In House Education Admin Committee right now where my Republican colleagues are hearing HB 1202 to allow teachers to carry guns in schools.
Our community is still grieving last week’s mass shooting at Covenant elementary that took 6 lives— their solution is more guns.
Shameful.
Tonight as Tennessee House Republicans push forward to schedule vote on our expulsion, Speaker Sexton orders the gallery cleared as crowd chants “fascists.”
Media forced out at as well.
Then, Rep. Lafferty (R-Knox) pushes me and grabs my phone.
This is a sad day for Tennessee.
Macron decided to trigger the "nuclear option" Article 49.3 to adopt his pension reform plan without the French National Assembly.
The government may collapse: His decision is expected to trigger a no-confidence vote.
France is Burning. Uncontrolled.
@ErinInTheMorn The US is definitely dangling between step 7 and 8 when it comes to trans people. Is really difficult to deny that they are getting with step 9 soon
I don't completely know how to explain this, but as a cat owner you quickly learn that "absence of cat (chill)" and "absence of cat (suspicious)" are two very different kinds of silence
"But how will I explain drag to my children??"
Your children practice hiding from an active shooter at school on a monthly basis. They can handle learning that adults play dress up.
Devastated to discover that by consistently studying and practicing drawing, I have gotten better at drawing. Please respect my privacy during this time as I come to terms with this
Southwest Airlines took $3.2 BILLION in federal Covid money.
Its CEO makes up to $9 MILLION a year.
Yet when they mess up, it’s the workers and passengers who pay the price.
Welfare for the wealthy. Rugged individualism for everyone else.
viral tweets of stranded Southwest customers lashing out and Southwest employees crying had me thinking about how much of our system is set up to shield corporate execs while creating mutual antagonism between “customers” and workers. So I wrote about it
https://t.co/zfrFb9l8nh