SIGN ON: The U.S. Senate must investigate Clarence Thomas and require strong ethics for the Supreme Court.

This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis, which is made larger by Clarence Thomas’s new ethics scandal. The U.S. Senate must launch an investigation into Thomas and take steps …
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TN bill that allows students to report professors who teach ‘divisive concepts’ passes House and Senate | wbir.com

“Divisive concept” rules are a set of laws passed last year that include many concepts usually taught in courses like sociology, psychology and political sciences.
— Read on www.wbir.com/article/news/education/new-bill-would-strengthen-rules-over-what-can-be-taught-in-classrooms/51-ddd267e4-3d98-4de0-bb2e-3284740b4cb7

Stasi and Gestapo endorsed by GOP in Tennessee

Ron DeSantis tries to bury news of his 6-week abortion ban as his presidential hopes implode

On Thursday afternoon, Florida’s Republican-dominated state House finalized passage of a 6-week abortion ban, tightening the 15-week abortion ban passed last session to the narrowest of windows: …
— Read on m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/14/2164005/-Ron-DeSantis-tries-to-bury-news-of-his-6-week-abortion-ban-as-his-presidential-hopes-implode

Poetry Sighting Saturday?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     While taking a mild break from SoL Saturdays, but only a mild one, since I must make at least one mention of Statutes of Limitationsstatutes-of-limitations  or else I will go mad, I found a poem that I wrote over ten years ago (the 9th of July, 2012, to be exact), and thought it expressed a bit of what I’ve been feeling recently, as well, still, again.  What or when have you.  It needs editing, but I will have to come back to that when I have more energy to deal with things.  I hope that it helps some person in need of something, somewhere.

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Suffering Saturdays (Succotash is better!)

I will not go down

in shame to the grave

Wrath inscribed on my brow,

railing at an uncaring world.

No.

I will arise, again, and again,

to fight, relentlessly,

No surrender, no retreat,

never giving…

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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet Gigantic Gigatonnique #100th Weirdiversary Edition — Content Catnip

See a mini pony take his first shy steps on specially made legs, a Gibson Girl riding a lobster, some serene paintings by Iris Scott and some frenetic modern punk music. It’s all here. Enjoy edition #92!

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet Gigantic Gigatonnique #100th Weirdiversary Edition — Content Catnip

A Picture Paints A Thousand Words — Filosofa’s Word

I often find that I can read a 1,000-word essay on a topic, but then I look at a cartoon on the same topic and understand the situation just as well from the artistic rendering as I did from the wordsmith’s version!  So, for this lazy Saturday afternoon, I thought I’d share some of the […]

A Picture Paints A Thousand Words — Filosofa’s Word