ChileG
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And MAGA will cheer it on all the way.
CURRENT EVENTS July 31-Sept 27
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They're currently pretty eventful in our laws and the reigning administration. I wish there was no reason for them to be in this thread, but...
ZenMode
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“We put the Bible back in our history standards," Walters said ...
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A 2000-year-old text full of fairy tales not only being discussed on a current events thread, but being incorporated into curriculum to "educate" children.
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Yeah, I agree with that completely. I was only responding to finesse's comment that seemed a little too absolutist to me, but that's neither a topic for this thread nor one that we're likely to make much progress on. So I'll sing a little louder in the anti-Ryan Walters chorus and leave the rest of it alone.
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“… Gabbard, who oversees 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, was asked whether “there could be aliens” on the New York Post podcast “Pod Force One.” “I have my own views and opinions,” she said. “In this role, I have to be careful with what I share.”
… In the recorded interview, she is heard saying that she wasn’t “prepared to talk about” the details—but insisted her office would “be transparent with the public when the time comes.”
… While Gabbard declined to elaborate on any classified intel, she suggested that she still had unanswered questions about the mysterious dronesspotted buzzing over neighborhoods in New Jersey last year.…”
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“… Gabbard, who oversees 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, was asked whether “there could be aliens” on the New York Post podcast “Pod Force One.” “I have my own views and opinions,” she said. “In this role, I have to be careful with what I share.”
… In the recorded interview, she is heard saying that she wasn’t “prepared to talk about” the details—but insisted her office would “be transparent with the public when the time comes.”
… While Gabbard declined to elaborate on any classified intel, she suggested that she still had unanswered questions about the mysterious dronesspotted buzzing over neighborhoods in New Jersey last year.…”
dropping read meat to the conspiracy theorists to get them off Epstein.
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Not so fast...
California 43D/9R
Illinois 14D/3R
NY 19D/7R
No room for Illinois to gerrymander as the state is already fully gerrymandered for the Dems.
In NY, Dems could eliminate Mike Lawler from NY-17 but they can't knock off NY-1 without jeopardizing two adjacent Dem districts as the margins are too small.
California has major roadblocks. California voters, through Prop 11 and 20, gave the power of redistricting to the California Citizens Redistricting CCR, thus only the CCR has the authority to redistrict the the state. Newsom has floated a proposal to compel the legislature to propose a special measure (requiring 2/3 majority vote) to avoid the standard CCR process. He's working on a tight schedule and faces a steep challenge (legislative and judicial) for this to succeed.
“… Gabbard, who oversees 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, was asked whether “there could be aliens” on the New York Post podcast “Pod Force One.” “I have my own views and opinions,” she said. “In this role, I have to be careful with what I share.”
… In the recorded interview, she is heard saying that she wasn’t “prepared to talk about” the details—but insisted her office would “be transparent with the public when the time comes.”
… While Gabbard declined to elaborate on any classified intel, she suggested that she still had unanswered questions about the mysterious dronesspotted buzzing over neighborhoods in New Jersey last year.…”
Release the Area 51 tapes!
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For the benefit of all the budding misogynists in OK, I hope Rex also put the porn back into the curriculum. I know he’s been working hard to personally vet all the material.“We put the Bible back in our history standards," Walters said ...
MOUNTAINH33L
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ObamaLibDemSorosAntifaBernieBro here. I'll take some UFO shit. I want to believe. I don't, but I want to.
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I'm the governor of New York. Texas redistricting is a 'legal insurrection.' | Opinion
"Up until now, Democrats have treated our political system like it’s still governed by norms, guarded by limits and rooted in fairness. Rules were meant to be followed. It hurts to say it, but that era has come to an end.
... At President Trump’s direction, Texas state House Republicans are attempting to redraw their congressional maps mid-decade, an aggressive power grab designed to flip as many as five current Democratic seats. They’ve carved up diverse communities in Houston, Dallas and along the border to silence the voters who live there.
... What Texas is doing isn't a clever strategy, it’s political arson — torching our democracy to cling to power. The only viable recourse is to fight fire with fire. ..."
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Trump posts/amplifies a video about teachers from blue states have to pass an America First test in order to teach in Oklahoma.
Republicans to Roll Out ‘America First’ Test For Teachers Arriving From Blue States
Oklahoma to Roll Out 'America First' Test for New Teachers
The state's Superintendent, Ryan Walters, says the test will ensure teachers arriving in Oklahoma align with its values.time.com
“…"One of the things that we wanted to do is, first of all, make sure that they're great teachers, right? And No. 2, make sure we're not getting these woke, indoctrinating social justice warriors in the classroom," the state’s Superintendent Ryan Walters said in an interview with Fox Digital.
Walters said that every teacher moving to work in Oklahoma must pass the test in order to begin teaching, and that Conservative think-tank PragerU will assist in the development of the test.
“We put the Bible back in our history standards," Walters said, adding that the ‘America First’ test would include questions based on American history and “common sense.”
Walters said the teaching of gender identity in other states was one motivation for the test, which will roll out in time for the upcoming school year. “We started seeing states like California, New York, Maine as well, that are putting out directives… saying ‘In this state you’ve got to teach your 27 genders’,” he said.…”
Look out, Alabama and Arizona, Oklahoma has its eye on your spots.
Somebody put me in a room with Ryan Walters that doesn’t have windows.
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Do you find it sad that you have had to create hundreds of new aliases just to come to a politics board to troll liberal posters?
What happened in your life that you don’t have any friends or family to keep you occupied?
Did you get kicked out of the GOP think tank? Is that why you spend all your time over here instead of with the other cultists? I mean, your leader is a pedophile and rapist, so what did you have to do to actually get kicked out?
Perhaps it's because they low-key realize that the next time they lose power, they might not ever be getting it back. One can hope.
Fiction... like Orwell's 1984... which is starting to not look like fiction at all... turns out the joke is on us?
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