#head start

What You Need to Know about Project 2025

The GOP's Radical Plans for America's Future

By 5 P.M. Tonight (01/28/25), in a Leaked Memo, the Trump Administration orders a freeze on all Federal Funding. Things like loans, grants, and national and international aid.

This includes but does not limit to programs relating to Medicaid and Childhood Cancer Research. From Head Start to Local Law Enforcement programs.

The Trump Administration plans to go through each program on a "case-by-case" basis to decide the funding.

Democrats and Various Legal Groups have come out against this calling for legal disputes and to halt Senate Confirmation Hearings until more information has been presented or the funding returns.

Photograph of Ceremony for National Head Start Day

Collection LBJ-WHPO: White House Photo Office CollectionSeries: Johnson White House Photographs

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Last week, I wrote about the Heritage Foundation’s Saving America by Saving the American Family: A Plan for the Next 250 Years. The plan is, essentially, to make women drop out of school, marry young, have tons of babies, rely financially on their husbands, be unable to divorce, and wind up in the poor house if they don’t follow these rules. But I wanted to zero in specifically on the policy section of the piece, which comes at the very end and which I haven’t seen get the coverage it deserves. Because what the Heritage Foundation is proposing is a massive cash transfer from poor single mothers to better-off married couples. This really is the plan: Take from the poor to give to the “right” kind of families. Make poor mothers work, and pay better-off ones to stay home. Further impoverish single mothers to force them to marry.

The Heritage Foundation wants to eventually end cash welfare as we know it (“Credits designed specifically to benefit poor single mothers may be well intended, but they have proven to incentivize single motherhood in poor communities,” Heritage laments). They don’t propose totally doing away with welfare benefits here, I suspect because they realize that would be a nonstarter. But they do propose taking resources that currently mostly benefit poorer families and redirecting them to wealthier ones, so long as those wealthier families have married parents. The Heritage proposal would only give its proposed benefits to married couples (policies should “privilege marriage as directly and explicitly as possible,” Heritage writes, emphasis theirs). It would only give benefits to married couples in which one partner works and makes above a certain income. And it would incentivize women dropping out of the workforce… unless they’re poor or single.

Awe-gust 2025 Prompt List! 💥🎸⛅️🐉🐶💕

(I’m sharing this prompt list in advance so that folks have time to prepare)

So, I actually kind of had this idea last year, but didn’t know how to follow through with it (and I wouldn’t be surprised if this post just disappears into the tumblr abyss due to my lack of a full plan…).

Anyway, this is Awe-gust, which can be more associated with Awesome August than with @awegust, just to clear up any confusion.

So, the general objective of this is, starting on the first day of August, to create for each day something that is awesome, awful, awe-inspiring, or adorable, based on the prompts listed below. Bonus if you combine them with prompts related to Smaugust and/or Doggust! Your results can be visual art like sketches and paintings, literary art like short stories and poetry, something that combines the mediums like a comic, or even something related to the performing arts like a dance routine or a song (whether it be cover or original).

Even if you don’t manage to do all of them, I hope you have an awesome time coming up with ideas for them and I look forward to seeing what you do for this!

The Prompts

Seed

Puppy

Beach

Vision

Game

Stars

Date

Ocean

Camp

Band

Dinosaur

Storm

Climb

Party

Insect

Ride

Shirt

Vacation

Flashlight

Camera

Fireworks

Movie

Dance

Bird

Cooking

Yearbook

Kitten

Anomaly

Surprise

Newt

Tree

👉We can't let science grants be decided by political appointees.

👉We can't let federal funding for Head Start for kids or Meals on Wheels for seniors be cut without being able to appeal.