Pam Bondi fired despite commitment to Trump agenda: Loyalty not enough!
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Teacher pay and pupil violence on conference agenda
More from this theme Recent articles Fears around unfunded pay rises, violence against teachers and the effects of planned SEND reforms will be key discussion points at this weekend’s NASUWT conference. Members of the teaching union, which represents more than 250,000 teachers nationally, will meet at the ICC in Birmingham today for their first annual conference since trade unionist Matt Wrack took over as general secretary. Wrack told a pre-conference briefing teacher pay and funding will be “one of the major aspects of debate”, and did not rule out the possibility the union could move beyond campaigning, towards a strike ballot. Last year’s conference passed a motion for an “immediate” move to ballot if government failed to provide a fully funded pay rise. 1. NASUWT to mull industrial action Wrack said the situation this year “is identical…in fact it’s probably worse”. The DfE has recommended a 6.5 per cent pay rise over the next three years. Yet a recent DfE report found schools could only afford a 2.7 per cent rise over the next two years, …
On Birthright Citizenship, Trump’s Restrictive Immigration Agenda Hits a Rare Roadblock
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump took the short trip from the White House to the U.S. Supreme Court with his signature priority of cracking down on immigration largely intact, given repeated interventions by the nation’s highest judicial body in his favor. By the time he left, his luck may have run out. With Trump looking on from the public section of the courtroom – a historic first for a sitting president – most of the nine justices seemed unwilling on Wednesday to let him proceed with what may be the most audacious piece of his restrictive immigration agenda. At issue during the arguments was his executive order that would deny birthright citizenship to hundreds of thousands of babies born each year on U.S. soil. The members of the court, led for more than two decades by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, signaled that the administration’s arguments backing Trump’s effort are legally invalid and inherently impractical. “I do not think that Chief Justice Roberts wants to go …
SEND and the far-right on the NEU conference agenda
More from this theme Recent articles Criticism of planned SEND reforms and concerns over the “rise of the right” will be front and centre at the National Education Union’s annual conference this week. Around 1,500 NEU members will gather in Brighton from Monday to Thursday, voting on dozens of motions spanning various issues. Here are five important motions to look out for… 1. The white paper The NEU’s national executive is expected to draft an emergency motion on the recent white paper and government’s planned SEND reforms, deputy general secretary David Wilson told a recent re-conference briefing. Details of that motion are not yet clear, but Wilson said it will help to shape how the union responds. He said the NEU welcomes aspects of the plans, such as the clamping down on private special school providers, and the “acknowledgement that education doesn’t start or end at the school gates”. But the union feels there are “fundamental flaws … that will result in a system that is not collaborative and not inclusive”. Wilson said the “major …
What might trip up Kevin Warsh and his agenda as Fed chair
Oil prices are surging. Inflation forecasts are rising. Futures markets increasingly raise the chances of a rate hike from the Federal Reserve. And then there’s Kevin Warsh and his stated desire — and edict from President Donald Trump — to cut interest rates. Even before a hearing is scheduled on his nomination as the next Fed chair, Warsh’s ambitious agenda for “regime change” at the Fed faces challenges. The most obvious: $100-a-barrel oil prices and the incipient inflation threat they pose run counter to Warsh’s hopes to sharply reduce interest rates. But the challenges go further. The new chair, once he takes his seat, could come up against resistance to nearly every aspect of his plan to rewrite the central bank’s operating system. Warsh has committed to slashing the Fed’s balance sheet. The overhaul could also include “breaking some heads” at the Fed, as he told Fox News in July, “because the way they’ve been doing business is not working.” That could imply staff changes or bringing in new people, as well as adjustments to the models used to forecast the economy and communications strategy the Fed uses to convey its policy outlook to markets and the public. Kevin Warsh, former …
Support for Trump’s immigration agenda craters with all faith groups, especially mainline Protestants
(RNS) — Support for President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration has dropped across all religious groups over the past year, with approval plummeting among white nonevangelicals or mainline Protestants, according to a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. Conducted in February and released on Thursday (March 26), the PRRI survey of 5,479 adults found majority support for Trump’s signature immigration policies is now limited to only two religious groups — white evangelicals and white Catholics. Even there, support has eroded since March 2025: White evangelical support fell from 78% to 69%, and white Catholic support sunk from 63% to 53%. The most dramatic shift was among white nonevangelical Protestants; their support for Trump’s immigration policies plummeted nearly 20 points, from 64% approval to just 46%. PRRI defines this group as generally including white mainline Protestants, who make up about 13% of the U.S. population, as of 2024 — the same share as white evangelicals. The shift among white nonevangelicals follows a year of mainline Protestant leaders voicing passionate opposition to Trump’s mass deportation …
Vince Vaughn slams late night hosts for pushing political ‘agenda’ on audiences
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Vince Vaughn has taken aim at late night television, arguing that an increasingly political tone has driven audiences away and contributed to the genre’s declining popularity. Vaughn, who has previously described himself as a political “libertarian,” made the comments on MAGA-friendly comedian Theo Von’s podcast this week. During the episode, Von pointed out that Hollywood is a “liberal place,” to which Vaughn replied, “But not really. It’s more like, ‘We’re smart and got it figured out, and if you don’t agree then you’re an idiot.’” He continued, “There was definitely a culture that if you didn’t agree with these ideas, you were looked at as bad.” “A lot of the late shows have struggled,” Von pointed out. “Because the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people. And it f***ing …
New autism group meets to counter MAHA’s ‘ideological agenda’ : NPR
In an effort to challenge the Trump administration’s views on autism spectrum disorder, a new independent panel of experts plans to meet just weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed 21 new members to the federal panel. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images An independent panel of autism experts plans to meet in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to challenge the Trump administration’s views on autism spectrum disorder. The newly formed Independent Autism Coordinating Committee is billing itself as a science-based alternative to an existing federal entity called the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. The new group’s first meeting comes just weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed 21 new members to the federal panel. Those picks are supporters of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again initiative. Many also share his belief that autism can be caused by vaccines — a belief that has been thoroughly debunked. “We in the autism science and advocacy community were just appalled at the …
Kennedy’s vaccine agenda takes a major blow
A court ruling on Monday dealt a heavy blow to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to transform America’s vaccine policy, just as the White House is reportedly losing interest in the project. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy granted a preliminary injunction on the reduced childhood immunization schedule Kennedy… Source link
Commentary: In the shadow of Hormuz, Trump is still pursuing his tariff agenda
The latest US trade probes are designed for a specific political purpose – to reclaim lost leverage following the striking down of the “Liberation Day” tariffs, says Kevin Chen from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Source link