I’m kind of surprised he’s not already in the Trump administration, to be honest. But yes, by all means - put the white Baptist male who disregarded the sexual assaults of women at his last post in charge of Religious Freedom. Why the fuck not? I’m sure he’ll do an AMAZING job.

Christians are legitimately being persecuted in areas of the Middle East. In the West? Not really.

There are places where it is dangerous to be Christian, and there are places where it sucks to be Christian.
The places it is dangerous are mostly just dangerous places, but admittedly more dangerous as a Christian. The places it sucks to be a Christian are places like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, or other Muslim states.…

Does anybody in the Trump admin not have “resigned in disgrace” on their resume?

Sadly I disagree they will remember it at the polls.

If people knew what teachers go through in a school year, what we do for free, they would be shocked. The vitriol directed at us makes me crazy. In what other profession do you get asked to do more and more and more (sometimes on a daily basis) without compensation? In what other profession do you get vilified for…

Yes. Please burn Facebook to the ground.

Seeing that my family runs a consulting firm for charter schools looking to farm out their spec ed and school psychology issues, I can speak firsthand (or in many cases, secondhand from my parents) to the fact that charter school issues begin at the stereotype and extend well beyond that point. Charters are a…

Yesterday’s subcommittee hearing was chock full of both safety worker unions (who aren’t going to be as screwed) and other unions (who get fully screwed) going on record saying things like “I’m a Republican. You didn’t campaign on taking away Unions. We will remember this at the polls.”

Actually had a conversation with one of these anti-Teacher’s Union types yesterday while discussing the legislation that Iowa will pass (shortly) that strips collective bargaining from all public workers other than “safety workers.” Teachers, government employees (which I am) , all other unions can get bent and…

This movement is all about breaking teacher’s unions & turning our education professionals into uncredentialled, at-will service sector employees. “Welcome to Hardee’s Academy — can I teach you long division today?”

This is the genius of this. With the DeVos plan, the rich can literally control what the rest of the nation learns, knows, and thinks.

The amazing thing about the teachers union thing is this, by all metrics states with a strong union out perform states considered “right to work”.

Bitching about teacher’s union is a thing because it, I dunno, people are pissed we still get benefits or something.

There’s a reason education sucks, it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners, now. The real owners, the big wealthy…

In the US we get broadcasts, sometimes, of Parliament members thinking on their feet and really going at each other, but cogently and factually-based. Republicans, in this country, are used to appearing in what amounts to pep rallies and rarely have to win over or calm down people who aren’t their supporters, and are…

All joking and clever Tweets aside... how the fuck can anyone- with a straight face- say the San Bernardino attack wasn’t covered by the media? It was literally the lead story every day for about two weeks... and then was a story AGAIN with Apple’s refusal to unlock a fucking phone. DONALD TRUMP HAD STRONG OPINIONS OF…

It’s going to be even worse when Trump reveals this shocking proof, that Obama covered up, of US forces being routed by the Russians when we attempted to intervene in the Crimea situation.

Dictators have been elected. Hitler, obviously, is the prime example. Stalin was elected through the normal state mechanisms and he was also a dictator. The list goes on, but I assume you get the point. Dictatorial authority is not inconsistent with normal constitutional mechanisms for elections and pathways to…

If Trump thinks he has it bad over here, it is going to be 10x worse over there. The public is allowed to get ridiculously close in England, the first thing he will see out the window of AF1 will be protests and every second on the ground will be people yelling at him. He will be forced to see the hatred for him.

It takes two to tango.