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Trump Kills Head Start

The Trump regime is planning to deregulate Head Start, a core program to benefit impoverished children, established 61 years ago during Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. A proposed rule from the Health and Human Services Department, published yesterday, would revoke federal standards for the program, leaving it up to the states to decide critical matters such as staff-to-student ratios, safety standards, and how easy it is to kick kids off of the rolls.

The new rules will leave only "the carcass of Head Start," says Khari Garvin, who ran the Office of Head Start under Democratic President Joe Biden. That's the very idea. Jonathan Butcher, who runs eduction policy at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, tells the Los Angeles Times that deregulation "is the first step toward completely sunsetting Head Start."

"Alongside the deregulation, the proposal would add some new requirements," the Associated Press reports. "Staffers would have to deliver all instruction in English, except in tribal communities that run immersion programs in native languages. There would be a 5 percent cap on administrative expenses, down from 15 percent." Further MAGA – or rather, MAHA – mandates include mandatory outdoor physical activity and "nutrition education" championed by the quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The New York Times notes that Kennedy's uncle, Sargent Shriver, helped LBJ design Head Start six decades ago. In a statement, RFJ Jr. says he's honoring his uncle's legacy by "returning Head Start to those roots" and "removing unnecessary bureaucracy."

That so-called bureaucracy has helped 30 million children overcome the harms of poverty. Kennedy is a disgrace – not only to his family's legacy, but to humankind, whose shared inheritance he plunders in service to Donald Trump's corrupt regime. Every Democratic candidate should promise to restore Head Start – indeed, to expand it – once in power.

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Elections Roundup: GOP's Affordability Message Is 'Stop Whining, Get a Job, Eat Ramen'

• Tennessee Primaries: Ogles Out, Pearson In Trump-backed incumbent GOP Rep. Andy Ogles lost his seat to dairy farmer Charlie Hatcher; and in a newly gerrymandered district, state Rep. Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee Three" won the Democratic nomination. via the Associated Press and the Guardian.
• Another Ohio Republican Senator Demands Psycho Rep. Max Miller Resign "This guy is clearly a degenerate sociopath," Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy said in response to reports that the abusive Miller held his 2-year-old's comfort toy, a blue bunny, hostage in a custody dispute. "Max should step aside and seek help. Staying in this race makes it far more likely we lose this seat and hand Democrats a majority to impeach President Trump." via the AP, NBC News, and HuffPost.
• Trump Tells Donors 'We Need to Elect JD' "Even as Trump buoyed his vice [bootlicker] to donors in the Oval Office, though, he was still peppering people around him with questions about Vance versus [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio" for the 2028 Republican presidential ticket. via the Washington Post and the New York Times.
• Democrats Still in AIPAC's Pocket Are Sounding Incredibly Defensive About It In California, the Israeli lobbying group spent millions to boost Bay Area transit director Melissa Hernandez in a Democratic US House primary against state Sen. Aisha Wahab, who has the state party's endorsement; a spokesperson huffs that "Melissa does not control independent expenditures." via the Guardian, Common Dreams, and NBC News.

Is the US Military Out of Ammo?

Donald Trump is vociferously denying Washington Post reporting that the US military is enduring "extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran." In private, Trump railed at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who'd given him the mistaken idea that the shortages "had been fixed." Instead, the dearth of long-range guided missiles and air-defense interceptors has forced Trump to hold off on "additional massive strikes against Iran." Publicly, Trump insists that he is "extremely happy with the job that Pete Hegseth is doing" and that to report otherwise is "treasonous." OK, it's bedtime, gramps.

The American Prospect reports that the missile shortage may serve as a pretext to massively overinflate the Pentagon budget, even more than it is already, and decrease transparency around military spending. It's amazing how this regime is able to capitalize on its own incompetence.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• Trump Tries Again to End Birthright Citizenship By Decree "The Supreme Court already decided this issue: Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution," says Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants’ Rights Project. "Any executive order that tries to rewrite birthright citizenship will meet the same fate as the last one." via the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian.
• Mitch McConnell Allegedly Discharged from Hospital "On the advice of my doctors, I'll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home," says a statement attributed to the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican Senator, "and I'll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business." via the Washington Post and the Associated Press.
• Senate Committee Republicans Vote to Hold Anthony Fauci in Contempt The other Kentucky Sen., Rand Paul, intends to refer the former Covid czar to the Justice Department for potential prosecution without a full vote of the Senate, which would fail; the gambit puts Paul in a "legal netherland." via the Washington Post and Politico.
• IRS Workers Union Sues to Stop Trump Family's Immunity to Audits "It's unclear how much Trump owes the federal government in back taxes, but the latest details of the deal could wipe away what could be more than $100 million in back taxes." via the New York Times, the AP, and NBC News.

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$0

That's how much the far-right surveillance corporation Palantir paid last year in federal tax, according to a new study by the Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research and the European Federation of Public Services Unions. Globally, the company's effective tax rate was only 1.4 percent. That same year, the company booked $1.7 billion in pre-tax profits. "Systems that enable tax to be shirked on an industrial scale clearly have to change," Andrea Egan, general secretary of British trade union UNISON, said in response to the report, per Common Dreams. "The likes of Palantir need to stump up what's due."

ON THE SHOW TODAY

8/7: Sam will be hosting solo, as Emma is on vacation. The guest will be David Weigel, journalist covering politics at Semafor.

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PARTING WORDS

"This can happen to anybody. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody. Nobody is immune to this kind of government lawlessness."

-- Three-time Olympic swimmer David Hearn, speaking to CNN about the felony vandalism charge leveled against him by the Justice Department for touching the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after Donald Trump's botched renovation. Yesterday a federal judge in Washington, DC, dismissed the case against Hearn, saying it defied "both decency and common sense."

Trump's pick as DC's top prosecutor, former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, had filed to withdraw the case, claiming her office had been misled about the state of the reflecting pool by the Interior Department. Trump this week slammed Pirro, saying "she folded like an umbrella," and prompting speculation that her days on the job are numbered.

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