This time Mother Jones is calling out NYC Mayor Eric Adams (see story here). Days after city cops stormed the Columbia University campus, Hizzoner held a press conference. He used it to condemn “outside agitators,” naming a retired teacher Mother Jones says “was not on Columbia’s[...]
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May 2nd, 2024 - 12:54 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Schools & Colleges
PHOTOGRAPHY: Peaceful protest
Although the UCLA protest on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, turned violent when pro-Israel counter-demonstrators attacked the protesters (see story here), while police waited more than two hours to intervene (see story here), this photo has nothing to do with that. It’s what the police did to the st[...]
June 14th, 2023 - 1:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Even straight kids can be victims of anti-trans hate
No kid is safe from anti-LGBQT hate, not even straight kids. This incident happened in Canada, but it’s going to happen here too, wait and see. A 9-year-old fourth grade girl was competing in an elementary school track meet at Kelowna, British Columbia, when a grandfather began yelling at her.[...]
Oklahoma board votes to use public funds for Catholic education
An Oklahoma state school board has approved “the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional,” ABC News reported on Monday, June 5, 2023 (read story here). “The Statewide Virt[...]
If you pass a law against climate change, it’ll happen anyway
State Sen. Jerry Cirino (photo, left; profile here), an Ohio Republican, is sponsoring a bill that “designates climate policy as a ‘controversial belief or policy.’” On a purely abstract plane, a climate “belief or policy” could be controversial if, say, it posits tha[...]
Threaten gays, go to jail
A grand jury has indicted a New York woman for making phone threats to several Denver-area LGBQT businesses shortly after the Club Q shooting (read story here). Sharon Robinson, 40, was arrested for calling four businesses and saying she was going to “shoot them up” and they were “[...]
May 21st, 2023 - 1:32 am § in Schools & Colleges
Why not just respect people for who they are?
In Mississippi, a school district barred a trans girl from her high school graduation unless she dressed like a boy. A federal judge appointed by Trump upheld the district’s decision. (See story here). In New York, a private Christian college fired two dormitory supervisors for adding gender i[...]
May 20th, 2023 - 12:11 am § in News Media, Schools & Colleges
Does this story have only one side?
J’den McAdory of Severn, Maryland, doesn’t like a new gun control law recently signed by Gov. Wes Moore, so he protested by parading with an AR-15 at an elementary school bus drop-off site. A news reporter tweeted: And he’s catching flak. Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki sai[...]
Not racist, just mentally lazy?
His Wikipedia biography, at the moment, says: “Jeffrey C. McNeely is a racist Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who has represented the 84th district (including parts of Iredell County) since 2019.” It appears to have been modified by a member of th[...]
Why there’s a teacher shortage
Sarah Bonner taught middle school students in Heyworth, Illinois for 20 years. Like any good teacher, she encouraged her students to read. She celebrated books, and held “Reading Mondays” in her classroom. But when she held up a popular book titled “This Book Is Gay” (read de[...]