A better version of this bill could have passed. It’d be one thing if this was a hugely controversial bill, but it wasn’t. It’s just astonishing and frustrating that they pushed for these “minor” tweaks that did nothing to the overall cost of this bill, but nevertheless will have real, harmful consequences for people,…

exactly. there are literally places monitoring sewage to identify the severity of covid outbreaks.

This is a huge fucking deal. Thank you, Georgia, for Stacey Abrams, your two Senators, and the Atlanta DA. 

unless it’s a last resort,

Not only is this ethically wrong, it’s dangerous, especially in a pandemic but even just from a general health and safety perspective. Any teacher doing this nonsense should be immediately fired. Their attitude toward children is clearly a problem, whether or not race had anything to do with it (let’s be frank, at the…

she stated to the principal that she was trying to teach how not to stop up the toilet

This is horrifying. I am very squeamish (though it’s gotten much better as an adult through exposure to life’s grossness) and this would have caused me to break down. That poor baby, I hope he’s ok and they fire that rotten teacher. School should be a safe place, especially for a child that young.

I agree... summers off!  No, just no.  And the really horrible ones become principals...

The racist teachers that I used to work with in high-poverty schools (like the whole school got free lunch) used to like to justify their shitty treatment of kids by saying that the kids needed to learn that “life was hard.” these were children living in poverty who could not read or add. The only thing we didn’t…

What da fuq? Does this school not have a janitor? Even if they didn’t have a janitor, then this is still a task that an adult carries out. Fucking outrageous stupidity, and assholery above and beyond. I have no words.

I even understood as a kid that many, many teachers become teachers even though they absolutely hate children. It’s insane.

B-but it builds character...

I’m really sorry your father abused you like that. 

As a former child myself, I’m astonished the shit adults inflict on children that we’d never do to another adult.

For a few glorious seconds I thought you were married to Mr. T from A-Team. I had questions.

He will most likely go to a conservative male counselor that won’t differ too much in his opinions. He’ll be told to just keep it to himself.

I mean, I WISH dudes like this would actually be cancelled, but do any of us really think he’ll face any consequences for this fuckery? Won’t he just come back from counseling with an insincere “I’m sorry if you were offended” apology and keep on trucking?

Fuck Joe. Senate control is likely to boil down to a number of races in 2022 and his ain’t one of’em. His days of having any real influence in the Senate are numbered and it can’t happen fast enough.  I hope he loses.  

Not. One. Republican.

Already seeing some Joe Manchin slobbering from Nate Silver and others, as if his ultimate yes vote on this bill is something all Dems, including progressives who had to watch as he worked as hard as he could to water down every (very popular) so-called progressive measure in this bill, should be on their hands and…