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Christian Nationalists Accelerate Their Plan to Dismantle Public Education
  • ...“The ACLU believes that if St. Isidore’s was a private school, it would have been able to impose its own rules on students and staff, but public schools can’t and must obey anti-discrimination laws covering hiring and admissions.”

    It's too bad that private schools can legally supply a curriculum to kids which fulfills compulsory requirements. So much harm has been done to some kids in those schools.

  • China’s online ultranationalists feel the heat over Japanese school bus attack
  • Hu Youping, 54, was stabbed multiple times while trying to restrain an attacker at a school bus stop in China’s eastern city of Suzhou on Monday. She died in hospital two days later.

    I don't pretend to understand the politics of the extremists, but Hu Youping is a hero. RIP.

  • California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired. Lawmakers are trying again
  • I always try to carry these newer plastic bags with me when I go shopping, the pockets of a particular jacket work great (as long as it isn't summer), I can just store them in the jacket pockets for reuse. This worked great until I had to go to the courthouse. Going through security at the front door, I was questioned by one cop because I had a metal pen and checkbook in my shirt pocket which I didn't think to put through the scanner, a second cop harassed me because my jacket pockets bulged. Then the cop didn't like my response, which was emptying my pockets so he could see the empty plastic bags. I really have no idea how I'd ever carry cloth bags for reuse, those would make my pockets bulge even more.

    Perhaps we need to give up on shopping bags entirely?

  • knowablemagazine.org Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife

    Scientists on both sides of the border are working to understand how the barrier is affecting the area’s biodiversity. Meanwhile, communities try to save animals left without access to water.

    Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife

    The wall has been devastating to wildlife, it has effectively stopped them from accessing water, but it has not stopped humans.

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    Oklahoma schools head Ryan Walters: Teachers who won't teach Bible could lose license
  • ... religious right leaning conservative democrat ...

    Um, no. Biden is pretty solidly in the center, his record is a mix of left and right positions, and his positions have evolved as he's aged. I do believe he's religious, but he is not trying to force his religious beliefs on us like some states are currently doing with the 10 commandments bullshit.

  • Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill | A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn
  • Ultimately, the Carbon Tracker analysts conclude, policymakers must decide between developing new, rigorous alternatives, or sending the bill to taxpayers by default. That will likely involve compelling resource-rich firms to start setting aside savings from their profits now.

    Workers have taxes withheld from their paychecks. Seems fair a similar mechanism should exist for oil profits to fund orphaned-well cleanups. But -- we really need to transition away from fossil fuel entirely! Does this create a motive for the government to insure a company or two are profitable enough to subsidize all the poorer companies cleanup costs, therefore motivating increased use of fossil fuels?