Earlier this week, hundreds of California students walked out of class in protest of mask mandates. The government’s response? The next day, they locked maskless kids in the gym without heat. (Photos in thread)
Clearly this is about student safety.
Earlier this week I reported about the Canadian trucker convoy’s GoFundMe being frozen, as well as Nova Scotia ‘banning’ the protest by making it illegal. Today, those two things have combined, and GoFundMe has suspended the fundraiser entirely by claiming the protest is involved in illegal activity. Originally GoFundMe was going to ‘donate’ the money to ‘credible charities’, but after a huge backlash, the company now says it will automatically return all donations.
This is an extremely troubling development. If the government can simply declare any protest ‘illegal’ and shut down all support, how do Canadians express their right to protest the government? Fortunately, the Freedom Convoy is now receiving donations from https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022/donate, though the website is slowed to a crawl due to massive traffic (and a possible DDOS attack).
Spotify censorship update: Now Barack Obama is threatening to leave Spotify unless Joe Rogan is censored. But is this surprising? Also, it seems like a great time to post this reminder about what Obama was up to during the pandemic:
Finally, mixed news out of Chicago! Covid hospitalizations have continued their massive drop, coming in at 538 in the most recent update. That’s fewer than the 619 of late December, and the data is trending in the right direction. That’s the good news. The bad news? Lori Lightfoot states the vax pass could be lifted ‘in a few weeks’, a far cry from the original goalposts:
The Public Health Order will remain in effect until the City of Chicago is through this Omicron-driven surge and the risk of overwhelming hospital capacity has passed.
Remember: When politicians take power, they don’t willingly release it.
And to think Joe Rogan said Michelle would make a great presidential candidate.
And to think I know that because-- despite decidedly not being in the demographic of likely listeners-- the calls for censoring Rogan caused me to download Spotify and begin listening to his podcast.
Spot on. My wife taught in public and private schools in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Marin. I was shocked to learn in private Catholic high schools in San Francisco text books were 30 years old. I was equally astonished by private schools K-6 with no library, only Ipads and this true as well for a costly private high school. Marin county fared little better but did have school libraries and old text books. Education reflects the type of culture which funds it and as with many other insights arising from Covid criminality reveals how we have fallen far and fast since John Dewey's progressive education model was adopted.