And we're live. Welcome back to Loopcast. We have an excellent show prepared for you today.

Today we are going to be covering Trump's executive order signed last night, winding down the

Department of Education. What exactly is in it and addressing some common objections? I feel like

we do it every episode, but we will do it again. Mostly peaceful protests are back, but this time

targeting Tesla's around the country. Time to talk about that as well.

Evangelicals are hitting the panic button and are dropping strategies to counter Catholic

conversions. Very interesting.

Love that.

And then finally, I have a new suggestion for, actually a priest has a new suggestion for

Len Penance, but we'll get to all that in a little bit.

It's Erica, Tom, and Josh.

And Erica, I'm going to be affectionately and truthfully calling her our education secretary here

on the list.

Oh, sweet.

Me and Linda.

Before you get into the order itself, actually, it might be helpful for our audience,

maybe longtime listeners don't even know.

Your background a little bit in education

might be helpful. So go ahead. We'll start there and then end to the order. Sure. Sure. So I

am the secretary of alternative education. It goes way back. I myself, I was in public school. I had five

years homeschool stint. Went to Catholic school for a year when I got kicked out of

homeschooling. But in terms of my professional life, coming out of graduate school, I was part of a group

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