Alex Jones was pretty critical of the PATRIOT Act, Bush, and the war in Iraq. It’s ironic how much of an autocratic war hawk he is now.

Guns don’t kill people, which is why should we do absolutely nothing that would prevent someone from accessing guns in any way shape or form, as right wingers have been arguing for decades.

(This is hilarious, because the infamous big gubmint restrictions on guns in California were things that Ronald Reagan and co. put into place because the Black Panthers reminded everyone that that interpretation of the 2nd amendment applied to them too….)

Edit: the French translation understands the meaning and intent of “boy” when used to refer to a black man.

“Burns” is the correct verb. It keeps me awake at night, cost me my marriage, and has lead to multiple mental health breakdowns.

November made me suicidal, because I knew that they were going to gut DOE, and the feds were the only ones with any power to do anything. (DOJ managed to get their report out on time about how OK uses cops and jails instead of providing mental health care to people; the findings from the investigation into Owasso Public Schools prompted by Nex’s murder is also something that needs to be read and discussed more)

I’m exhausted. All I really want to do is talk about physics, math, history, how to make arguments - to teach. I fucking love it. I should be in a classroom in Tulsa or OKC right now running a lab - I know there’s a classroom right now with a long term sub that needs a crazy mad scientist to throw things or light things on fire or show off radioactive rocks. But I can’t work a job where I’m dehumanized, not recognized as a trained and knowledgeable professional, or where the fact what I have a uterus and a beard means I must be some sort of deviant who wants to be around kids to hurt them - and then also be paid so little that I have to have a second job to survive.

Epic is the largest school district in the state.

Epic counts students logging into their computer and answering 5 questions as a day of “attendance.” As long as you do this at least once every two weeks your child remains enrolled. Teachers are supposed to meet with students for at least an hour in person once a week, but individuals make exceptions and play games with rules - often, thirty minutes over zoom are sufficient.

Epic teachers teach all subjects and grades. In the same day, I could help a high schooler with geometry and a severely disabled kindergartener with letter recognition. This is something I am qualified to do, but I don’t think I think my skill sets are common. The same teachers are grading student assignments - how effective feedback can an elementary Ed certified teacher give on an assignment over the quadratic formula or an essay over the causes of the French Revolution? (I tend to be popular with other teachers because I will sit with a physical science teacher and teach them atomic theory, or how to factor polynomials, while admin hates me because I call out stupid bullshit.)

There is an epidemic in Oklahoma of illiterate and innumerate children and young adults.

Trust me - I have tried. I’ve left hundreds of voicemails with elected officials and local news media. Both about education and child abuse in mental health care.

Oklahoma has been a failed state under Project 2025 style policies for the past ten years.

That middle school also had actual riots where multiple teachers were injured. They were very good at limiting news coverage - this was part of a stupid program of consolidating schools that was a horrific disaster. (No consideration about gang territory or bus lines.)

I also knew a guy who was hired without a background check as an adjunct/emergency certification - and they gave him a cafeteria for a classroom. (Requirements a few years ago relaxed to just require a college degree in anything, now even that’s optional. The nicer districts brag about all of their teachers having college degrees.)

I have been trying to blow so many whistles for so long, but absolutely no one gives a shit. The Supe is too busy spending Ed money on Trump Bibles.

I was a trans teacher (stealth, students and teachers didn’t know), and I did have a few students tell me that they were trans.

I asked them if they wanted me to call them by a different name or use different pronouns, and told them I would support them if were mistreated by other staff or administration and wanted my help. Truly evil indoctrination.

Like, what matters to me is that that homework has a name I recognize and give a grade for. Teachers are way too fucking busy to be indoctrinating your kids, especially the ones in hell hole red states (feeder middle school had 100+ kids in some classrooms - I remember being at a PD when someone asked how to adopt the activity for a stranding room only classsroom….)

Also, I believe there’s a similar carve out for referring to women as “property.”

God, imagine being so much of a fucker that you’re that dedicated to hating black people. This record is much better.

If dating apps worked, they wouldn’t really “work” under capitalism - you’d find someone, cancel the subscription and move on.

The only really exception is if you focus on hookups or polyamory, but het cis women tend to risk a lot more on hookups (at bare minimum pregnancy and side effects related to whatever precautions are being used to prevent it), so they aren’t going to seek them out and they tend to get flooded with low quality messages anyway.

No matter what your age, race, gender, sex, size, you can always find a man willing to put their dick inside your orifices. Grindr works so well because it’s basically just old school cruising culture with extra frills. Match Group uses it’s monopoly to impose a dating culture that doesn’t really match with how het people form relationships.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics was published in 1964. They’ve been using it to great success for the past century, why stop now?

Controlling the universities is for control of information.

The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Today’s fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.

Universities have smart people who can say “hey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of people” or “being LGBT is a normal human variation” or “the American civil war was fought over slavery” or “here are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to what’s happening now.”

The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style “information warfare” - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more “normal” and common then they are…)

Yeah, they aren’t going to investigate shit. They spent two decades shrieking about voter fraud, that’s always entirely been a horseshit excuse to make it more difficult for women and minorities to vote.

This should be on the news everyday. This is a bigger fucking deal than the “hanging chads” were, but since no one is watching the watchmen the best we’ll ever get is this kind of analysis.

“Provide evidence”

provides evidence

“Actually that doesn’t count and actually it also invalidates your argument.”

Arguing with conservatives is always the same, ain’t it?

Also: “if Elon’s dick didn’t work the news would be so eager to report it the fact they haven’t means it must” is the stupidest argument I’ve ever heard. Why do you need the fascist strongman to be virile so much that you abandon basic logic?

There has been reporting on irregularities.

When you have a literal billionaire who bought one of the worlds largest social media platforms and has the other ones fellating him - when late stage capitalism has effectively killed journalism and most news is shared primarily through social media, truth is hard.

If there was any real evidence of that being true, it would definitely have been reported on way more widely.

He literally rigged the election and the news didn’t cover it lol

Fox News etc had the stupider republicans convinced that Obama was going to declare martial law to get a third term. This was something I had family members scared of.

Every accusation is a projection…

A lot a lot of them only voted for trump on the ballot and no downticket names or state questions.

Very typical voting pattern, nothing out of the ordinary there…

Also impacts Native Americans. ICWA was put in place to basically stop DHS from kidnapping native kids. (The Right has been waging a war against ICWA for a while too - they tend to be against any form of oversight in child welfare/adoption. They want kids to go to “quiverful” white families)

Gould’s “non overlapping magisteria.”