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I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender

into every aspect of public and private life.

One week ago, the Trump administration issued a two-week ultimatum for all schools, universities,

and colleges to end all DEI, diversity, equity,

and inclusion initiatives or risk losing all their federal funding, as called for by the authors

of the right-wing blueprint Project 2025.

I am opposed to the Department of Education because I think it's a department of

political race theory.

With a two-week deadline, will university surrender or resist?

We'll speak with education scholar Juan Vasquez Heidelg and Yale University philosopher Jason Stanley, author of Erasing History,

how fascists rewrite the past to control the future. Then, as Trump shares an illustration

of himself wearing a crown and writes Long Live the King, we'll speak with the levers David Sorota on how Trump

has been ruling through executive orders and doge. He asks, how are the Democrats resisting?

All that and more coming out.

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the war in peace report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The White House has warned Ukrainian president Volodymy Zelensky to stop criticizing President Trump and sign an agreement to hand over $500 billion of rare earth minerals and other resources as payment

for U.S. wartime aid. National Security Advisor Mike Walts made the threat from the White House briefing room Thursday.

Zelensky publicly rejected this deal about the rare earth minerals.

Where does that stand?

Well, we're going to continue to have – he needs to come back to the table, and we're going to continue to have discussions about where that deal is going.

This comes after Trump lashed out at Zelensky, mocking him as a dictator without elections

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