Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 07 (249 total reports)
19.03.20245-24.03.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
The cruelty of this administration was predictable. One could also have suggested incompetence based on the lack of knowledge and experience in picking members of this administration, but the level of incompetence is frightening.
NEW FEATURE: Visual Stories!
For those who are determined to resist the efforts of this administration, I’m posting a number of visual stories (original songs with videos) to hopefully provide inspiration and motivation. This week’s newly released songs include “Resistance, Resilience,” and a tribute to civil rights justice, Ruth Bader-Ginsberg. “The Notorious RBG.”
Top Links of the Week
25.03.2025
The Hollow Men
This article takes the incompetency of Pete Hegseth and other 47 administrators (including the Vice President) one step deeper and looks at the empty suits with whom this president has surrounded himself. They were not just picked for the reasons of fealty to 47 and a commitment to his platform of revenge, but they are dangerously incompetent. The leaked top-secret war plan was posted on a platform (Signal) that could be later deleted and hidden (unlike federal e-mails and texts) and was accidentally sent to a journalist at The Atlantic (Jeffrey Goldberg). How do you “accidentally” send state secrets to a journalist? We already knew that cruelty was the point of this administration; now we can justifiably add incompetence as a second level of frightening qualities.
24.03.2045
Educators raise alarm about childhood hunger
Apparently, this is the US that many people wanted. A US that alienates its best global friends and, in particular, other democracies, a US that ranks as one of the unhappiest countries in the world, a US that is identified as an abuser of civil rights, and a US where children can’t focus in school because of hunger. To all you 47 supporters out there, this is what you wanted. To all you who stayed home and elected 47 by your indifference, this is what you wanted.
23.04.2025
A Constitutional Redline
This panel of constitutional scholars (18 legal experts) is giving us dire warnings that President 47 and his administration are flagrantly breaking the law established by the Constitution of the United States when it comes to the Administration Branch following the rulings of the Judicial Branch. This is a constitutional crisis. This is an administration determining itself to be above the law. Congress must respond with impeachment proceedings. Anything less is not an option! This is the showdown that Project 2025 wants, and it would be derelict not to respond.
22.03.2025
Musk Comes for the ‘Third Rail of American Politics’
In order to fund himself, Musk needs to cut Social Security and Medicare. 47 promised not to do it, but his owner, Musk, did not make that promise. Remember, that’s because Musk never ran for election; he’s not elected; he just bought a president. This article looks at the alarming moves that Musk is making to make Social Security increasingly difficult to receive. It is not new in the Republican playbook; G.W. Bush tried it and lost the election because of it. The GOP fears little—outside of pleasing their demigod— but they do fear losing their seats, and town halls are erupting all over the US shouting down Republican congressional officials for kowtowing to Musk and this administration. It’s become so bad that the RNC is telling its members to quit showing up at town halls (just like they told them to quit debating opponents). This article looks at what happened to Republicans in the past when they tried to tamper with Social Security. But the money put away by workers of the US is just too enticing for these greedy monsters. In more positive news, 34,000 people attended a rally yesterday in Colorado for Bernie Sanders and AOC—record-breaking. The resistance is working, folks, keep showing up!
21.03.2025
‘The Second Coming’: The Dismantling of Six Decades of U.S. Foreign Assistance Investments by Trump and His Vandals
Whenever you desire a perspective on how bad things are for women’s rights and families in the US or world, Ms. Magazine is the best source. This article examines the illegality of DOGE and Musk’s special appointment by President 47, as well as the potentially illegal disassembling of USAID around the world. It is normally the first step of every GOP administration to turn back the clock on women’s rights, but, of course, this administration has taken dismantling to a whole new level of cruelty. Women and families are under attack by this administration and its shadow board of directors, Project 2025. Barbarism is their new byword, and there is a certain sadistic enjoyment being displayed by this administration’s attempts to turn the clock back to the dark ages and rivaling the Taliban in its actions. Thank you to Ms. Magazine for keeping us informed. The damage done already may be irreparable, but we must continue resisting nonetheless.
20.03.2025
U.S. falls to lowest-ever ranking on 2025 World Happiness Report
Looks like US Voters got what they wanted, but it didn’t make them happy. The meanness of 47’s character is having ripples around the globe. People are unleashing their anger as they watch it made acceptable by their fake orange cult leader. But there is no cathartic effect. Research has indicated that releasing our anger doesn’t make us feel better, it just affirms the pattern of a juvenile response to aggravating stimuli. The US now has the pitiful, small-minded, icon it desired, but is realizing it isn’t the ticket to happiness it thought it would experience. To become happy, focus on curiosity and the habits of joy. Seek to validate others daily, not tear them down. The first step to resisting this administration of revenge is to build personal resilience. What can you do today to grow stronger internally and encourage those around you?
19.03.2025
Trump Admin Continues To Defy Judge After Sending Migrants To Salvadoran Prison
El Salvador is 47’s Poland. This is where he is beginning to build his illegal gulag. This is the presidency that his MAGA-Cult followers wanted and now have. Defying judges and creating his own laws. Deporting people because they dared to practice free speech on US campuses. Fait accompli. King 47 has taken office. The resistance must dig in and stay strong. What can you do to resist today?
