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As the author of the law that empowers the U.S. government to sanction Chinese and other officials for cracking down on free speech in Hong Kong, I agree with Rubio.
Unfortunately, he has ZERO credibility after he locked up students in the U.S. for exercising free speech. (1/1)
Unfortunately, he has ZERO credibility after he locked up students in the U.S. for exercising free speech. (1/1)
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
Glad to see it!
Hundreds of protesters take to the streets in Scotland over Trump's golf visit www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Protesters Take To The Streets In Scotland Over Trump’s Golf Course Visit
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the cobblestone and tree-lined street in front of the U.S. Consulate about 100 miles away in Edinburgh.
www.huffpost.com
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Glad to see it!
Saturday swim lessons and donuts with our son are 2 of my most favorite things on this planet.
I guess not EVERYthing is getting worse by the hour.
I guess not EVERYthing is getting worse by the hour.
July 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Saturday swim lessons and donuts with our son are 2 of my most favorite things on this planet.
I guess not EVERYthing is getting worse by the hour.
I guess not EVERYthing is getting worse by the hour.
Dear lordt. 🙄
There are orders of magnitude more trans people than Republican legislators but this sort of shit seems to happen an awful lot more among the latter than the former. Weird.
Giovanni Capriglione, a right wing state rep in Texas who had an affair with a stripper, reportedly told his mistress that he wanted to ejaculate into batter for cookies that would be sold at his daughter's bake sale.
www.sacurrent.com/news/gop-tex...
www.sacurrent.com/news/gop-tex...
July 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Dear lordt. 🙄
We don’t agree on everything, it on this we are 🤝
Why the relentless attacks on public schools and teachers? That question is what motivated me to write a book, WHY FASCISTS FEAR TEACHERS: Public Education and the Future of Democracy.
July 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We don’t agree on everything, it on this we are 🤝
Everything is getting worse by the hour.
The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.
US government is building a 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in west Texas
The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.
bit.ly
July 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Everything is getting worse by the hour.
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This reminds me of the old Christopher Hitchens quote about setting your watch and then waiting for a story like this to break.
Granted, he was talking about bible thumpers caught engaging or trying to get gay sex from somewhere, but this also applies here
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
Granted, he was talking about bible thumpers caught engaging or trying to get gay sex from somewhere, but this also applies here
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
Ryan Walters' TV displayed "nude women" during a meeting. Now he's blaming the media.
The Oklahoma schools chief who crusades against smut now faces an investigation into his own explicit screen time
www.friendlyatheist.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This reminds me of the old Christopher Hitchens quote about setting your watch and then waiting for a story like this to break.
Granted, he was talking about bible thumpers caught engaging or trying to get gay sex from somewhere, but this also applies here
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
Granted, he was talking about bible thumpers caught engaging or trying to get gay sex from somewhere, but this also applies here
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
😐 Here’s my surprised face.
It appears that the guy who is shoving bibles and the Ten Commandments into the curriculum in every classroom in Oklahoma and wants a "woke" test for teachers may have had his eyes wide open coveting other people's wives.
Oklahoma officials call for investigation after reports of nude images on Ryan Walters’ office TV
State officials are sounding off on allegations from State Board of Education members about nude images on a television in State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office.
www.kgou.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
😐 Here’s my surprised face.
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the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.
Anyone discounting a 3d Trump term per the 22d am + the 12th am is thinking magically: The 22d dsn’t bar *serving* a 3d term, only being *elected* 3 times. The 12th dsn’t bar running for VP unless “ineligible” to serve as Pres, but Trump isn’t ineligible. QED!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution
In wide-ranging remarks to “Meet the Press,” Mr. Trump said “a lot of people” wanted him to serve a third term and vowed to impose tariffs on global rivals, according to a transcript of the interview ...
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.
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I really enjoyed giving my political commentary today while it's still legal for women to make jokes.
March 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I really enjoyed giving my political commentary today while it's still legal for women to make jokes.
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Whenever I'm overwhelmed with everything, I do some deep breathing exercises and it does NOT help. I hope this helps.
March 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Whenever I'm overwhelmed with everything, I do some deep breathing exercises and it does NOT help. I hope this helps.
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This is an absurd joke of a lawsuit that should be thrown out of court and every lawyer who had anything to do with the filing ought to be sanctioned by the Court and referred to the state bar for discipline.
Ryan Walters sues nonprofit that sent cease-and-desist letter over prayer in schools
State Superintendent Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education have filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit organization after receiving a cease-and-desist letter.
www.koco.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is an absurd joke of a lawsuit that should be thrown out of court and every lawyer who had anything to do with the filing ought to be sanctioned by the Court and referred to the state bar for discipline.
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Can we permanently put to rest the myth that a businessman knows more how to manage the economy? Or do we have to wait for our economy’s collapse for some among us to grasp it?
March 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Can we permanently put to rest the myth that a businessman knows more how to manage the economy? Or do we have to wait for our economy’s collapse for some among us to grasp it?
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This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to weaponize the legal system against those who dare to challenge Christian nationalism in government.
Ryan Walters is not above the Constitution, and his actions prove why watchdog groups like FFRF are necessary now more than ever.
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
Ryan Walters is not above the Constitution, and his actions prove why watchdog groups like FFRF are necessary now more than ever.
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
Ryan Walters sues nonprofit that sent cease-and-desist letter over prayer in schools
State Superintendent Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education have filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit organization after receiving a cease-and-desist letter.
www.koco.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to weaponize the legal system against those who dare to challenge Christian nationalism in government.
Ryan Walters is not above the Constitution, and his actions prove why watchdog groups like FFRF are necessary now more than ever.
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
Ryan Walters is not above the Constitution, and his actions prove why watchdog groups like FFRF are necessary now more than ever.
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
Pay teachers more.
Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month.
U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo
The disclosure of the tab so far came after a visit by five senators to the offshore operation, who condemned it as a waste of resources.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Pay teachers more.
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Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and…
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and…
Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation's most vulnerable students' right to an education. The administration laid off nearly half the Education Department's staff and slashed its civil rights enforcement arm, and Trump says he wants to move special education programs to the Department of Health and Human Services — an agency that announced its own round of mass layoffs in March.
hechingerreport.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and…
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and…
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All Things Are Possible With Bible verses taken out of context
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
All Things Are Possible With Bible verses taken out of context
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We felt the love yesterday at Xcel with not one, but TWO proposals!
March 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Also, beer.
March 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Also, beer.
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This is the kind of evidence-free logic voucher proponents are resorting to--the kind that falls down completely when you look at how voucher programs actually work in the actual world.
Public schools serve rich and poor alike—and so does school choice
In one important aspect, the Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit program operates just like the public school system: The program is open to all.
ocpathink.org
March 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is the kind of evidence-free logic voucher proponents are resorting to--the kind that falls down completely when you look at how voucher programs actually work in the actual world.
What an absolute fucking idiot.
Musk: When the United States was formed, there were only secretary of state, secretary of war, secretary of the treasury and attorney general. That was it. If it were up to me, I would say let's make it like that again.
March 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
What an absolute fucking idiot.