Higher education in the U.S. is the world leader, with many strengths. But also major problems, chief among them the price tag. It’s important to get the word out that banning foreign students (and almost all of Trump’s actions) will cause prices to rise. Higher parent bills and more student debt.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

If you’re not worried about Russ Vought you’re not paying attention
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New, from me: Elon Musk, a man who runs an imaginary government department, accused a real government employee of having a fake job.
He is wrong about this, and other claims about what he can do to eliminate regulations and cut spending. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

👇🎯 No one ever accuses conservatives of “lacking empathy” or tells them they need to “reach out” to urban liberals, or uses whatever the right-wing equivalent of “the faculty lounge” epithet is, etc. Only Democrats & liberals have agency & are held to these standards.

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low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own

This amazing summary by @niedermeyer.io is really worth your time.

Similarity with movie 'The Apprentice': Takes a deranged and noxious current figure and gives some backstory on how the person turned out that way. In both stories, the traits of the father play a major role.

I did find this helpful, thank you @jamellebouie.net

NEW: Nancy Mace as recently as 2023 called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and pronouns — Mace is now calling trans people “mentally ill” and targeting Rep. Sarah McBride. www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...

Reality for Musk/DOGE: “While federal spending has grown sharply and regulation is arguably in need of correction, there is no such long-run trend in federal employment, and firing lots of federal workers would not in itself result in much savings or deregulation.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is a terrific, fact-based piece with nice graphs providing basic details about the federal workforce.

"Largely."

Rule Number One from Timothy Snyder: 'Do Not Obey in Advance.'

New from me: I wrote about the reports that Russ Vought is going back to OMB and how inevitable it is he would violate the law to implement the ridiculous cuts that DOGE recommends

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

How An Imported State Champion Blew Up Virginia High School Football - defector.com/how-an-impor...

"Basically, the best team in the state was invited to just change its address and uniforms and get back to whipping everybody's asses." defector.com/how-an-impor...