Notices by MadAbuela (rakielxx71@universeodon.com)

@georgetakei I spent a couple of weeks during lockdown trying to sweet talk a cricket from out behind the piano that was driving us crazy. Turned out to be the low battery signal in a smoke alarm I didn’t know was behind a beam……. Ya.

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On FB, they’re tagging all Project 2025 posts as mostly false. No doubt they’re taking a literal view of what’s in it. So if I say, “the project wants to destroy public education by funding private schools”, FB would call that false because nowhere does it say that.

But their document says, “ All families should be able to take their children’s tax-payer funded education dollars to the education provider of their choosing…”. That right there makes the public school system unsupportable. In the same way that everyone over 65 has to join Medicare to make it economically feasible; public funds must go to public schools to make them feasible. Sending everyone to private schools is NEVER going to happen for middle and lower class working people. So the only winners are the upper 10% who could afford private schools without public funds.

@TonyStark

There’s organizations that make it easy to help from home. Here’s two I’ve used. Besides that, donating any amount is easy thru Act Blue. Resistbot makes it easy to write to all your reps.

https://swingleft.org/

https://indivisible.org/

https://secure.actblue.com/signin

https://resist.bot/

@georgetakei

SSDD

@georgetakei I’ll believe it when he leads the passage of an effective bill that finally passes. Until then, he’s just doing PR tap dance.

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Could we just stop reposting his noise.

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@stux I have five teachers in the family. Teaching has become incredibly difficult but not because the kids have changed. Like in politics, the fringe has been given a megaphone and kids are always listening and emulating adults. Especially the whackos.

Also, I found that many boys in their prepubescent years are fascinated by authoritarianism; the loudness, bulling, uniforms, the spectacle. Most outgrow it.

@georgetakei It’s kind of fun to watch the republicans behave like republicans against each other; keep negotiating concessions with no intention of actually supporting in the end. Eventually McCarthy will concede so much he’ll be a puddle of dirty water they’ll step over.

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