May 18, 2022

Georgia students sue over blocked protest against rebel flag

ATLANTA (AP) — Several Black students who were suspended for trying to protest Confederate flag displays at their school in Georgia have filed a federal lawsuit against their school district and its board members, accusing them of allowing an extensive pattern of racism including “overt bigotry and animosity by some white students and teachers against African American students.”

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Now, in their lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Floyd County school district and its board members, they allege an extensive pattern of racism, including white students reenacting the murder of George Floyd and posting it on social media, and a student who carried what appeared to be a whip and told a Black student “we used to whip you."

They also allege unfair punishment: Students are banned from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, but Confederate flag apparel is acceptable under the school's dress code, the lawsuit says.

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Coosa High near Rome is in the heart of northwest Georgia’s conservative 14th Congressional District, which sent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress. About 10% of the school’s more than 800 students in grades 8-12 are Black, state enrollment figures show. About 58% are white, while 26% are Hispanic and the the remainder are multiracial or some other race.

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When a group of students sought to protest the ability of their classmates to wear the Confederate flag on campus, the principal threatened student Deserae Turner that she could be jailed for “instigating a riot,” the lawsuit says. The principal also announced over the intercom that any student protesting or even possessing a flyer announcing the protest would be disciplined.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/georgia-students-sue-over-blocked-protest-against-rebel-flag/ar-AAXnEue?ocid=uxbndlbing

May 17, 2022

Thanx to DUer madaboutharry for posting* / We should use her new name K.J.P.

*https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216698511


K.J.P. is good for you and she is good for me
K.J.P. @ the podium is the place she needs to be.

Jen was an atomic truth bomb
But now K.J.P. doing the pressers
She will be clam and carry on.

Just like we couldn’t have a better person as President right now in Joe Biden we could not have a better person taking over as press secretary for Jen Psaki as K.J.P..

Ivy league educated and she was faculty there too, smart, pretty, a very good public speaker, worked as a senior person in Presidential campaigns, top level security clearances, unflappable, a wife (partner), a mother, a neighbor, black, and a lesbian too. I hope that we get to just see her as K.J.P. and not hear any of the half baked criticism from shits like Tucker and Doocey. Matter of fact I think we should try to never repeat the crap that will be thrown at her by the right.


"I just watched The White House Press Briefing with Karine Jean-Pierre.

I have always loved her.

What a joy it is to have serious people doing a serious job.

It is clear that Karine Jean-Pierre is going to be a remarkable and a memorable White House Press Secretary.

What a difference from the last administration." DUer madaboutharry


This is how it is done. Her 1st presser under very difficult conditions was a master class by K.J.P. covering the Buffalo shooting and its victims with grace and dignity.

You can see the sadness in her face.

May 16, 2022

NY Times, "A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P."

Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States.

The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and later telling the police he had sought to kill Mexicans.

And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culture that sought to “ethnically replace my own people.”


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One in three American adults now believe that an effort is underway “to replace native-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains,” according to an Associated Press poll released this month. The poll also found that people who mostly watched right-wing media outlets like Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax were more likely to believe in replacement theory than those who watched CNN or MSNBC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/replacement-theory-shooting-tucker-carlson.html

apologies if this has already been posted.

May 12, 2022

A must see Amanda Gorman, "Fight Fire with Feminism"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017735145

Loves me some Ms. Gorman.

May 11, 2022

Chalk Democracy! Susan is "very concerned."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10554627

thanks to DUer mahatmakanejeeves for posting this

https://twitter.com/ShutDown_DC/status/1524346174848831488

May 10, 2022

Joe Biden is the best President of my lifetime .... end of story

And he protected this too.

May 9, 2022

Mississippi Gov. defends law forcing incest survivors to carry babies to term: 'It's less than 1 %.

Source: Independent

'When you look at the number of [abortions] that actually involve incest, it's less than 1 per cent'

Mississippi governor Tate Reeves has defended a state law that forces women and girls impregnated through incest to carry their babies to term.

"Why is it acceptable in your state to force girls who are victims of incest to carry those children to term?" Mr Reeves was asked in an interview

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mississippi-abortion-incest-tate-reeves-b2074435.html

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Christo-Fascists ...

You have to sign up to read the rest of the story.

You can read more @ this link ... he also talked about the potential banning of IUDs and plan B pills (morning after
pill ... I think)

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tate-reeves-jake-tapper-mississippi-incest-abortion-1350469/

Vomit worthy audio @ link …. Mississippi wants to reach out to those young women and help them get the resources they need to “keep the baby.” (very very rough quote but I couldn't listen to Tain't again)

May 7, 2022

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou ·

These are not nice people and they think they are morally superior to you and me and that they
have the right to control us and that includes a woman's body or how an election is supposed to
turn out. They are un-American Christo Fascists and they work for the super wealthy.

May 6, 2022

For Mother's Day, Michelle Obama announces a special honor for her mom Marian Robinson

Growing up with my mom always was an adventure.

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But above all else, my mother gave me nonstop, unconditional love in so many ways. She fostered in me a deep sense of confidence in who I was and who I could be by teaching me how to think for myself, how to use my own voice, and how to understand my own worth.

I simply wouldn’t be who I am today without her.

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That’s why this Mother’s Day, I’m proud to announce that the exhibit “Opening the White House” in the Obama Presidential Center Museum will be named in honor of my mom, Marian Robinson.

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It’ll be infused with so many of the values that my mother instilled in me: community, family, bringing people in— making them feel at home.

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When the Center opens, we want it to be a place parents and children can reflect and grow, connect and create, and discover the many ways we can all make change in the world.

—Michelle

https://www.obama.org/updates/honoring-marian-robinson/?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morobinson_050622&sfmc_s=0033600001pdI5HAAU

May 5, 2022

U.S. Intelligence Is Helping Ukraine Kill Russian Generals, Officials Say

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.

Ukrainian officials said they have killed approximately 12 generals on the front lines, a number that has astonished military analysts.

The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III went so far as to say last month that “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree it cannot do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”

Asked about the intelligence being provided to the Ukrainians, John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that “we will not speak to the details of that information.” But he acknowledged that the United States provides “Ukraine with information and intelligence that they can use to defend themselves.”



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-ukraine.html