jaygee
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Post by jaygee on Feb 5, 2020 10:25:03 GMT -6
Fred Guttenberg was handcuffed and escorted from the SOTU last night. He was detained for 2 hours until Pelosi's office intervened.
Oh gosh. This hurts my heart. This poor man.
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Post by 4PrivetDrive on Feb 5, 2020 10:30:25 GMT -6
Ugh my heart. He is not the one who needs to be apologizing.
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roloma
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Post by roloma on Feb 5, 2020 11:16:28 GMT -6
Welp. It looks like she played his game well. She's a strategic genius. People give her so much shit but everything she does is very calculated. As mentioned, not many people are actually talking about his speech today. There isn't much focus currently on the fact that he will be acquitted today. She is strong enough to take the heat, and it is working.
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Post by JukEboX on Feb 5, 2020 11:18:42 GMT -6
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Post by oreobitsy on Feb 5, 2020 11:32:05 GMT -6
Oh I saw this, what a terrible person.
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Post by ladybrienne on Feb 5, 2020 11:43:48 GMT -6
After Iowa and all the shit happening within our party, I think Nancy doing what she did is a good way to unite Democrats and remind everyone what the hell they are fighting for here.
Moderates and progressives may have differences but, they are ones that can be put aside to fight to get him out of the WH.
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Post by 4PrivetDrive on Feb 5, 2020 11:46:53 GMT -6
The racist guy's kid tweeted out that he doesn't support his dad's comments. So at least his son is a better person
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Post by hawkeye2015 on Feb 5, 2020 13:14:21 GMT -6
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Post by stringy on Feb 5, 2020 13:26:37 GMT -6
Oh I saw this, what a terrible person. We had an incident in one of our elem schools in January that came to a head on facebook last week, of course, because the district tried to cover it up (involving a black parent being arrested in the school lobby while her child who was in distress watched. Charges dropped that day..whole thing on video)
So so so many white guys on facebook and (less so) at the community forum that followed who just had to explain how white privilege is a myth and all kinds of utter BS and we don't know what happened before or after the video and "what did the kid do to make this happen?". It was not a good week. But hopefully conversations (and action...) will continue, though I'm sure those guys aren't listening. But our white male superintendent and police chief, standing at the front of the auditorium while parents of color got up and told their stories and made them extremely uncomfortable would have been pretty great, minus the fact that the stories had happened in the first place.
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jkjacq
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Post by jkjacq on Feb 5, 2020 13:30:36 GMT -6
PDQ I'm hustling for MDA meeting next week. I got a response back of pictures of chairs and tables piled up against a door in a classroom and a makeshift weapon from a middle school teacher(who will be there).
its so damn STARK what we are asking teachers to do and I'm horrified at ourselves.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 13:41:28 GMT -6
jkjacq we actually are told to do this sort of thing in an emergency but not practice it. The practice would cause way too much anxiety for our students. I had a student once who had to leave the room and go to a safe spot in guidance during any kind of lockdown practice because of how upset it made her. It's just awful.
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Post by goldenlove on Feb 5, 2020 14:44:18 GMT -6
I don't Simpsons but please tell me this is a real episode because lol
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Post by cakewench on Feb 5, 2020 14:45:45 GMT -6
goldenlove Yup. Lisa wrote an essay about government, went to DC to win an award (or something), sees her local rep take a bribe, rips up her essay and tears him a new one at the presentation.
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Post by cakewench on Feb 5, 2020 14:49:05 GMT -6
Uh...
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roloma
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Post by roloma on Feb 5, 2020 14:52:46 GMT -6
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Post by oreobitsy on Feb 5, 2020 14:54:33 GMT -6
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jkjacq
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Post by jkjacq on Feb 5, 2020 14:59:58 GMT -6
this is me well shit I cant work it its the WHAT THE FUCK Venn
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jaygee
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Post by jaygee on Feb 5, 2020 15:01:27 GMT -6
The first reply is this for me and it very much matches my face.
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Post by jaygee on Feb 5, 2020 15:04:46 GMT -6
You love to see it.
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ktg
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Post by ktg on Feb 5, 2020 15:06:16 GMT -6
Is this Marcus guy some known entity or is this Twitter just Twittering?
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jaygee
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Post by jaygee on Feb 5, 2020 15:07:10 GMT -6
Is this Marcus guy some known entity or is this Twitter just Twittering? I don’t know him. He’s a blue check mark, but that doesn’t mean too much.
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Post by starbuck on Feb 5, 2020 15:13:47 GMT -6
I emailed my local elections office to inquire about working at the polls on Election Day and got a call within a few hours basically welcoming me to the team and letting me know the supervisor would call me with more info by Monday. Seems like they really need the help (I imagine this is a common problem) and it would be really interesting to work Super Tuesday and in November.
Just a blanket reminder to everyone who has the ability and interest, now is the time to start signing up!
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Post by Eames on Feb 5, 2020 15:37:35 GMT -6
I'm already battling with relatives on social media re: the Nancy Pelosi speech thing. Sigh. I try not to engage w/ family on this stuff (particularly MH's family) but if someone's going to call Pelosi divisive and lacking in class, I have to ask if today is Opposite Day, right? I mean, I have to. lol I am also battling about this. Their argument is that Nancy shredded class and decorum and we need that mutual respect now more than ever. When I LOLed because that ship has long ago sailed, they claim that two wrongs don't make a right, etc. etc. Like... say what now?!? Clearly I'm taking crazy pills yes? I'm so pissed off.
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jkjacq
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Post by jkjacq on Feb 5, 2020 15:38:23 GMT -6
I'm already battling with relatives on social media re: the Nancy Pelosi speech thing. Sigh. I try not to engage w/ family on this stuff (particularly MH's family) but if someone's going to call Pelosi divisive and lacking in class, I have to ask if today is Opposite Day, right? I mean, I have to. lol I am also battling about this. Their argument is that Nancy shredded class and decorum and w e need that mutual respect now more than ever. When I LOLed because that ship has long ago sailed, they claim that two wrongs don't make a right, etc. etc. Like... say what now?!? Clearly I'm taking crazy pills yes? I'm so pissed off. Ok fine you start
^my response
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Post by ktg on Feb 5, 2020 15:57:17 GMT -6
I emailed my local elections office to inquire about working at the polls on Election Day and got a call within a few hours basically welcoming me to the team and letting me know the supervisor would call me with more info by Monday. Seems like they really need the help (I imagine this is a common problem) and it would be really interesting to work Super Tuesday and in November. Just a blanket reminder to everyone who has the ability and interest, now is the time to start signing up! Just filled out the online form for my elections office to do the same. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Post by cnf on Feb 5, 2020 16:25:29 GMT -6
I emailed my local elections office to inquire about working at the polls on Election Day and got a call within a few hours basically welcoming me to the team and letting me know the supervisor would call me with more info by Monday. Seems like they really need the help (I imagine this is a common problem) and it would be really interesting to work Super Tuesday and in November. Just a blanket reminder to everyone who has the ability and interest, now is the time to start signing up! Just filled out the online form for my elections office to do the same. Thanks for the inspiration! I may volunteer for the general. I'll be on maternity leave anyways. I'll chew it over since I'd need childcare for two of my three then. But I'm keeping it in the brain for now.
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Post by ktg on Feb 5, 2020 16:33:07 GMT -6
Also just set up a monthly donation for Amy McGrath. I hate not being able to do more to rid US politics of McConnell, but I have a few dollars I can throw at it.
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jkjacq
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Post by jkjacq on Feb 5, 2020 17:43:51 GMT -6
Apparently Kirk Douglas has died
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Post by greykitty on Feb 5, 2020 17:50:56 GMT -6
Apparently Kirk Douglas has died
I did not know his role in ending the Hollywood blacklist - from the LA Times. He was 103. As executive producer of “Spartacus,” Douglas helped end the Hollywood blacklist by giving blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo screen credit under his own name for his work on the 1960 Roman-Empire epic that starred Douglas as the gladiator-trained slave-revolt leader.
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jaygee
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Post by jaygee on Feb 6, 2020 0:21:33 GMT -6
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