Again Ten Bears has found a great video to watch. This one is shorter than the last and details quickly a bunch of the malfeasance trump committed. Hugs. Scottie
I thank Ten Bears for posting this. It is an important to view. It shows clearly how racism and bigotry of the republicans are harming national security. Chris Hayes makes it clear just how racist Sen Tuberville is.He doesn’t want mixing races in the military, but instead wants the best of the best. Well the way he says it is clear he thinks the best of the best are white. I found the view very informing and interesting. Hugs. Scottie
Ask what is the goal of the people trying to remove diversity, it is to return to a horrible time in the past where some people had all the rights and authority while others are powerless having no rights. Do we really as a country want to regress to the point these people want? They basically want all social and scientific / medical / social progress to stop and regress to a time before other people but them had standing in society and the most you could do for medical issues was to pray, same with economic issues just pray them away. But one thing they don’t want to return to is the taxes on the wealthy and corporations, just the regression of equality and equal rights for non-white non-cis non-straight people. We have congress people trying to deny diversity ion the military and fighting to keep bases named after confederate leaders who fought to keep blacks as slaves. Remember a large portion of the military is minority including black. We have republicans led states trying to teach kids that slavery was beneficial to black people. An example of how horrible racism is. Might as well say that childhood sexual abuse is OK as long as the kid is not killed and allowed to go to school. Anyway this is our country now, pushed hard to a right wing authoritarian racist bigoted intolerant society by a few very wealthy hateful people funding a lot of media and republican politicians. Hugs
More than 300 Turpin High School students participated in a walkout on Wednesday to protest the cancelation of Diversity Day earlier this month.
Students gathered at Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church, located right next to the high school, holding signs calling for promotion of diversity within the Forest Hills School District and to empower students.
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The walkout occurred at Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church on May 18, 2022 adjacent to Turpin High School. Students held signs and chanted, “Do better Forest Hills.”
The walkouts occurred on the scheduled date for Diversity Day, May 18.
For several years, Diversity Day has been held in the district — which is 90% white — to highlight cultural and racial issues for junior and senior students. But earlier this month, the FHSD school board voted 4-0 to put the event on hold, stating that the event would no longer happen during school hours, use school resources or be paid for by taxpayers. Then, the school district announced its cancelation.
“At this time, FHSD staff have determined they will not be able to organize an event that meets the newly instituted board expectations before the end of the school year, so it will not be rescheduled for this year,” Forest Hill School District Communications Coordinator Josh Bazan said in a statement.
Board member Leslie Rasmussen abstained from voting on the issue, saying board members “interfered” with the event citing “critical race theory and social justice” as their reasons for its postponement.
Four of the board’s newly elected members ran together on a platform opposing critical race theory.
Students react
On the day Diversity Day was supposed to be held, multiple students passed a megaphone to each other to give speeches and to lead chants. Claire Mengel is a senior at Turpin High School. They thanked the community for the support it’s provided students, but expressed disappointment the walkout had to take place because the “(school) board has failed us.”
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Turpin High School senior Claire Mengel led the walkout on May 18, 2022. They will be will be addressing the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Thursday to discuss “ongoing efforts to prohibit discussion in K-12 classrooms about American history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues.”
“We should not be here because the board should be doing their jobs and the fact that we’re here is incredible, but it is also disappointing because we should be in school doing what we’re supposed to do as kids,” Mengel said.
Johnny Wettengel is also a student at Turpin High School. He thanked the students for making their voices heard and to show the school board that they’re “doing a bad job” at representing students.
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Turpin High School student Johnny Wettengel said the Forest Hills school board is “doing a bad job” at representing the students during a walkout on May 18, 2022.
“We are here, all of us, to show them that we support diversity in our school district,” Wettengel said. “We are here to show them that we won’t just sit down and let them cancel events that matter to us. We are here to show them that diversity isn’t political, it’s human.”
Mengel said the event’s cancelation adds another level of stress to a district dealing with a “mental health crisis,” but the community’s support has helped during a tough time for students.
“Even though the board has power in this situation, the community is standing together and there is so much more support than I’ve seen anything negative about this,” Mengel said.
On Thursday, Mengel will be addressing the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The hearing will focus on “the ongoing efforts to prohibit discussion in K-12 classrooms about American history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues, and to punish teachers who violate vague and discriminatory state laws by discussing these topics.”
An Ohio high school football coach resigned Monday following his team’s use of racist and antisemitic language during a game last Friday, the school announced https://t.co/9eSA1VyJhA
Boy, it sure would be embarrassing if someone quoted the Florida curriculum standard, which explicitly states that “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” ( https://www.fldoe.org/core/… )
Or, at least it would be to anyone with a conscience.
Duncan appeared here in January 2023 when the House approved his bill to ban vaccine mandates at Medicare and Medicaid-certified health facilities. In 2015, Duncan co-sponsored a bill that sought to place a ban on same-sex marriage in the US Constitution. In 2018, Duncan co-sponsored a bill allowing adoption agencies to ban same-sex parents.
In filing for divorce, wife of Jeff Duncan (R-SC)– another GOP "strong advocate for traditional family values"– said he's been screwing anything that moved including shady DC lobbyist Liz Williams. He's one of the ones trying to shut down the U.S. government for Trump pic.twitter.com/QCioH2i1TH
Honored to receive the Friend of the Family Award this week from the Faith and Freedom Coalition for my conservative voting record in the 116th Congress and commitment to defend the family, protect religious freedom, and stand with Israel. @FaithandFreedompic.twitter.com/uV8he0xTKv
When Jeff Duncan left his "Faith and Freedom BBQ" at the end of August, after calling Melody Duncan his loving and supportive wife, he then went "directly to the home of his paramour." https://t.co/LuZIDcipYF
Hanson last appeared here when the same outlet exposed her arrest record for facilitating prostitution. She made her JMG debut when she was exposed for using the photos of minority women in campaign materials, claiming that they support her. The women said they’d never heard of her. Hanson’s campaign manager spoke at last year’s public hearing on the local Pride event to declare that the festival had provided children with “dildos and butt plugs.”
EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Hanson fought Franklin Pride, but celebrated her scantily clad husband at Chicago Pride https://t.co/toLuP98piF
This person, speaking out against Pride at a Franklin BOMA meeting, has the same name and background as the person identified as Gabrielle Hanson’s campaign manager. pic.twitter.com/T1xtFNFaEd
NEW from @formvscontent: “Records show @CityOfFranklin Alderman and mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson. was charged with money laundering, organized crime, in addition to her admission of conviction(s) of promotion of prostitution.”
Republicans don’t care about truth, in fact it seems they hate it as it doesn’t say what they claim. Republicans are so desperate to force the narrative that Biden is as corrupt as trump, so it doesn’t matter as they are the same. This is wrong. While the evidence is clear that did the crimes he is accused of, the evidence is equally clear, Biden is innocent of what the republicans accuse him of. And when called out on it, they get angry at the reporters for showing their lies. Hugs
“I’m not an expert on the timeline,” Rep. Jason Smith said after he was asked about a text message sent before Joe Biden was a presidential candidate.
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The Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee got testy with a NBC reporter during a Wednesday press conference after the journalist challenged him on the timeline of supposed evidence of President Joe Biden’s misconduct.
The journalist pointed out that a WhatsApp message that Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) had presented as potential evidence of Biden’s use of his political influence to help Hunter Biden was dated to June 6, 2017—before Biden was a presidential candidate, let alone president.
“I’m not an expert on the timeline,” Smith replied. “I would love to have President Biden or his family tell us all about the timeline.”
When the reporter pressed him, Smith asked what outlet he worked for. Hearing the answer, the congressman snapped, “So apparently, you’ll never believe us.”
Smith then spluttered that he was “definitely not going to pinpoint one item” of evidence when the journalist again asked him how the message demonstrated misuse of political influence. Shortly after, without having provided an answer, Smith demanded the next question.
A heated exchange occurs between House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) and an NBC reporter during a news conference on the investigation into President Biden's family. The reporter presses Rep. Smith on the timeline of the evidence found against the Bidens. pic.twitter.com/2hfbQXEsPh
The exchange was just the latest example of Republican politicians and right-wing media figures asserting a less-than-stellar knowledge of the Biden-related misconduct allegations they want to indict him on.
Just this week, Fox News buried an interview with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that largely demolished a longtime conspiracy theory asserting that a Ukrainian prosecutor was fired at the behest of then-Vice President Joe Biden to protect his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm at the time.
Poroshenko instead dismissed the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, as a “completely crazy person” who didn’t utter a “single word of truth” about the Bidens and “played [a] very dirty game.”
Even Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner Devon Archer was forced to clear up Republican-spread rumors in July that an administrative request from the Department of Justice in a separate case was an attempt to intimidate him out of testifying in front of a Republican-led congressional committee.
Thanks to Ten Bears for the link. When will the US stop supporting this Apartheid nation? They clearly are not willing to give the Palestine any rights, the Palestine’s live in what is justly called an open air prison. They have no rights, they have no legal remedies but instead of being under the laws of Israel they are under military rule, their treatment is not questioned by the checks and balances of laws. But the US not only supports this corrupt government by billions of dollars, a country that has universal healthcare that the people in the US are told is too expensive for us to have. Does that make sense? This is no different from the US supporting the South African apartheid by white supremacist against black people. Just because this is religious based doesn’t make it right. We are watching the genocide of an entire group of people, and we seem to be OK with it. I AM NOT! Hugs. Scottie
Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Sunday forced their way into the flash point Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish New Year, reports Anadolu Agency.
Israeli settlers observe the Rosh Hashanah (New Year) holiday from September 15 to September 17 this year. They will also mark the Sukkot holiday at the end of September and the Simhat Torah holiday on October 6.
In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department said Israeli forces had emptied the Al-Aqsa complex from Palestinian worshipers before allowing settlers in.
According to the statement, Palestinians under 50 years old were prevented from entering the site.
A number of Palestinians were arrested by Israeli forces from inside the complex, local sources said.
There was no comment from the Israeli authorities on the report.
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world’s third-holiest site. Jews, for their part, call the area the Temple Mount, saying it was the site of two ancient Jewish temples.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa complex is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move never recognized by the international community.
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