Good afternoon, I’m sending this update earlier than usual because I want you to be among the first to know: The United States Supreme Court has just cleared the way for the Trump Administration’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education.
They’re supposed to be impartial, apparently they are not. We’ve got a Supreme Court that doesn’t care. Very sad for our country. We need a huge blue wave come the midterms.
T is already working behind the scenes for election refor
reform. Not sure If any of you listen to Aaron's dad Lev Parnas but he gives you lots of inside news also. Aaron and his dad are really good to listen too.
It's not over until the fat Orange Clown sings. The last stage of grief and loss is apathy—and if we the people allow ourselves to devolve to that level of complacency…that’s when we’re doomed. I guarantee that all of us feel beaten down and don't want to bother to get back up. However, it's ok to carry those feelings while we keep up the fight.
I fear our protests have to become more aggressive. This is all so ridiculous. How much longer are we going to tolerate this horror that is being inflicted on all of us?
May I suggest that you don’t view “tolerance” as defeat. What’s happening is undoubtedly overwhelming because it’s been designed to create that effect. But we can’t allow Trump to win with his psychological warfare as every other wanna be dictator has done throughout history. So it's OK to hate what’s happening to our country. It's also ok to feel sick and tired of it. We’re strong enough to carry those feelings with us as long as we don’t give up the fight. 🙏❤️
Unfortunately that’s what Trump and his goons want. They want us to become violent so he can place our military everywhere and declare martial law. Then there will be no elections. Period.
Yet we must remain non-violent. Ghandi and MLK showed us non-violent, creative protest works. We can be passive-aggressive-- such as boycotting Amazon and other large Maga donors. We need to increase our size on the streets. Encourage your friends and coworkers to join. Let's double the next national protest from 5 million to 10 million. Send money, if you can, to help the efforts to document civil rights abuses by ICE or support a leader in getting their message out.
I have already been boycotting Amazon, Whole Foods, Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Tic Tok, Truth Social, and all known sources of AI. It would be helpful to reveal the others that should be boycotted.
I truly feel beaten down especially after seeing the 6 to 3 vote from the Supreme Court allowing Trump to dismantle Education. I have been emailing my democratic reps here in NY urging them to hold town hall meetings to get the information out about the big disastrous bill. My late veteran husband would be devastated with how this country is being destroyed. I cancelled my Amazon account, I was kicked off Facebook and I refuse to buy from Home Depot, Lowes or Whole Foods. I have downloaded the Goods app which shows which business donates to which party. I was never on Tik Tok or Truth Social because I don't like to vomit.
I wish this Epstein stuff would blow right open. There are lots of Republicans wanting answers also... it needs to blow up on T and the truth needs to come out.. maybe then both sides would start seeing him for what he is and start working together and do something. Someone who knows something should step up and try to save this country. T needs to go!!!
The truth has been out for years already. Yet, here we are -like crabs in a basket.
Fishers know that crabs can be kept easily in an open basket, because other crabs will pull the odd one who tries to escape back down with their claws, or so I'm told.
It's official.. We no longer have a #SupremeCourt. It is now in control by the Felon @realDonaldTrump.. The #UnitedStates is slowly being remade into #Trumpland. R. I. P. 🇺🇸
I put a whole lot of the blame on Mitch slime-bucket McConnell. I hope he dies and his death will come soon I'll follow his casket by the pale afternoon; I'll watch while he's lowered into his deathbed, and I'll stand over his grave till I'm sure that he's dead....those are Bob Dylan lyrics, but they fit here so well.
I put a lot of blame on that walking ballsack! May he burn in hell with the rest of them for what they have done to the people of this country and the people of the world.
True. McConnell was hell bent to destroy Obama and swore he would do everything necessary to see him fail. That included preventing Congress from approving Obama's choice for the Supreme Court. So Thomas was nominated and approved by mostly Republicans and some Democrats with help of Biden who prevented Anita Hill from calling more than 1 witness.
Are you saying you'll tolerate that? There have never NOT been elections, even during the civil war and both world wars. States run elections, NOT the federal government. The constitution gives congress the power to regulate federal congressional elections, but not to cancel them. Any attempt to stop the midterms would instantly end the legitimacy of congress or Trump.
So the Republicans will do as they have done for decades: gerrymandering plus every means of voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression they can come up with. They've been quite busy with that, and it probably got Trump elected.
If congress or Trump tries to stop the midterms there will be civil war. That's not a threat, but a move like that would make the millions who turned out for No Kings day look like a slow day at a you-pick farm in the off-season.
Why, when Trump and the Republicans are 100% responsible for ALL the horrible stuff that's going on in this country, do people keep attacking the Democrats, when it's largely the people's fault for not electing enough Democrats to stop the GOP?
Article I, Section1, Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. Clause 6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will not allow articles of impeachment for ANY Republican currently in office to get a vote on the floor. And even if he allowed it, the corrupt Republicans would hold sham hearings and then vote it down. And even if a miracle happened and someone DID get impeached, the senate, presided over by the execrable JD Vance, would hold a sham trial and the defendant would not be found guilty.
Thomas and another Supreme Justice, maybe Alito both voted that Monsanto could patent seeds and that they did not have to have them labeled, so we lost our right to know what we were buying, label laws but not for Monsanto. They should have recused themselves because they both had worked as attorneys for Monsanto earlier in their legal careers, a big conflict of interest. Lot of people may not know that since it was silenced pretty quickly
The Supreme Court has been a major disappointment, but I would like to see people refer to the maga majority instead of painting all the justices with the same brush. Three women jurors-Sonia Sotomayor, Elana Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson have consistently argued for our traditional constitutional values but they are always outnumbered by the men and sometimes Amy Coney Barrett.
The fact is, the Repuglies do not want you to be educated. They do not want any kids to be educated. They want you all dumb and at home so they can put you to work in factories and farms after they deport all the people now doing those jobs. This is Project 2025's plan and trump is implementing it for them. The real crazy part is that it was educated lawyers who kept him out of jail in order to put our country into this situation. Make it make sense.
Oh, they want certain people to have an education. They just need to keep a lower class to work. That is why I’ve always been a huge advocate of education and became a teacher and have worked in the public school system for 25 years. It is a daunting job, but I hope I’ve inspired a few kiddos along the way. Education will get you out of poverty if you leverage correctly.
Not sure what you mean. My mother grew up with four sisters and a one room house. Three of the five sisters all were able to get an advanced degree and found a good level of success in nursing and private industry. The paradox is that it is very challenging to get a higher level education if you are in poverty, which is why the grants were such a godsend.Without a degree or the proper connections it is very difficult to get ahead financially therefore, a lot of intelligent hard-working people are left in poverty due to systematic disadvantage.
If you pay, you can get a degree in anything. As a general teacher, I can guarantee you that sped will be cut, but we will still need sped teachers. It is an honorable job and the kids need you so I hope you will continue if you can find financial support.
Maybe, but disadvantaged will be left in public schools. We saw a huge exodus after covid, so many communities are already at capacity for private snd charter. We’ll see. The wealthy will definitely come out on top. Surprise.
I love my students, but I do see a lot of waste within the DOE, but I don’t think that will change at the state level. The states will just have to pick up more of the slack and they will let the underprivileged students fall through the holes. It’s a big messbut all we can do is keep showing up for the kids. Although I am most likely going to retire this year.
Especially those Black and Brown people. As for the precious lives of young white men and young white women they want them to procreate and bring forth more white babies to maintain white dominance and white supremacy. America you in danger girl.
Yes, project 2025 was very clear and dismantling the department of education at a federal level. In my perspective, I see that the federal government wants to put most responsibilities on the states.
according to the most recent reports financial aid has NOT been cut but they are cutting the administrative positions of the DOE. Everyone I know has received their current year financial aid awards. There is fear mongering and misinformation in these comments though...
I’m 36 going back to school and got denied funding. I even applied for an adult going back to school grant NYS approved for that but it won’t cover costs…. If you have good credit or in a good financial position you or your parents will get approved for financial aid. I have to get a personal loan and add another $500 a month plus new car payment (well new to me) plus $1,000 in rent alone …. If I don’t work overtime hours I only make $2,800….$800 left over for gas, food, internet, cellphone, savings. So I have to work 60 hours a week plus school and bonus im disabled, have learning disabilities Crohn’s disease with an ostomy bag rheumatoid arthritis 3 herniated discs in my back, endometriosis, thyroid cancer and I think that’s about it.
It is like one of the people said when you are in poverty it is hard to get ahead and damn near impossible unless you have the support and means to do so. I don’t have parents and my grandparents are dead. This is not fear mongering, this is the truth, my truth.
Fear mongering is republicans saying that immigrants are taking our jobs, fear mongering is saying people making less than you are taking your money and they don’t deserve opportunities to get ahead.
Cause thing is poverty is generational, it is passed on. Even if you witness someone come up from being homeless they will say they are lucky. The chances of someone getting ahead and changing their stripes on their own with no government or family support is like winning the lottery. The government system is rigged to keep the poor poorer and rich richer.
Every one of us in this thread, on this app, in this country has a better chance of losing everything and becoming homeless than becoming Jeff Bezos. This is not fear mongering this is actually happening to people and you are invalidating someone’s truth. Maybe you don’t know someone but there are 340 million people in this country. You saying you don’t know anyone is like saying “well I don’t know anyone who died from Covid so forcing us to get a shot and wear a mask is fear mongering”,even though roughly 1.2 million people died in the United States alone and 146 million suspected cases, during the pandemic.
Stop misusing fear mongering please…. People’s truths are not fear mongering.
I was denied sufficient aid at first this year too. In the end I had to play a cat and mouse game with the Financial Aid Special Circumstances department at my state owned college for 3 months. This includes sending over 50 pages of information by mail, fax and email. Each time their was a tiny obscure detail not quite right for them that needed to be different that I had to correct.
They denied me the UT Texas tuition free program because by the time they finally got their ducks in a row it was past the deadline, even though last year I made so little I was 75% below the 100,000 yearly income cut off for the program. I was however able to get enough in grants and loans to pay for the next 2 semesters, maybe more if I stretch it and work part time while fitting in as many classes as possible (18 credits) to avoid extra semester fees.
Im hoping between having to move back home with my parents at 35, working part time, and saving the unused extra money each semester I can at least make it through my bachelors. I will pay back whatever I don’t use if any is left when Im done. Hopefully I will finish with my masters, because that’s where Id be able to do the job I set out to train for, and it has slightly better pay. I need to make it another 3 years though somehow.
What also helped was working full-time for half a year before becoming a full-time student at a local community college and switching to part-time work. Fortunately I didn’t make as much 2 years before I did that which allowed me to live a frugal but covered life in my cramped elderly parents’ house where Im also a live-in care giver. Its not ideal, and comes with many mental, emotional and relational challenges, but I was lucky in being able to do so. I know many who would not be able to. I don’t even know how well this plan would work now with all the governmental changes a year later.
I am hoping with the degree I get in Social Work that I can help address many of the issues facing society today so the many hurts, trauma and broken pieces being created can be healed.
I wish I could move in with my parents… that would help tremendously to be able to make a better living for myself. But unfortunately my parents aren’t able to. And yeah I get the mental challenges of it and live in caregiver side… unfortunately my dad kicked me out after I took care of him after open heart surgery and hip surgery. I have narcissistic parents that a lot can’t relate to. It’s very challenging.
Can you imagine how much shit the DEMOCRATS who come after these spineless GOP bitches are going to have to unfuck? I legitimately don’t even know if it’ll be able to be done in my lifetime and I’m only 42.
I'm pretty sure he could decide to dismantle the Supreme Court and they would let him in a 6-3 decision. And honestly he may as well do it because they serve no actual purpose anymore anyway. Absolutely pathetic.
This literally makes me angry. The education of our people is EXTREMELY important. TACO wants to break down all levels of government and turn this country into an authoritarian dictatorship. People need to pay attention to the liar, cheat, felon and president of the USA. TACO will destroy us if we don’t fight back.
I agree. Plus private interests want those voucher schools and for families to pay for schooling. There are a LOT of hands out in this administration for privatization. We need a lot more reporting about the lobbyists behind these actions, esp. re. the right wing justices' behavior off the bench.
I have it on good authority that they (networked groups with overlapping interests) do not like "well-informed, middle-aged women", and have specific strategies for combating them.
I was naive to think that the Supreme Court of the United States had integrity and would uphold the Constitution. Thy have torn down any separation of powers. They created this monster last year by giving Trump presidential immunity. Congratulations. Can they be disbarred? Asking for a friend.
What the fuck! Our rights are being illegally deleted by our so called Supreme Court. They are a frigin joke now! Our nation is ruined and our ability to stop it has been eliminated.
Have you considered doing it in another country where they actually value education? I know it won't be easy but... It may be worth it in the end. This country is going down fast and with all the hospitals that are likely going to close due to Medicaid cuts, you may be better off settling somewhere else. It's time to really consider your options because they are dwindling for everyone here. Good luck to you though, I truly hope everything works out for you.
It’s very clear that no one is going to save us. The Supreme Court continues to let us down and handing Trump everything he wants.
Because he stacked the court
They’re supposed to be impartial, apparently they are not. We’ve got a Supreme Court that doesn’t care. Very sad for our country. We need a huge blue wave come the midterms.
I fear it will be too late by that time 😔
T is already working behind the scenes for election refor
reform. Not sure If any of you listen to Aaron's dad Lev Parnas but he gives you lots of inside news also. Aaron and his dad are really good to listen too.
McAfee blocked me from opening, Said it is unsafe, but don't always trust that so mybe it got removed or bastaredized.
Except there will be no mid terms. tRump is going to declare a national emergency and cancel the mid terms. All over already.
It's not over until the fat Orange Clown sings. The last stage of grief and loss is apathy—and if we the people allow ourselves to devolve to that level of complacency…that’s when we’re doomed. I guarantee that all of us feel beaten down and don't want to bother to get back up. However, it's ok to carry those feelings while we keep up the fight.
He will most likely go to war. Using that to block midterms.
I fear our protests have to become more aggressive. This is all so ridiculous. How much longer are we going to tolerate this horror that is being inflicted on all of us?
May I suggest that you don’t view “tolerance” as defeat. What’s happening is undoubtedly overwhelming because it’s been designed to create that effect. But we can’t allow Trump to win with his psychological warfare as every other wanna be dictator has done throughout history. So it's OK to hate what’s happening to our country. It's also ok to feel sick and tired of it. We’re strong enough to carry those feelings with us as long as we don’t give up the fight. 🙏❤️
Unfortunately that’s what Trump and his goons want. They want us to become violent so he can place our military everywhere and declare martial law. Then there will be no elections. Period.
Yet we must remain non-violent. Ghandi and MLK showed us non-violent, creative protest works. We can be passive-aggressive-- such as boycotting Amazon and other large Maga donors. We need to increase our size on the streets. Encourage your friends and coworkers to join. Let's double the next national protest from 5 million to 10 million. Send money, if you can, to help the efforts to document civil rights abuses by ICE or support a leader in getting their message out.
I have already been boycotting Amazon, Whole Foods, Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Tic Tok, Truth Social, and all known sources of AI. It would be helpful to reveal the others that should be boycotted.
I truly feel beaten down especially after seeing the 6 to 3 vote from the Supreme Court allowing Trump to dismantle Education. I have been emailing my democratic reps here in NY urging them to hold town hall meetings to get the information out about the big disastrous bill. My late veteran husband would be devastated with how this country is being destroyed. I cancelled my Amazon account, I was kicked off Facebook and I refuse to buy from Home Depot, Lowes or Whole Foods. I have downloaded the Goods app which shows which business donates to which party. I was never on Tik Tok or Truth Social because I don't like to vomit.
It's very optimistic of you to think we are actually going to have fair midterm elections, or any midterm elections
I agree our country is falling apart
I never thought I'd ever see the Supreme Court of the United States bought by advocates lf such a narrow vision of our constitution.
I wish this Epstein stuff would blow right open. There are lots of Republicans wanting answers also... it needs to blow up on T and the truth needs to come out.. maybe then both sides would start seeing him for what he is and start working together and do something. Someone who knows something should step up and try to save this country. T needs to go!!!
Republicans are voting as a block so this doesn't happen
The truth has been out for years already. Yet, here we are -like crabs in a basket.
Fishers know that crabs can be kept easily in an open basket, because other crabs will pull the odd one who tries to escape back down with their claws, or so I'm told.
They should have impeached many of the corrupt justices the last time.
But he is not the constitution and made an oath to defend it
Well, we know he is a liar.
Hahahaha....not even sure he can spell Constitution!
It's official.. We no longer have a #SupremeCourt. It is now in control by the Felon @realDonaldTrump.. The #UnitedStates is slowly being remade into #Trumpland. R. I. P. 🇺🇸
Republicans stacked the court. Not just Trump.
I put some of the blame on Mitch McConnell! 🤬
I put a whole lot of the blame on Mitch slime-bucket McConnell. I hope he dies and his death will come soon I'll follow his casket by the pale afternoon; I'll watch while he's lowered into his deathbed, and I'll stand over his grave till I'm sure that he's dead....those are Bob Dylan lyrics, but they fit here so well.
I put a lot of blame on that walking ballsack! May he burn in hell with the rest of them for what they have done to the people of this country and the people of the world.
True. McConnell was hell bent to destroy Obama and swore he would do everything necessary to see him fail. That included preventing Congress from approving Obama's choice for the Supreme Court. So Thomas was nominated and approved by mostly Republicans and some Democrats with help of Biden who prevented Anita Hill from calling more than 1 witness.
I hesitate pushing the “like” button…better if it were a “damn right” button…
Yes. I'm swearing so hard now that I have no other words for this abomination.
Vote blue in the midterms
And what mid terms would those be? You mean the mid terms tRump will cancel? Those mid terms? Good luck with that.
Are you saying you'll tolerate that? There have never NOT been elections, even during the civil war and both world wars. States run elections, NOT the federal government. The constitution gives congress the power to regulate federal congressional elections, but not to cancel them. Any attempt to stop the midterms would instantly end the legitimacy of congress or Trump.
So the Republicans will do as they have done for decades: gerrymandering plus every means of voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression they can come up with. They've been quite busy with that, and it probably got Trump elected.
If congress or Trump tries to stop the midterms there will be civil war. That's not a threat, but a move like that would make the millions who turned out for No Kings day look like a slow day at a you-pick farm in the off-season.
Why articles of impeachment haven't been filed on Thomas and Alito is a reminder of how the Democrats continue to fail our country.
They would not be able to get anyone impeached with the Republicons in control. Why is that so damn hard to understand.
They can still at least try. Standing around because things are hard isn't what we voted them into office to do.
Right now I would agree, the democrats need to stop being so nice. It’s time they fought back.
Why, when Trump and the Republicans are 100% responsible for ALL the horrible stuff that's going on in this country, do people keep attacking the Democrats, when it's largely the people's fault for not electing enough Democrats to stop the GOP?
Article I, Section1, Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. Clause 6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will not allow articles of impeachment for ANY Republican currently in office to get a vote on the floor. And even if he allowed it, the corrupt Republicans would hold sham hearings and then vote it down. And even if a miracle happened and someone DID get impeached, the senate, presided over by the execrable JD Vance, would hold a sham trial and the defendant would not be found guilty.
Thomas and another Supreme Justice, maybe Alito both voted that Monsanto could patent seeds and that they did not have to have them labeled, so we lost our right to know what we were buying, label laws but not for Monsanto. They should have recused themselves because they both had worked as attorneys for Monsanto earlier in their legal careers, a big conflict of interest. Lot of people may not know that since it was silenced pretty quickly
Takes 2/3, but a vote would have been significant in messaging. Voters do not know who Leo or Crow are.
It’s sickening that the court has absolutely no morals, no backbone. They’ll go down in history as the people who enabled this asshole to run a muck.
The Supreme Court has been a major disappointment, but I would like to see people refer to the maga majority instead of painting all the justices with the same brush. Three women jurors-Sonia Sotomayor, Elana Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson have consistently argued for our traditional constitutional values but they are always outnumbered by the men and sometimes Amy Coney Barrett.
I stand corrected, you’re absolutely right. It’s just so damn frustrating.
I know. It's sickening. We were taught the Supreme Court was above politics but found out it just isn't true.
We the people will safe ourselves. Get busy.
I'm ready to wake up from this nightmare. Oh, wait, I am awake, and this is reality.
The Supreme Court is no longer of the United States. It is the Supreme Court of tRump and the GOP.
No, full tRump, Project 2025. We were all
Warned. Her we are and I fear that this is just the beginning. Buckle up. 🥴
Their turn will come when he’s done with them.
I literally JUST started college again… what’s gonna happen to financial aid 😭
The fact is, the Repuglies do not want you to be educated. They do not want any kids to be educated. They want you all dumb and at home so they can put you to work in factories and farms after they deport all the people now doing those jobs. This is Project 2025's plan and trump is implementing it for them. The real crazy part is that it was educated lawyers who kept him out of jail in order to put our country into this situation. Make it make sense.
100%. this is so heartbreaking. everyone deserves an education.
Oh, they want certain people to have an education. They just need to keep a lower class to work. That is why I’ve always been a huge advocate of education and became a teacher and have worked in the public school system for 25 years. It is a daunting job, but I hope I’ve inspired a few kiddos along the way. Education will get you out of poverty if you leverage correctly.
Today's news is the partial list of loan forgiveness recipients that Biden got through before Supreme Court ruling will be clawed back by Trump.
Hope you don't need financial aid or help. Loans have horrible interest rates.
work in which jobs?!
Not sure what you mean. My mother grew up with four sisters and a one room house. Three of the five sisters all were able to get an advanced degree and found a good level of success in nursing and private industry. The paradox is that it is very challenging to get a higher level education if you are in poverty, which is why the grants were such a godsend.Without a degree or the proper connections it is very difficult to get ahead financially therefore, a lot of intelligent hard-working people are left in poverty due to systematic disadvantage.
And peter theil is investing in brain implants that will make us all factory robots. Not a joke. Google Peter Theil brain implants.
My daughter starts college in August, she was awarded ZERO money from FAFSA.
this is devastating oh my god, I’m so sorry to you both 💔
I won't be able to finish my doctorate because it is about special education.
Sue them
The court?
If you pay, you can get a degree in anything. As a general teacher, I can guarantee you that sped will be cut, but we will still need sped teachers. It is an honorable job and the kids need you so I hope you will continue if you can find financial support.
we're going to start seeing more private and charter schools
Maybe, but disadvantaged will be left in public schools. We saw a huge exodus after covid, so many communities are already at capacity for private snd charter. We’ll see. The wealthy will definitely come out on top. Surprise.
I love my kids and my job. I'm afraid they will lose their outside services.
I love my students, but I do see a lot of waste within the DOE, but I don’t think that will change at the state level. The states will just have to pick up more of the slack and they will let the underprivileged students fall through the holes. It’s a big messbut all we can do is keep showing up for the kids. Although I am most likely going to retire this year.
My niece is supposed to start her Masters in that in Fall 2026...
We need more special education teachers. I changed schools and the position is still open. I feel bad for my kids, but I had to get away from admin.
I just lost my FASFA so I’m sadly going to be dropping out.
The Republicans want young people picking vegetables.
Especially those Black and Brown people. As for the precious lives of young white men and young white women they want them to procreate and bring forth more white babies to maintain white dominance and white supremacy. America you in danger girl.
Exactly - I just replied the same thing a few min ago.
Or joining the military
I am really sorry that this is happening. Keep all your paperwork and hopefully one day you can return to finish your education.
Well, if you voted Republican. That is what you voted for.
lmfao I have never and will never vote Republican.
I don't believe anyone here accused you of that. Calm down.
I replied to her comment that literally said “if you voted Republican, this is what you voted for” with an answer.
But you replied as if she said you personally voted for tRump. At least that’s the way I read it. So, I apologize if you found offense there.
And they'll still brag about it.
Yes, project 2025 was very clear and dismantling the department of education at a federal level. In my perspective, I see that the federal government wants to put most responsibilities on the states.
I’d rather slam my balls in a waffle iron before I ever vote republican.
My niece starts in August. Her Mom is a single mother because her father passed. I don't even want to think about the costs she's going to be hit with
💪🙏🏾
I would not get financial aid for US education
according to the most recent reports financial aid has NOT been cut but they are cutting the administrative positions of the DOE. Everyone I know has received their current year financial aid awards. There is fear mongering and misinformation in these comments though...
I’m 36 going back to school and got denied funding. I even applied for an adult going back to school grant NYS approved for that but it won’t cover costs…. If you have good credit or in a good financial position you or your parents will get approved for financial aid. I have to get a personal loan and add another $500 a month plus new car payment (well new to me) plus $1,000 in rent alone …. If I don’t work overtime hours I only make $2,800….$800 left over for gas, food, internet, cellphone, savings. So I have to work 60 hours a week plus school and bonus im disabled, have learning disabilities Crohn’s disease with an ostomy bag rheumatoid arthritis 3 herniated discs in my back, endometriosis, thyroid cancer and I think that’s about it.
It is like one of the people said when you are in poverty it is hard to get ahead and damn near impossible unless you have the support and means to do so. I don’t have parents and my grandparents are dead. This is not fear mongering, this is the truth, my truth.
Fear mongering is republicans saying that immigrants are taking our jobs, fear mongering is saying people making less than you are taking your money and they don’t deserve opportunities to get ahead.
Cause thing is poverty is generational, it is passed on. Even if you witness someone come up from being homeless they will say they are lucky. The chances of someone getting ahead and changing their stripes on their own with no government or family support is like winning the lottery. The government system is rigged to keep the poor poorer and rich richer.
Every one of us in this thread, on this app, in this country has a better chance of losing everything and becoming homeless than becoming Jeff Bezos. This is not fear mongering this is actually happening to people and you are invalidating someone’s truth. Maybe you don’t know someone but there are 340 million people in this country. You saying you don’t know anyone is like saying “well I don’t know anyone who died from Covid so forcing us to get a shot and wear a mask is fear mongering”,even though roughly 1.2 million people died in the United States alone and 146 million suspected cases, during the pandemic.
Stop misusing fear mongering please…. People’s truths are not fear mongering.
I was denied sufficient aid at first this year too. In the end I had to play a cat and mouse game with the Financial Aid Special Circumstances department at my state owned college for 3 months. This includes sending over 50 pages of information by mail, fax and email. Each time their was a tiny obscure detail not quite right for them that needed to be different that I had to correct.
They denied me the UT Texas tuition free program because by the time they finally got their ducks in a row it was past the deadline, even though last year I made so little I was 75% below the 100,000 yearly income cut off for the program. I was however able to get enough in grants and loans to pay for the next 2 semesters, maybe more if I stretch it and work part time while fitting in as many classes as possible (18 credits) to avoid extra semester fees.
Im hoping between having to move back home with my parents at 35, working part time, and saving the unused extra money each semester I can at least make it through my bachelors. I will pay back whatever I don’t use if any is left when Im done. Hopefully I will finish with my masters, because that’s where Id be able to do the job I set out to train for, and it has slightly better pay. I need to make it another 3 years though somehow.
What also helped was working full-time for half a year before becoming a full-time student at a local community college and switching to part-time work. Fortunately I didn’t make as much 2 years before I did that which allowed me to live a frugal but covered life in my cramped elderly parents’ house where Im also a live-in care giver. Its not ideal, and comes with many mental, emotional and relational challenges, but I was lucky in being able to do so. I know many who would not be able to. I don’t even know how well this plan would work now with all the governmental changes a year later.
I am hoping with the degree I get in Social Work that I can help address many of the issues facing society today so the many hurts, trauma and broken pieces being created can be healed.
I wish I could move in with my parents… that would help tremendously to be able to make a better living for myself. But unfortunately my parents aren’t able to. And yeah I get the mental challenges of it and live in caregiver side… unfortunately my dad kicked me out after I took care of him after open heart surgery and hip surgery. I have narcissistic parents that a lot can’t relate to. It’s very challenging.
If you Google, what cuts are being implemented under the big beautiful bill, you will see a laundry list of cuts that are being made.
Seems like it won’t be any🥲
Can you imagine how much shit the DEMOCRATS who come after these spineless GOP bitches are going to have to unfuck? I legitimately don’t even know if it’ll be able to be done in my lifetime and I’m only 42.
Assuming there is another election!
I feel the same way , but many think this will be all over once democrats step in again. Very dangerous and stupid thinking. Dems are useless.
Grandpa isn’t getting a third term. He wishes.
I agree. So much damage has been done and its accelerating at wrap speed.
I KNOW it won't be in my lifetime and I'm 68.
Sad isn’t it? Not in my lifetime either.
Very.
All 3 of my children have special needs. I'm terrified what this means for them.
😭💔
This just ruined my day. I am a special education teacher and now I'm scared for my kids.
I’m at a complete loss of words
Same 💔
WOW. WHAT WON'T SCOTUS ALLOW TRUMP TO DESTROY?
I'm pretty sure he could decide to dismantle the Supreme Court and they would let him in a 6-3 decision. And honestly he may as well do it because they serve no actual purpose anymore anyway. Absolutely pathetic.
Seems like he can do just about anything, and no one will bother to stop him. So we must. It has to be us.
I agree. The Supreme Court literally is giving Trump the power to abolish their jobs.
Funny. Biden can't forgive student loans but trump can destroy everything at anytime.
OMG, There like a freight train going off the tracks, Destroying everything America holds valuable, #47 needs to be stopped by any means necessary,
This literally makes me angry. The education of our people is EXTREMELY important. TACO wants to break down all levels of government and turn this country into an authoritarian dictatorship. People need to pay attention to the liar, cheat, felon and president of the USA. TACO will destroy us if we don’t fight back.
Dumpty likes uneducated people. Probably because he is so dumb himself. He definitely hates educated women!
I agree. Plus private interests want those voucher schools and for families to pay for schooling. There are a LOT of hands out in this administration for privatization. We need a lot more reporting about the lobbyists behind these actions, esp. re. the right wing justices' behavior off the bench.
I have it on good authority that they (networked groups with overlapping interests) do not like "well-informed, middle-aged women", and have specific strategies for combating them.
They should have fun will a well informed, well educated OLD woman then! Lol
You are 100% correct.
I was naive to think that the Supreme Court of the United States had integrity and would uphold the Constitution. Thy have torn down any separation of powers. They created this monster last year by giving Trump presidential immunity. Congratulations. Can they be disbarred? Asking for a friend.
I was naive as well. 💔😭
Literally graduate with my bachelors in elementary education in December and I am terrified
Same.
The Supreme Court has been bought
Wanna bet Alito and Thomas are on Epstein list?
Maybe Kavanaugh . . .
Absolutely they are a disgrace to the robes they wear. Wish we could impeach them.
I think threatened
What’s wrong with the Supreme Court ? Are they stupid or bought off?? Or both??
What the fuck! Our rights are being illegally deleted by our so called Supreme Court. They are a frigin joke now! Our nation is ruined and our ability to stop it has been eliminated.
how am i supposed to finished medical school now
Have you considered doing it in another country where they actually value education? I know it won't be easy but... It may be worth it in the end. This country is going down fast and with all the hospitals that are likely going to close due to Medicaid cuts, you may be better off settling somewhere else. It's time to really consider your options because they are dwindling for everyone here. Good luck to you though, I truly hope everything works out for you.
you think some things will change when democrats take over in midterms
So funny. tRump will declare a national emergency and cancel the 2026 election. No midterms threat then!
Google "countries with free education for international students." There are at least five in northern Europe.