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Laura Clawson
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Buy local newspapers. Give them editorial control. Then leave them alone.

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The weirdest is when you find out a friend, someone whose way of being in the world you have appreciated, doesnā€™t have an inner monologue and itā€™s just likeā€¦who even are you?

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In general Iā€™d look for ways to combine clean energy and otherwise green buildings with good jobs with empowered workers.

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Union shops would also be fine, of course.

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Green roofs in heat islands and areas with storm water runoff issues. Ideally Iā€™d find a way to have them installed by worker-owned co-ops.

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Along with ā€œsaying the quiet part out loud,ā€ can we retire ā€œOctober surpriseā€? Every news event in the month of October is now getting that label and it needs to stop.

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For real though a window covering cord gave me one of my scariest moments as a parent.

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1. setup an uncompetitive RFP 2. to buy 55K bibles that cost SIXTY FUCKING DOLLARS EACH for classrooms 3. of which you have only 43K 4. paid for by payroll savings 5. you have collected through records quits and terminations 6. so you can funnel BIBLE ROYALTIES to donald trump 7. with taxpayer money

'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms
'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms

Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.

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At my kid's Cambridge public elementary school, many Asian kids are multilingual learners & the line at the monthly free food market includes a lot of Asian people. But Asian students almost never come up when our administrators talk about equity & where to direct support.

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on Christian faith, private abuse, and public policy, in The Cut today - an excerpt from my book Wild Faith: www.thecut.com/article/the-...

Corporal punishment is legal in schools in 17 states, and approximately 160,000 children are subjected to it every year. In many of these states, parents must sign consent forms signaling their willingness to have their children spanked by strangers with hands or wooden paddles - absent the child's input about their own body.
The regularity and implacability of physical punishment are two features that abuse survivors remember keenly. "I was young, probably around age 4, and I remember this experience very clearly yet remember almost nothing else from that age," Mary, age 30, wrote to me. "We had been out in public. I'm pretty sure that the initial infraction was I started crying when my dad went to zip up my coat. ... By the time we got home the punishment being dealt was 100 hits without any pants or underwear. My dad didn't skip a single one. I just remember hearing my own screaming and wondering if it would ever end."
The belief that obedience to God requires doing violence to children continues to shape American public policy toward children, including in public schools. In March 2023, the Oklahoma legislature was presented with a bill that would have outlawed the physical punishment of disabled students, including slapping, spanking, and paddling. One Republican legislator, Jim Olsen, presented a fierce mien on the statehouse floor as he advocated against the statute. "God's word is higher than all the so-called experts," he said. "Several Scriptures could be read here.
Let me read just one, Proverbs 29: 'The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. So that would seem to endorse the use of corporal punishment." The bill to protect disabled children failed, 45-43.
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Laura Clawson
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