. It's not obvious to Cenk as it is to Coach D or Tabitha or any of us who are Black. We've often seen two racists go to war with each other. We've never watched and thought, "Which one is the least racist? That's who I'll back." No. We know a racist is a racist and they exist to destroy us. So we don't get taken in the way fools like Cenk do.
Chump and Musk? Rove and Hawley? Not our dance. And Cenk's created yet another straw man to try to sell you his lie. "You said no one in GOP would ever disagree with each other"? What idiot ever said that? The GOP is constantly disagreeing with one another.
Again, it's not our job to go around pinning medals on someone because, though they're a racist, their a little less racist than the other guy.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Warren, McMahon meeting scheduled for June 10th
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced a meeting with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on June 10, 2025. In addition to the meeting announcement, Senator Warren sent Secretary McMahon a letter containing 66 questions she would like McMahon to address about her tenure in advance of the meeting.
Last month, Senator Warren invited Secretary McMahon to a public forum Warren held on May 14, 2025, on higher education affordability. Secretary McMahon refused the invitation in a May 12 letter and instead requested a meeting with Senator Warren, which has been scheduled for June 10, 2025.
In advance of the meeting, Senator Warren rebutted eight false or misleading statements made in Secretary McMahon’s May 12 letter and requested additional information to better understand how her efforts to dismantle the Department of Education are affecting the American people.
“As the witnesses at my forum highlighted, this is not about politics—it is about putting the needs of working- and middle-class families trying to afford postsecondary education above the interests of billionaires,” said Senator Warren.
Secretary McMahon’s May 12 letter severely downplayed the destructive impacts of her policies on students, families, and borrowers. Senator Warren’s response described how — contrary to Secretary McMahon’s claims — McMahon’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education are already raising costs for American families, making the federal student aid system far less efficient, and preventing the Department from cracking down on contractors and for-profit colleges that misuse federal funding while exploiting students and borrowers.
To inform their upcoming meeting, Senator Warren asked Secretary McMahon about the Department of Education’s activities across a range of areas, including:
- The impacts of mass layoffs at the Department of Education;
- Accountability for for-profit colleges
- Student loan repayment and forbearances;
- Borrowers in default;
- McMahon’s plans to transfer the Department of Education’s responsibilities to other departments;
- Customer service for students and borrowers;
- Access to student aid; and
- Access to debt relief.
“Instead of continuing to avoid accountability for your policies, I urge you to listen to the voices of students, borrowers, and families around the country and stop giving DOGE and Donald Trump a blank check to destroy American public education,” wrote Senator Warren.
Senator Warren launched the Save Our Schools campaign in a coordinated effort to fight back against President Trump’s attempts to abolish the Department of Education:
- On May 20, 2025, Senator Warren and 27 other senators pushed for full funding for the Office of Federal Student Aid.
- On May 14, 2025, Senator Warren led a Senate forum entitled “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for Families,” highlighting the consequences of Secretary Linda McMahon’s reckless dismantling of the Department of Education (ED) and President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” for working- and middle-class students and borrowers.
- On May 13, 2025, Senator Warren agreed to meet with Education Secretary Linda McMahon and promised to bring questions and stories from Americans across the country to highlight how the Trump administration’s attacks on education are hurting American families.
- On May 6, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted the consequences of President Trump and Secretary Linda McMahon’s reckless dismantling of the Department of Education for American families in a Senate forum.
- On April 24, 2025, Senator Warren launched a new investigation into the harms of President Trump’s attacks on the Department of Education, seeking information on the impact of the Trump administration’s actions from the members of twelve leading organizations representing schools, parents, teachers, students, borrowers, and researchers.
- On April 10, 2025, following a request led by Senator Warren, the Department of Education’s Acting Inspector General agreed to open an investigation into the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.
- On April 2, 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mazie Hirono, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon regarding the Department of Government Efficiency’s proposed plan to replace the Department of Education’s federal student aid call centers with generative artificial intelligence chatbots.
- On April 2, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren launched the Save Our Schools campaign to fight back against the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education (ED) and highlight the consequences for every student and public school in America.
- On March 27, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a letter to Acting Department of Education Inspector General (IG) René Rocque requesting that the IG conduct an investigation of the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.
- On March 20, 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders led a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon regarding the Trump Administration’s decision to slash the capacity of Federal Student Aid to handle student aid complaints.
- On February 24, 2025, in a response to Senator Warren, Secretary McMahon gave her first public admission that she “wholeheartedly” agreed with Trump’s plans to abolish the Department of Education.
- On February 11, 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim sent Linda McMahon, Secretary-Designate for the U.S. Department of Education, a 12-page letter with 65 questions on McMahon's policy views in advance of her nomination hearing.
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