Open thread for night owls: Betsy DeVos tells students but not her boss—don't be mean on Twitter
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Steven Crockett Jr. at The Root writes—Betsy DeVos Tells Students Not to be Mean on Twitter. Student Responds: What About Your Boss? On Monday, at a student town in the Hall National Constitution Center, DeVos warned a crowd of kids ranging from elementarOpen thread for night owls: Betsy DeVos tells students but not her boss—don't be mean on Twitter
Steven Crockett Jr. at The Root writes—Betsy DeVos Tells Students Not to be Mean on Twitter. Student Responds: What About Your Boss? On Monday, at a student town in the Hall National Constitution Center, DeVos warned a crowd of kids ranging from elementary to college-age students not to “be nasty” when messaging on Twitter. DeVos was there to “talk about the First Amendment as part of the Center’s annual Constitution Day, commemorating the 231st anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution,” The Associated Press reports. “It is easy to be nasty hiding behind screens and Twitter handles,” she said. “It’s not so easy face-t0-face.” Ummm....but... Thankfully, 21-year-old Kaileigh Murphy was in attendance to tell the uneducated education secretary that her message might be better served if she delivered it to the president considering he often logs into his presidential Twitter account to rail against his detractors, make up nicknames for Congress members who disagree with his policy and straight out bully others. [...] DeVos went on to note that as a nation “we have abandoned truth,” and everything has become personal points of view—another point that she could’ve taken straight to the man who denies actual numbers like the size of his inauguration crowd, the number of electoral votes he received, the number of people who died in Puerto Rico or his poll numbers. Indivisible’s list of Resistance Events & Groups TOP COMMENTS • HIGH IMPACT STORIES QUOTATION «I am younger today than I was at twenty-five. Of course the furrows of suffering have been dug deeper, but so have those of understanding sympathy and inner happiness. Whatever age may do to my earthly shell, I shall never grow cynical or indifferent—and one cannot measure the reserve power locked up in that assurance.» ~~Helen Keller, Letter to Clare Heineman, July 19, 1943 TWEET OF THE DAY xWe routinely lock up 17-year-olds - especially black & Latinx boys - for decades or life. If you're defending Kavanaugh on the basis of «He was 17 & dumb,» you'd better be consistently arguing against trying minors as adults & giving teenagers life sentences, too.— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) September 17, 2018 BLAST FROM THE PAST On this date at Daily Kos in 2015—'Proud Catholic' Rep. Paul Gosar to boycott Pope's address, condemns 'socialist,' 'leftist' policies: A holy man, but not as holy as Arizona's Paul Gosar. Rep. Paul Gosar, honorable congressman from the fine state of Arizona—hey, they can't _all_ be from Texas—will not be attending Pope Francis's upcoming speech to Congress. He will be boycotting the speech, albeit with a heavy heart, because Pope Francis gives a flying damn about the fate of the planet and up with that the «proud Catholic» Gosar will not put. Many believed, like I did, that this was an opportunity for the Pope to be one of the world’s great religious advocates and address the current intolerance of religious freedom. An opportunity to urgently challenge governments to properly address the persecution and execution of Christians and religious minorities; to address the heinous and senseless murders committed by ISIS and other terrorist organizations. An opportunity to address the enslavement, belittlement, rape and desecration of Christian women and children; to address the condoned, subsidized, intentionally planned genocide of unborn children by Planned Parenthood and society; and finally, an opportunity for His Holiness to refocus our priorities on right from wrong. Media reports indicate His Holiness instead intends to focus the brunt of his speech on climate change--a climate that has been changing since first created in Genesis. More troubling is the fact that this climate change talk has adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into “climate justice” and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies. If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line. If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on. If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly. But when the Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one. Got it. As long as the Pope promotes ideas that conservatives like and does so in a conservative frame, Paul Gosar is a big fan of the Pope. But if the Pope slips up and introduces something «proud Catholic» Paul Gosar doesn't like, the Pope can go straight to you-know where. Read more