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I was just scrolling by and noticed I gave you a disagree on this post. That must have been an accident. I’m sorry. There was nothing to disagree with.
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What bothers me the most about it is that almost all of the private schools around here are parochial.

There is that and a bunch of these poor maga folks who support this sh1t only do so cause, if they could they'd send their kids to a fundie Trump Youth Club school where their kids are taught the earth is flat and Trump is god.
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They may have a nuclear weapon within a matter of months.
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Next they will want to give vouchers for fundies to home school their kids and take even more money from public schools.  I am sure a good percentage of the 30% of Americans who support Trump would love this and would be telling us how wonderful this is and gives everyone more freedom.  We wouldn't want to be socialist, would we?

Trump could literally do a school shooting and this same 30% would still adore him.  They'd blame the kids.
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If they start giving vouchers to fundies to homeschool their kids, Teaman is gonna say are you telling me non-fundies who have no interest in this or who simply can't cause they are a single parent or both parents work can't get these vouchers and home school their kids like Morgan cult members can, as if this sort of thinking makes such a policy good.

I rest my case.  😊
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Trump refuses to sign landmark housing bill, taking aim at GOP
The bill is still expected to become law despite the president’s protest of congressional inaction over an unrelated elections bill.

He could veto it but it had plenty more than enough in House and Senate to override a veto.
  His comment he wouldn't sign it stopped short of veto threat
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Gas has started back up

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I was just scrolling by and noticed I gave you a disagree on this post. That must have been an accident. I’m sorry. There was nothing to disagree with.
No problem , I wasen't sure how many years we were therebut the 50k is right I believe.

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Additionally, in the aggregate, it's simply not cost efficient to have multiple schools in one area, when one can service all the kids in a particular area.  You now have two or more schools with football fields, gymnasiums, gym teachers and sports coaches, buildings, utility costs, parking lots, need two separate bus services for the schools.

If you are fiscal conservative, you don't support such things, unless it gives better results overall.  It doesn't even with the current system like this.  In the aggregate, if anything, we'd get better results if we didn't do this.  Money would go further.
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Do you think any business would set up multiple locations around town for their corporate headquarters, just so everyone could work where they would prefer?  No corporation would do this if it is cheaper just to have one central location and there was no benefit to giving their workers such a luxury of picking whatever office around town they wished to work at and that being the only benefit.  That's a luxury. 

If wealthy people want that sort of luxury with private schooling for their kids, they can pay for it themself and STFU.
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 Mamdani calls for abolishment of ICE after fatal shooting in Texas


New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has again called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the death of a man in Houston.

An ICE agent opened fire during a traffic stop in Texas, officials say, fatally injuring Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old man from Mexico.

According to reporting by the New York Times, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that Salgado Araujo was not the intended target. Officials allege that he was trying to hit an agent with his car, a claim now being investigated.

The incident has drawn backlash from politicians across the country as President Donald Trump continues his immigration enforcement crackdown, a key campaign promise of his.


Mamdani, who has called for the abolishment of ICE before, wrote on X that the city stands by Salgado Araujo's family.

"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door," Mamdani said.
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 "New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice," the mayor wrote.

He finished the tweet with a simple message: "Abolish ICE."


In the past, Mamdani has said that city agencies would follow sanctuary city guidelines by not assisting ICE in most cases.

"Our city does not simply oppose the actions of ICE, but that we are not going to be complicit with those actions either," Mamdani said in June.


"And that means making sure that every single city agency is in compliance with our sanctuary city policies... It means that we do not allow ICE agents into our schools, our hospitals, our city property unless they can provide a judicial warrant signed by a judge."

During a TV appearance in June, Mamdani again called for the abolishment of ICE.

"I have put forward a vision alongside so many others to say that ICE should be abolished, that there is no way to reform this kind of cruelty that we're seeing endemic in the way that immigration is being enforced across the country," he said on MS NOW.
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It got enough votes to take effect without his signature, unless he vetoes it.

He'll have to veto it. If congress is still in session, the bill automatically become law in 10 days without his signature.

 

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