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Mark’s Covid Diary… June 16, 2020
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged agent provocateurs, ANTIFA, Arizona, bleach, Boogaloo, Costco, COVID-19, crisis gardens, Donald Trump, Enrique Neblett, Florida, food delivery, George Floyd, gun violence, health disparities, inequality, Jaws, kale, Katrease Stafford, Kroger, lungs, lynching, masks, milkshakes, Monica, political violence, privilege, public health, race inequality, racism, school shooting, Shake Shack, structural racism, Texas, violence on the extreme right 42 Comments
School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”
I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alek Minassian, Alex Azar, anti-abortion, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Betsy DeVos, blood money, CDC, coined phrases, Dan Patrick, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Donald Trump, doors, enforced monogamy, Florida, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, high capacity magazines, hollow promises, incels, insecurity, Intellectual Dark Web, involuntary celibates, Jeff Sessions, Jordan Peterson, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, masculine spirit, mass shootings, misogyny, National Rifle Association, NRA, Parkland, Paul Gosar, pro-life, Santa Fe, school safety, school shooting, sex, sexism, sexual marketplace, spurned advances, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Handmaid's Tale, the masculine spirit, thoughts and prayers, Toronto, toxic masculinity, violence, weaponized insecurity 60 Comments
Betsy DeVos v. Dwayne Wade
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which shut down in the immediate aftermath of last month’s mass shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead, recently reopened. And, today, there was news that the students had received two distinguished guests, one of whom talked with them at length about their experiences, and the other, who, refusing […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Aly Sheehy, arming teachers, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Carly Novell, Chicago, DeVos Watch, dismantling of public education, Dwyane Wade, Elizabeth Warren, Florida, gun violence, Housing and Urban Development, HUD, Joaquin Oliver, Katherine Clark, Laura Ingraham, LeBron James, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, mass shootings, NRA, Parkland, public education, racism, religious extremism, Republican lies, student activism, student debt, threats to public education 9 Comments