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Post by mrsweasley on May 24, 2023 19:08:25 GMT -6
I don’t understand why people can’t just NOT buy the things. I saw a Tiktok where the person was offended because there was some shirt with a dinosaur and a rainbow. It’s so ridiculous. No one is forcing these people to take out their wallets and buy the shirts. Plus, my 5yo definitely associates rainbows with the thing in the sky after a rainstorm. My almost 5 year old loves his Target rainbow dinosaur shirt. LOVES it
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Post by athn64 on May 24, 2023 19:44:19 GMT -6
TX allowing pastors as counselors is absolutely terrifying because many schools, including my own, have been relying on online counselors because no one will take the job. Or if they do they hold it for a few weeks before leaving. 100% ours will be religious next year since we are a charter with religious undertones already. We go because the ELA curriculum is Orton Gillingham based and its the only school in our area that uses OG so we did not choose it for religious reasons. That is really frustrating. OG is such a great program and it sucks you don’t have any other options for it. Counselors being religious would be a a no-go for me, which would suck because my youngest really needs a quality school counselor in addition to other therapy. He has really big emotions and has benefited greatly from having a trusted counselor at school. I worry our state could go this same way, although I don’t see our district being on board with it. Our school counselor is awesome. She had a special lunch "club" for students dealing with self-esteem issues this year. My girls adore here. I 100% would be pissed if they used a pastor for the position. They are not qualified.
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Post by athn64 on May 24, 2023 19:45:12 GMT -6
H actually told me yesterday that he's glad I didn't take a Big Oil job in Houston. No way would we move to Texas now.
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Post by bubblehape on May 24, 2023 20:19:41 GMT -6
I am cackling at all the shade being thrown at DeSantis failed announcement. The tweets from Biden. The failure to launch memes. It's all great.
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Post by imapenguin on May 24, 2023 21:11:43 GMT -6
I don’t understand why people can’t just NOT buy the things. I saw a Tiktok where the person was offended because there was some shirt with a dinosaur and a rainbow. It’s so ridiculous. No one is forcing these people to take out their wallets and buy the shirts. Plus, my 5yo definitely associates rainbows with the thing in the sky after a rainstorm. My almost 5 year old loves his Target rainbow dinosaur shirt. LOVES it Mine do too!
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Post by nelzie on May 24, 2023 21:19:26 GMT -6
It's the one year anniversary of Uvalde and today I received a child dna/identification kit to fill out in the mail. This country is so freaking messed up.
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Post by mrsweasley on May 24, 2023 21:21:01 GMT -6
This "pastors as counselors" reminded me of the time my mom thought we should try "family therapy" but it was just some idiot from church. Not the priest, but some other untrained person. Needless to say it wasn't helpful
In hindsight though actual good family therapy probably would have been helpful. And maybe would mean I'd still have a good relationship with my family 😣
Only trained professionals should be acting in a counselor/therapy capacity!
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Post by elle on May 24, 2023 22:41:43 GMT -6
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Post by athn64 on May 24, 2023 23:12:28 GMT -6
This will be wildly unpopular. Like wtf.
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Post by jaygee on May 25, 2023 0:17:59 GMT -6
This will be wildly unpopular. Like wtf. Not to mention that the economic impact analysis has to be pretty terrible. And I thought the one thing they cared about above all else was the economy.
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Post by blurnette989 on May 25, 2023 3:44:40 GMT -6
man if they are trying to convince me to start paying again this sure as shit ain't the way.
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Post by willow on May 25, 2023 5:28:42 GMT -6
At least that won’t pass the Senate. I would riot if 3 years of interest got added onto my loans. Even if I’m getting them forgiven in a few years.
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Post by blurnette989 on May 25, 2023 5:40:49 GMT -6
At least that won’t pass the Senate. I would riot if 3 years of interest got added onto my loans. Even if I’m getting them forgiven in a few years. can you imagine how disheartening that would be? Like imagine somebody worked their ass off during this time and managed to pay it off because of the interest pause... And then all that extra showed up again.
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Post by dc2london on May 25, 2023 5:54:50 GMT -6
Lolololol Dark Brandon is fire
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Post by dc2london on May 25, 2023 5:58:56 GMT -6
RAGE
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Post by dc2london on May 25, 2023 6:10:46 GMT -6
Twitter is just brutal to...Twitter. and Ron Desaster. I'm cackling.
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Post by byjove on May 25, 2023 7:53:46 GMT -6
My alma mater's commencement speaker is Zelenskyy this year. I may watch the recording later. Pretty awesome!
ETA it's streaming live, so don't mind if I do...
It was Al Gore when I graduated, he was meh.
EATA
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Post by dc2london on May 25, 2023 7:53:49 GMT -6
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Post by dc2london on May 25, 2023 8:10:13 GMT -6
NEWS from Punchbowl News:
The W.H. and House Republicans are discussing a debt-limit deal that would lift the government's borrowing cap through 2024 while putting in place a mechanism to incentivize Congress to pass all 12 annual spending bills, according to multiple sources.
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Post by willow on May 25, 2023 8:36:09 GMT -6
At least that won’t pass the Senate. I would riot if 3 years of interest got added onto my loans. Even if I’m getting them forgiven in a few years. can you imagine how disheartening that would be? Like imagine somebody worked their ass off during this time and managed to pay it off because of the interest pause... And then all that extra showed up again. It would be downright criminal to do that. I mean, I haven't been making payments because my $0 payment counts toward my loan forgiveness either way and fuck paying when I don't have to, but yeah, it would be awful for people who are being more responsible than me lol.
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Post by Minerva on May 25, 2023 9:05:54 GMT -6
That is really frustrating. OG is such a great program and it sucks you don’t have any other options for it. Counselors being religious would be a a no-go for me, which would suck because my youngest really needs a quality school counselor in addition to other therapy. He has really big emotions and has benefited greatly from having a trusted counselor at school. I worry our state could go this same way, although I don’t see our district being on board with it. Our school counselor is awesome. She had a special lunch "club" for students dealing with self-esteem issues this year. My girls adore here. I 100% would be pissed if they used a pastor for the position. They are not qualified. Same. Our school counselor has been so important in helping my eldest child feel comfortable in school. She coached him through several bouts of school refusal and has just generally been there for him when he is struggling with anxiety. She also teaches monthly SEL lessons in the classroom that my kids adore. I would be pissed if her job as a skilled professional was replaced by a chaplain, especially in our school district, where there are a huge diversity of religious traditions. Nothing against chaplains, because many are amazing people, but they don’t belong in public schools.
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Post by athn64 on May 25, 2023 9:14:05 GMT -6
At least that won’t pass the Senate. I would riot if 3 years of interest got added onto my loans. Even if I’m getting them forgiven in a few years. can you imagine how disheartening that would be? Like imagine somebody worked their ass off during this time and managed to pay it off because of the interest pause... And then all that extra showed up again. This would be my SIL. They've worked so hard to be debt free and are saving for a house now.
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Post by byjove on May 25, 2023 9:56:58 GMT -6
I'm not sure anything good can come of this...
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Post by elle on May 25, 2023 10:10:13 GMT -6
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Post by willow on May 25, 2023 11:00:53 GMT -6
I don't know how many times I have to say it but fuck do I hate it here. And sincerely I'm sorry to all Texans for how awful your government is.
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