The PSLF is about to go back into a state where they deny as many applications as possible for any reason they can find, just like they did when borrowers first became eligible in 2017 under Trump’s Secretary of Ed.
The executive discretion derived relief programs under suit are gone immediately.
The new bankruptcy guidelines that have dramatically improved access to relief that way are gone too.
If you’re buried in student loan debt, prepare to have another truck dumped on you.
Not to defend the American public, who does not deserve any defense in the slightest, but…
I have a friend in advertising who specializes in Google SEO, and he pointed out this will include searches that contain the phrase as a subset of the search, such as “When did Joe Biden drop out” or “Why did Joe Biden drop out”.
Grinding the DoJ to a halt isn’t the goal this time. He needs someone competent enough to wield the agency like a hammer in order to go after rivals and punish dissidents. He may not be smart enough to pick which candidate can actually achieve that, but failure will be noticed.
No way he makes Cannon AG, that’s a job that requires actual competence to get anything done. See also: Merrick Garland.
He’s going to give Cannon Thomas’s spot on the Supreme Court in 6-12 months when he announces his retirement.
In 2020 Pennsylvania didn’t finish counting enough mail-ins to call the state until Friday.
Pa resident here, the fuckery has been going on for months already. Couple weeks ago a federal judge ruled county elections boards were within their rights to refuse to count mail-in ballots with minor clerical deficiencies on the envelope it was mailed in. Pa has 67 counties, guess how many elections boards are run by republicans. Now guess which party benefits more from having those votes thrown out.
As someone who lives 1/2 an hour from Lancaster, I’ll bet my hat this is some redneck Pennsyltuckian doing exactly this.
I hope they’ve written a very broad definition of social media.
is now, in large part, a referendum on genocide
No, it isn’t. Part of the problem with articles like this is the idealogical bubbles so readily afforded by modern life to the author. Nearly twice the percentage of Americans are fine (or think more should be done) with the USs arming of Israel than think it is a problem. The percentages within parties aren’t even that far apart. The average American doesn’t care about brown people dying half a world away. Anyone who has been paying even the tiniest bit of attention for the last 50 years should already know this.
But when you hang out in leftist spaces online, have leftist friends IRL, and read mostly leftist news sources, you lose sight of the fact that the average American is politically much closer to your problematic uncle you only see on the high holidays, than you.
a vote for her is the best/only way to register a “no” to genocide vote. To state, as liberal Democrat supporters tend to do, that Trump will be worse when it comes to Gaza, obfuscates this point.
No it isn’t. Doing whatever it takes to keep it from getting worse is in direct service of this point. It sucks that the only outcomes are the status quo or make it worse, but as long as that is the case, then not choosing to not make it worse is a moral failing.
Especially when they still manage to be wrong on that one issue. Trump will be worse on Gaza and throwing away the only chance to stop him, without even getting into everything else he’s also going to make worse, makes them complicit.
The problem is turning off wifi doesn’t actually turn off the wifi, it just stops a subset of packets being broadcast and won’t trasmit any data you want it to send. Among other things this is how ‘find my device’ works with the wifi and bluetooth “off”. They’re actually on.
It also won’t work since the service has enough precision to know whether you go in, and for how long. The real issue is that mobile phones are continuously broadcasting their location to any device that wants to listen, even if you turn wifi and bluetooth off.
It’s really disheartening that after a decade of this shit articles are still being written under the pretense that Trump’s appeal has anything to do with sensible governance.
The entire time you spend sitting at a light after it turns green is solely to wait for those gaps to reappear.
I would call legal and IT. It’s outside the scope of my role to accept contacts on behalf of the company.
Perry is my rep and and PA-10 is a weird district. Definitely drawn to dilute the influence of Harrisburg as much as possible, but not really homogeneous in its suburban and rural makeup. In Cumberland county especially the vibe has always been more of the rich/educated northern republican stereotype than the toothless redneck stereotype it seems like he is trying to appeal to. On the other hand he’s very popular around York in the areas where they’re big fans of banning books. I would guess on average the Republicans around me are more interested in maintaining the status quo than ushering in Gilead.
I always kinda hoped/figured he’d get primaried by a more moderate candidate at some point, it’s part of the reason I switched my registration, the other part being the sheer number of local government offices where Dems don’t have a snowball’s chance. As for the polling, that article is pay-walled but 270 to win has 2 polls with very small sample sizes. One has Perry up by 1% 6 months ago, the other has Stelson up by 9% a week ago with only around 300 responses. I want to believe, I really do, but I don’t. Most of the area still went hard for Trump in 2020 (not as hard as 2016, but still pretty lopsided) and PA really, really loves incumbents. I fully expect those things to continue with it carrying Perry to victory.
And it was that all private student loans were stripped of their bankruptcy protections. Federal loans were given an out but its very difficult. But the amount of private loans exploded and those couldn’t be cleared at all. That’s it. The final truth.
For too long, a myth has persisted that student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. The myth is not true because, in fact, student loans can be discharged bankruptcy. We have seen the Department of Education take important steps to ensure that bankruptcy relief is available to federal student loan borrowers. It is vital that private student loan borrowers also receive the relief the Bankruptcy Code provides —and that loan owners, lenders, servicers, and debt collectors honor that relief when a bankruptcy judge discharges a consumer’s debts.
Straight from the fucking CFPB. Stop repeating lies that harm people by making them believe they don’t have options that they do.
Its not their predecessors if its the same person.
The Biden administration was not running the Department of Education from 2017-2020.
I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time with this. I’m not talking about everything the democrats and Joe Biden ever tried to do in relation to students loans. I’m not talking about every mess ever made. I’m talking about their handling of the PSLF program. You know, the thing the thread is about.
You thinking that it’s right is indication of exactly what side you already agree with.
Saying I said it was right, when I explicitly said it was wrong. Well done.
So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn.
It helps if you understand that a huge portion of rural Pennsylvanians are overtly racist. It’s like they collectively decided the worst southern stereotypes were aspirational.
//edit: I was born in Pa and live there. I’m not just slagging off my fellow Pensyltuckians. I see more confederate flags on the trip to my parent’s house a third of the way across the state than I did on my roadtrip to Tennessee last year.
Anywhere from very important to not important at all, depending on your specific job.
There is some good news though, you’ve been lied to about sucking at math. Whether by yourself or other people I do not know, but the education research I have seen has been pretty clear that the main difference between people of normal intelligence who are ‘good at math’ and those ‘bad at math’ is how long they’re willing to work on a problem to ensure the correct answer before moving on.
I know ‘try harder’ sucks as an answer but it’s the best one I know of and at least in this case will actually make a difference.