I think a lot about the MAGA school board member in Texas who actually sat down and read the whole curriculum, and then excitedly informed her MAGA supporters that it didn’t include any of the stuff they were worried about. It did not go well for her www.propublica.org/article/texa...
When reporter Jeremy Schwartz first learned of a local Texas activist who ran for school board on a far-right education platform, she seemed to embody the extremist movement he’d covered since 2021. T...
Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
Newsom vetoes bill allowing more lawsuits from victims of sex abuse at juvenile facilities
The bill would have changed the statute of limitations to give people sexually abused in juvenile facilities more time to sue. Critics say Newsom bowed to pressure.
Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."
Dear internet, please show me more videos about "nice man smiles at dog," and fewer about "Netanyahu succeds in killing the world"
calling men "men" and women "females" never fails as a sign of a misogynist.
"If voters are on the one hand bombarded with a simplistic and all-encompassing vision of a country beset by the perils of masses of faceless immigrants and, on the other, hear crickets ...of course their opinions are going to trend in a restrictionist direction." newrepublic.com/article/1864...
Kamala Harris apparently believes—wrongly—that she has no influence on anti-immigrant sentiment in America, because she has effectively capitulated to MAGA messaging.
I'm against what the Israeli army has been doing in Gaza too but I'm also against Iran bombing the fuck out of Israel. The part where civilians have human rights and should be safe is the common thread. Yes? Yes.
As Naomi Klein said, "Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."