Everyone is welcome is now a bad message, go figure.
West Ada School District administrators have instructed a teacher that she must remove two signs from her classroom out of concern that they “inadvertently create division or controversy,” the district told the Idaho Statesman.
In doing so, district administrators appear to have inadvertently drummed up division and controversy of their own.
Sarah Inama, a 35-year-old world civilization teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, said the signs have been hanging in her class since she started working there four years ago.
One of them reads, “Everyone is welcome here,” above hands of different skin tones.
The other reads, “In this room, everyone is welcome, important, accepted, respected, encouraged, valued,” with each word highlighted in a different color.
Inama said she was told by administrators on Feb. 3 that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions, that it is controversial in today’s political environment.” She initially removed them, but then had a change of heart.
In emails shared by the district with the Idaho Statesman, Marcus Myers, the district’s chief academic officer, told Inama to remove the signs because they violated Idaho’s Dignity and Nondiscrimination in Public Education Act, as well as school policy, which requires signs to be “content neutral and conducive to a positive learning environment.”
I just saw someone who does reporting on the US beverage industry talking about how this is, counter-intuitively, actually bad news for domestic producers of wine. Apparently in any market in which there’s a significant amount of European alcohol (i.e. anywhere wine is sold), the sudden loss of that product will cause huge problems for distributors (it’s not like they have a bunch of domestic products they can just instantly fill in the gaps with), so those costs get passed on (i.e. on the backs of the domestic products). Also, of course, the US import companies are totally screwed.
The way Trump is going, everyone. Or at least I assume he’ll claim it’s so, because he’s started (non-military) conflicts with them. (“We’re in a trade war with Canada!”) It’s no crazier than the other “emergencies” he’s conjured up.
I love this but why must Larson still praise Muskrat by calling him a genius for accumulating wealth? It really is the perfect con that the ultra-wealthy seem to have pulled, isn’t it?
The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
“O’ beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They’re beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie”
This was used here once. They invented two GDPs: one state-owned and one private. This was what was valid for the Bolsonaro government. Today, the GDP is growing, but the press and the opposition say that this is bad for the country.
Interestingly, they pulled his nomination because two Republicans, Cassidy and Collins, signaled that they weren’t even going to let his nomination out of committee, because of his anti-vax statements. I’d like to hope this becomes a trend, but I’m not that naive.
Is this contingent upon the US actually declaring war? Because that last happened in (…checks notes…) 1942. Not that that will stop him from trying (they’ll presumably describe it as an “invasion or predatory incursion”, which [one hopes] even that would have to be specific) but hopefully it’s more than a speed bump to the effort.
I genuinely did not expect that. Since as a buyer and a defense force they have insight into the plane’s systems, accepting a downgrade in capabilities means they must be reasonably sure the whole killswitch thing has legs, despite recent media messaging that it doesn’t.
35% chance of recession is pretty effin’ optimistic. I give it a 100% chance by 3rd quarter. The fuckery happening today will manifest more fully in several months. And that’s discounting additional fuckery announced to happen next month.
I thought the DOGE Boys just busted in everywhere, making demands and firing people wherever they like.
Also, I thought the whole point of DeJoy is to (already) degrade postal services, to point where the USPO “obviously” doesn’t work as well as a profit-seeking replacement would. Maybe it’s just not happening fast enough? Anyway, I’m glad I never did buy all that many “Forever” stamps. Bye bye Post Office, hello Preznit Tramp Delivery Services.
