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12:19 AM
KY is gearing up to strike pretty immediately
 
12:56 AM
Kentucky teachers are under attack and need our support. Teachers are asking people to call 800-372-7181. Please let the teachers know you'll support a strike or work stop they engage in as a response to this. We stand in Solidarity and are here to fight.
 
 
1 hour later…
2:21 AM
Bill just passed the senate
Action is on
100%
A sewer bill that contains pension cuts for teachers heads to Bevin's desk
He will sign it because he's a piece of shit
 
tsk
 
It is officialy happening
Fayette county KY is closed tomorrow
Let's go
IT BEGINS
All Fayette County Public Schools will be closed on Friday, March 30, 2018 due to having more than a third of our school employees out.
 
2:40 AM
@Unionhawk so they don't take the day off on Good Friday?
 
I mean they are
But not for good Friday
It's a prt bad friday
 
@Unionhawk no i mean don't the schools close anyway for Good Friday? isn't it moot?
 
No
Schools are scheduled to be open tomorrow
And uhh
Schools... May be closed for a bit depending on how superintendents fall
But it's their pension too so hopefully
 
3:49 AM
Five confirmed closed so far
 
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@Memor-X apparently that is not a thing in America so much?
 
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(It's a thing here, which means a weird split week as I don't work tomorrow but I do work Saturday)
 
4:07 AM
Newport has no classes but teacher work day so that should be interesting
 
Hilarious post-game interview from 36-year-old Scott Foster, who was called into action as the Blackhawks Emergency Backup Goaltender tonight https://t.co/p4ExOQz8oA
 
@Ash which seems sorta odd. Good Friday is apparently a religious holiday for when Jesus was resurrected and in Australia most places and schools shut down for the day and Monday leading to a 4 day long weekend
i would think the US would have it since Australia is less religious than the US
 
So. The Minnesota legislature - as part of a bill for PUBLIC SAFETY, no less - is looking to start registering Autistics. ... That's a hell of a thing to read, as Nazis are enjoying their second coming. No words.
 
I mean Kentucky just passed pension cuts with sewers so don't let your dreams be dreams
 
@TimStone dafuq
 
4:14 AM
(definitely bad in different ways just, a less surprising "as part of THIS THING" from a frame that these ghouls in MN are probably coming from)
But like come on KY leg we're going to call this a shitty bill
You literally wrote that joke for us
 
@Memor-X We don't have religious federal holidays, though Christmas kinda snuck in there
@GodEmperorDune Yeaaaah, I didn't get through the whole commentary but I'm assuming it's some dumb shit where "this way the police will know!" as if the police can't just stop shooting people or something
Oh it seems to be in part some vax quackery, I don't even
 
@TimStone at least that's on a fixed and predictable day
I mean technically so is good Friday but
Districts closed at current count: 8
 
Yeah they didn't even do my first guess, the registry is purely so they can make up a reason about what causes autism
 
Oh so it's actually unrelated as it turns out
Not even related from some perverse angle
 
I mean they're making it easier to avoid vaccinations and they're shoe horning this in to presumably later claim that was a smart idea
 
4:37 AM
Fox News cuts away from Trump speech http://hill.cm/PkWx49p
(everyone else but Fox Business did too)
 
re registry for autistic people: that will never, ever hold up in court
ever
 
But there's no reason they shouldn't have, if Trump wants to say something "important" stick to the script. Aside from that though by airing him in full before they normalized it, which is why the White House can go out and complain
 
getting sick of the judicial system having to do all the work over here though, can we stop making shitty bills please
disgusting
 
Yeah, this legislation isn't actually making the registry, just telling the commissioner to design other legislation that would create such a thing, so we'll probably be waiting for this to get the boot for a while
People are gross :|
 
4:58 AM
Two commercial pilots flying over the Arizona desert claim they saw an unidentified flying object pass overhead, according to a radio broadcast released by the Federal Aviation Administration https://cnn.it/2GC0NEG
aliens.jpg
 
@TimStone Experimental Government Aircraft and Government Pigs actually
 
@TimStone when aliens visit this planet they're not sending their best
also i'm pretty sure that if there were actually aliens and they told trump about it, trump would've blabbed it by now
 
I was going to make a joke about needing a space wall but then I remembered Reagan basically already did that
 
@GodEmperorDune if anything this kind of thinking disproves alot of conspiracy theories about who is actually controlling the government
@quartata what about the Space Force?
 
that too
jeez
 
5:13 AM
could call it SPICE
 
i miss Spicer
 
Space Police Immigration and Customs Enforcement
 
 
6 hours later…
11:32 AM
Hearing at least twenty county school districts are closed this morning to protest this bill! Solidarity with them all! #APensionIsAPromise #120Strong
 
 
2 hours later…
1:18 PM
OK walkout is still on
The union is not satisfied
 
1:45 PM
“We won’t back down” https://t.co/bNOJkHRS3I
IT'S GETTING LOUD IN FRANKFORT
 
Scott Pruitt's lobbyist friend, incidentally, is an outside counsel for the National Rifle Association and works on the Russia controversy https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/979577882099044352
looool
 
Hell yeah
work faster so I can get my full extra billions of dollars
 
2:15 PM
@Unionhawk Damnit
@TimStone It's amazing what bigots and anti-science people can do when they see one of their own in the white house
 
@SaintWacko this would likely be two states with teachers strikes at once
though I doubt KY will ever become statewide sadly
red is CLOSED, brown is on break
 
Huh
 
most of the closures are sick-outs that overwhelmed substitutes afaik
 
3:10 PM
> “Washington spent trillions building up foreign countries while allowing OUR OWN infrastructure to fall into a state of total disrepair,” President Trump tweeted yesterday
1. lol how the emails always talk about him tweeting
2. I mean yes but we also blew those places the fuck up >_>
 
@TimStone Logical conclusion: blow the USA the fuck up and build a new country from the remains
BTW, to any listening CIA/NSA/FBI/secret service/Interpol/Europol agents: that's a joke
 
3:27 PM
BREAKING: 17,000 unarmed Palestinians rally in Gaza return march, Israeli army opens fire injuring 365 and killing 4 so far. http://bit.ly/2pTRl59
 
@Unionhawk wtf Israel?
 
3:53 PM
That's terrible
I can't wait to be disappointed in the official US response
 
4:07 PM
Yep
 
4:27 PM
Exclusive | Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience https://wapo.st/2pTsRJo
 
I mean because the guy who actually did it is dead?
 
love to hire the best people to hire the best people
 
What a weird thing to throw in there when you're being totally neutral about the outcome
 
@TimStone is he upset about the Marshall plan from 70 years ago?
Or is this about the war profiteering rebuilding Iraq?
 
I assume the latter but honestly I have no idea
He probably has no idea
 
4:43 PM
I complained about Ready Player One so much that McSweeney’s published it! Follow your dreams. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/excerpts-from-my-upcoming-novel-ready-player-two-girl-stuff
UPDATE: Georgia bill that would eliminate Sunday voting and suppress black turnout fails https://thinkprogress.org/georgia-sunday-voting-cut-9c1c2ffafd18/
I think Event: Missile has occurred in Satan Fri Mar 30 11:43:43 2018 CDT
lol
(in actuality Russia tested a missile, which NATO designates "Satan 2")
 
5:14 PM
There is no provision in the Consular Convention granting a state consular access to a hospitalized national unless the national has requested such access. I think you are confusing hospitals and prisons. https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/979674629169209345
 
5:26 PM
they are really going all in huh
 
Yeah, that's like an absurd level of craziness
"Hahah so glad this poisoned person is awake how about letting us, the accused, visit her in her hospital room, preferably without supervision, and with no questions asked after her condition magically worsens"
 
but the UK did it obvs
 
I saw their claim, but I didn't follow up with what the asserted purpose was
 
uhhhhhh
to own the conservatives
 
lol
 
5:31 PM
also we've never literally poisoned people with radioactive polonium that was baked news
believe us bigly
we're very trustworthy
 
the discourse was a mistake
 
but does it count if it comes from within
 
6:18 PM
@TimStone for some reason I read this as "Georgia bill that would eliminate Sunday"
 
6:37 PM
@TimStone So they are aiming for all-out battles?
 
@TimStone love to miss the metaphor
please let me know when we have a gun that seeks out bullets from other guns and stops them from hitting anything
 
1 teacher per year must now be a secret terrorist
Those are the rules I don't make them
 
7:36 PM
@TimStone per school
And not all of them were secret terrorists, just the majority of them. Some were just werewolves or sadistic torturers (those'd have a great career ready for them at the CIA)
 
🤔
@TimStone The real gun was inside you all along.
 
@Yuuki I mean, native people who were driven off their land south of the United States border generations ago returning to their land """illegally""" is a thing that happens
 
@TimStone I mean, it's also worth noting that despite Hogwarts being armed to teeth, plenty of people still died.
 
but like, that requires you to accept the far right frame on this thing anyway
so
 
8:39 PM
We're having an emergency meeting to gear up for KY strike
damn you Bevin and friends
 
> Navajo
> illegally
just fuck my shit up
do they have any self-awareness at all
imagine how much they'd freak if they started complaining about those darn europeans being here illegally
 
9:25 PM
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims April 2018 as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. http://bit.ly/2GpQNuW
words fail me
 
@GodEmperorDune "April Fool's!"
 
oh and in more fucking up the 2020 census, they've decided not to ask gender identity questions after all
goddammit
love to fuck up data based policymaking by not gathering data
 
they are really messing with that huh
 
pence et all need to get in the sea
 
9:41 PM
i think one of the reasons they've decided to fuck up the census is they figure people won't care enough to notice
but it really matters
it's about representation
also nothing worse than justifying evil decisions with bad stats
 
i mean the republican party realized a while back that long term demographics were not going their way so instead of changing to fit the demographics they have decided to fuck up the demographics instead
 
"look it's ok we did the math"
 
like the voter suppression
like the not holding special elections
like the ignoring court orders when courts decide things against you
 
our by-election rules are p messed up
since you brought it up
i don't know why they decided to defer to states on that
 
@quartata back when the constitution was written it was not feasible to centralize it
now we have instant polls and preliminary counts like an hour after polls close
but then it was like weeks to count everything and get the word out about who actually won
 
9:49 PM
but like why require them for House but not Senate
I suppose they figured the people should always have a say at the representative level
 
we like to idolize the founding fathers as these noble dudes when they were not
 
(Which incidentally is a philosophy dangerously teetering on parliamentary lol)
 
they were pissed that rich white landowners had insufficient say in how their govt runs
so they wrote stuff to give themselves the vote
(and wealthier areas with many slaves got extra weight to their votes)
and they were deathly afraid of mob rule and populism (which might be too disruptive to the social order with them on top)
so everything was a few degrees indirect
you vote for people who then voted for the real people
i think even house of representative candidates were chosen by state govts, so it's not like you could just decide to run and fill out paperwork
 

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