Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

“As a proud Jew & proud friend of Ilhan Omar, I don't need any of my Republican colleagues to defend me against anti Semitism.

Ilhan Omar should not have been removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.”

—Rep Jan Schakowsky

“Some seconds are longer than others.”

Albert Einstein
#Quotes #Physics

40 years ago, a cleaner burner was created for gas stoves but you can't buy ranges with those burners because the industry never manufactured those appliances for sale.

Now, the industry appears ready to revisit this idea as tighter restrictions loom.
https://t.co/3LaQaN0RW2

It seems the only hope left for gun control in red states is to hide all the bullets in books written by Black people, Wajahat Ali writes.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pushes-guns-state-rcna68938

The US appeals court just ruled men under domestic violence orders can own guns

Every day in America, three women die from domestic violence

This country won’t stop at taking our rights, they want to take our lives

Another dangerous headline from the mainstream media

“Journalist Reports Pro-MAGA GOP Insiders Secretly 'Can't Wait Until [Trump] Dies'”

As if all of their racist, transphobic, antisemitic, traitorous rhetoric was based on one man.

As if one man came along and changed them all

What Donald Trump did to republicans was embolden them to say the heinous things they believe out loud

There is no factor that plays a bigger role in partisan control of the U.S. House than how congressional districts are drawn. With the volume of redistricting lawsuits still ongoing, control of Congress could come down the courts, @marceelias@twitter.com writes.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/redistricting-lawsuits-could-impact-control-of-congress/

I was in the hot tub yesterday after my swim and there was a guy there I hadn’t seen a while. He asked how things were going, so I told him about the Q-Dropped Podcast and said it’s going pretty well. He said, “people can’t seem to just disagree and still have a relationship these days” and I couldn’t help it, my face turned ferocious and I replied 👇🏻

“yeah except that’s not what’s happening with QAnon. It’s one thing to disagree on government spending or school curriculums or what should be done with the empty lot off Main st., but when someone believes you’re literally consuming the flesh of children because you’re a demon, it’s not just a disagreement. When a father accuses his school shooting survivor son, a literal child, of being a crisis actor, it’s not just a disagreement. 👇🏻

When your SO becomes convinced you’re a demon possessing her children, and threatens to have you killed, this is not just a disagreement and I highly doubt you’d put up with it either.” He looked at me like someone who thought I’d just been a sweet, polite little girl and suddenly realized I had thoughts of my own, didn’t like that and excused himself from the tub. Kinda felt like he couldn’t handle a disagreement.
👇🏻

West Virginia’s Senate just passed a bill *requiring* public schools to display “In God We Trust” in every building

We need a BatSignal for the Satanic Temple.

And more Baphomet statues to go around

NEW: The Arizona Republican Party asks the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that dismissed the GOP's lawsuit seeking to strike down the state's 1991 no-excuse mail-in voting law.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mail-in-voting-challenge-ii/

1. A newly-formed right-wing group is launching a brazen plan to remake Michigan public schools — using hyper-aggressive legal action to effectively mandate the erasure of LGBTQ people

Follow along if interested

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https://popular.info/p/inside-the-audacious-new-scheme-to

2. In Michigan, parents have the right to opt-out of sex education courses

The new group, called the Great Schools Initiative, has created their own form

In addition to sex education classes, the GSI form demands students are excluded from "ROGUE SEX ED"

Big HT to @baratunde for sharing this brilliantly written and very well-argued piece on NOT going to #Mars

"It’s hard to imagine landings going past the single digits before cost or an accident shut the program down. And once the rockets had retired to their museums, humanity would have nothing to show for its Mars adventure except some rocks and a bunch of unspeakably angry astrobiologists. It would in every way be the opposite of exploration."

https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

5. During a January 19 Zoom meeting obtained by http://popular.info, Nathan Pawl, one of GSI's co-founders, said the group aimed to have "20, 30, 50, or 100 parents per school" start "dropping off the opt-out forms" in February.

The goal is to OVERWHELM the schools

6. To comply with GSI's opt-out form, Pawl says, the only option would be "to transform our schools.”

WATCH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrXgESoEQo

3. What is ROGUE SEX ED?

According to GSI, it includes anything that acknowledges the existence of an LGBTQ person.

A teacher wearing a flag pin.

A school marking LGTBQ pride month.

A gender neutral bathroom.

Any book with an LGBTQ character.