If you werenāt already super psyched for the Big Beautiful Bill borrowing caps making law school unaffordable for many, get ready to learn that most lawyerly public service is no longer getting loan forgiveness. Because public service itself is going to āillegal.ā
The Trump administrationās ongoing war on the legal profession continues with the Department of Education releasing its finalized Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule ā a process kicked off in March when Trump issued his Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness Executive Order ā and while its impact will be felt across education, the new rule is especially brutal for law school graduates, with the DOE cutting off forgiveness to those causes it deems to be supporting āillegal activity.ā And, if you hadnāt already guessed what it means to support āillegalā activity in this regime, they mean jobs like ārepresenting immigrantsā and āadvocating for transgender rights.ā
Yes, letās talking about the dems every fucking time trump does something nazi or shitty.
But yes, somehow, letās talk about the dems.
The point is not to shift blame to the democrats. The point is to make light of the fact that the dems are controlled opposition, and they still serve the same capitalist class that maga does.
Until we abandon the capitalist, bourgeois parties, the descent into fascism will continue - as the democrats ensured after waffling each time they were in power these past few decades. No amount of lesser evilism or electoralism will get us out of this.
None of that would be happening if the dems hadnāt put oligarchs and a foreign genocidal nation before their constituents.
Sure we could pat them on the back and tell them none of it is their fault, but each time we give them slack, they hang themselves with it. Better to keep up the pressure, especially when itās justified. Maybe we might even get 2 cents of change out of it if we are lucky.