I’m having a hard time staying awake, so this is going to short… But I wanted to let you know, in case you hadn’t already heard, that today was a “great day” for George Floyd, the man whose recent murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officers set off mass protests across the nation. “You […]
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It’s a “great day” for George Floyd
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged black lives matter, call to violence, Candace Owens, Donald Trump, Facebook, George Floyd, Mike Pence, police violence, racism 8 Comments
What the John Conyers case tells us about how sexual predators are treated in Congress
Late last week the Washington Post added a little more fuel to the “Jesus Christ, Men Really Suck” bonfire when they reported that Congress’s Office of Compliance has paid out approximately $17 million over the past 20 years in unreported settlements to 264 federal employees, many of whom, you can be sure, collected those settlements […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged accusations, Al Franken, allegations, Buzzfeed, Congress, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Office of Compliance, conspiracy theories, date rape, Detroit City Council, Donald Trump, hacking, Hillary Clinton, House Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Howard Dean, John Conyers, John Podesta, leaks, men's rights, Mike Cernovich, Monica Conyers, pay-offs, pizzagate, Righteous Pink Wave of Reckoning, Senate, sexism, sexual harassment, sexual predator, women's rights, wrongful termination 13 Comments
Republicans introduce bill to replace 1965 legislation that guarantees free and equitable public education for all with a national voucher program intended to kill public education as we know it
On January 23rd of this year, two weeks before billionaire turned anti-public education crusader Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Secretary of Education, Congressman Steve King of Iowa introduced HR 610, a bill which, if passed into law, would replace Lyndon Johnson’s landmark 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with something that King and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Bible, call to action, charter schools, dismantling of public education, Education and Workforce Committee, equity, ESEA, Free Appropriate Public Education, homelessness, homeschool, HR 610, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Iowa, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Bishop, Minneapolis Start Tribune, National School Lunch Program, Network for Public Education, Nevada, nutrition, pledge allegiance, poverty, private school, privatization, racism, religious extremism, School Choice Act, School Lunch Initiative, school lunches, school vouchers, Steve King, Tim Walberg, war on poverty 17 Comments