Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 24 (274 total reports)
16.07.2025-22.07.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
Trump voters, congratulations! Your president has once again sought to close an investigation into his behavior, this time for pedophilia and using Jeffrey Epstein to set up relationships with teen girls. You must be so proud!
Visual Stories!
If there is no information in these files that is linked to the President, why not do as Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Donald Trump all promised pre-election and release the entire file? This week’s song, with a circus theme to it, is “The Files of Epstein.”
Top Links of the Week
22.07.2025
Democracy Upside Down
This article by Skye Perryman, a lawyer and the president/CEO of Democracy Forward and the Democracy Forward Foundation, points out how those who voted for Donald Trump have turned Democracy upside down on a state level. The latest case he points to is the work of the ultra-conservative Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, and Donald Trump to overturn Texas law (voted for by the will of the Texan people) to undermine Dreamer legislation in that state. Those who voted for this Administration can watch how the Trump Administration now uses its influence to undermine the laws of states, even in cases without the help of a MAGA attorney general, as when Trump used the National Guard and Marines to invade California. In the article, Perryman points out that other Presidents have used the National Guard in the past, but always in cases to enforce human rights, rather than take them away. Thanks to Trump supporters, your vote may not matter federally and in your own state. Indeed, another dangerous precedent for those who voted to undermine democracy by electing this president.
21.07.2025
This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built
If we look behind the daily theatrics and clown show of this presidency, we would not only see Project 2025 and the undying fealty of MAGA minions, but also the conniving craftiness of Chief Justice John Roberts. Peter M. Shane, a distinguished scholar in residence and an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law, makes the following points about this Chief Justice’s enablement of Trump’s authoritarianism: “Roberts upheld the first Trump administration’s “Muslim ban” on the grounds that the president’s national-security role precludes courts from taking account of the bigotry undergirding an immigration order. He remanded a lower court’s enforcement of a congressional subpoena for Trump’s financial information, writing that “without limits on its subpoena powers,” Congress could exert ‘imperious’ control over the executive branch and ‘aggrandize itself at the President’s expense.’ He has come close to giving the president an untrammeled right to fire any officer in the executive branch at will. And he took the lead in inventing a presidential immunity from criminal prosecution that could exempt the president from accountability for even the most corrupt exercises of his official functions.” Of course, Trump is not bright enough to get to where he is by himself. Trump is identified by his crass graft and spectacular misogyny. He needed the likes of Mitch McConnell, Roberts, and Project 2025 to power his dominion, and they have enabled him.
18.07.2025
What the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will change for students, schools and colleges
In my endeavor to keep our eyes on the major evils of this administration and not be distracted by sideshow stupidity (like the recent tongue-lashing of Roseanne Barr), let’s follow NPR (whose funding was just cut on July 17) and journalists, Sequoia Carrillo, Cory Turner, and Elissa Nadworny, as they examine what Project 2025 and the GOP’s One Big Ugly Bill will do to education in the United States. After being overridden in multiple states, this bill provides parents with tax credits to send children to the private school of their choice. The option is more focused on supporting religious schools and defunding public education than actually providing much-needed tax breaks to upper-middle-class parents who want their children to attend private schools with religious curricula. The Bill tightens restrictions for the 37 million children at or below the poverty line who receive health care through Medicaid. The GOP further seeks to cut food assistance to children who are at or below the poverty line. It restricts student loan programs and virtually eliminates funding for post-graduate courses. In an effort to undermine the nation’s top schools (that Donald Trump wasn’t able to get into), it will tax higher education endowment funds, so those funds can go to offset the billionaire tax cuts this administration loves so dearly. In essence, this bill seeks to cripple education for decades and force students in the United States to become less competitive than young people in other countries that promote advanced education.
17.07.2025
The Trump Administration Chose to Incinerate Food Rather Than Send It to Starving Kids
This administration and its lackeys—the GOP—continue to debase itself almost on a daily basis. With the ending of funds for USAID, it wasn’t enough to just cut money that would provide medicine to prevent the transmission of AIDS from mothers to unborn children; it wasn’t enough just to cut food programming; they had to take it one step further and burn 500 metric tons of food destined to feed about 1.5 million children for a week, rather than let it be sent to Africa. In this article by Charles P. Pierce, he states, “This administration’s commitment to public indecency remains rock-solid. If there is inhumanity anywhere to be found in one of its policy positions, they will, by God, find it, shine it up, and put it out there.”
16.07.2025
The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t Real
This article by Res Derelictae seeks to remind us how far the Roberts Court is willing to go to turn the Project 2025 blueprint into reality. As Derelictae puts it, “The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that was created by Congress, given duties and responsibilities by Congress, and funded by Congress to carry them out.” Just in case you forgot who McMahon is and what qualifies her to run the Department of Education; Linda McMahon, is a pro-wrestling promoter and sexual-abuse lawsuit defendant. Yep, those are pretty much her credentials. Yet, she has made no secret since being assigned this position that she wants to fulfill the wishes of Project 2025 to dismantle the Department of Education, and this court made the President’s moves to undermine the department by firing half of its staff; legal. Why does Project 2025 hate the DoE so much? Because it supports DEI, it supports humane treatment of transitioning young people, and seeks to prepare students for a college education so they can compete in the world instead of being part of the Mudsill Economy that is at the heart of the Republican plan.
