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intheflow's JournalYes, it would have been cheaper to send them to Boston,
Which would have services in place to assist the migrants. They went out of their way to send them to a small island, no matter how wealthy the island is. My guess is they chose Martha’s Vineyard because the Obamas just bought a vacation home there.
All words are made up - and this post is bigoted. Alerting.
Language is amorphous, words and phases arise and disappear continuously. Cis is not a made-up word, certainly not more made up than cunt, a "made-up" word that is used to demean and shame 51% of the population. Cis is short for cisgender, and is the antonym of transgender, and both words come from Latin - like much of English.
Also, noting that trans kids have higher rates of suicide and depression than straight kids doesn't mean straight kids don't get bullied, depressed and suicidal, wtf?! Your prejudice is clear, not only with comparing trans people go to frogs (how insulting can you be?), but when you think a conversation that involves the word "cis" somehow shames 97% of the population, you're really telling on yourself. No one is shaming you for being straight, but you're doing your damnedest to shame trans people.
They're banking on it not going through the Senate.
They know it's incredibly unpopular, so much so that they may end up losing both houses. But it riles up the base and keeps the party line going: "See? We could live in paradise if it weren't for the libtards! (And women, and Black people, and Asian people, and brown people, and children post-birth, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.)"
It ain't just school librarians getting harassed and fired.
Public librarians are also quitting in fear and frustration over armed Proud Boys protests at Drag Queen Storytimes, the infamous "400 books to be banned" brought by Moms for Liberty before library boards and city council meetings, and draconian budget cuts in majority QAnon towns.
Or as my librarian coworker confided in me, "It's bonkers! I told my therapist this is the first time I've ever felt under attack for helping people!"
Librarian here. I'm going with: the book hasn't been banned.
It's been removed from required reading, but as far as I can see from the OP article, excerpts can still be taught (as they have in the past) and its not being removed from the school library. From another article, the age-inappropriateness content at issue is probably an account of a lynching early in the book. And, there actually are books (or parts of books) that are not appropriate for 7th graders in a public classroom situation. 7th grade in particular is prickly because at least a third of the kids are still emotionally immature for their ages.
Before you all jump on me, I'm not saying I agree with this decision. I read Helter Skelter in 6th grade, so I'm sure the majority of 7th graders in this Texas town could handle one horrific scene in an otherwise inspirational book. But this didn't come about in response to a parental request, or any MAGA assholes, it was reviewed by a panel of "teachers, principals and curriculum coordinators" as part of a regular review of teaching materials.
But okay, let's be true progressives and shit on public educators because - obviously, if they live in Texas, they must all be criminally insane and incompetent. 
I am sorely tired of the media predicting the R's will retake Congress.
It doesn't seem likely to me. If they're lucky, they will be able to hold on to what they have. But I'll bet much of TFG's base is not excited at the prospect of supporting a man who is now under multiple criminal investigations. Women are pissed at the SCOTUS Roe ruling. The J6 committee hearings will start up again before November. There's the hardcore 30-35% that will always have a hard-on for Trump/the Christofascist nation Trumpists are trying to establish, but there's reason to believe that many R's will not vote this election cycle because they hate this drama, they hate having their identities as Republicans be tarnished by the grifter, and they won't be able to bring themselves to vote D.
So I went to this wiki page and you've chosen a quote based on pre-Civil War case law.
Most of the rest of the Wikipedia page lists how the Federal Government has supported and strengthened interstate travel rights. Here are some other quotes from further down the page:
"The U.S. Supreme Court in Crandall v. Nevada, 73 U.S. 35 (1868) declared that freedom of movement is a fundamental right and therefore a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them. In United States v. Wheeler. 254 U.S. 281 (1920), the Supreme Court reiterated its position that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to protect freedom of movement. However, Wheeler... was the first to locate the right to travel in the privileges and immunities clause, providing the right with a specific guarantee of constitutional protection.[8] By reasoning that the clause derived from Article IV of the Articles of Confederation, the decision suggested a narrower set of rights than those enumerated in Corfield, but also more clearly defined those rights as absolutely fundamental.[9] The Supreme Court began rejecting Wheeler's reasoning within a few years. Finally, in United States v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), the Supreme Court overruled Chief Justice White's conclusion that the federal government could protect the right to travel only against state infringement.[2][3][10]"
and
"The U.S. Supreme Court also dealt with the right to travel in the case of Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489 (1999). In that case, Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority, held that the United States Constitution protected three separate aspects of the right to travel among the states:
(1) the right to enter one state and leave another (an inherent right with historical support from the Articles of Confederation)..."
and
"A strong right to freedom of movement may yet have even farther-reaching implications. The Supreme Court has acknowledged that freedom of movement is closely related to freedom of association and to freedom of expression. Strong constitutional protection for the right to travel may have significant implications for state attempts to limit abortion rights, ban or refuse to recognize same-sex marriage, and enact anti-crime or consumer protection laws. It may even undermine current court-fashioned concepts of federalism.[15][16][17][18][19]"
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All emphasis is mine, and God knows this SCOTUS wants to bring the country back to a pre-Civil War society. But that doesn't mean that there isn't a boatload of historical Constitutional and SCOTUS support FOR free and unfettered freedom of movement.
*Edited for dumb typos.
People of color have shouldered an unequal burden of educating white
people about racism, to little effect (systemically speaking). It's a HUGE emotional burden for oppressed people to be told that they are the ones who have to "overcome" racism, teach white people about racism (in a non-confrontational way), and fight for justice and equality. Black individuals are assumed to represent all Black people in mostly white environments. It take a huge psychological toll. White people can listen to/read the Black/brown/Asian/Indigenous people who want to speak of their experiences and share information with white people, but not all Black folk need to fight racism out front because the emotional burden is so strong just for them to survive in this culture. However, most white people need to step up and understand WE created the problem, and WE need to step up with solutions.
Solution #1: Educate other white people as to why we shouldn't demand Black people fix us.
This isn't about elections, it's about empathy and understanding.
If you watched it, you'd see it has both liberal and conservative talking points (though the liberal ones are 20+ years old), and doesn't mention either party. The problem is white people across the political spectrum who refuse/are unable to to understand that racism is a problem for Black folks but it's a white people's problem.
Like Cheney, Riggleman turned on TFG over
TFG's refusal to participate in the peaceful transfer of power. But never forget: Trump endorsed him in 2018, and he won, in part, by campaigning with white supremacists. Very grateful for his service now, but he helped grow the beast*.
* Not a reference to TFG's vehicle. 
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