If you say so.
So it wasnât RBG refusing to step down when Obama was in office?
A handmaids tale
Republican platform 2022: âNo to abortions, No to condoms, Yes to Nazis!â
Republican Robert Regan lost his bid for a seat in the Michigan State House this week when he was unexpectedly beaten by Democrat Carol Glanville.
Regan is quite the âcharacterâ.
The reason he lost was he didnât veil his hate filled racism and misogyny behind plausibly deniable language.
But in terms of what todayâs Republican party really stands for, he is as representative as you can get.
Regan also defended comments about rape he made during a recorded conversation in which he expressed support for decertifying Michiganâs 2020 election results. In the original video, he said, âI tell my daughters, well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.â
Grim
Liz Cheney is a Communist Democrat snowflake from a family of Communist Democrat snowflakes.
De Santis is one extremely dangerous bastard. Without doubt the âcompetentâ fascist that has been widely warned about.
Scary there are lads on here who worship him.
# DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state
## Universities may lose funding if staff and studentsâ beliefs do not satisfy Floridaâs GOP-run legislature
Right wing headcases trying to gain control of education through intimidation and terrorism? Book bannings? The public branding of people who teach sex education as âgroomersâ?
Yeah, Iâd definitely call that fascism.
And these are tactics that seem to be everywhere in America now.
Nancy Vera was awakened suddenly at midnight on July 12 by the sound of a single gunshot, the bullet ricocheting off her home. She looked at a security camera just in time to see a truck speed away.
Vera was shocked but not surprised. The president of the Corpus Christi, Texas, branch of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), she had recently handed out books with LGBTQ characters at a pride event for local students, alongside a drag queen.
Vera thought the event was a fun opportunity to connect with local parents and distribute books to kids. But conservatives, including her local sheriff, called the event an example of the âgrooming and indoctrination of young people in our country.â âGroomingâ is a slur commonly used by devotees of the conspiracy theory QAnon, which claims that powerful people and institutions are ensnaring children in sex trafficking rings.
âThis type of rhetoric is going to get people killed,â she says.
Corpus Christi, where Vera lives, has become a flashpoint for a growing push among Christian and conservative groups across the US to get certain books and topics they deem inappropriate for children removed from school libraries and curriculums. Now the fight is turning increasingly ugly, with people targeting individual teachersâ private social media accounts for scrutiny and even harassment.
On July 9, the conservative group County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) held a public seminar in Corpus Christi about monitoring school curriculums and âresearching social media of teachers, school board members, staff of school districts and elected officials,â effectively teaching people how to stalk and harass educators online.
One clear pattern is emerging: educators who support teaching sex education and discussing LGBTQ issues are labeled âgroomers.â
Gloria Gonzales Dholakia, a school board member in Leander, Texas, says she was called a groomer at a school board meeting that was broadcast online, leading to a slew of hateful comments. A man who attended the meeting made several highly personal remarks, including suggesting that Gonzales Dholakiaâs husband, who was sitting just a few feet away in the room, must be abusive. âMy kids were watching this online at home. I was so angry and was ready to quit,â she says.
Gonzales Dholakia did not quit, but the need to grapple with slurs and online harassment is yet another burden for teachers exhausted by the pandemic and other issues, including mass shootings at schools. Thousands of teachers have either retired or quit the profession in the last two years.
PEN America has created a step-by-step guide to prepare and help people respond to online harassment. But sometimes itâs too little, too late, Vilk says: âSo many of these educators are quitting jobs, and those quitting jobs are disproportionately women and people of color â the exact people we donât want to quit because that means our libraries and schools are less diverse and donât reflect the full range of American experience. Itâs really alarming.â
Educators like Vera refuse to stand back. She recently joined colleagues at a counterprotest to voice their concerns about their safety, and sheâs spending the next few weeks before schools reopen beefing up protection measures for her colleagues. The Corpus Christi police department is investigating the shooting, and the AFT has added a security detail for her. Sheâs working to install security cameras at schools and is advising new teachers on how to deal with online harassment.
âIâm not going to stop what Iâm doing,â she says.
CNN should be banned
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Biden has covid
Damn Putin
Truly one of the greatest posters of all time
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Be great to see him back in
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Yesterday is a hard word to say
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The greatest WUM that ever lived
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