‘Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right’s efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices
A former evangelical leader details his group’s extensive program to influence Justices Thomas, Alito and Scalia through meals and entertainment.
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Newsom signs gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight
The California governor signed a gun control bill Friday that mimics Texas’ abortion ban. He also unveiled an ad targeting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
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The NRA helped make it hard to study gun violence for decades. Now the floodgates are open.
What actually reduces gun violence? The NRA helped make it hard to study for decades. Now these studies are getting federal funding to seek solutions.
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Due to the wording of the law schools that have not been offered one of these “In god we trust” signs must accept them if they are donated. Must take them! The people who wrote the law tried hard to anticipate and rule out any sabotage by people who did not want to push the Christian religion on everyone. But they missed this. So this atheist activist donated a bunch of these “In god we trust” signs in … Arabic! Grand. By the law the schools must post them in a prominent place. Hugs
What the hell is wrong with the US that we are regressing at such a fast rate. Every study and medical data shows spanking is not only harmful with life long problems but counterproductive in dealing with childrens problems. These are the same people that demand teachers are grooming kids now want those same teachers to hit them? This is again a drive to return to draconian religious views. Hugs
Missouri school district reinstates spanking as punishment: ‘We’ve had people actually thank us’
The Cassville school board approved a policy this summer to once again use corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure for K-12 students.
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A state governor is calling for a person to be assaulted. Think about that. A governor acting like a thug because he knows the base he needs for reelection are a cult gang of thugs. Forget that this Dr. Fauci has done nothing wrong they just hate him because he disagreed with their cult leader and he works for the government. tRump was the president making the decisions and ordering the lockdowns. But the cult cannot admit their leader did anything wrong, so they attack a worker with no authority to do what they claim. That is beside the point. The highest elected office holder in the state is calling for an illegal act of abuse and harm to be done to a person, knowing his angry base of emotional gun carrying violent thugs might attempt to harm that person as he calls for. This is what passes for republican leadership! This is what the republican party is now. They used to say they were the party of law and order, now they are the party of getting their way regardless of the laws by being violent thugs intimidating everyone else. Is this democracy, or is it something that is seen in dictatorships or states run by drug war lords? My dogs that love gravy the state of Florida used to be a swing state, used to have more democrats than republicans. But now with this king of cult gun loving thugs flocking to the state we have become hard right maga land. DeathSantis rules like Saddam Hussein and other dictators. Beware any who might criticize him or disagree with him. This gang leader is said to be super ambitious and wants the presidency of the US. Think about him as president. tRump will be nothing to how brutal DeathSantis will be. Democracy will be dead under him as soon as he is sworn in. He has done everything he can to kill it in Florida. He has restricted voting as much as possible to just the ones most likely to vote for him, sometimes illegally. He and his gang of thugs don’t care, they demand to rule. Hugs
“You have people like Fauci saying that his lockdowns didn’t cause any permanent damage to any young kids. I got news for you. It did. And we’re going to reap those rewards across the whole country for years and years and years because they treated kids so poorly.
“And I’m just sick of seeing him. I know he said he’s going to retire. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.” – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking today with Sen. Marco Rubio on his “Keep Florida Free” tour.
Aged Viking Nemerah S. • 14 hours ago • edited
In my youth, it would have been deeply shameful to threaten a frail and elderly (81) man with such violence. Him being small would have made matters worse.
Nemerah S. Aged Viking • 14 hours ago
Reminds me of when Gianforte punched a reporter and the far-right called him “strong” and “alpha”. It creeps me out.
Man who killed thousands of Floridians wants to hurt the man who helped save millions of Americans.
What a gross, small “man.”
You missed the foundation of his statement. He’s addressing EVANGELICALS. They’re violent and quite delusional. He knows they want blood due to their worship of a genocidal deity. I’m serious. That’s really what’s going on here.
2patricius2 HZ81 • 15 hours ago • edited
And some people think he may be the next Rethuglican nominee for president. No class. Crass and crude. Mean and destructive. Deadly. This is what the Rethuglican Party has devolved into. Who knows how much deeper into the sewer it will sink.
HZ81 2patricius2 • 14 hours ago
He’s just revolting. A perfect reflection of his party.
Give to Crist. Let’s get this fucker out of our lives.
heleninedinburgh • 15 hours ago
He wants to be Viktor Orban when he grows up.
Firecrown heleninedinburgh • 14 hours ago
He wants to be Viktor Orban when he grows up gets older. People like DeSantis never grow up.
I still recall a time when you had to have a modicum of maturity to become governor of a state.
Chuck in NYC Skeptical One • 15 hours ago
Yeah, this is the smart aleck of 8th grade style rhetoric.
Small problem with the GOP narrative, Fauci didn’t lock anyone down. He doesn’t have that power. The states locked down and it was democrat and republican governors alike.
Misutaa Roboto danolgb • 14 hours ago
Right? It’s almost as if DeSantis is a lying fascistic cunt who won’t let reality get in the way of his fomenting violence or something. Weird.
What a horrid little violence promoting man Ron DeSantis is
DeSantis is just trying to out-asshole Donald Trump.
And nobody can do that because Donald Trump is the Emperor of the assholes.
Maxine Waters told people to “get in the faces” of Republicans in public spaces like restaurants and shops. The right-wing went APOPLECTIC. “She’s encouraging violence!!!”
DeSantis encourages violence. Right-wingers are all: “Ya. Get Fauci!!!”
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The bizarre height-shaming shows me that these people are thugs who understand and value nothing but strength. Why is it even socially acceptable?
Firecrown Nemerah S. • 14 hours ago
It’s only acceptable to people who share the mentality of a playground bully, always punching down. I wouldn’t call that strength.
Note it was one parent who wanted a book that was about stopping racism removed, and when they couldn’t get their way they went after the teacher. Why would that parent not want to combat racism? Could they in fact be a racist? This is the world the right wing has created and promoted in the US now. The racists bigots can now try to force their hate to be offically sanctioned by the state. Hugs
SOUTHLAKE, Texas – A monthslong controversy involving a North Texas fourth grade teacher and a book about racism has come to a close.
Last fall, the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees voted to reprimand the teacher after getting a complaint about the book in the teacher’s classroom library.
Both Carroll ISD and the teacher came to an agreement during a hearing Monday morning. Neither the district nor the teacher’s attorney would say much about the agreement they were able to reach, only saying both sides are pleased with the outcome.
Carroll ISD is closing the chapter on a monthslong issue involving fourth-grade teacher Rickie Farah and a book on racism in her classroom library at Johnson Elementary School in Southlake.
The controversy started last fall when a parent complained.
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Originally, Farah was not reprimanded. However, parents appealed the decision, and the board voted to move forward with a reprimand last October.
“There is simply nothing wrong with what the teacher did,” one parent said at the hearing. “The parents couldn’t file a grievance about the book in the teacher’s library, so they made a cock-and-bull story about the teacher’s behavior.”
Monday morning, the board of trustees met at 8 a.m. for a special meeting after Farah made an appeal.
In complaints filed, Farah claims she was never interviewed at any level of the grievance process and that the board violated board policy and school laws in the state of Texas.
Many parents who were able to make the early Monday morning meeting spoke supporting the teacher.
“Just as a board of non-medical professionals should not reprimand a doctor’s medical decisions, a school board — particularly one of individuals who do not value educators — should not be allowed to reprimand a teacher,” said parent Stephanie Williams.
One speaker also called the board’s vote to reprimand an overreach of power. The board seemingly acknowledged the issue in a formal statement during Monday morning’s meeting.
“The board of trustees does not intend to limit the discretion of responsibilities of the superintendent or the campus principal,” said board member Andrew Yeager. “The board encourages the superintendent to take actions he deems appropriate.”
After more than an hour in a hearing which took place behind closed doors, both sides eventually reached an agreement.
“Ms. Farah’s pleased with the outcome and grateful that it has been resolved,” said Steven Poole, the executive director for the United Educators Association. “She loves this community, and her students and looks forward to continued success in the classroom.”
While Farah herself didn’t speak at the open meeting, she did hug her supporters before heading back to the classroom.
This controversy is just one of a few the district has faced so far this year.
The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights also opened an investigation into Carroll ISD last fall after receiving multiple complaints.
MORE: Office for Civil Rights investigating allegations of discrimination at Carroll ISD
I noticed this story on Joe My God and I will add some tweets and comments from there. As always I suggest everyone visit that site for more posts that I don’t publish. It is a grand place for information.
Note the part of the book that the district / teachers object to is the parts that talk about the real history of black people in the US. Topics like lynching, racism, segregation and civil rights. This is a school system that is being sued on how they treat Black and LGBTQ+ students. These things happened in the US and they cannot be ignored to help fragile white peoples feelings. It happened, and it was done by the white people at that time. We must teach it as black history is US history and if we must make sure everyone knows those racist bigoted acts against minorities will not be accepted. I included other story links that clearly show the district and some of the teachers / staff at the school are very bigoted racists. Hugs
SOUTHLAKE, Texas – Carroll ISD in Southlake is reviewing sections of the book Life Is So Good, co-written by George Dawson to see if it is appropriate to teach at George Dawson Middle School.
Dawson, the grandson of a slave who lived most of his life in Dallas, published the biography in 2000 after learning to read at the age of 98.
Life Is So Good looks back on Dawson’s life, discussing what things were like in the 20th Century, including topics like lynching, racism, segregation and civil rights.
Carroll ISD says the book was requested to be used as part of instructional materials for a 7th grade class.
After review by a group of teachers, principals and curriculum coordinators it was determined certain sections of the book were not appropriate for 7th grade students.
The district is still reviewing which sections of the book are appropriate for instruction.
The Carroll ISD School board voted to name the middle school after Dawson in 2002. Former School Board Trustee Jerry Lawrence introduced the idea after his son heard Dawson speak in Southlake.
A YouTube video posted on the George Dawson Middle School website discusses Dawson’s life and shows students reading sections of the book aloud.
Carroll ISD says Life Is So Good in its entirety was not used for instruction last year.
The NAACP filed a discrimination complaint to the U.S. Department of Education against Carroll ISD in February over the way students of color and LGBTQ students are treated.
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In Germany, teaching about the holocaust and other atrocities carried out by the Nazi regime is mandatory in public schools. Meanwhile in America, our schools are banning the writings of our past by the very people who lived it.
I wonder how they are picking the “reviewers” of these books? I’m sure their pastors and Abbott gave them a list.
You have active shooter drills because of mass shootings at your schools and GOP politicians (including a significant number on your school boards) want to arm teachers. I think your grade 7 students can handle learning about the country’s history of slavery, racism, lynchings and segregation.
Judas Peckerwood kuiaratamenai • 14 hours ago
That’s because the Nazis were never completely defeated here.
Be afraid, GQP… Be very afraid.
And this guy in the picture just got elected to fill the spot vacated by our previous rep, who is now our Lt. Gov.
None of this should surprise us, these days.
The United States of America is at war.
At war with the racist, misogynist, homophobic scourge going under the name of “the Republican Party.”
soon the florida curriculum will consist solely of classes in gay-bashing and civil rights-snatching.
DoILookAmused2u? MΏ-R3s1st0r rcdcr • 13 hours ago
and talkin’ bout how blacks are inferior and had it good with slavery.
Is there a tiny, powerless minority they overlooked? Can’t do jews because Florida has a lot of those. I feel like we are missing potential next victims of The Purge.
heleninedinburgh DoILookAmused2u? MΏ-R3s1st0r • 13 hours ago
can’t do jews
Rubio and DeSantis have been ‘doing jews’ constantly in their Spanish language media.
Sorry, sorry, not doing Jews, doing Soros, and it’s a pure coincidence that he’s Jewish, they never even thought of it.
We wouldn’t want the kiddies asking questions, now would we? We might have to answer them, and that would be so embarrassing.
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