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Randy's avatar

If you support Putin, as Trump, Vance and Rubio do, then by definition you are engaged in "pro-terrorist activity," yes? Of course, Trump wont need to self-deport since Christian Nationalist fanatics on the Supreme Court have said that presidents (Republican ones, they mean) get a pass on pro-terrorist or any other illegal activities while in office.

In Tennessee, we're disappearing students in another way, too. The Legislature is on the verge of allowing school districts to turn away undocumented students who were brought to this country by their parents. Districts like Nashville that choose not to discriminate will be punished, because the pending bill also would require them to verify the immigration status of their students. It's pretty clear that the state will then use this data to cut funding for the district by the number of undocumented kids (and of course they will also turn it over to ICE).

This is a state that allows foster children to sleep on the floors of state office buildings; that turned away federal funds for summer food assistance (all of $40 per month) for hungry kids who qualify for free/reduced-price lunches when school is in session; and that now feels morally justified in turning away kids from schools.

I suppose they've removed from their Trump Bibles Jesus' warning that, for those who put a stumbling block in front of the "little ones," it would be better if they tied a millstone around their necks and threw themselves into the sea.

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David Dark's avatar

I don't know who the "they" in your last paragraph is exactly, but yes, social death is real.

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Randy's avatar

By “they” I mean the state leaders who keep food from hungry children and deprive immigrant kids from the opportunity to go to school.

Worth remembering that William Lamberth, a driving force behind the school bill, is the one who stood over grieving school kids the week after the Covenant shooting and asked them, if asssult weapons were banned, what kind of gun they’d prefer to be shot with.

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Lynne McFarland's avatar

This is straightforward. I have been sitting in the TN state legislative committees listening to the arguments of many Republicans as they put forth bills, and I have begun to wonder if some folks are tuned in to their thinking ability or just to their rage.

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David Dark's avatar

I suspect they imagine they're just trying to survive.

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Momma Nancy's avatar

What was the signal from Coulter? I’m

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David Dark's avatar

She says she's all about deporting people while asking if students' 1st Amendment rights are being violated.

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Shimrra Shai's avatar

The fact that ANY of us think it is justified to subject a human being to this kind of cruelty is the problem. The tyrant on top is just that: the top of the shit pyramid.

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David Dark's avatar

I don't know what *the* problem is, but thank you for this.

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Nevin's avatar

What’s up with the picture at the bottom? I don’t understand the reference.

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David Dark's avatar

That's Ben Sasse (formerly a US Senator and then the president of the University of Florida) and Russell Moore (Christianity Today magazine) at (I think) a Trinity Forum event. I want good things for both young men and all those they've chosen to partner with over the years. We can't confront or begin to repair/heal what we won't acknowledge. It's my hope that folks in their networks will stop making abusive decisions. This is not a call-out. It's a call-in.

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Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

Preach.

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