Category: Schools / Schooling / Education / Libraries
Randy left an incredible video in the comments on a trans post recently. I thought it should have its own post. Hugs
Thank you Randy. Sad that it is needed but grand she felt strong enough to do the video in front of some people she knew hated her. Hugs
Hi Scottie;
I thought to add this link. Hope it’s useful.
Big hugs.
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Scotties Playtime says:
Hello Randy. An incredibly beautiful video. It is just sad that a child that young had to make it. It breaks my heart that a child her age understand people hate her for just existing. Hugs
A trans cartoon Ali Send me from the Nib. Thanks Ali. Hugs
Trans Kids Need Room To Grow
We can’t and won’t be legislated away.
I want to add something that this cartoon series leaves out. Up until puberty kicked in and his body started becoming more clearly female he was able to pass as an androgynous boy. The medically approved treatment is to use puberty blockers so the body doesn’t go through the wrong puberty locking in features that will forever make the outside body appearance does not match the inside gender identity. It also reduces the need for some body changing surgeries. Hugs
Racist Parents Drive New Black Educator From District In CRT-Fueled Panic
Please notice the open racism and how these parents were taught how to be as intimidating as possible and were told to have it filmed so it could be used on Tucker Carlson or other Fox shows. This is the new KKK. They not only chased her from one school in the district but hounded her out of a second school in the area. The parents flat out stated they were a white majority and did not want a black teacher. Period. The right complains of cancel culture yet love to cancel people and things they don’t like. Hugs
Cecilia Lewis, a black teacher who had recently begun work in a small Georgia town was driven out of her district and threatened by racist agitators baselessly claiming that she was going to bring critical race theory into the school’s curriculum. The parents were so dead-set on ruining Lewis’ career that they even followed her to her next school job after she was fired from Cherokee County School District, to drive her out of that job as well. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Jackson White discuss on The Young Turks.
Read more HERE: https://www.propublica.org/article/ge…
“In April of 2021, Cecelia Lewis had just returned to Maryland from a house-hunting trip in Georgia when she received the first red flag about her new job.
The trip itself had gone well. Lewis and her husband had settled on a rental home in Woodstock, a small city with a charming downtown and a regular presence on best places to live lists.
It was a short drive to her soon-to-be office at the Cherokee County School District and less than a half hour to her husband’s new corporate assignment.
While the north Georgia county was new to the couple, the Atlanta area was not. They’d visited several times in recent years to see their son, who attended Georgia Tech. Lewis, a middle school principal, initially applied for a position that would bring her closer to the classroom as a coach for teachers.
But district leaders were so impressed by her interview that they encouraged her to apply instead for a new opening they’d created: their first administrator focused on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
DEI-focused positions were becoming more common in districts across the country, following the 2020 protests over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.
The purpose of such jobs typically is to provide a more direct path for addressing disparities stemming from race, economics, disabilities and other factors.”
Let’s talk about new developments from Uvalde and policy….
This video puts to bed a lot of the myths about school teachers and also talks about the fact that the police also had AR-15 weapons and still did not try to shoot the gunman, because they were afraid of hitting a student. Think of a teacher with only 24 hours training being asked to do with a pistol what a trained police officer with an assault type weapon found too dangerous. Good video on the subject. Hugs
Days of intense heat have killed thousands of cattle in Kansas
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105482394/cattle-kansas-heat-wave
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKansas officials say weather conditions made it hard for cows to cool down in an intense heat wave. Here, cattle graze near wind turbines in Hays, Kansas, in 2017.
Intense heat that baked Kansas over the weekend is being blamed for killing thousands of cattle — a toll documented in striking images on social media.
“The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is aware of at least 2,000 cattle deaths that occurred in the southwest part of Kansas,” Matt Lara, the agency’s communications director, told NPR on Thursday.
Lara also confirmed conditions had made it “difficult for the cows to stay cool.”
In widely seen video footage, rows of carcasses are shown lined up along the edge of a farm field. State officials are blaming a heat wave that sent temperatures higher than 100 degrees.
The new losses come as farmers across the Great Plains region are already struggling to cope with drought and high winds, along with the increased threat of wildfires.
It’s hard to get a sense of the scale of the deaths
The figure from the state health and environment agency reflects only the losses at farms that asked for help in disposing of carcasses, suggesting the actual tally could be higher.
A spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Agriculture confirmed to NPR on Thursday that “several weather factors combined which led to heat stress for cattle that impacted cattle producers.”
But the representative also noted that cattle ranches aren’t required to report those losses, “so we don’t have any data about the extent of the impact.”
Dangerous weather conditions aren’t confined to any one county in Kansas, where beef cattle dominates the agriculture sector, making it one of the main cattle-producing U.S. states.
Nearly the entire western half of Kansas is currently classified as abnormally dry or in a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor website.
Heat blasted from under 80 degrees to more than 104
To get a sense of what the animals were dealing with, it helps to look at the weather’s recent whipsaw effect.
Temperatures rapidly spiked in Kansas in the past week, blasting past 100 degrees. Some of the worst heat struck Haskell County in the southwest. In recent years, it’s been the top cattle-producing county in Kansas, with 385,000 head of cattle reported in 2021.
In Haskell County, the heat rocketed from a moderate high of 79.9 degrees on June 9 to a scalding 101.1 degrees just two days later. Then came three more days of triple-digit highs that topped out at more than 104 degrees, according to weather data from Kansas State University.
Conditions also became very dry in Haskell, with relative humidity falling from nearly 80% to less than 24%, with zero precipitation over a seven-day stretch. The baking heat was inescapable: even four inches beneath the soil’s surface, the temperature reached nearly 92 degrees.
The animals would have been valued around $2,000 each
“It’s a significant impact,” Scarlett Hagins of the Kansas Livestock Association tells local TV station KAKE, adding that the market-ready value for each animal would have been around $2,000.
“Any kind of animal loss is significant to a producer, to cattle feeder, to a rancher. No one wants to see any kind of loss like this,” she said.
The industry website AG Daily lists ways cattle producers can lessen the risk to their animals, from ensuring they have enough water, space and shade to watching for signs of heat stress, such as protruding tongues and heavy breathing.
“Fat cattle, those who still are carrying some of their summer hair, and cattle who have suffered respiratory illness are the most susceptible to heat stress,” the site states.
Let’s talk about MLK and black people wanting more….
DeSantis says Florida is ‘affirmatively against’ Covid-19 vaccines for young kids
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/16/desantis-covid-vaccine-florida-kids-fda-00040191
This is both irresponsible and will lead to child deaths, plus promote more Covid virus among the public and it makes no sense. Parents with sick infants and children. Sorry deniers, the science is settled and the data shows the vaccines are safe and effective. The people who DeathSantis is playing to are a dying breed, really dying. I am getting less and less willing to entertain those who deny the data and science simply because Tucker or Hannity say it is not true. I am getting tired of the outright lying by the right wing media. Florida is the only state, the only state think on that, that did not pre order the vaccines for this age group. Even every other red state preordered the vaccines. I want to be very clear that DeathSantis lies that young kids do not get Covid, many do and many die, and those that do not die have lifelong health issues. This is just a flat out lie dooming so many kids it should be illegal. They talk about not letting kids read books because it may harm them, but the real harm is sicknesses they could be protected from that they won’t be because of this bullshit. Hugs
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday railed against providing Covid-19 vaccines to young children, saying Florida will not provide state programs to administer vaccinations for toddlers or infants.
DeSantis, speaking at a press conference in Miami, said that Covid-19 vaccines have not gone through enough testing and clinical trials to determine that they are effective and added that kids are least likely to suffer serious health consequences from Covid.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have emphasized that the Covid-19 vaccine is safe and has urged the public to get the shot to protect against the virus and prevent serious symptoms.
“I would say we are affirmatively against the Covid vaccine for young kids,” DeSantis said. “These are the people who have zero risk of getting anything.”
Florida is the only state in the nation not to order fresh doses of the vaccine for children ahead of Wednesday’s decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow two Covid vaccines to be administered to children under 5 years old. The approval fast tracks the vaccine for distribution and kids could start receiving shots as soon as Tuesday.
DeSantis told reporters that the FDA board made its decision to pacify parent’s fears about the virus.
“To do an emergency-use authorization for a six month old or a one year old simply to placate anxiety, that’s not the standard when you’re doing this,” DeSantis said, adding those fears were stoked by the media.
The Florida Department of Health, which is overseen by DeSantis’ office, issued a statement Wednesday saying it did not place an order with the federal government for the vaccine doses because it did not advise that all children become vaccinated.
The state Department of Health is headed by state Surgeon General Joe Ladapo, who is an outspoken critic of the vaccine. He previously said he opposes the use of the vaccine on young kids and has questioned the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
DeSantis on Thursday also stressed that the state’s decision not to seek help from the federal government to distribute doses earmarked for kids does not mean the state has banned use of the vaccine.
“You are free to choose — that’s not the issue,” he said.
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • a day ago
The Polio. flu, Hepatitis, Varicella, MMR & DTaP vaccines are just as safe and effective as the covid vaccine according to the data that have been made available to Florida and to everyone else.
“These are the people who have zero risk of getting anything.”
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
There is a cemetery at Black Diamond Mines (now a park) in the East Bay (California). It was used by miners and their families around 1875-1900. It’s heartbreaking to see many of the headstones with the names of many young children from the same family. They died at very early ages, from diphtheria, pertussis, rubella and many other diseases that are now preventable, thanks to vaccines.
Arkansas “Moms For Liberty” Activist Caught On Tape Musing About “Plowing Down” Local Librarians With Gun
This is what passes as morality from the anti-LGBTQ+ crowd. Hugs
The Arkansas Times reports:
An audio recording from a recent Moms for Liberty meeting in Cabot captures a group member musing about gunning down a school librarian over tension about what books are appropriate for young readers. The person who captured that audio at a June 9 meeting at Crossroads Cafe in Cabot asked to remain anonymous.
The person said keeping audio records of public meetings is simply their normal practice, but that they decided to share this one because it was disturbing. The person confirmed the voice in the recording belongs to Melissa “Missy” Bosch, the leader of an anti-mask effort in the Cabot School District last year.
Media Matters reports:
In the audio obtained by Media Matters, the chapter’s head of communications and media, Melissa “Missy” Bosch, complained about librarians in the district, saying, “I’m telling you, if I was — any mental issues, they would all be plowed down with a freaking gun by now.”
She was made aware of the recorded audio and took to Facebook falsely claiming it was “illegally recorded” and “illegally spliced.” It wasn’t — Arkansas is a one-party consent state and Media Matters has reviewed the original recording in full.
Bosch also threatened legal action in her post, claiming to know “some fantastic lawyers,” and she said her comments came while she was talking about “making librarians who make 85k a year answer to parents when we ask how sexually explicit books got into the library.”
Media Matters notes that the lawyer Bosch hired for her anti-mask lawsuit also represented…wait for it…Josh Duggar.
https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3989813/embed/embed
https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3989813/embed/embed
In 1976 I was a scared teenager who timidly checked out a book at our local public library entitled “Society and the healthy homosexual” by George Weinberg. It changed my life for the better and I’ll be forever grateful to Mr. Weinberg and also grateful for the fact that I was even able to check that book out in the first place. It was a lifeline that saved me.
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Librarians and drag queens – the right’s new arch enemies. Fucking snowflakes.
If Trump did nothing else, he certainly emboldened the sick, festering, hateful, violent
crazies to expose who they really are…… It’s going to be hard if not impossible to put that genie back in the bottle.
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