Love thy neighbor

 

University of California Davis Resource Center Glossary

Minivan Taliban

 

update because it's hilarious: 

There has never been a time when the people who've banned books were the good guys.

In front of a crowd at their annual summit, Moms for Liberty (M4L) co-founder Tiffany Justice declared that she stands with a member who had quoted Hitler in their newsletter, apparently delighting the audience.

This is what Christo fascism looks like, and it is a clear and present danger to public education and our democracy.

Moms for Liberty, a designated hate group, has embraced extremism, and they are attempting to take over schools!

This time around it will be for revenge! How presidential.

 

Trump Plots Revenge Against Biden in Unhinged Post-Arrest Speech

And they keep on doubling down on doing stuff that loses more of them

Why Republicans are losing the youth of America in 22 bullet points.

WATCH: Michigan lawmaker says, ‘We will not let hate win’

Hammering down the point

 

The teacher and students learn together

When education actually educates.

But.. how will his followers know what to think??

 

Right on time

 

Too soon to make nice.

 

Darryl Brashier

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I'm thinking we can talk unity when McConnell gives back the judge positions he stole, releases and passes those 400 bills, and admits being a tool of Putin.

We can talk unity when cops stop being militarized and go to about 4 years of sensitivity training. When Black lives do matter to them.

We can talk unity when we stop setting new precidents like "first woman vice president" because it's just another woman, another South Asian descended, another gay, another person in the job. Because we are unified.

Want to talk unity? Stop dividing us. Stop stealing the wealth of the nation and putting it in the hands of the few. Stop giving healthcare to the so-called elite, like #IMPOTUS, before the rest of us can get it. Special salt in that wound for coming around and saying that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about while hundreds of thousands die.

Sure, let's talk unity. Take the knives out of our backs first.

Edit: I missed voter suppression. Want unity? Make elections really free and fair. Change campaign finance, redistricting, polling access, voting hours, and all the rest so if anyone wants to run, they can compete fairly. Prove in court that there's fraud or shut the fuck up.

While I'm at it, change the election of Senators to be by national district the same way Representatives are at a state level. Fix it so the people of Wyoming get the same voice as the people of California. It's important that rural folks have a voice, but not a bigger one than everyone else. Unity requires that.

It would be good to recognize tribal interests, too. I'm not at all sure how unity works with sovereign entities but we, the People, owe a huge debt.

Update:

Tom Tomorrow and the Trump Tower of Terror

 

Because tearing babies from their mothers arms has always worked, right?

You really can fool some of the people all of the time

So, murdering families who have walked for days to ask legally for asylum is a good thing?

Update 11/4:  Read Bryan's take on this totally political stunt

How dare they search for the truth!

We've been here before.

Cantcha take a joke?

Because being an enemy of the people is so funny:

Nonetheless, at one stage in Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate (BBC2, Sunday) we did see him pull off an impressive three-sentences, three-lies sequence in a speech about — inevitably — the mainstream media, including the New York Times. ‘They have no “sources”,’ said Trump baldly. ‘They just make ’em up. They are the enemy of the people.’

And then:

Milo Yiannopoulos is battling backlash after the deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette Newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday. Many people are speaking out against the right-wing firebrand, pointing to recent comments he made, calling for “gunning journalists down.”
Two days before the shooting, Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart editor, appeared to threaten two journalists from the New York Observer after they reached out to him with a request for comment. “I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,” he told New York Observer reporters in a text message, which the journalists later released to the public. 

Cause and effect?  Or if it's just a joke, why aren't people laughing?

Five dead, others 'gravely injured' in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis

Why do Democrats always have to be careful of the feelings of others

While Republicans can be as rude and crass as they want?

Sounds familiar....

Fighting Trump and White Supremacists

Mother Jones:

“They may not be ready for the Ku Klux Klan yet, but as anti-white hatred escalates, they will.” 

That was Rachel Pendergraft, a spokeswoman for the political arm of the Ku Klux Klan (yes, this exists), talking last year about the way the Trump campaign was helping racist and white supremacist groups reach a growing audience. Mother Jones interviewed her as part of a big investigation, which found that these extremists were seeing Trump as legitimizing their once-hidden views. 

Hearing people like Pendergraft talking this way—taking off the hood, as it were—was shocking enough. But here’s what really stunned us in reporting out that story: Not only were extremists excited by Trump’s campaign. Not only were they using it to recruit on a scale they hadn’t imagined before. They felt that the campaign was signaling to them actively and deliberately—and the more we dug, the more we realized they were right.