Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 01 (243 total reports)
05.01.20245-04.12.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel, MBA, D.Min.
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Visual Stories shared in presentations to inspire parents, foster parents, educators, and youth workers. Topics vary from dealing with grief to learning to be quiet. Songs can be customized to fit your group. Tell me the details of what you’d like, and share pre-approved pictures with me, and I’ll create a custom-made presentation for your group from the songs in my compilations.
Top Links of the Week
12.02.2025
Women This Week: Trump Administration Restricts Scientific Research Aimed at Improving Lives of Women and Minorities
Grants to scientific organizations and universities from the US Government are being screened and removed from funding if they carry any words like, “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.” But also words like, “Women,” and “Race.” Meanwhile, DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency)—the unilaterally appointed empire of non-elected Elon Musk—moved its Sauron-like eye to start cutting the DOE (Department of Education), while simultaneously walking away with a $38.8 million contract from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Is there any doubt left that Musk’s $277 million dollar “campaign package” to buy 47’s election was a minor investment compared to what he is going to reap from this administration? Who owns the presidency? It is certainly not the voters of the United States. Many of them were willing to sell the democracy of their country for a decrease in the price of eggs (that they will, of course, never see; egg prices are now the “worst they’ve ever been in history,” and expected to increase). Judges are slowly reacting to the more radical actions of Musk and his puppet, 47, but the two have already begun hinting that they will just ignore the judges that don’t back their programs. If the democracy makes it to 2026, mid-terms might provide an opportunity to impair some of the most reviling changes caused by this unholy duo, but only if people show up to vote. It’s never too early to start rallying the troops.
11.02.2025
What the judicial branch can do when a president refuses to comply with a court order
Should we really be surprised when President Elon Musk and his minions, 47, start making noises about ignoring court rulings when the rulings aren’t in their favor? Why not just avoid those laws too? They’ve avoided so many others. The hallmark of this administration is picking and choosing: picking and choosing what laws they will follow, picking and choosing what the public wants, picking and choosing what people (and especially women) tell them is acceptable to do with their bodies. Apparently, this is what the majority of US citizens have chosen as their authentic government. What a disgrace. Is this really the leadership we want to pass on to our children?
10.02.2025
Legal experts warn of 'constitutional crisis' as JD Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump
Those of us who did NOT vote for President 47 and did NOT stay home during the voting process knew this day was coming. Like anything else, this administration (and all its proprietors) believe in the rule of law until… Until it affects them… Until it confronts their plans… Until it finds them guilty of the crimes they are committing. This administration is not an administration of values; it is an administration of convenience. Whatever is convenient for them, they will most assuredly do. Is this the type of government we really want for our children and grandchildren? Whatever you can do to resist it, do it. And if you voted for them—or didn’t show up to vote, don’t act surprised that this is occurring; these are the people and the policies you voted for, and this is what they promised they would do.
09.02.2025
Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True
Project 2025, President Elon Musk, and their rag doll carnie-man, T-Rump, are trying to dismantle any references to the richness of diversity in US history. An insightful article I read this week suggested asking MAGA-cult followers: “Exactly, which part of D.E.I. are you against? Are you against diversity? Are you against equality? Are you against including others?” In the writings of Audre Lorde—especially now during Black History Month—this administration would find a reason to be against all that she has said. Lorde defined herself as, “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” This interview is a longer, but engaging read on a voice that is essential today. So please, take a moment to put down other things and learn from the article. Lorde’s words are important to history, her words are important to our future. These are the very words that Project 2025 and their cult following long to erase. Which is exactly why we should read them and pass them on.
08.02.2025
Trump and Musk Are Destroying the Basics of a Healthy Democracy
Tom Nichols, of The Atlantic, tells us about the high achievement accomplished when a government is able to staff itself with thousands of highly trained and educated employees. Such a feat takes years to attain and—apparently—weeks to undermine. This despicable dismantling is being done (mostly illegally) by President 47 and someone not even elected to the government. Elon Musk’s sole legitimacy in the US Government was granted because he paid for President 47’s election, in short, he bought the election and he bought the president. As Nichols states, “The president has a solipsistic and binary view of the world in which everything revolves around him, and other people either support him or oppose him.” In short, 47 doesn’t trust what he doesn’t know and he doesn’t know a LOT, nor is he interested in learning. He’s only interested in a vengeful purging. What Musk, 47, and Project 2025, are tearing down may never be rebuilt in our lifetime. High quality employees are difficult to hire and retain (especially in an environment of distrust). This is the case as well with the international friendships that 47 and his cult are disassembling. Former close friends are distancing themselves from the US and international governments are seeking out China to fill the voids left by the ruination of USAID. The government of the next generation will not be a government of fair-minded, intelligent, people hired for their expertise. The US Government will experience a brain drain staffed by cultic loyalists and relatives.
07.02.2025
The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Debacle
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is well-positioned to examine the tragic cost of 47’s massacre of aid to other countries through the USAID (United States Agency for International Development). First, I must write a disclaimer because my father worked for USAID in multiple countries around the world. His expertise and scholarship aided in the long term development of countries in dire need of reversing desertification and preventing erosion. 47’s dismantling of the critical international aid and knowledge sharing system will be devastating, it will also be another opportunity for China to fill the gap his administration leaves in international development. This will not be a short-term crisis; reducing a workforce from more than 10,000 to less than 300 in a two-week span is ludicrous and the kind of idiocy we have grown to expect from 47, Musk, and Project 2025 in this raging wildfire of his first 100 days.
06.02.2025
The MAGA Coalition Provisional Authority Has Plunged The Country Into A Constitutional Crisis
It was J.D. Vance himself that created the concept that he now tries to conceal (but Vance has never had a value that couldn’t be swayed by the promise of power), he was the one originally calling for the De-Ba’athification of the Federal Government (referring to purges by the Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party in post-Iraq war). Now, he is the heir apparent to the same type of Saddam Authoritarianism government in the form of President 47 and his non-elected patron, Elon Musk. While pretending to start a trade war with Canada, Mexico, and China (and then immediately backing down in the face of US’s neighbors) 47 is creating constitutional crises after crises while Vance, MAGA, and the spineless GOP giddily play along. This is nothing short of a coup d’etat and the undermining of the US constitution. Protests are finally springing up in cities all across America; some even in Red States. As people begin to understand that consequences of the dictates developed by Project 2025 and enacted by their presidential stooge, the Orange Felon of Mar-A-Lago. What kind of government will be left for our children? Unless congress takes urgent action now, it will certainly not be a democracy.
05.02.3035
Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US
If you’re tiring of the mindless insanity and outright cruelty of 47’s chaos, this is a good website to review. There are demonstrations and protests being scheduled all across the US to protest, not just 47, but one of his puppet-masters, (he has many) Project 2025. Most protests are scheduled at State Capitals, but the list is comprehensive with links to additional information. Find out where you can stand up, speak out, and join the resistance.
