Do Republicans build anything? Temperatures here are expected to fall steadily over the next 24 hours. There is also a wind advisory.* How do I know? The National Weather Service. Where do you think The Weather Channel and other weather information sites get their information? From a bevy of satellites owned or operated by NOAA, NWS’s parent organization. I rather like having that info free and at my fingertips. I rather like that air traffic controlers from the FAA keep my flight from colliding with others in the sky nearby. But our Republican friends are not into that so much. Nor into public education, as we’ve long known: Cultists’ push to charterize, voucherize, or tax-credit scholarship public education out of existence — supported by a religious right profiteers have co-opted — is a betrayal of the country’s founding vision. Public education is the largest portion of annual budgets in all 50 states. The cult sees public schools (and children) as resources to strip-mine. Donald Trump nominating vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is another brick knocked out of the schoolhouse wall. Casey Quinlan writes at The New Republic that Kennedy’s opposition to childhood vaccinations will further undermine public support for public schools and advance right-wing efforts to shrink systems until they can be drowned in the bathtub: Anti-vax movements align well with conservative designs for public education. Under Project 2025, which is essentially the agenda of Trump’s second term, concocted by the Heritage Foundation, the Trump administration…