@rbarris

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"Physics Shrugged"

https://www.statesman.com/news/article/nursing-no-longer-professional-degree-21198671.php

The now almost nonexistent Department of Education has determined that NURSES are not professional careers, and thus LOAN availability will be cut in half. Because we don’t need nurses, right? This wasn’t even funded education, this is student loans. Cruelty is the point.

Under the new definition, programs in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology, and clinical psychology are considered professional.

Programs for physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, and audiologists are now excluded.

Fucking chiropractors are allowed, but Nurse Practitioners are not? Despite needing at minimum a Masters degree?

They are destroying the country and they are doing it intentionally.

Nursing no longer a professional degree. See changes to student loans

Nursing no longer counts as a professional degree, according to the Department of Education

Austin American-Statesman

This piece by ProPublica, about the consistent deceit emanating from the Murdoch family's primary U.S. media outlet, is chapter and verse why that propaganda outlet should ALWAYS be referred to as Fox "News" --

https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-fox-news-coverage?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops

After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

ProPublica
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Today's "One First" explains why Stephen Miller is wrong that ICE officers have "federal immunity" from prosecution for all actions they take in their official duties, and that anyone attempting to prosecute them is committing a felony. Supremacy Clause immunity is a thing, but it's *not* absolute:

186. When Can States Prosecute...
186. When Can States Prosecute Federal Officers?

Stephen Miller claims that ICE officers have "immunity" for anything they do while enforcing immigration law. Even as an argument about *state* criminal prosecutions, that claim is overstated at best.

One First
CNN - President Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/fact-check-insurrection-act-trump
Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act

President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities.

CNN

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #USPolitics #Government

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

ProPublica
Politico - Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Politico

You know who commandeered and occupied a Federal facility in Oregon at gunpoint for six weeks as a political statement about excesses in Federal power?

Ammon Bundy, a right-wing extremist and a rag-tag set of militia groups and soverign citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge?wprov=sfti1

Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

Burnout and Elon Musk’s politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff
Disillusionment with Musk's activism, strategic pivots, and mass lay-offs cause churn.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09/burnout-and-elon-musks-politics-spark-exodus-from-senior-xai-tesla-staff/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
If you were under the impression that Trump & Witkoff’s abuse of presidential power with CZ Zhao I outlined yesterday was the only situation where the Trump family was violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause with a crypto criminal, we need to now move onto Justin Sun. Buckle up: