The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3543 - Trump-GOP's Department of Education Decimation and More IDF Atrocities w/ Brittany Coleman

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

Don't let Sam's soft collar fool you, it is a Tuesday News Day and unfortunately there is plenty of news to cover. We start with World Food Programme Chief Cindy McCain detailing the atrocities committed by IDF soldiers on Palestinians seeking Aid. Then we are joined by AFGE local 252 Chief Steward, Brittany Coleman, to discuss Trump's dismantling of the Department of Education. The fun half starts with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson running interference on the Epstein cover up for Trump Then The Patrick Bet David Podcast gaslights their own co-host Vinny Oshanna over his anger towards the Epstein cover up. This clip really provides an insight to how a cult dominates their followers. Speaking of idiots, Canada's Nelk Boys hosted war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu on their podcast to as they put it "learn". All that and more, plus your calls. Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors DELETEME: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/MAJORITY and use promo code MAJORITY at checkout. GIVE WELL: For trusted, evidence-backed insights into this evolving situation — and information about how you can help — follow along at givewell.org/USAID SUNSET LAKE: Head on over to SunsetlakeCBD.com and use code NewSticks to treat your aches and pains to some much-deserved relief. This sale ends July 20th at midnight Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza’s music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder – https://majorityreportradio.com

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It is Tuesday, July 22, 2025. My name is Sam Seder. This is the five time award winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Brittany Coleman, American Federation of Government Employees, Local 252, Chief Stewart, an attorney for the Office of Civil Rights in Dallas. But what it's going to mean on the ground when we have basically a shattered Department

of Education. Also on the program today, the House of Representatives is at a standstill as Republicans look to protect Donald Trump from the Epstein revelations. They seem to think something's going on there. Meanwhile, Trump's former defense attorney, who now happens to be the deputy attorney general for the United States, will just happen to be meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, to make some type of deal. What could it be? Huh.

Trump regime releases FBI surveillance records of MLK because apparently the Washington commander stuff didn't catch fire. Israel's military attacks the World Health Organization in central Gaza amidst what could be one of this century's worst famines caused by another country. Democrats strategize fall government budget fight, so be prepared for disappointment. We are three months away from the Republican sponsored massive health insurance cost increases for upwards of 25 million Americans. Texas starts their plan to gerrymander congressional districts hoping to pick up five new ones.

U.S. fire service is short about 15 percent of its staff as forest fires rage. And Trump's labor department looking to repeal and rewrite 60 separate protections 60 separate protections for workers because of course they are the party for workers. All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome ladies and gentlemen. It is Newsday Tuesday. Newsday Tuesday. We're going to start in a few moments with a representative from the union that represents workers for the Department of Education of Americans who rely on the Department of Education some work that they do to protect their rights or their services.

We'll get into some other stuff after that, but before we do, we're seeing increasing reports of children dying of malnourishment, of widespread starvation in Gaza, this coming as we have seen daily reports of tens of people every day. Some days it's 30 people, some days it's 50 people, a couple of days it's been 100 people gunned down as they attempt to get food aid. And here is World Food Program Chief Cindy McCain on CNN. Again, widow of John McCain. Of John McCain.

Republican. She has been attempting to provide food aid to Palestinians in Gaza. And here she is. This is one of the worst tragedies we've seen so far in this particular war. What happened was we had clearance to go through the Zakeem Gate. We were through the gate. The Israelis, as you know, they clear everything and they decide when and if you go in. And we began our trek down the road, and what we saw were thousands of people running towards us. And they were hungry.

They were starving. And all of a sudden, the Israeli tanks, Israeli guns, Israeli weapons from all kinds started firing on the crowd. And it was, it's something that I hope never happens again, but more importantly, our group, WFP, our people at work for us were there too, and they were putting grave danger as a result of that. No humanitarian aid worker should ever be a target of anything. Well, this follows a trend over the last two months, where over 800 Palestinians have been killed around aid distribution sites.

The majority of those are at the controversial US-backed and Israel-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Can you be very specific? Are you coordinating in any way or supporting in any way that operational model? And what is your view on the GHF? Well, we are not coordinating and we do not work with GHF. As you know, we're a UN agency.

And so we have our UN, the way the UN operates is different from what GHF is doing. I don't really have any information about them at all because we don't even talk. I mean, like they would have no coordination with the mercenary kind of operation by the United States that has also been reported to have been firing on the Palestinians. Well, like the host of the show said, 800, over 800 people killed. But it's not, the point is it's not just the IDF now, like this is linked to a US mercenary project and they are also implicated in reporting over the past month or so in firing on the Palestinians.

Let's just play also clip number five. This was from over the weekend. Just to give you a sense of what's happening. This is a British surgeon in Gaza and later in the program we will play some audio or I should say some video from the House of Commons in England but here's a British surgeon in Gaza describing IDF soldiers killing children and just just for sport my colleagues in the emergency room describe a very clear pattern where on particular days they'll see different

pot body parts targeted so on one day they'll all be abdominal gunshot wounds on another day they'll all be head gunshot wounds on that gunshot wounds on another day they'll all be head gunshot wounds or neck gunshot wounds, on another day they'll be arm or leg gunshot wounds. And on last Saturday there were four young teenage boys all brought in very, very rapid in succession with gunshot wounds to their testicles. So they're clearly being targeted to their testicles. And this is a pattern that we're seeing every day, that these young teenage boys are systematically being targeted.

And it's almost as if a game is being played that they're deciding to shoot the head today and the neck tomorrow and the testicles the day after. Just a horror show. And the, I mean, if people, it's been now, how long? 21 months of this genocide. If people want to look up the images of the children, there's at least four confirmed that have starved to death. You can.

It the, you can. Or adults, I mean, they're unrecognizable. Hundreds of thousands of people starving to death being shot at as they flee between rubble. I mean, if this was happening, of course, to like a group of people that the United States is aligned with, if this was happening in reverse to Israelis, to Jews, well, we've seen it happen to Jews and things like in the Holocaust, but we would know exactly what this is.

They are bombing the crap. They're just, you see they're just bombing rubble now, right? Because there's nothing left. And there are countless people missing by calculations that are likely under rubble, having either been blown to pieces or suffocating to death, because that's a part of why we don't know this true death tolls, because they can't account for the missing people. They're just bombing rubble at this point. Video has been released of rapes of Palestinians in prisons being shielded by other IDF soldiers. Standing in front of the camera eyeline.

They are systematically starving a group of people that cannot leave an area, and then they are concentrating them in a smaller area in the south as they militarily clear out the north of the Gaza Strip. So like, we are in later stages of total extermination. In the coming week or so, hope to have on a Refusenik young Israeli who has, is part of a hopefully growing movement in that country to refuse to participate in this. And people are going to jail and it's, it's encouraging to see at least, you know, some dissent. Marrone Rappaport also had, you know, expressed at least that there was, you know, some growing

dissent within Israel, at least to maintain this ethnic cleansing of Gaza if only because it seems a waste to some Israelis but there's increasing I think some awareness of what they're doing in that country. We'll have more to talk about that later like I say in the you know we mentioned yesterday there was, it was 25 European countries or some European countries in 25 total that were demanding a cessation and we just had two IDF soldiers who I think were arrested in Belgium. And so there seems to be some rumblings in Europe and hopefully we will see more because the administration of this country is not inclined to do anything other than to continue to green light things as far as I can tell. But we will talk more about that later.

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It is a pleasure to welcome to the program Brittany Coleman, American Federation of Government Employees, Local 252 Chief Steward, an attorney for the Office of Civil Rights in Dallas under the auspices of the Department of Education. Brittany, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me. We get a little bit of a lag there, but hopefully we'll take care of that in just a moment. So Brittany, just walk us through, I'm looking at a, well, before we get to the letter, walk us through what your position is in the Office of Civil Rights, you know, for the Department of Education,

and who your colleagues are, not just in Dallas, but across the country. just in Dallas but across the country. Absolutely. So I am an attorney investigator at the Office of the Rights. There are, well there were at one point 12 regional offices, including the regional office in Dallas where I worked in. So I had roughly 60 colleagues at my office and we had hundreds of colleagues across the country and what we did is that we received complaints from the public, usually parents who are concerned

about issues happening with their children, who thought that their children are being discriminated against. So they filed a complaint with our office. From there, I would evaluate it to see, is there a reason to think that this child may be discriminated? And if that's the case, that there may be a problem.

I just do fact-finding. I talk to the political parties. I could be a teacher, principals, counselors, anybody that may have been involved in that matter. And from there, just determine whether there was a concern that there was a violation of a child's civil rights based on race, color, sex, national origin, or disability. And these are all statutory.

I mean, these civil rights are statutory and statutory in terms of requirements on public schools to provide, in some instances, accommodation or to not discriminate in some instances accommodation if the if the or I'm to not discriminate in some fashion. Absolutely that's correct because in my office we enforce title six which covers discrimination based on race color national origin they cover title nine which covers discrimination that's prohibited based on sex and both title two and section 4 of the

rehabilitation act. So all of those facts are what we enforce to make sure that any school district or institution that could be a trade school too that gets federal funding that they follow federal law and they don't treat different children differently because of their race or disability. And so what is the status of your job now? The status of my job is that I am technically still employed at the Department of Education. And we've been involved in a number of lawsuits

my agency has concerning the reduction in force for layoff that has happened where we've lost by now roughly half of our staff and a number of people have been in limbo because of those lawsuits. Unfortunately we got a decision from the Supreme Court that removed a preliminary injunction which stopped the risk. So because the Supreme Court decided to make the decision that it did, it's now allowing that layoff to go forward. And a lot of my colleagues are now facing a layoff throughout the Department of Education.

My office, the Office for Civil Rights, is in a different category because we are under another lawsuit. We've had a number of them where we, the courts are now, well, the agency is now prevented from carrying out that layoff with us. And so there's a decision on that case. So as of right now what's happening, long story short, is that I don't have my laptop. I don't have access to agency systems. I can't work on any cases.

My colleagues are in the same boat. So I'm technically still employed, but I'm not able to do the work that I was hired to do. And we should be clear, you know, a RIF is a reduction in force. And the argument that the administration is making is we don't need these people to fulfill the mission of the department. Now that's the official argument. I feel comfortable, I don't know if you do, saying they just want to destroy the Department of Education. I think they've

said that publicly, or at least some- Trump says he wants to eliminate it. I think it's been literally articulated, but within the context of the legal arguments they're making, they are trying to argue that we don't need all these people. Aside from the fact that what it's doing directly to people like yourself, they seem to have targeted specific departments in the Department of Education, which they're either going to farm out or just, I guess, eliminate the functions totally. Do you have a sense of what the breakdown is of that? You know, we're getting bits and pieces.

And luckily, I'm still on my union capacity, so I'm able to sit in on meetings. So I can tell you that, you know, for instance, the Institute of Education Sciences, that is our data concordance. So what that unit does is that it collects education data from around the country and it just sees, you know, how well students are doing and just reports that data out.

They don't have any, you know, skin in the game as far as one, you know, the outcomes looking one way or the other. Unfortunately, that unit has been almost completely decimated. There are very few people left. They might have had, you know, a couple hundred people and now they're down to, you know, in like maybe 20 to 30.

So that was a huge reduction in that department. For the Office for Civil Rights, I think we've lost over half of our investigators. You know, that's another issue. I think we have maybe close to 560 people across the country in our 12 regional offices. They closed seven of those regional offices, so now we're down to maybe 200 and something investigators, which is a huge cut for our area as well. I can say within federal student aid, that is another big component at the Department of Education. That's our biggest area because they handle things like federal student aid and PAYL grants

and, you know, other financial areas and also auditing, you know, to make sure that those schools are compliant with the law as well. auditing, you know, to make sure that those schools are compliant with the law as well. The component that usually enforces and make sure that for private institutions, you know, are compliant with the law, that area in particular, that accountability area, that oversight area was almost completely gutted. They went from nine offices down to about two. So what we're seeing is that, you know, there are areas that have just been completely decimated

that had very key roles in just really watching where the money went to schools, or, you know, seeing what happens when schools use that money in determining whether the schools were actually living up to what they needed to do to make sure our kids are prepared for their next steps. All right. I got a lot of questions about this, but in the wake of the Supreme Court case, my understanding

is that the cases, the subsidiary cases can go forward, but in the meantime, the department can fire all these people and I guess presumably if they lose the case, they'd have to rehire either these same people or other people, right? I mean, is that the question on a, in terms of the subsidiary cases, is the question like are you legitimately able to complete the function or fulfill the function of the department with these reductions in employees or are you just pretending? I mean that's sort of the broad strokes of it, isn't it? Absolutely and you know my union certs, I assert in my union capacity and a lot of other stakeholders, which includes, you know, 21 attorneys generals, a number of nonprofits,

we all assert that they cannot do the work that they are statutorily obligated to do. As I mentioned with IES, the data component, they are statutorily required to provide that information. And now you don'tutorily required to provide that information. And now you don't have enough people to provide that. With the Office for Civil Rights, we're statutorily required to enforce the statutes that I mentioned, and to do so and to remedy those cases within generally 180 days. We are not able to do so at our current staffing levels. So that's the long and short of it, and truthfully, they're just not able to do it. I know that there have been assertions made by people

within the agency and the administration that that is what's happening, but that's not what we're seeing on the ground. And so what happens to those people now? If they get fired, like, I mean, we're talking about your colleagues. In your division, is everybody just basically on paid leave or have people been fired and then said, I've got to go find a different job and would be presumably they'd

go and look to rehire these people. And it also, I don't mean to throw too much at you one time, but it also seems to me that the people that you've talked about so far who are parties to this case are the employees and the states who require the services essentially of the federal department of education to fulfill their obligation on a school level, but it seems to me at one point there's going to be standing for specific students who feel their rights have been violated and that the Department of Education doesn't have the capacity to address that like they are statutorily obligated to. And then I would imagine just the general student population could argue, because you're not assessing how schools are doing by aggregating this data, I'm also not getting the statutorily

required quality public education by the own definition that the US government has set in that there was an obligation to get this data in the first place. So I don't mean to throw too many questions at you one time, but what's the status of the employees now? And then do you anticipate there are gonna be other cases brought by students at one point? Okay, sure.

So that's, you know know they have to break it down in a couple of groups as far as where the employees are right now. So you have employees like me who are in the Office for Civil Rights because we have an injunction from another case that was actually brought by people who have complaints within our office. They actually were a party to a lawsuit. That case is currently under injunction so we are technically still employed. We're just not able to do our work because we lost access to our laptops and equipment. So then you have other people who were impacted by this,

you know, soon-to-be reduction in force and layoff who are in federal student aid, IES, our office of general counsel, and a number of other areas that were told by the agency as soon as the Supreme Court decision came down on, I think it was last Monday the 14th, by 4 p.m. that day they received an email saying that, oh, by the way, your last day is going to be August 1st. So now we have people who are under the pressure of realizing that, oh man, I'm about to lose my job. Like even though I see that we're not providing these services to the American public and I'm about to lose my livelihood

and ability to provide for my kids, that's happening on August 1st because the Supreme Court decision is allowing them to do so for all the other areas. And as I mentioned for the case for the Office for Civil Rights, that was actually brought in part by people who have complaints with our office who have seen the investigations just get completely stalled

because of this reduction in force. It's like we're not able to work on their cases and these people have suffered legitimate harms. I mean, the facts that I read in the case are just horrific. Like you have a child that was discriminated against and bullied because of their race, and you have another child that was bullied and harassed because of their disability. And if the facts that are alleged are true, then that's horrific and that's something we would normally intervene to rectify and try to fix.

And now those cases are at a standstill. Your colleagues, what, uh, that, that the, the buck, either the bucket that you're in or the bucket of, of, of folks that are affected by the Supreme Court decision, can you just explain a little bit of the care, more about the character of their work? Because the administration wants to talk about these people as career bureaucrats or political appointees or they try to

obfuscate what people actually are motivated by when they go into public service. I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit more about that. Absolutely. So I can't say enough positive things about my colleagues were all dedicated to public service. So I can't say enough positive things about my colleagues who are all dedicated to public service. And I think one thing that gets missed is that, you know, we're people and we have backgrounds too that led us to where we are. We were less highly educated and helped that. I can say that I personally benefited from receiving federal student aid and work study and loans that allowed me to go to law school and to go to college. We have a number of people at my job who are veterans, who served our

country in one capacity, put their bodies on the line and were prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice. And then when they came back, decided to continue to serve the public by helping with education. You have a number of people who are former teachers, including the local president of our union. We all believe in serving our communities. We all believe that we got something and we had opportunities because of things that were long and hard fought for that we were able to achieve, like having federal student aid and, you know,

knocking down issues of discrimination so that we could all have the same chance to achieve. And we believe that other kids should have that same right. So honestly, it's been very disheartening to see that we've been painted with this broad stroke and by us when, you know, we're people too. We're in your communities, we're in your places of worship, we're volunteering at your schools and a lot of us have kids too that we care about and we want to make sure that everything

is better for them in the future. So we're not motivated by who's in office, we're apolitical, we're motivated by making sure that our kids have better opportunities than what we had. What's your sense? I mean, you know, obviously, I would imagine the this sense would be informed by, you know, the city, the state that you live in for anybody. But what's your sense about the the public's perception of this, of what's happening, specifically in terms of the Department of Education? I think that, really I'm actually glad

as you asked this Sam, because I think this is giving a chance to correct quite a bit of misinformation. I think a lot of people think that the Department of Education is around to tell states and local school districts how they're supposed to teach and educate their Children, which that is, you know, far from the case. That's not what's happening. What we are here to do is to provide financial assistance and guidance and accountability for making

sure that students are not treated differently in schools. And unfortunately, I think a lot of that misinformation has been spread under this administration. And you know, it's not just this administration, I have to say that, you know, there are members of Congress who have impacted that too. I can say, you know, living here in Texas, that I have been, you know, living here in Texas that I have been, you know, honestly disappointed in the fact that my senators and my congressional representative, you know, are aware of what's happening because they have a office in Dallas where we have one.

And they're not stepping up and speaking out on our behalf and making sure that people understand how we actually help fund, you know, after school programs and fund special education in our states to make our states better. So I think that, you know, we also have to look at the lens and that it kind of depends on where we live too. And so I can say experiencing that living in Texas has been one thing as opposed to looking at the other states that actually joined in on the lawsuit to save our agency. I can tell you Texas was not one. So it's, I think that's you know getting the word out and just helping people to realize it's more than what you may be hearing on TV. You know,

please listen to people who are actually doing the work and hearing what we're saying. It's like we're not here to tell you what to do, but we are here to make sure that people are treated fairly and that you are not coming more out of pocket for services that you should get from the federal government. That's another thing I think that's not getting talked about, like the these services that we're seeing getting cut, including, you know, $6 billion of funding that's being withheld arbitrarily by, you know, the education secretary right now. by the education secretary right now, this is less funny that schools in rural areas and schools in low income areas and just across the country have to provide afterschool programs and to provide other things that your communities may need

to help support your students. And what does that mean for their budgets this year for school districts? It means that things could get cut. And I think a lot of people aren't seeing that because all we're hearing is that we're taking things, you know, sending stuff back to the states. Well, things were already at the state level.

We never had it. But we are here to make sure that you can do more at the state level than what you would have just relying on state funding. And this couldn't, this, I guess, indecision or lack of clarity as to what's happening with those funding, you know, in the middle of July, you got public schools that are basically trying to anticipate what are they going to do with kids? All these after school programs are going to get cut for so many kids across the country.

It's going to... I think it's going to be devastating. I guess, lastly, you have these multiple cases that are going on about the various aspects of the DOA. And now the Supreme Court has not really addressed the case on the merits. It only basically said that there was an urgent... They basically said there's an urgent need to fire these people, so go ahead, fire them, and then we'll decide whether or not they were needed. It just seems completely ass-backwards, for lack of a better term. But is it conceivable that you would have circuit courts in different parts of the country say, no, to uphold these acts in the Civil Rights Act and in the Education Act, we need these lawyers.

You would have that in one circuit court, but a different circuit would say something differently. Is it conceivable that there would be DOE civil rights lawyers operating in one part of the country, but not the other part of the country? I mean, based on the court cases, it's possible. But I would say based on what we're seeing under this administration with the secretary, you know, sending out an email to all of us saying that we're preparing for our final mission, it really seems as though the whole point is to get rid of the whole agency. And I would say that's currently what we're having right now.

We have certain offices that are open across the country, but the intent is still there from what we can tell that the intent is to get rid of our agency. So right now we technically do have people that are operating in different areas, you know, without a circuit split. But I, based on what's happening with the Supreme Court now, I, and what we're seeing our agency do and seeing Congress really not intervene on, you know, it looks like they're aiming

to just get rid of the whole agency. I'm not sure if it means that we'll have people going forward, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no, I interrupted you. Is that the language you're hearing, final mission? Like internally? Yes, we actually received, yes, that is actually what we received.

So, and I mean, and that's been documented in court cases too. It's like that, you know, you know, it's been documented in the news. It's like it was very set that, you know, the intent was to get rid of the agency, which has been our whole concern this whole time. And even though that is not within the agency's discretion or the secretary's discretion, that is only a power that's set aside by Congress. The concern is that because of doing things like this, reduction in force,

that that is what you're trying to carry out anyway. So as of right now, yes, we do have people that are handling cases across the country. They're not able to handle those cases because we keep getting, you know, tens of thousands of cases each year and they increase each year. So we currently have people working on things now, but I can't tell you if that's going to continue to be the case, especially when you see those early reports in the media. And really, if you look at Project 2025, the whole point is to get rid of our agency. What can folks, listeners do?

I encourage everyone, especially if you live in a congressional district or a, you know, or state that's governed by Republicans, you know, that's your House representatives and your senators, I encourage you to call your representatives. We as the union, we are doing what we can to fight back. You see that people are, you know forward losses including nonprofits but it's going to take everybody getting involved and speaking out and saying hey I'm very concerned that children are not going to get the services they need if they have special needs or hey I'm concerned that you know student athletes who are you know women may not get the same opportunities as men because they

are women or hey I'm concerned that a student may not get the same opportunities as men because they are women or hey, I'm concerned that a student may not have the same opportunities to get into different classes or AP classes because they're black. If you're concerned about all of these things or concerned about making sure you have access to federal aid and PAYL grants, please call your representatives and tell them these things and let them know that the Department of Education needs to be held at status quo, which means don't fire anybody and let these people get back to work. And I would say that's not just for, you know, congressional representatives too, because I think that states that are led by Republicans are just as complicit.

That includes my state of Texas that is led under Republicans that actually flew out to D.C. to see and witness the executive order being signed to dismantle our agency. So I think you also have to hold your state representatives accountable too, because at the end of the day, education is led by the states. So you need to hold them accountable as well and call them and let them know

that you're very concerned about what's happening, that you need federal funding, and that this is what makes our schools and our kids have a better future is when we actually invest in them and that we don't turn down investments from the federal government over silly partisan ideologies. What matters is that we're investing in our kids, so they need to call all of these people over silly partisan ideologies.

What matters is that we're investing in our kids, so they need to call all of these people and let them know and tell them that we need to keep the department as is, and really we need more people hired. We're trying to get rid of people now. We didn't have enough people to handle all the work we had in the first place. We need more people too.

Brittany Coleman, American Federation of Government Employees Local 252 Chief Steward and Attorney at the Office for Civil Rights in Dallas. To the extent that that office is open. Thanks so much for your time today. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. All right, folks. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. All right, folks.

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But he does make some points about the positions that Democrats should be taking and what the advice that they're getting, generically speaking, from, I mean, he aggrandizes his father in the course of that, but I really do think if you listen carefully, what he's saying is like, Democrats need to separate themselves from Republicans and fight for it.

Now, to the extent that Joe Biden did that, people can argue, but- Biden's best trait arguably was his disgust for the Obama, Harvard, Yale, intelligentsia that was stacked in the administration that he felt was kind of anti-populist, elitist, and condescending. And I feel like, yeah, that's kind of how things went I

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