I hope that students flood the call line with reports of teachers talking about their heterosexual spouses, or wearing crosses and talking about their faith.

If they aren't doing it yet, they will be now. https://media3.giphy.com/me...

It would be a real shame if the snitch line filled up with nothing but recordings of the Cardi B classic "Wet Ass Pussy."

602-771-3500

Also, this:

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ot: JMG Culture moment
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I can't unsee that quotation mark...

Have these instead:
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Remember the old traditions! It is not just about stabbing in groups, it is about stabbing tyrants and dictators in groups.

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Horne explained, “Some say critical race theory (CRT) is a graduate
study, not taught in K-12 schools. The evidence is to the contrary. I
have a list of 250 Arizona teachers who signed a shocking statement
promoted by the national teachers’ union, that if critical race theory
were banned, they would defy the law.

He missed a great opportunity to use the phrase "I have here in my hand..."

Critical race theory, as applied by actual academics talking about actual academics, is a graduate level law school curriculum. The confusion comes about because to the Republican Talibangelical ignorami, critical race theory is anything that deviates even slightly from white supremacy's mythical view of American history.

See also "Globalism" for terms right wing morons run wild with beyond their original context.

LOLZ, you're a Scot. You know more about US History (e.g., McCarthyism) than Arizonans would!

OT: Good News

One of the last wild rivers in Europe, home to more than 1,000 animal
and plant species, has been declared a national park by the Albanian
government, making the Vjosa the first of its kind on the continent.

The Vjosa River flows 168 miles (270kms) from the Pindus mountains
in Greece through narrow canyons, plains and forests in Albania to the
Adriatic coast. Free from dams or other artificial barriers, it is rich
in aquatic species and supports myriad wildlife, including otters, the
endangered Egyptian vulture and the critically endangered Balkan lynx,
of which only 15 are estimated to remain in Albania.

For years, the Vjosa’s fragile ecosystem has been under threat: at
one point as many as 45 hydropower plants were planned across the
region.

But on Wednesday, after an almost decade-long campaign by
environmental NGOs, Vjosa was declared the first wild river national
park in Europe. Environmentalists described it as a historic decision
that has placed the tiny Balkan nation at the forefront of river
protection.

https://www.theguardian.com...

wow! we need to see more of these types of designations.

I saw a documentary on this a year or so ago where activists were trying to make this happen. I'm glad they succeeded.

OT antidote/chuckle - tiny kids being geezers for Halloween

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It's cute when old people dress up like babies, too.
Oh, wait, that's the nursing home.

Aww, that's adorable.

Prepared for their future.

They were pulling that up in New Hampshire after passing their law banning "divisive concepts" in the classroom.

Now they're whining about a big teacher shortage because all the good ones who could got the hell out and moved here to Massachusetts or elsewhere.

Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut - it's not like there aren't better options right around the corner.

Which pay a lot more.

Pay a lot more, and protect the rights of teachers and don't remove books from libraries.

So much for "Live Free or Die."

It's a red state now. That means freedom to have guns and be a christofascist and racist piece of shit.

It would be a real shame if the snitch line filled up with nothing but recordings of the Cardi B classic "Wet Ass Pussy."

602-771-3500

Repeat and Do! Repeat and Do! Repeat and Do! Today.

I called last night and left a lengthy profanity-filled message.

Another great one from Randy Rainbow:

https://twitter.com/RandyRa...

OMG!! What if the poor school children in Floriduh or Texass were to see this? He's wearing drag!

You know, I didn't even notice. When you do the show tunes, you dress the parts. It's very normal and pretty much par for internet shorts.

upvote before I even watch it lol

Great and brutal. So much content, one needs to watch it twice to catch it all

Superintendent Horne said, “There’s nothing more outrageous than religious prejudice

Religion is a mental disease.

As if he's not prejudiced against religions that aren't his.

Superintendent Horne said, “There’s nothing more outrageous than religious prejudice...”

Nothing? I can think of a few things:

- pastors who sexually abuse children
- revivals
- evangelical parents who brainwash their children
- “ex-gay” torture
- Anti-Semitism
- racism
- rape
- laws that dehumanize and persecute LGBTQ people
- Republicans
- Trumpvangelicals
- QAnon cultists
- White/Christian Nationalists
- book bans
- the dissemination of far-right propaganda
- everyone who works at Fox

"Teaching academic standards." Is that what they're calling White Supremacy indoctrination these days?

This Canadian immigrant, son of Polish immigrants, cost Arizona millions of dollars when as Attorney General he got the Republican-run legislature to ban Mexican studies here in Tucson. Went all the way to the Supremes, who told this old fuck to fuck the fuck off. The bill he promoted banned well-known history books because they mentioned discrimination against Mexican-Americans. Always interesting to see immigrants coming to the US and promoting hatred towards other immigrants (e.g., Rupert Murdoch).

Every kid who's marked down because he didn't do his homework is going to call that line. I predict it won't last a month.

Republican hate. It will last a little ng time

Trans man forced to play in women's sports due to transphobic Texas laws.

He wants to play in men's sports but is not allowed.

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Posting it mostly because this picture has been making the rounds in transphobe twitter as an example of why trans women shouldn't be allowed to play womens' sports... but this is actually a trans man, not a trans woman.

Ultimately the attempts to ban certain women from sports is stupid, it's the same logic that leads the Olympics to banning all three medalists in the 800 meter race from participating unless they take feminizing drugs.

These medalists were all AFAB and identify as women.

The Ohio legislature is contemplating banning trans folks from high school sports.

The Ohio schools athletic association said there are 4 trans students (didn't identify male or female) in the high school sport system. But only 2 would be playing any sport this year. Out of almost 500,000 high school students, the legislature is all about 2 of them. Wasting time about 2 students.

“The whole function of education is to create a Nazi.” ~ Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister, February 1938

"Um... my teacher talks about the Bible all the time and wears a cross necklace. I feel threatened..."

I would.

Just call it the Karen Hotline. Teachers union will have a field day with this. Elections matter.

There is no strong union in that state

I always wanted a hotline to report the mental abuse caused by algebra.

We need to lodge complaints in response to any lesson which mentions mommy/daddy, sister/brother, aunt/uncle, etc, as unnecessarily provocative.

'Gender' has no place in schools, right?