While it is very important that elementary school build a solid foundation for further learning (and tends to be deficient there), there’s value in also working on setting a foundation for later citizenship and humanity.

It is an interesting philosophical conundrum: Is this a better example of small government or of support for the troops?

While there are certainly 5th graders who wouldn’t be able to take this assignment all that seriously, I don’t see it as harmful or otherwise inappropriate for that age group.

In fairness, the whole series of posts on this incident is about how it was theatre staff throwing the both of them out

In fairness, misrepresenting what happens outside of the public’s view is allegedly Cameron’s jam.

For a while now, Jez has been writing like it is abortion itself, rather than the bodily autonomy, health and life options having access to it confers, that is popular. I see it sort of like trying to celebrate chemotherapy rather than “ending cancer”, but I can see some value in trying to de-stigmatize the procedure.

Having been on Texan roads, with Texan drivers, I think it’s far more likely he did a 540 or a 900.

While I believe I understand what you are saying, I see a lot of possible interpretations.

Earlier this year, the President and Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan budget agreement that averted a first-ever default and protected our historic economic progress. The President, House Democrats, Senate Democrats, and Senate Republicans all stand by this promise. Unfortunately, Speaker McCarthy and…

You will not cast aspersions on Gohmert’s asparagus! He left congress to fail to get past the first round Republican Primary for Texas AG; which we might remember was won by someone so poor at that job the Texas GQP has suspended him pending the results of his impeachment trial

“I think there are other people who are pro-choice who would make better candidates, and she should step aside in favor of one of them.” The election is in less than 3 weeks; what person could possibly be made into a better candidate, remembering there was an April 6, 2023 filing deadline, given that voting has…

In fairness, Boebert is exceedingly ignorant

In fairness, the originalist faction can clearly see where the founders stated “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, but where could they possibly find even scant evidence the founders held the right to life as unalienable?

#3 One probably shouldn’t rule out (unplanned?) pregnancy body.

While I’m rather confident that they’re worse in basically every timeline without a consent decree, the SPD does seem pretty damn committed to being awful.

According to the order, “SPD has made tremendous improvements in its policies, methods of operation and leadership with respect to the areas of use of force, stops and detentions and crisis intervention.” The court found that “the city has achieved sustained full and effective compliance, for at least two years,…

“Lindsey Graham is 68“ Huh. I guess that means next year Lindsey will be forming an exploratory committee and working the polls.

CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify Klobuchar’s position on abortion restrictions.

Ah! That seems a reasonable ask (although I imagine torches and pitchforks would come out for the first several captioners who misidentify a language). Still and all, “non-English” seems to be a solid step up from the older designation, “foreign”