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A private school bars teachers from getting vaccinated because they will be infectious!

So I am being deadly serious here. Which part of the world accepts this level Of stupidity? Seriously, name a country, even a third world country! 

Is there anyone anywhere that tolerates this level of nonsense and the Admin isn't immediately removed and their licenses suspended? 

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1 hour ago, Curious1997 said:

So I am being deadly serious here. Which part of the world accepts this level Of stupidity? Seriously, name a country, even a third world country! 

Is there anyone anywhere that tolerates this level of nonsense and the Admin isn't immediately removed and their licenses suspended? 

Did I read correctly that the COO has a degree in epidemiology? 

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Centner Academy provides our children with the practices to uncover and explore their unique talents and gifts, their sense of meaning and purpose. Our world needs healing and our children’s approach to life will greatly impact the future of humanity.

Bianca graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and Cum Laude with Honors from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor’s degree and a double major in Psychology and Spanish.

Bianca Erickson  COO

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US Department of Justice to investigate Louisville police practices

Maybe there will be justice for Breanna.  

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This is from a republican who is anti Trump and worried about the tack that republicans are taking. She tracks the tone of people who have similar views and she found this alarming trend. Pre election Q was a fringe conspiracy group. Post election...... 

 

November 3, 2020, Longwell told me, “I almost never heard QAnon come up, except in a way that was derisive.” But postelection she’s had people “lean in and say, ‘I’m not saying I believe everything about Q. I’m not saying that the JFK-Jr.-is-alive stuff is real, but the deep-state pedophile ring is real.’” (The QAnon theory is that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his own death to become the group’s leader.) In Longwell’s words, “The deep-state/conspiracy/Hollywood pedophile ring, that is in there. I’m hearing that plenty.” She added, “It’s actually pretty Marjorie Taylor Greene–like.” (Greene, who represents Georgia’s Fourteenth District, has praised the conspiracy theory and subscribes to a number of its beliefs.)

As Longwell explained it to me, Trump supporters already believed that a “deep state”—an alleged secret network of nonelected government officials, a kind of hidden government within the legitimately elected government—has been working against Trump since before he was elected. “That’s already baked into the narrative,” she said. So it’s relatively easy for them to make the jump from believing that the deep state was behind the “Russia hoax” to thinking that in 2016 Hillary Clinton was involved in a child-sex-trafficking ring operating out of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant.

Trump followers believe they are independent thinkers, unlike the rest of us, whom they view as sheep, people who are “just sleepwalking through life,” in Longwell’s phrase—too naive, too compliant, too trusting. This explains how the effort to combat COVID-19 was derailed; much of MAGA world rejected what epidemiologists were saying, including about the efficacy of masks and vaccines, and turned the fight against the pandemic into a culture war between those they viewed as arrogant elitists and liberty-loving Americans. In this instance, living in an alternate reality—a place where masks are mocked, hydroxychloroquine is said to be a COVID-19 cure, and calls to “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” are viewed as acts of patriotism—had deadly consequences. So did Trump’s lie about the election, which led to the storming of the Capitol.

This is part of what Longwell refers to as a “poisonous information environment,” in which even less-than-enthusiastic Trump voters are disoriented by the flood of misinformation and disinformation. Longwell, in characterizing what focus-group participants have told her, puts it this way: “‘I just don’t know what to believe anymore. I don’t know what’s true.’”

Bear in mind that these people are often being sent links and facebook postings that include false information—but because that information is sent by friends and individuals they trust, they tend to believe what they read, or at least be open to the conspiracy theories being peddled. And the widespread loss of trust in institutions and authority figures, which has been happening for decades, compounds the problem.

Longwell also offered insights into a phenomenon that both fascinates and concerns me: political tribalism. Too many behaviors and attitudes are now driven by very strong loyalty to political tribes or social groups, or by antipathy and hatred for those on the other side. Many Americans are coalescing around their mutual resentments and fears. Tribalism is intrinsic to human nature, but it’s growing more acute. Amy Chua, a Yale law professor, has written about how in America today, every group feels threatened. That is a prescription not just for misunderstanding, but for more political violence.

Longwell holds the Trumpian political class more responsible than she does ordinary voters, though she doesn’t let voters off the hook. But she believes that the former know better and are acting more cynically, while she has some sympathy for many Republican voters. “They’re not bad people,” she insisted. “They’re just—they don’t know what to believe or they have been told a bunch of things that aren’t true.” And that confusion, she argued, has been unscrupulously exploited. “Broadly speaking, I think that there are a lot of people who are out to take advantage of the fact that people don’t quite know what to think.”

I believe that they choose to not know what to think evidenced by their embrace of Televangelists and the pandemic denial. You absolutely know that they have lost someone or knows someone who died or was seriously infected based on their ignoring masks or social distancing etc and LOSING THREE BRANCHES OF GOVT. 

If my car let me down three times in important situations, it's gone! The same applies to people or anything else. I would question everything. 

The best thing those who love the Republican Party can do for it, is to speak the truth about it. In doing so, they might hold close to their heart a phrase from the great Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.”

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73 year old woman assaulted by police!

Just wondering when and how did we become this insane? The woman had dementia, for crying out loud sake! 

 

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Just wondering, why aren't women more worried about Roe v Wade, especially with the current members of the Supreme Court? I don't hear or see any activism happening? 

In some cities, abortion is now being fined and criminalized especially in the south. 

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Emergent, Baltimore company responsible for screwing up the vaccine, sold company stock before meltdown!

And what do you want to bet it will only be a slap on the wrist for millions stolen, while the man stealing a candy bar will be in jail for years which tax payers will front for over $40k.

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Andrea Mitchell MSNBC reporting news Feds searched Guliani's apt and his office as part of Ukraine probe. Extraordinary move to obtain search warrent for a former president's personal attorney..

Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment

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...Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant on Wednesday at the Upper East Side apartment of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

One of the people said the investigators had seized Mr. Giuliani’s electronic devices....

...The federal authorities have been largely focused on whether Mr. Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who at the same time were helping Mr. Giuliani search for dirt on Mr. Trump’s political rivals, including President Biden, who was then a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination....

Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, it is a federal crime to try to influence or lobby the United States government at the request or direction of a foreign official without disclosing it to the Justice Department.

.. The prosecutors have scrutinized Mr. Giuliani’s dealings with Yuriy Lutsenko, one of the officials who helped Mr. Giuliani and his associates in their dirt-digging mission while also urging them to work to get the ambassador removed.

Among other things, the prosecutors have examined discussions Mr. Giuliani had about taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in apparently unrelated consulting business from Mr. Lutsenko, which resulted in a draft retainer agreement that was never executed....

 

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12 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

Just wondering, why aren't women more worried about Roe v Wade, especially with the current members of the Supreme Court? I don't hear or see any activism happening? 

In some cities, abortion is now being fined and criminalized especially in the south. 

What makes you think they aren't worried about the Trump court and their conservative agenda?

10 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

Emergent, Baltimore company responsible for screwing up the vaccine, sold company stock before meltdown!

And what do you want to bet it will only be a slap on the wrist for millions stolen, while the man stealing a candy bar will be in jail for years which tax payers will front for over $40k.

Were they Kushner associates?

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1 hour ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Andrea Mitchell MSNBC reporting news Feds searched Guliani's apt and his office as part of Ukraine probe. Extraordinary move to obtain search warrent for a former president's personal attorney..

Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment

 

Chickens roosting ????????

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