Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

7. GSI, however, doesn't expect Michigan schools to simply comply with their demands.

So, with legal support from the far-right @ThomasMoreSoc@twitter.com, GSI plans to overwhelm schools with litigation

During a 10/21 meeting, a lawyer described the strategy as "asymetrical lawfare"

@ThomasMoreSoc@twitter.com 8. Under Michigan law, parents who don't believe their opt-out request is being honored can file a complaint with the district.

The district then must investigate and issue a report on their findings within 30 days.

GSI plans to flood Michigan schools with these complaints

@ThomasMoreSoc@twitter.com 10. There are two additional appeals that parents can pursue at the administrative level. Each requires school administers to investigate and issue a report.

If that fails, parents can take their complaints to Michigan courts.

GSI plans to support all this litigation.

11. Obviously, Michigan schools are not set up to handle this amount of litigation. And that's the point.

The far-right was defeated at the ballot box in Michigan, so now its headed to the courtroom.

@ThomasMoreSoc@twitter.com 9. This legal process is intended for parents who opted out of sexual education classes, not "rogue sex ed," a concept invented by GSI

So it's very possible that school districts will reject the GSI opt-out forms as irrelevant to Michigan law.

But that's just the beginning

14. Funding for GSI and the @ThomasMoreSoc@twitter.com is almost completely opaque.

This is a sophisticated effort, but we do not know who is funding it.

13. There is considerable evidence that GSI is not an organic movement of parents.

The GSI website features three testimonials from Michigan parents.

But the photos are not of Michigan parents. They are stock images available for purchase online.

4. The intent is not for parents to exercise control over their children.

Either the school acknowledges LGBTQ pride month, or it does not.

The intent is to align the entire school with a reactionary political agenda.

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"The McGonigal story is huge, and the NYT still has a lot of explaining to do...

It was the real "October Surprise" - 2016 deceptions that put #Trump in the White House, fueled by #FBI leaks

Knowing now that a top FBI agent went to work for a billionaire #Putin ally, the #NYTimes need to reveal the truth of these stories."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© And I thread it 🧵 👇 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html

Colleges bow to lil’ tyrant Ron DeSantis’ will and halt diversity training. DeSantis won’t stop there. He’s already violated the 1st and 14th amendments and removed publicly elected officials

Fascism is winning

A reminder, DeSantis was a Guantánamo lawyer and administrator

His job was greenlighting torture , as per Mansoor Adayfi

This needs to be a bigger story.

https://mronline.org/2022/11/26/i-was-screaming-and-he-was-smiling-desantis-ran-guantanamo-torture/

When fence sitters try to convince you that "both sides" of the QAnon divide are equal. From my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/godlessmom/posts/pfbid0RC7bZByvSNXTHpBkUqDXjHcBkquGZ7s9BfJ3EP12hWQwECEfwHgbH8R6tFttLn2Bl #QAnon

Share this photo of #tyre #sayhisname

Finally broke down and joined Christian Mingle…My username is…ComeUntoGod. 😂

Black men deserve to grow old.

Paul Pelosi attacker apologizes for not doing more violence: ‘I should have come better prepared’ https://deadstate.org/paul-pelosi-attacker-apologizes-for-not-doing-more-violence-i-should-have-come-better-prepared/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#Trump, who, imo, should be in prison, instead is in an ice cream shop and the grinning woman taking a selfie with him, disgusts me almost as much as trump!

It most certainly does not “complicate” the efforts at police reform. It illuminates. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/us/police-tyre-nichols-beating-race.html?smid=tw-share

Time and time again, the courts have ruled that the police are under no obligation to protect you. The cops who cowered outside that classroom for an hour listening to the dying screams of children were properly following court orders.

Cops do not exist to protect you from criminals, they exist to protect wealthy people from YOU.

Police brutality is not a case of a few bad apples. The barrel itself is rotten.

https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again

The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about the debt ceiling, remember that approximately 25% of the total national debt was incurred during the Trump administration.

The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in politics.