It’s going to take a few years, but with Republicans in power, an economic collapse is coming. You can’t have economic policies that cut taxes for the wealthiest people while slashing programs that help keep the economy moving, while deregulating industry and eviscerating labor laws, and expect to have a thriving…

It’s not comparable. Governor McCrory is trying to get the state legislature to straight up override the election results. A recount, on the other hand, could just re-affirm that Donald Trump won the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (assuming it doesn’t prove that Clinton was the true winner). That’s…

As a humble (and fascinated) computer science major at a tiny community college in Asheville, I can say that there is enough evidence to at least look into it. There are unusual coincidences, anomalies that have happened (more unusual than anything McCrory is bitching about) that could either a) be evidence of…

It’s completely different from the NC gov race. There, he is hoping to cast enough aspirsions on the vote that it gets thrown out and the state legislature gets to choose a governor.

Pat’s trying to prevent his opponent’s inauguration by jamming the court long enough that he gets reinstated by default.

Also, the advantage those 25% have is illusory—they perform better because they use unofficial means to discourage underperforming students from attending. If the bad ones transfer and the good ones stay, suddenly you look like rockstar educators!

Warning: part bitchy post coming.

John Oliver had a fantastic story on the crappiness of the charter school program.

Charters can make a case, sometimes. Vouchers on the other hand can get fucked so hard it makes my eyes bleed. Not interested in my tax dollars funding stupid ass creationism.

That’s great. I’m glad you love your child’s school. I’d like to learn more about it, especially about their inclusion practices.

I suppose killing our national education system is one way they’ve figured out how to ensure a healthy supply of future Republican voters...

Exactly. How would this still be functioning? He’s got this blood thirsty gang of killers, and we’re supposed to believe they’re all that afraid of him? That not one of them has attempted to overthrow him?

This is actually fascinating to me. In general terms, supernatural media often closely reflects the anxieties of the society that generates it. In this case, it looks like the fear of the other (and the fear of the destruction of the social contract) that The Walking Dead runs on is the same fear that got Trump…

Watching a show where the most violent and horrible people left alive are coming out on top by systematically torturing and murdering people just trying to survive? Yeah maybe too real for right now.

Maybe because Negan reminds us a little too much of a certain person who was recently elected? I like to work out my anxiety by getting scared of imaginary zombies, not have it amplified by getting scared of an imaginary dictatorial narcissist.

Maybe because people are realizing that this show has no “end game”? No big reveal? No destination?

Here’s something you can do to help. The Department of Justice is tallying phone calls regarding those who want the 2016 Vote audited. A shift of just 55,000 Trump votes to Hillary in Pennsylvania,Michigan and Wisconsin is all that is Needed to Win.

Oh please let this happen. Please let this happen. Oh puhleeze. (Bargaining phase.)

If there is ANY chance she could win, then she owes it to the world to try.

But it feels like a long shot at best and sadly, nothing more.