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Some student-loan borrowers have just 1 month left to get closer to debt cancellation — and they need to take action
Ayelet Sheffey Apr 1, 2024, 4:31 AM CDT
Some student-loan borrowers have one month left to benefit from one-time account adjustments.
Borrowers who do not have qualifying loans need to consolidate by April 30.
The Education Department expects to complete account adjustments in July.Some student-loan borrowers have just one month to get closer to debt relief.
President Joe Biden’s Education Department is nearing the end of its one-time account adjustment for borrowers on income-driven repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
First implemented last summer, the adjustment allowed the department to evaluate borrowers’ accounts every other month to determine which borrowers qualified for debt relief but had yet to receive it. The department said it expects adjustments to be completed by July 1 — and while it happens automatically for some borrowers, others will need to take action soon to benefit from the temporary provision.
To benefit from the adjustment, borrowers must be in the federal direct loan program or the Federal Family Education Loan program with government-held loans. The department recommends that For those without qualifying loans apply to consolidate into one of the programs by April 30.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also released an advisory in early March reminding borrowers of the consolidation deadline. It said that borrowers with the following federal loans will need to consolidate to benefit from the adjustment:
Commercially held FFEL loans
Parent PLUS loans
Perkins loans
Health Education Assistance Loan Program loans
To consolidate, borrowers can go to studentaid.gov/loan-consolidation.
First Ohio, now Alabama?
What is this bullshyt?
Alabama secretary of state says Democratic convention too late to get Biden on ballot this fall
Updated: Apr. 09, 2024, 3:04 p.m.|
Published: Apr. 09, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
By
Mike Cason | mcason@al.com
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has notified the state and national Democratic parties that the scheduled date of the Democratic National Convention is a few days after the deadline for the party to put its nominees for president and vice president on the ballot for the general election in November.
Allen, who is a Republican, said state law requires parties to provide a certification of nomination for president and vice president no later than Aug. 15.
“It has recently come to my attention that the Democratic National Convention is currently scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which is after the State of Alabama’s statutory deadline for political parties to provide a certificate of nomination for President and Vice President,” Allen wrote in a letter to Randy Kelley, Chair of the Alabama Democratic Party. “If this Office has not received a valid certificate of nomination from the Democratic Party following its convention by the statutory deadline, I will be unable to certify the names of the Democratic Party’s candidates for President and Vice President for ballot preparation for the 2024 general election.”
The 82-day deadline has been in Alabama’s election law since 1975, according to the Allen’s office.
The Democrats are expected to nominate President Joe Biden for a rematch with the presumed Republican nominee, Donald Trump
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/alabama-secretary-of-state-says-democratic-convention-too-late-to-get-biden-on-ballot-this-fall.html
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:53 AM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
RNC Chair Michael Whatley says the quiet part loud on Maria Bartiromo’s show and portrays Ukraine as an “aggressive” adversary of the US
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) posted at 11:16 PM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
Since Trump just installed this guy, seems like pretty good chance a newly elected President Trump would actually go to war with Ukraine or at least supply Russia with weapons to complete its conquest.
(https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1777551213359218694?t=FJckoyoT_ksnHMqag9WulQ&s=03)
The Influential Conservative Group Making it Harder for Idaho Districts to Fix Their Schools
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has gone beyond the education culture wars by targeting local bond and levy elections, which districts rely on heavily to build and repair schools.
by Becca Savransky, Idaho StatesmanApril 9, 6 a.m. EDT
The blue and orange leaflets that arrived in Idaho Falls mailboxes ahead of the school bond election in November 2022 looked like the usual fare that voters across the country get. Sent out by the school district, the mailers encouraged people in the eastern Idaho city to register to vote and listed bullet points highlighting what the bond would pay for.
But the mailers, along with other materials the district distributed, would lead the county prosecutor’s office to fine the superintendent and the district’s spokesperson, accusing them of violating election law by using taxpayer money to advocate for the bond measure. According to the prosecutor, it was illegal for district officials to describe the schools as “overcrowded” and “aged” or to say that students “need modern, safe, and secure schools.”
Such penalties were made possible by a 2018 state law originally pushed by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, a conservative lobbying group that has become a big player in Idaho Republican politics. The foundation has stoked hostility toward public education across the state, pushing book bans in school libraries and accusing districts of indoctrinating students with “woke” ideas like critical race theory.
But unlike groups in other states, the Freedom Foundation has extended its reach by targeting school bond and levy elections, which have traditionally been local issues and are the main ways districts build and repair schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-influential-group-disrupting-efforts-to-fix-idaho-schools?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
Olivia Julianna 🗳 (@0liviajulianna) posted at 0:14 PM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
There are doctors telling judges all over the country that abortion bans are dangerous and deadly. These judges have to read the horror stories before making their rulings— and it seems many of them do not care.
We must elect a pro-choice majority and codify Roe v Wade.
(https://x.com/0liviajulianna/status/1777746976114700334?t=wIJXmFnrB-x_n7Xe6FIEtQ&s=03)
UH HUH
David Reid for Congress (@DavidReidVA) posted at 11:49 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
🚨 Glenn Youngkin just vetoed my bill that would have allowed senior citizens to use their senior living facility IDs when they go to vote.
The bipartisan bill would’ve made it easier for seniors to vote
The veto is tone deaf. We need to make it easier, not harder to vote.
(https://x.com/DavidReidVA/status/1777740603905736919?t=fi7z8ucX03vq5Tffd17STA&s=03)
Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman are American Heroes! (@Sandra137198021) posted at 9:45 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
They are trying to play in our faces. The only reason Hogan is considered by the media narrative as a “moderate” is because DEMOCRATS prevented him from implementing a MAGA-like agenda! Same with Youngkin! It’s Democrats who stop these GOP governors from their extreme agenda.
(https://x.com/Sandra137198021/status/1777709438603788550?t=iXrI9rIUBDxeW9a_sR4fhg&s=03)
The Hill (@thehill) posted at 10:21 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
Protesters demonstrating against the war in Gaza repeatedly interrupted a Senate hearing attended by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Brown. https://t.co/HQl9I2RcHA
(https://x.com/thehill/status/1777718370688729479?t=6z9fmnuvmzXN6uqcdxIYOw&s=03)
Robert Reich (@RBReich) posted at 11:45 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
Ever notice how forgiving loans is suddenly a big problem when students get much-needed relief, but nobody blinks an eye when billionaires get their PPP loans forgiven? Or when corporations are handed billions in subsidies?
(https://x.com/RBReich/status/1777739540985225377?t=qSC_ZVEHNYcA6t1gI9xzdg&s=03)
Jasper Scherer (@jaspscherer) posted at 11:33 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
New: @KenPaxtonTX’s office has sued Harris County over its guaranteed income program, alleging that it violates the Texas Constitution.
Court filing here: https://t.co/SbVgcdEUm1 #txlege https://t.co/cPyTQiGrq4
(https://x.com/jaspscherer/status/1777736701152251963?t=8M07eSt-mTrDF_Rg7ImQOA&s=03)
Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) posted at 11:27 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
Breaking:
An appellate judge has REFUSED to pause proceedings as Trump fights his gag order in his New York criminal case.
(The appeals court denied a separate stay request yesterday.)
(https://x.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1777735021534601534?t=Btbr5NCRzgCitWjAFahicg&s=03)
I have no problem with this.
Anna Liz Nichols (@annaliznichols) posted at 11:39 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
An Oakland County judge sentenced Jennifer and James Crumbley, parents of the Oxford High School shooter, to 10 to 15 years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed https://t.co/49bCd6YWWL
(https://x.com/annaliznichols/status/1777738183645557057?t=b8klMDbPW48J0-dpV4SZQQ&s=03)
Gary Chambers (@GaryChambersJr) posted at 6:25 PM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
People talk a lot in the comments about why they don’t vote. My neighborhood is all Black, and we don’t have high crime nor do we get ignored by city leaders. We are a voting and engaged neighborhood.
All politics is local and I think that’s lost on a lot of us. I started doing Civics for the People because I realized most of us don’t know how to make the government work for us. When people won’t do the things you want done in your community, change the people leading in your community. Simple.
The things that impact your life the most are controlled by local and state politics. Skipping elections hurts you, not your enemy.
#AlwaysRising #MakingImpacthttps://t.co/IPCqd8M7mg
(https://x.com/GaryChambersJr/status/1777477849357631754?t=xlZpnNa26YqVejMfYNt5PA&s=03)
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 9:34 AM on Tue, Apr 09, 2024:
.@MollyJongFast: The really dangerous thing that Trump does, that he’s done previously, is that he’ll say a lie like ‘we’re going to kick this back to the states’ and then get that lie repeated as a headline. A reader will then say oh, he’s going to kick it back to the states… https://t.co/5SUuA4Jz3y
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1777706759668248851?t=LONHaLNrwtUJkcvLaqs_Kg&s=03)
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2016 WAS A FLUKE, TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES
Our own Cletus always makes the point that what happened in 2016 was a fluke, a happenstance, a convergence of forces which was the equivalent of pulling an inside straight. It is very unlikely to be repeated. Our agencies are on guard against hostile state actors using propaganda to influence the election. The attacks which landed on Hillary Clinton don’t have the same effect on Joe Biden. Donald Trump is not a cipher, but has a record to run on. And a majority of voters are aware of the threat to democracy which Trump and his MAGA Party are. In other words, if Trump is going to win, he’s going to have to do it on his political nous.
Sadly for him, he has none.
Yesterday, he released his much-anticipated statement on the subject of abortion. He began the video by again crowing that he was the president who finally got Roe v. Wade overturned. Then he went on to say that abortion policy should be left up to the states.
In doing so, he angered everyone. Abortion rights activists quickly pointed out that the radical anti-abortionists surrounding him are planning to implement a national ban if they win all branches of government. And Trump will simply go along with whatever they put in front of him to sign. Meanwhile, people like Mike Pence were scathing in their judgment, saying that Trump betrayed the anti-abortion movement which put him into office. He didn’t assuage those suburban women, and he upset the abortion hardliners.
This is an example of Trumpian panic. Far from being the alpha male he attempts to project, he knows that the upcoming election interference, “hush money” trial brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will likely end in conviction. He spent all day yesterday trying to delay the trial’s start next Monday. His effort to change venue was dismissed by the appellate court. Today his appeal on the gag order will also, most likely, fail. His cries of “presidential immunity”, even if germane—which they are not—would be immaterial, as the crime took place before he assumed office. Trump knows he’s about to go to prison, or at least be convicted and have to spend the rest of the election season fighting an appeal and the start of the Jack Smith and Fulton County prosecutions. Add to that the fact that it seems that the bond he posted for the fraud appeal is itself fraudulent, and we can but hope that he’ll have that final psychotic break for which we all yearn.
https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2024/04/2016-was-fluke-trump-doesnt-have-what.html
Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) posted at 8:12 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
An incredible sentencing document, in which Judge Lamberth systematically dismantles the idea January 6 was a “peaceful protest.” Every paragraph is like a sledgehammer to that myth. https://t.co/zl3bfh1z96
(https://x.com/amandacarpenter/status/1777323571871727992?t=iKxtRPXY5qIGChxMlQ236g&s=03)
LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊💔 (@namwella1961) posted at 8:18 AM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
The Founding Fathers anticipated a president would try to seize power.
I doubt they anticipated a political party & corrupt Supreme Court Justices so willing to help Trump end Democracy.
I’ve never seen such corruption & I watched Nixon resign!
#ProudBlue #TrumpForPrison2024 https://t.co/QUzfp4HeCT
(https://x.com/namwella1961/status/1776962708966875521?t=iC19eG1EmHyG0Asfaq2m8Q&s=03)
Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin) posted at 1:07 PM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
The Trump plan for Ukraine is the Putin plan for Ukraine.
(https://x.com/geoffgarin/status/1777397945958031778?t=pL56qiO-op_t63rNffjDfQ&s=03)
🇺🇸 Yvette – Normie Dem 🇺🇸 (@afrosabi) posted at 11:03 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
I’m not into the whole royal family stuff…but one thing that really got my attention is that the people who antagonize Meghan tend to stick to attacking Black folks…
(https://x.com/afrosabi/status/1777366715757707336?t=J7NyfaGPQkdiwt6dpqWZXQ&s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳 (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 9:20 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
Why rural white Americans’ resentment is a threat to democracy
https://t.co/IM4c4Aiv5K
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1777340794392940660?t=W_qUbq11MAy8ahe4pfc2VQ&s=03)
lips so pursed.
The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) posted at 1:38 PM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
🚨Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde casts doubt on nursing home residents being able to vote:
“Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have a five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote.”
https://t.co/xqE0ODTVdk
(https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1777405714001997835?t=m4nnaq09FanNLue3Jg0lIg&s=03)
Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) posted at 1:32 PM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
BREAKING: The Biden Campaign just released this devastating ad showing the damage caused by Donald Trump appointing ultra-Conservative judges that overturned Roe v. Wade. Retweet so all Americans see. https://t.co/Q4TWG1J5Lc
(https://x.com/BidensWins/status/1777404288966238448?t=18GYbNSpHM5Hq-ezas_FXA&s=03)
Miranda (@DoomScroling) posted at 1:36 PM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
Idaho gop lawmakers have decided to extend their book banning fervor to not only school libraries, but also public libraries.
Of the titles challenged “41% had LGBTQ content & 49% represented POC.” https://t.co/UQ9UT43jjE
(https://x.com/DoomScroling/status/1777405078581727721?t=Wv3PppP2B2G4h6ETzNw0WQ&s=03)
No… Black people don’t make everything about race.
Brotha broke it down about South Carolina and Caitlyn Clark
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLAVHtwQ/
The filings are still not publicly available, but @nytimes is reporting that Trump is indeed seeking a delay of trial through an unusual form of appeal that involves suing the judge directly:https://t.co/cUeJa5OgUW— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 8, 2024
Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist) posted at 6:52 PM on Fri, Aug 19, 2022:
1. Rufo reveals something often overlooked: the moral panics about CRT and queer theory/“grooming” in schools—which he spearheaded through Fox News appearances and pseudojournalistic propaganda—began as a reaction to the summer of protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd. https://t.co/55s7tKklG3
(https://x.com/deonteleologist/status/1560776675461251073?t=cQTDmSaw38N0lPWmDZh3EA&s=03)
Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) posted at 4:57 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
Trump didn’t raise $50 million at a fundraiser yesterday. That’s a totally made up number because he was butthurt about Biden raising $25+ million.
(https://x.com/jefftimmer/status/1777093263977013569?t=6iLZnlY7dpztRNKlr1U4Iw&s=03)
Brandon Pope TV (@BpopeTV) posted at 4:24 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
2 championships in 3 years.
In 3 years at South Carolina, Dawn Staley has won 2 championships and gone 109-3.
I repeat: she’s only lost THREE TIMES.
THIS is a 🐐 level run https://t.co/KEiQd7MB03
(https://x.com/BpopeTV/status/1777084990557217009?t=qgrqqHd2ctVJL9_mU6U4sg&s=03)
Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) posted at 3:39 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ has become the first album from a Black woman to top the Country Albums chart and it also debuted at Number One on the Top 200 https://t.co/FCjTvZ4vKF https://t.co/FCjTvZ4vKF
(https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1777073642846683513?s=02)
Maxine Baptiste (@brownsugar7878) posted at 5:05 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
South Carolina humbled Caitlin Clark for all of us today #NCAAChampionship https://t.co/kEA50kzbGZ
(https://x.com/brownsugar7878/status/1777095375251181879?s=02)
David Dennis Jr. (@DavidDTSS) posted at 4:11 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
Caitlin Clark waves off Raven Johnson while she was taking a shot last year in the playoffs. Johnson became a meme. Mocked all over social media. She came back and put Caitlin Clark in hell for the championship game. That’s a champion.
(https://x.com/DavidDTSS/status/1777081788684222615?s=02)
Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) posted at 4:26 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
1970 eclipse over Washington DC, in multi-exposure photograph: #Getty https://t.co/ygn06Afw2K
(https://x.com/BeschlossDC/status/1777266661139079243?s=02)
The Hill (@thehill) posted at 4:26 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
The engine covering of a Boeing plane fell off during takeoff at Denver International Airport, officials said. https://t.co/KkjTrd79e1
(https://x.com/thehill/status/1777266660681957509?s=02)
Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) posted at 4:34 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
I’m sooo happy for @dawnstaley!! As a black woman, I admire what you’ve done! You always checked on me & always loved me like your own! ❤️
(https://x.com/Reese10Angel/status/1777087610931884465?s=02)
Bob south florida water man 🇺🇸 (@WaterDean) posted at 3:35 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
Texas Supreme Court justice implies Democrats will cheat in 2024 election https://t.co/xAJlJPjLzn 9 suck asses dressed in black who can’t handle the truth here it is the Democrats fight for america it’s you low life republicans that cheat.
(https://x.com/WaterDean/status/1777072659827671065?s=02)
banana (@francine_pefko) posted at 3:37 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
this is where a lot of you are mistaken.
they can handle the truth. this isn’t about weakness, it’s about wielding power through all channels of government in order to satisfy their agenda.
the people who can’t handle the truth pretend this isn’t happening.
(https://x.com/francine_pefko/status/1777073352290472366?s=02)
emptywheel (@emptywheel) posted at 4:23 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
Front page of WaPo is as evocative of the problem w/GOP as any of these three stories (tho the Congress one is worthwhile).
1) House GOP can’t govern but they don’t blame Trump
2) Trump wants to deliver deal pitched to Manafort in 2016
3) GOPers are parroting RU propaganda https://t.co/f1qXAzI0vZ
(https://x.com/emptywheel/status/1777266056316219720?s=02)
amanda (@amanda_1815) posted at 9:43 AM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
Me: “Why are you always so happy to see Dawn Staley?”
A’ja Wilson: “Because a lot of people don’t want to see her here.”
@dawnstaley was the first Black HC (male or female) to win two DI basketball titles, and today is a chance for a third:
@wachfox @GamecockWBB @_ajawilson22 https://t.co/Gvsfa0NsEE
(https://x.com/amanda_1815/status/1776984203361395125?s=02)
The Hill (@thehill) posted at 4:46 AM on Mon, Apr 08, 2024:
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, candidate for the state’s Senate seat, said that he did not have a “burning desire” to be senator but was compelled to run for the seat because of the “broken” system. https://t.co/HYHlzLClAm
(https://x.com/thehill/status/1777271684795363706?s=02)
Defector (@DefectorMedia) posted at 8:37 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2024:
Solar eclipses: No longer scary, still astonishingly cool https://t.co/zY167SALOJ
(https://x.com/DefectorMedia/status/1777148607587594489?t=UtLo1YINbatuo85CyHfm4w&s=03)
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