As I’ve said before: the New York Times is basically a shitty make-work program for the neo-conservatives too chickenshit to work for the Trump administration. Amazing how people forget that.

Fucking thank you.

If it was Donnie, I hope Gaetz is next to get a subpoena 

White fragility is alive and well and thriving in Portland. I think the painfully polite and gentle way we are expected to communicate really sabotages honesty and facilitates racism here. Little snowflakes everywhere. Whatever you do, you must not directly confront anyone about anything. I was born near here and even…

Good god, THIS. It’s partly a function of the fact that in places that don’t normally get extreme cold, people don’t own winter gear needed to deal with it safely.  Kentuckians don’t own the kind of gear that people in Minnesota own, for obvious reasons.  And then add in the fact that POOR CHILDREN may not have…

In the LAUSD, this couldn’t be more true. Some charter schools in LA actually use LAUSD facilities and the LAUSD doesn’t charge them rent by law, then undercharges them for services. The public foots the bill for their charter schools who don’t answer to the public, it’s disgusting.

It’s just another version of the conservative mantra: privatize profits, socialize losses. They can peel away the easy students — and their funding — and leave the public schools with all the challenging students and no resources. It’s a goddamned crime.

I see what you said there.

The idea of playing games with immigration statuses seems half-baked and short-sighted - wouldn’t there be fewer teachers if visas were revoked?

But see, the students’ pro-life rally was the right KIND of political. Fits their image.

The way Spencer tries to play victim, like telling someone they will break their nose is normal, is incomprehensible.

Remember, always punch a Nazi.

You should tell that to the cops who shot a Native American with a stick.  They could have been bruised or something. 

What’s cool about PAYGO is that it requires buying into the idea that the economy is like a budget in someone’s household, which is a right-wing framing that’s not based on the reality of how the economy works. Most austerity measures function on this lie, and Dems kowtowing to it (while undoubtedly understanding the…

The only reason to lay hands on minors in your care is if it is a situation where safety is in danger. I say this as a teacher who has had to restrain students for reasons such as assault, coming at me with a knife, intent to self harm, things like that.

Using restraint for defiance and the like is a no no and would…

Yes, there are two preliminary decisions suggesting that these laws may be unconstitutional.

The weird thing is that Japanese internment happened under the watch of arguably the best president the country has ever seen, while this is happening under the worst.

This is the conclusion I’ve come to repeatedly, when it comes to this subject, anti-vaxxers, the resurgence of Nazis in our political system... I just don’t think anyone’s going to rise up until people near them start dying or being incarcerated in droves, and it’s a damn shame.

Your last observation is spot-on; nothing changes until people are personally affected. Once people are finding themselves wages slaves and there isn’t a middle class left, maybe then they’ll realize what’s unfolded.

But acknowledging that would make it harder to be an Edgelord, Cheese.