Retired teacher here. Since Columbine, one of the school wide lessons we had to teach was active shooter drills. Imagine the psychological damage we are doing to our children, as well as educators, by participating in the macabre ritual.
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Retired teacher here. Since Columbine, one of the school wide lessons we had to teach was active shooter drills. Imagine the psychological damage we are doing to our children, as well as educators, by participating in the macabre ritual.
When millions of Americans die of polio, measles, mumps, covid and the flu, do you think the anti-vaxxers will change their mind about science?
After Sputnik was launched in 1957, Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act in 1958, providing hundreds of millions of dollars to fund science, math, and foreign language education. Eisenhower believed in education, science and technology, and this president hates science. Disastrous.
From San Diego: Midway through the year, San Diego County has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, and its job growth is slowing. However, much of the U.S. is in a similar position as economic uncertainty has put a crimp in job creation. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/01/r...
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
Because fascism.
Can a tax attorney please advise me how to stop paying taxes?
Heroes 🇺🇲💙
Where's Jake Tapper?
Picture was taken on same day. Who looks old and sick?
Love this! Thank you 💙🇺🇲
I studied and taught history my entire adult life. In 2016, I sounded the alarm about Trump and how his rhetoric foreshadowed the collapse of the Republic. I was called hysterical. The lack of both knowledge and imagination is what got us to today. Time to panic.
Another Republicans wife deported. She was not Latino.
Obviously, he's in poor health, but don't worry, cause Jake Tapper will let us know how this is bad news for Biden.
I don't know who made this but...😅🤣😂
Same phenomenon as poor southern whites fighting for the Confederacy to keep a system of slavery from which they suffered.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Cake! Extra frosting, please!
Hey, JD! Furniture stores are having Labor Day sales, so it's a great time to buy a couch!
I think he's sitting on a couch somewhere.
I've never even seen him shake anyone's hand -- he hates his supporters and doesn't actually want to interact with them, so there's that.
He hates women. We hate him back.
That's a beautiful thing to say! 🩷
Registered and ready to vote yes on Prop 50 in San Diego! 🇺🇲💙 #yesonprop50 #nokings
Charlie Kirk wishes he could be Taylor Swift.
I retired in 2024 after teaching at a public high school for 33 years. I loved my job and was great at my job. When I walked away, I felt relief. The fear of having your school shot up was omnipresent. What are we even doing?
It's clear that the midterms will be a disaster for the Republicans; that is, if we have a free and fair election.
I'm going to wring my hands, make a speech on the Senate floor about this, then STILL do the wrong thing.
Where's Jake Tapper?
War is still raging in Ukraine. Measles outbreak. US cities under siege. Gas, coffee, grocery prices are all up. No tax on tips. Value of the US dollar down. Radioactive shrimp? Millions thrown off health insurance while the plague makes a comeback... And still no Epstein files.
How can I quit paying taxes?
At least right now in California, the vaccine is available and free.
Well, I haven't heard one Republican push back on this, so there's that. Silence = Complicity
Funny that you bring up Kissinger www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-vict...
@mixtelena14.bsky.social I was told this is the Golden Age. #Nokings #resist www.rawstory.com/trump-grocer...
Prove it. Let's see a picture of a black woman in a MAGA hat begging you for . . . anything. Liar, pedophile, wanna be dictator.
Sure, cause corrupt fascist pedophiles are the gold standard for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I'm 64 and was unsure about it. But I got a text this week from CVS that COVID and flu shots are available. Yay! I live in California. But I wonder about next year . . .
I remember when Americans were pro science. How many people have to die before we return to sanity over vaccinations? And yes, I want a COVID shot.
Cause who doesn't want a whore on the cover? She represents the new American ethos: Be Whore Let's make red hats.
Be Whore
Another day, another attempt by Republicans to spread disinformation. Do you think they get the irony in the title,"Gerrymandering is Wrong - NO MATTER WHO DOES IT?" 🙄 #YesOn50 #VoteYesOn50
Texas v. Johnson, 1989.
Texas v. Johnson, 1989. Maybe the fascist pedophile should read it.
The Republicans, who dig corrupt pedophiles, will probably throw him a party, with maybe a parade, too.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
He should be first in line for the crimes against humanity trials that begin after the Tump regime collapses.
This is exactly why Trump cannot let another free and fair election happen.
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
Heroes 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💙💙💙
Liberals say that the United States has gone from being a democracy to being a dictatorship. They're wrong—it's gone from being a republic to being a dictatorship.
This is a great speech! I think Pritzker could be a great president, but I'm not convinced that Trump will relinquish power in the midterms or in 2028.
Cancel him. He's a Trump collaborator. He's apparently fine supporting a pedophile, but uncomfortable with the LGBTQ community.
If there are any Republicans out there who still believe in a democracy, now would be the time to step up and say . . . something. Seriously, WTF?
I wonder how you steal a satellite radio signal from a car? 🤔
Plain spoken Tim Walz. Love it.
Every day, it gets more difficult to find a reason to stay in this country.
Maybe they will be featured in the MMA fight at the White House coming this summer. We can all place bets.
HAPPY #DAFTDAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!
When facsim arrives in your town.
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#REPUBLICANSDIGPEDOPHILES THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Of course she didn't say anything. She's a collaborator.
Dude needs to take a history class 🙄
Maybe losing a congressional seat in California is karma for protecting the pedophile fascist in the White House.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
An ugly dark soul is what ages him.
When the Trump cabal falls -- and it will -- this dude should be treated like a Nazi collaborator in France -- shave his head and parade him through the streets lined with jeering crowds.
When the media is complicit in the country falling to fascism.
From abandoned on the street to household royalty—His Grace, Mr. Darcy, presiding. 👑🐾😺 #caturday #rescuecat #catsofbluesky
Criminal, South Dakota Cruella DeVille,cosplay ICE Barbie(with apologies to Barbie.) #DontTrustTrump #TrumpLies #TrumpAlliesLie #TrumpAlliesConArtists #DemocracyNotDictatorship
I am not sure if what I am feeling is a patriot crush or what… but there are some feelings. ✊🏼
I don't think Third Reich analogies are overwrought. We currently have a one party dictatorship that uses censorship, the military,secret police, and all levers of government to control the population. We have concentration camps and disappear people. Sounds like the Third Reich to me.
Another day in San Diego, and another attempt from Republicans at disinformation about Prop 50. Let's go save democracy, California! #YesOnProp50 #Prop50Yes #VoteYesOnProp50 #DefendDemocracyCA #Stopthesteal
Cartoon by DaveGranlund.com.
Zero profiles in courage. Remember when standing up for democracy was a thing? Me, neither.
She's a pedophile. What is wrong with these people?
I heard Trump ended eleventy billion wars and will now receive the Nobel Peace Prize every day, starting today, for the rest of his life.
Democracy, you in danger, girl. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
Because he is literally, shit 💩
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Every day is worse news, and it feels like we have fallen into the abyss.
Republican billionaires are already flooding the zone to defeat the redistricting plan in California. This mailer is from Charles T. Munger, Jr. When Republicans do it's great! When Democrats do it, it's WRONG! Let's, go, California! #YesOnProp50 #Prop50Yes #VoteYesOnProp50 #DefendDemocracyCA
Can we get out of this? Because I feel pretty hopeless this morning.
She should be the new face of Cracker Barrel, since she's the original cracker.
Even after everything we have witnessed since 2016, it's shocking to me how some Republicans Americans cheer for fascism.
Rape, torture, starvation, separation from families, forced to work for no compensation: which part of that is "hope and progress?"
Since we're all living in the hell of his making, it's hard to care what happens to his dark soul.
Fascism has arrived in America. If anyone thinks there will be free, fair, and uncontested elections in 2026, or that Trump will ever leave the White House willingly, you have not been paying attention.
This would explain a lot.
MAGA poster boy.
Governor Huckleberry is too stupid to understand her own hypocrisy.
According to the fascist in the White House, only white men who will vote for Republicans deserve that right.
They should be charged with crimes against humanity.