Lines drawn in fight over right to know, and to grow - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/lines-drawn-in-fight-over-right-to-know-and-to-grow.html
Disney tickets, PS5s, and big-screen TVs: Florida parents exploit DeSantis' school vouchers https://popular.info/p/disney-tickets-ps5s-and-big-screen?utm_medium=email
A word about #ADL: As with most organizations, I don’t agree with every position they take. But when Musk accuses the most organized voice against #antisemitism in the U.S. of costing him ad revenue, he is leaning on a most #antisemitic dog whistle (that Jews control the media) and he most definitely knows it. 1/2
This makes me so angry. It’s unconscionable to let anyone go hungry. Followers of Christ, my ass. Please tax me and feed people.
Washington Post: Poor families could see cuts to food aid as Congress battles over budget
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Can you imagine the incessant press coverage, from all journalism outlets, were a Democratic Senator holding the U.S. military hostage to his own religious beliefs? Here’s an op-ed from three Secretaries of the Armed Forces explaining how #Tuberville is risking U.S. security. Gift access https://wapo.st/3r81gHQ #ReproductiveRights #AbortionRights
The "glass cliff" phenomenon refers to a situation where women (or members of other underrepresented groups) are more likely to be placed in leadership roles during times of crisis or downturn, when the chance of failure is highest.
If the leader succeeds, the success is often seen as expected or is downplayed, but if the leader fails, it can reinforce biases and stereotypes about the suitability of women or minorities in leadership positions.
Healthcare workers don’t decide whether to wear gloves or sterilize equipment based on how many people are hospitalized. They just do it because it protects patients, and every patient has the right to get healthcare without becoming more sick. It should be the same with masks.
@AlliFlowers It is the old asshole strategy. Do assholish things and then whine about being persecuted by the evil Wokies when they smite you for your assholery.
Musk Threatens to Sue Anti-Defamation League for 'Trying to Kill' X
Someone needs to check that man's meds
They declined her offer of coffee. Reich's father Ed invited them to sit down. They refused. They then informed Reich's parents that South Salem was "a Christian community," and informed the Reichs, a Jewish family, that they were not welcome. Ed Reich thanked them for their visit and then told them to get the hell out of his house. That visit made him all the more determined to keep his family in South Salem and stand up to this prejudice and attempt to bully.
#NazisAgainstAntisemitism That's a new one!
Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he's 'against anti-Semitism of any kind' https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-blames-adl-lost-revenue-says-anti-semitism-kind-rcna103292
Alabama’s ‘draconian’ abortion laws will ‘backfire,’ drive business away, commerce secretary says - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/alabamas-draconian-abortion-laws-will-backfire-drive-business-away-commerce-secretary-says.html
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