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This isn't sustainable.

After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission. We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people. The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions: Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education. Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus. Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs. Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics. As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make th

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.

I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.

Here is a portion:

Statement from NPR on the Pentagon’s decision to take away its workspace (which is being given to Breitbart): “This decision interferes with the ability of millions of Americans to directly hear from Pentagon leadership, and with NPR’s public interest mission.”

Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.

w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America” Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person.

local newspapers die and we get this instead. Great story by @andrewdeck.bsky.social

www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/insi...

Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters? Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.

imagine being a university leader, clearing $500k a year, and pushing for the prosecution of a teenage reporter.

absolute cowards.

www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

Alright but this is two words

Texas committee won’t examine maternal deaths in first years after abortion ban The largest state with an abortion ban, Texas can offer broader insight into the impact of abortion laws than any other state in the country.

Valuing women's lives by ignoring when they die www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News Musk confirmed that posts containing links are deprioritized, renewing criticism that the platform is restricting access to external sources of information.

Yes, X demotes link posts; been that way for a while www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...

Huge pain for news orgs. Source told me NYT's X traffic plunged 50% in 1 month www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

X also delays sites Elon dislikes, as we first reported www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Exclusive | Comcast Greenlights $7 Billion Spinoff of NBCUniversal Cable Channels The new venture will house channels like E!, USA and MSNBC, and Comcast is set to announce several leadership changes.

Breaking: WSJ says Comcast IS "moving forward with a plan to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks." The company "will separate off entertainment and news channels including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and Golf Channel..." www.wsj.com/business/med...

The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers "All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created."

The Verge Editor-In-Chief @reckless.bsky.social breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers: "All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created."

Full Q&A in Status: www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

Who could have predicted that

One hell of a quote from Senator Hunt in Nebraska:

"I do not believe in reciprocating civility to people who would take your rights away."

More of this energy.

Has someone given him a blue sky code yet

Comedy is legal again