Betsy DeVos has never held a job in public schools.
What will happen the millions of public school children under the policies of the new U.S. Secretary of Education?
Author: hearseeno
the poet who did the cow poem also did this Nice Guy Poem, its great.
this is the hero we’ve been waiting for
Trump didn’t realize what he was signing when he gave Steve Bannon unprecedented power
- Trump raised a lot of eyebrows by elevating his chief strategist Stephen Bannon to a permanent seat on the National Security Council.
- Democrats, though, apparently weren’t the only ones stunned by the move. Among the people caught unaware was one Donald J. Trump.
- The New York Times reported on Sunday that Trump hadn’t realized what he did when he signed the 2,100-word executive memorandum that elevated Bannon to the NSC.
- “Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council.”
- Read that again: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was “not fully briefed” on a document he signed, a document that carries the force of law. Read more
The whole Times article is fascinating.
Meanwhile we have these two tweets floating around the twittersphere at the same time:
“Erasing unwanted thoughts was a risky gamble, so the wealthy bought space in the minds of others to safely store their regret and sympathy.”
-QuietPineTrees
This ^^
This is a fantastic premise to a story.
The big lesson of Trump’s first 2 weeks: resistance works
The main concrete victories of resistance thus far are:
- House Republicans abandoned a plan to gut the Congressional Ethics Office.
- The Trump administration abandoned a plan to cancel Affordable Care Act enrollment advertising.
- The VA was granted an exemption from Trump’s hiring freeze.
- 500,000 green card holders were granted exemption from Trump’s immigration orders.
- The Department of Defense has secured permission to grant exemptions to the ban for Iraqis who work with the US military.
- Most dual citizens (Germans, most recently) seem to be getting exemptions from the Trump ban.
- A House Republican plan for a massive sell-off of public lands has been canceled.
Those walkbacks do not, unfortunately, change the reality that Trump’s cruel new approach to immigration will continue to hurt people. The threat to the health insurance of millions remains real.
But this is still a remarkable amount for a new president to need to walk back in his first 10 days in office.
Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement
An explosion of new activism offers a ray of hope in these dark political times.
By Joshua Holland
2/6/17 3:48 pm
according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post,
more than one in three Democrats say they plan to become “more involved
in the political process in the next year” as a result of the election.
That’s true of 40 percent of Democratic women, and almost half of
self-identified liberal Democrats…Here’s an overview of some of the new efforts launched since November 9.
It’s by no means comprehensive, but we started with a list of 75 new
groups and whittled them down to some of the most interesting or
promising. They’re not presented in any kind of ranked order. Our hope
is that knowing how others are standing up to Trump will inspire more
readers to get involved.
Women’s March 10/100 Campaign
You can also hit Breitbart News and other sites that peddle in bigotry
and white nationalism in their pocketbooks by getting involved with a
Twitter group called Sleeping Giants.Buycott Trump
is trying to get people to vote with their dollars. Organizers have
launched a new campaign on top of an existing app that allows you to
scan barcodes and QVCs, and offers you information about the politics of
the companies who make the products you see on store shelves.
Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement
How to Make Your Social Justice Events Accessible to the Disability Community: A Checklist
Does anyone know how to post Storify stories to Tumblr?
I tried setting text posts to “plain text/html” in dashboard>>settings and then copy/pasting the embed code into a text post as per Google, but no love.
Hearseeno 