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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 7:38:49 GMT -6
Will the US House get a speaker this week? Looking like a vote tomorrow, but Jimmy doesn't have the votes as of now.
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 7:43:59 GMT -6
LOL given the discussion on GD
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 8:03:32 GMT -6
What do you guys think? I'm about to be done with the scholastic book fair, but a teacher was recently fired for reading a book to her class that was purchased at a scholastic book fair ( axios link) so I get that they would not want to put educators in that position. Full message from scholastic: "A MESSAGE FROM SCHOLASTIC ON U.S. BOOK FAIRS Scholastic provides diverse titles to every Book Fair. There have been a number of misconceptions that we want to clarify about how we have created a path to host Scholastic Book Fairs, even as schools and educators in the U.S. navigate restrictions imposed on them by state legislation and local policy. The biggest misconception is that Scholastic Book Fairs is putting all diverse titles into one optional case. This is not true, in any school, in any location we serve. There is now enacted or pending legislation in more than 30 U.S. states prohibiting certain kinds of books from being in schools – mostly LGBTQIA+ titles and books that engage with the presence of racism in our country. Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own, these laws create an almost impossible dilemma: back away from these titles or risk making teachers, librarians, and volunteers vulnerable to being fired, sued, or prosecuted. To continue offering these books, as well as even more high interest titles, we created an additional collection called Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice for our U.S. elementary school fairs. We cannot make a decision for our school partners around what risks they are willing to take, based on the state and local laws that apply to their district, so these topics and this collection have been part of many planning calls that happen in advance of shipping a fair. We don’t pretend this solution is perfect – but the other option would be to not offer these books at all – which is not something we’d consider. There is a wide range of diverse titles throughout every book fair, for every age level. And, we continue to offer diverse books throughout our middle school fairs, which remain unchanged. All children need to see themselves in stories and it is extremely unsettling to consider a world in which they don’t. Scholastic’s commitment remains unshakeable to publish and distribute stories representative of ALL voices.
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Post by bubblehape on Oct 16, 2023 9:18:24 GMT -6
byjove Aren't they completely contradicting themselves? "It's totally not true that we're putting them in a separate collection" "We're putting them in a collection called X so it's optional for schools"
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Post by dc2london on Oct 16, 2023 9:24:43 GMT -6
LOL given the discussion on GD Wobder what the status of the beer is too lol
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byjove
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 9:27:33 GMT -6
byjove Aren't they completely contradicting themselves? "It's totally not true that we're putting them in a separate collection" "We're putting them in a collection called X so it's optional for schools" It sure seems like it.
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Post by jaygee on Oct 16, 2023 9:35:04 GMT -6
I do feel for scholastic. They are in an impossible position. They can’t ban the books but including the books without an option for the schools under current tyranny would be a nightmare of bad “publicity”. Imagine the tik toks from MAGA.
I’m just imaging the grueling meetings trying to problem solve this.
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Post by trueblue on Oct 16, 2023 9:46:48 GMT -6
Gag order hearing in DC today, from what I am seeing on threads I suspect TFG’s staff is in the process of swapping out the fine china for corelle.
Eta: 3/4/24 trial date holding.
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Post by clucky on Oct 16, 2023 9:59:33 GMT -6
What level of disarray would this be? Are they often trying to get talking heads to figure out their shit?
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Post by elle on Oct 16, 2023 10:21:30 GMT -6
So do we trust that he'll maintain his end of the bargain? 😬
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Post by elle on Oct 16, 2023 10:29:10 GMT -6
Gag order hearing in DC today, from what I am seeing on threads I suspect TFG’s staff is in the process of swapping out the fine china for corelle. Eta: 3/4/24 trial date holding. Just reading now, prosecutors have been granted a partial gag order.
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Post by athn64 on Oct 16, 2023 11:49:47 GMT -6
It would be great if Venezuela had a free and fair elections, but I don't trust Maduro. Tyrants don't just give up power.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 16, 2023 12:54:05 GMT -6
Someone on tv was saying Gym could be speaker by tomorrow.
<insert Michael Scott shouting No No No>
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 12:58:25 GMT -6
Someone on tv was saying Gym could be speaker by tomorrow. <insert Michael Scott shouting No No No> He's made a lot of headway today. Thumbs down.
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Post by enchanted on Oct 16, 2023 13:01:06 GMT -6
Damn it.
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Post by athn64 on Oct 16, 2023 13:04:00 GMT -6
Fucking Gym Sock as speaker. I suppose it could be worse, but only a little. I don't see how this Congress will be able to be effective in any way.
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Post by fatpony on Oct 16, 2023 13:27:28 GMT -6
Fucking Gym Sock as speaker. I suppose it could be worse, but only a little. I don't see how this Congress will be able to be effective in any way. According to what I've seen on twitter, in 16 years he's never written successful legislation? Amazingly incompetent.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 16, 2023 13:37:53 GMT -6
Fucking Gym Sock as speaker. I suppose it could be worse, but only a little. I don't see how this Congress will be able to be effective in any way. According to what I've seen on twitter, in 16 years he's never written successful legislation? Amazingly incompetent. Because he's not there to legislate
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Post by dc2london on Oct 16, 2023 15:01:43 GMT -6
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Post by mrsweasley on Oct 16, 2023 16:06:08 GMT -6
I completed my first set of letters to OH voters through Vote Forward for Issue 1 (abortion access) and am halfway through the 2nd set. I also sent out postcards for our local Dem party today.
I have an interview scheduled for Wed with our local newspaper for my own campaign. I did a records request for phone numbers of parent households and am contemplating a text campaign. It would be cheaper (and faster) than trying to go door to door. If I do that I need to figure out timing (soon vs closer to the election) and what exactly to send
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 16:36:01 GMT -6
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Post by dc2london on Oct 16, 2023 17:21:37 GMT -6
I completed my first set of letters to OH voters through Vote Forward for Issue 1 (abortion access) and am halfway through the 2nd set. I also sent out postcards for our local Dem party today. I have an interview scheduled for Wed with our local newspaper for my own campaign. I did a records request for phone numbers of parent households and am contemplating a text campaign. It would be cheaper (and faster) than trying to go door to door. If I do that I need to figure out timing (soon vs closer to the election) and what exactly to send Omg PLEASE let me know if I can text or phonebank for you (if you are comfortable with that). I would love to help.
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Post by mrsweasley on Oct 16, 2023 17:29:31 GMT -6
I completed my first set of letters to OH voters through Vote Forward for Issue 1 (abortion access) and am halfway through the 2nd set. I also sent out postcards for our local Dem party today. I have an interview scheduled for Wed with our local newspaper for my own campaign. I did a records request for phone numbers of parent households and am contemplating a text campaign. It would be cheaper (and faster) than trying to go door to door. If I do that I need to figure out timing (soon vs closer to the election) and what exactly to send Omg PLEASE let me know if I can text or phonebank for you (if you are comfortable with that). I would love to help. I am very out of my depth with text/phone stuff, I have very little idea how it works or what to do I was thinking about doing a one mass text, our school levy campaign is doing the same thing.
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Post by clucky on Oct 16, 2023 18:00:50 GMT -6
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 16, 2023 18:39:40 GMT -6
I’m now glad I know her name. I feel so bad for her. I hope she writes a book one day
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Post by dc2london on Oct 16, 2023 19:04:58 GMT -6
Omg PLEASE let me know if I can text or phonebank for you (if you are comfortable with that). I would love to help. I am very out of my depth with text/phone stuff, I have very little idea how it works or what to do I was thinking about doing a one mass text, our school levy campaign is doing the same thing. If there's anything I can do to help, LMK I haven't set up banks in a couple of years but I do a lot of vol training and facilitating
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 19:11:06 GMT -6
I’m now glad I know her name. I feel so bad for her. I hope she writes a book one day which she must title "I'm just Susan!"
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Post by mrsweasley on Oct 16, 2023 19:20:13 GMT -6
I am very out of my depth with text/phone stuff, I have very little idea how it works or what to do I was thinking about doing a one mass text, our school levy campaign is doing the same thing. If there's anything I can do to help, LMK I haven't set up banks in a couple of years but I do a lot of vol training and facilitating What kinds of platforms did you use?
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Post by athn64 on Oct 16, 2023 19:20:18 GMT -6
I’m now glad I know her name. I feel so bad for her. I hope she writes a book one day which she must title "I'm just Susan!" I call her for my politics Halloween costume!
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Post by byjove on Oct 16, 2023 19:51:39 GMT -6
This is pretty amazing! Granted he’s been there a vvv long time.
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