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May 28, 2020
Columbus Ohio solidarity - George Floyd's murder
https://twitter.com/SURJColumbusOH/status/1266134172613120000
May 28, 2020
(NEWSER) – A popular YouTuber has revealed that she and her husband made the wrenching decision to give up the now 4-year-old boy they adopted in 2017 from China because his special needs—including autism—proved too overwhelming. And now Myka Stauffer is taking heavy criticism online, with hashtags such as cancelmykastauffer making the rounds, reports People. Stauffer and her husband, James, adopted the boy they named Huxley as a toddler, knowing he had problems. But she said the full extent of Huxley's behavioral issues didn't become clear until after he was in their Ohio home. "Do I feel like a failure as a mom? Like, 500 percent," Myka said in her video announcement. She said Huxley is now living permanently with a woman who has training as a medical professional.
As BuzzFeed reports in a comprehensive account, the couple's decision has caused a firestorm mainly because Myka Stauffer made the story of the adoption—even before it occurred—a big theme of her popular channel, which has more than 700,000 subscribers. Along the way, she landed big sponsorships and secured a high profile as an advocate of international adoption. "These facts, coupled with a long-simmering debate about the rights of children on social media, has led to an outcry against the couple and their decision to publicize and monetize their lives," writes Stephanie McNeal. In fact, a Change.org petition is calling for the couple to return any money they made related to the adoption of Huxley.
Youtuber under fire for giving up adopted special needs son
https://www.newser.com/story/291525/youtuber-rehomes-adopted-son-from-china.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top(NEWSER) – A popular YouTuber has revealed that she and her husband made the wrenching decision to give up the now 4-year-old boy they adopted in 2017 from China because his special needs—including autism—proved too overwhelming. And now Myka Stauffer is taking heavy criticism online, with hashtags such as cancelmykastauffer making the rounds, reports People. Stauffer and her husband, James, adopted the boy they named Huxley as a toddler, knowing he had problems. But she said the full extent of Huxley's behavioral issues didn't become clear until after he was in their Ohio home. "Do I feel like a failure as a mom? Like, 500 percent," Myka said in her video announcement. She said Huxley is now living permanently with a woman who has training as a medical professional.
As BuzzFeed reports in a comprehensive account, the couple's decision has caused a firestorm mainly because Myka Stauffer made the story of the adoption—even before it occurred—a big theme of her popular channel, which has more than 700,000 subscribers. Along the way, she landed big sponsorships and secured a high profile as an advocate of international adoption. "These facts, coupled with a long-simmering debate about the rights of children on social media, has led to an outcry against the couple and their decision to publicize and monetize their lives," writes Stephanie McNeal. In fact, a Change.org petition is calling for the couple to return any money they made related to the adoption of Huxley.
May 28, 2020
LEAKED: Trump's EO Board "Fairness in Social Media" named. James Woods, Jon Voight, Lou Dobbs, Sean
LEAKED: Trump’s EO Board “Fairness in Social Media” named. James Woods, Jon Voight, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Scott Baio and Dinesh D'Souza.
https://twitter.com/DemocracyInn/status/1266102711105261568
May 28, 2020
Graham urges senior judges to step aside before November election so Republicans can fill vacancies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/graham-urges-senior-judges-to-step-aside-before-november-election-so-republicans-can-fill-vacancies/2020/05/28/4b014d78-a0fc-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html
May 28, 2020
Several Hollywood stars, including #SethRogen, #SteveCarell and #BenSchwartz, are helping bail out low-income individuals arrested in Minneapolis while protesting George Floyd's death in police custody
Several Hollywood stars, including #SethRogen, #SteveCarell and #BenSchwartz, are helping bail out l
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1266082220877496320Several Hollywood stars, including #SethRogen, #SteveCarell and #BenSchwartz, are helping bail out low-income individuals arrested in Minneapolis while protesting George Floyd's death in police custody
May 28, 2020
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she will force public school superintendents to share coronavirus rescue funds with private schools, some of which are facing ruin.
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, defiant amid criticism that she is using the coronavirus to pursue a long-sought agenda, said she would force public school districts to spend a large portion of federal rescue funding on private school students, regardless of income.
Ms. DeVos announced the measure in a letter to the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state education chiefs, defending her position on how education funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, should be spent.
“The CARES Act is a special, pandemic-related appropriation to benefit all American students, teachers and families,” she wrote in the letter on Friday. “There is nothing in the act suggesting Congress intended to discriminate between children based on public or nonpublic school attendance, as you seem to do. The virus affects everyone.”
A range of education officials say Ms. DeVos’s guidance would divert millions of dollars from disadvantaged students and force districts starved of tax revenues during an economic crisis to support even the wealthiest private schools. The association representing the nation’s schools superintendents told districts to ignore the guidance, and at least two states — Indiana and Maine — said they would.
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Ms. DeVos has been unabashed in her use of coronavirus funding to further her decades-long effort to divert public dollars to private and parochial schools. In a radio interview last week, first reported by Chalkbeat, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, asked Ms. DeVos if she was using “this particular crisis to ensure that justice is finally done to our kids and the parents who choose to send them to faith-based schools.” She responded “Absolutely.
DeVos says she will force public schools to spend C19 aid on private school students
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/politics/betsy-devos-coronavirus-private-schools.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=HomepageEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos says she will force public school superintendents to share coronavirus rescue funds with private schools, some of which are facing ruin.
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, defiant amid criticism that she is using the coronavirus to pursue a long-sought agenda, said she would force public school districts to spend a large portion of federal rescue funding on private school students, regardless of income.
Ms. DeVos announced the measure in a letter to the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state education chiefs, defending her position on how education funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, should be spent.
“The CARES Act is a special, pandemic-related appropriation to benefit all American students, teachers and families,” she wrote in the letter on Friday. “There is nothing in the act suggesting Congress intended to discriminate between children based on public or nonpublic school attendance, as you seem to do. The virus affects everyone.”
A range of education officials say Ms. DeVos’s guidance would divert millions of dollars from disadvantaged students and force districts starved of tax revenues during an economic crisis to support even the wealthiest private schools. The association representing the nation’s schools superintendents told districts to ignore the guidance, and at least two states — Indiana and Maine — said they would.
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Ms. DeVos has been unabashed in her use of coronavirus funding to further her decades-long effort to divert public dollars to private and parochial schools. In a radio interview last week, first reported by Chalkbeat, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, asked Ms. DeVos if she was using “this particular crisis to ensure that justice is finally done to our kids and the parents who choose to send them to faith-based schools.” She responded “Absolutely.
May 28, 2020
This is what lead up to damaging the cop car in LA
cop car drove off with person hanging on. person fell off and got injured. Crowd got angry.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1265821256881975297
May 28, 2020
protestors hurl large fireworks at police
https://twitter.com/MDVancleave/status/1265843425972289545
May 28, 2020
Protests shut down the 101 (major Los Angeles Freeway) for a short time today
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1265820805361000448
May 28, 2020
"Here's my leg today. This is from a non-lethal projectile, fired by Minneapolis police"
Here's my leg today. This is from a non-lethal projectile, fired by Minneapolis police while I covered protests of #GeorgeFloyd last night. Stay safe folks
https://twitter.com/AndrewMannix/status/1265756101057957890
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