Tennessee Speaker appoints conspiracy theorist to develop state social studies standards
https://popular.info/p/tennessee-speaker-appoints-conspiracy
24/ Judge talks about Rhodes "celebrating" in the aftermath of Jan 6. "It doesn't sound like you were just there for a security detail"
"Even as you've been incarcerated, you've alluded to violence as acceptable.. to address grievances"
You told Jason Alpers days after 1/6 that your only regret was you should have brought the weapons and if you had, you would have hung Pelosi from a lamppost. Doesn't sound like you were there for a security detail.
Now we have a bill that bans ALL accommodations for trans students explicitly. It seeks to erase trans people from schools and adds on the litterbox hoax at the very end of the section.
This bill would literally ban trans youth from unisex restrooms "unless they had bottom surgery."
1) Trans youth do not get bottom surgery.
2) North Dakota has a bill that would ban bottom surgery for trans youth.
So it's an all out ban from UNISEX restrooms!
It's cruel.
FL Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Ties To The Proud Boys. Via The Daily Beast:
The parent who got a Florida school to ban the poem has ties to the far-right Proud Boys and conservative firebrands Moms For Liberty.
The links follow an expose on Florida mom Daily Salinas by the Miami Herald. In an interview with the Herald, Salinas said she "is not for eliminating or censoring any books," but wants materials to be appropriate and for students "to know the truth" about Cuba.
@StillIRise1963 Here we are, in a world in which little (white) kids can't be traumatized by learning about history, racism, or the existence of gay people, but we can tell 4-year-olds that somebody might come into their school and shoot them. (But we won't do anything to keep that from happening--it's on the kids to run/hide/fight and apply tourniquets. Deaths and injuries are THEIR FAULT--they didn't run/hide/fight hard enough, or they applied the tourniquets wrong.)
AP:
BREAKING: #SouthCarolina’s fascist, misogynist governor signed a bill banning most #abortion around six weeks of pregnancy, setting up an anticipated legal challenge from providers. The law goes into effect immediately. #legal
Carol Burris: When Will Secretary Step Up and Defend the Public Schools? - The Republican Party is now clearly on a mission to destroy public education. Why can't he say that public money belongs in public schools? https://dianeravitch.net/2023/05/25/carol-burris-when-will-secretary-step-up-and-defend-the-public-schools/ via @dianeravitch #education
Via Kyle Cheney:
Prosecutors now making case for #terrorism enhancement for #Rhodes' sentence, describe him as someone "who for weeks if not months orchestrated and then led this conspiracy, who repeatedly advocated for the use of force."
He organized an "armed force," they say. #Jan6 #legal
Defense: "J6 wasn't a thing until #Trump made his infamous tweet" on Dec 19, 2020
Dear Microsoft
If Excel knows that I'm missing a parentheses at the end of my formula, JUST ADD IT!!
Why am I sitting here crying about human suffering from almost 100 years ago?
Because it can happen here, again.
I don't think that we have another FDR in us.
@StillIRise1963 Democratic candidates should lead with facts about repugs hating your children. No schools but work, no healthcare but work, no individuality just work until you die early. Sounds like the 1800s where families had children because of no birth control or healthcare, and they needed them to survive. They sent their children to work to try and keep the family fed and sheltered. The rich held all the money and power and everyone else were indentured to them.
Is Mark Meadows cooperating with Jan. 6 investigators? If so it’s 'game over': legal experts https://www.alternet.org/trump/mark-meadows-2660614345/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
AOC is right: GOP is holding our economy, Social Security and Medicare HOSTAGE. My new article provides the exact dates programs from Social Security to Medicare will not be able to make payments if the GOP causes a debt ceiling default. https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/aoc-is-right-gop-is-holding-our-economy
"Employers have struggled to fill open positions after a spike in..deaths & illnesses from COVID-19, decreases in legal immigration.."
First, they kill off their workforce, and then they try to make up for it by recruiting kids??? This is their way of keeping wages and salaries low, the result of a reduced labor force.
Dafuq is WRONG with people?!?
"A source close to Trump’s legal team said Trump’s lawyers have had no contact with Meadows and his team and are in the dark on what Meadows is doing in the investigation, fueling speculation about whether Meadows is cooperating with the special counsel’s probe – or if Meadows himself is a target of the investigation."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/politics/meadows-dc-political-operation-legal-woes-trump/index.html
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