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Women earned 82 cents for every $1 earned by men last year, according to the Pew Research Center. That indicates women are only slightly ahead of where they were in 2002, when they earned 80 cents for every $1 earned by male workers. https://t.co/61sbIRGU02
“My concerns are many, but they all come back to the same basic principle: taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be given to individuals without adequate public oversight.”
Former #txlege House Pub Ed Cmt chairman Jimmie Don Aycock on vouchers. #txed
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Indeed, that's part of male privilege. You are allowed to "get loose" by getting drunk and making rape jokes. But you are still considered the moral authority under Christ because of your gender. Only women have to choose between sinner and saint.
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@jennycohn1 The Venn diagram of domestic violence offender tactics and right-wing information warfare tactics is nearly a perfect circle.
Source: I’ve lived through both.
Oklahoma lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have banned corporal punishment for kids with disabilities in schools.
Rep. Jim Olsen (R) cites Proverbs in rejecting the ban: “The rod and reproof give wisdom. But a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”
@RadioFreeTom That’s true.
But the bigger picture is that he is a player in the international ring of bad actors perpetrating acts of information warfare to destabilize the United States.
4/This is one unified network designed to push libertarian-right, pro-Putin, and anti-NATO content.
Breaking this way changes your friend groups, which changes your worldview. Musk has been pushing Brand hard, too.
If you think Christofascists will stop with banning abortion, you are naive. They want women who obtain abortions to face the death penalty - no exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the mother. Full stop. #Christofascism
Kevin McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson all the surveillance footage from January 6 in exchange for the speakership.
Now Tucker is trying to use those tapes to downplay the insurrection and rewrite the narrative:
Tucker Carlson calls transgender people "a cancer on the country" right before he talks to Michael Knowles about Knowles' genocidal anti-trans rhetoric this past weekend:
"The ideology leads to the castration of children and therefore it's bad. It's a cancer on the country."