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The DUmpster / Re: This is how everyday people are fighting ICE in North Carolina...
« Last post by SVPete on November 20, 2025, 01:39:32 PM »
Activist Educators Protest ICE in NC Even as Violent Offenders Are Arrested Nearby

https://wokespy.com/activist-educators-protest-ice-in-nc-even-as-violent-offenders-are-arrested-nearby-watch/

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Leaders of the Asheville, North Carolina, affiliate of the National Education Association joined activists Monday in calling for the city to block United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using any municipal property.

The press conference followed the arrest of 81 illegal immigrants in Charlotte during the opening phase of ICE’s enforcement effort known as “Charlotte’s Web.”

The event, streamed by the Buncombe County Association of Educators, featured teachers’ union representatives, local pastors, and Asheville City Councilwoman Kim Roney, who is also a candidate for mayor.
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A Department of Homeland Security release connected to the “Charlotte’s Web” operation reported that among those arrested were members of the MS-13 gang, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by President Donald Trump hours after taking office on Jan. 20.

Others arrested included illegal immigrants with convictions for assault, larceny, and DWI.

In the real world, PittBlue's "everyday people" are genteel union thugs plus a couple of UCC and U-U "pastors" (misleaders of sheep).
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/20
« Last post by enslaved1 on November 20, 2025, 01:17:43 PM »
Lizzo with a direct message to Trump supporters: “If you voted MAGA, don’t play my music.”

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In an era where celebrity voices increasingly influence public discourse, Lizzo—a Grammy-winning, chart-topping artist—has once again made headlines for her unapologetic stances. Recently, she issued a stern directive to supporters of former President Donald Trump: “If you voted MAGA, don’t play my music.” This statement not only underscores her political convictions but also raises broader questions about the role of artists in political activism and the impact of social media in shaping modern public discourse.



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The DUmpster / Re: Months ago DUers made it pellucidly clear
« Last post by SVPete on November 20, 2025, 01:03:45 PM »
Target slashes prices on thousands of items in bid to revive slipping sales

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/target-slashes-prices-thousands-items-bid-revive-slipping-sales

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Target is cutting prices on thousands of food and household items as it works to reverse its sales slump under its new chief executive.

The retail giant specifically will slash the cost of 3,000 items across those categories to help families stretch their budget during the holiday season, Target's commercial officer, Rick Gomez, said.

Gomez said it's one key element of its strategy to boost its value proposition during the holiday season. Target more than doubled its holiday assortment this year, adding 20,000 new gifts, but Gomez said its offering thousands of toys priced under $20. In particular, he noted that there will be affordable holiday home décor such as ornaments starting at $1, candles at $5 and throws at $10.

[Greta] How dare they! [/Greta]
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My stories with the random donkey Karen telling me to do something, both female and male, end rather abruptly when the words "**** you ****." come out of my mouth.

 :hi5: In 5 decades of shopping at, variously, Kmart, Sears, Ward, Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, Costco, and Walmart I've never had a Karen experience. My plan, if I ever do, is to say repeatedly and in increasing loudness, "I don't work here!" until a manager and/or security person shows up, being ready for the Karen to try to take a swing at me. And if I happen to be using a cane (which I do not, currently), well, their knee(s) will be bruised or worse.

But there is a karen in this tale:

The DUmmy who thinks 'permission' is in any way related to having ones photo being taken in a public place where there is no expectation of privacy.

 :hi5: I will admit that that is a typical Karen line. Karens tend to forget that that every retail store has 50 billion cameras watching every square inch of the store's property.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/20
« Last post by SVPete on November 20, 2025, 12:10:26 PM »
Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault



Sounds like masochism-for-hire plus virtue-signaling self-aggrandizement plus superfluous smearing of violent Progs.

I wonder of this was her inspiration for the false police report:

Lesbian who alleged Nebraska hate crime charged with lying about attack

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lesbian-who-alleged-nebraska-hate-crime-charged-lying-about-attack-flna956799

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Updated at 7:58 p.m. ET: A Nebraska woman who claimed she was the victim of a horrific hate crime in July and subsequently charged with making false claims to police pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Tuesday.

Police in Lincoln, Neb., who spent weeks investigating the case, arrested Charlie Rogers Tuesday for making a false report. Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly said a judge issued the warrant for her arrest earlier Tuesday.

Charlie Rogers, Nebraska Lesbian Who Faked Anti-Gay Hate Crime, Sentenced To Jail

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-rogers-gay-sentenced_n_3117231

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The Nebraska-based lesbian woman who shockingly staged an anti-gay hate crime has been sentenced to a week in jail.

The Lincoln Journal-Star reports that Charlie Rogers, 34, will also spend the next two years on probation and be required to undergo a psychological evaluation and complete 250 hours of community hours for lying to investigators in July 2012.

Lancaster County Judge Gale Pokorny called Rogers' original claim "an incredible and outrageous lie," according to the Omaha World-Herald. He also pointed to the "disservice" Rogers had committed to the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

“For a long, long time to come, when a gay makes a legitimate complaint about unequal treatment or discrimination, there’s going to be a knee-jerk reaction among many: ‘Yeah, well, Charlie Rogers said the same thing,’” he is quoted by the Journal-Star as saying.

 :rotf: How often do we post a news article from HuffPo? :rotf:
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The DUmpster / Re: Yesterday...
« Last post by enslaved1 on November 20, 2025, 11:59:31 AM »
DHS arrests more than 150 illegal immigrant sex offenders in Florida operation

So, DUmpfly, your good with building some gallows for these folks, right? 
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/20
« Last post by SVPete on November 20, 2025, 11:57:05 AM »
CAIR Paid Students To Vandalize College Campuses

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/20/cair-paid-students-to-vandalize-college-campuses-n3809078

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Colleges and universities have used an extremely light touch when punishing students who vandalized, occupied, or even assaulted fellow students on campus. The pro-Hamas protests upended colleges and universities because these entitled brats hated Jews and loved destruction.

For that, few received any punishment at all.

But when violations of campus rules or laws were so egregious that students lost grants or scholarships or were kicked off campus, CAIR apparently decided to step in and help out.
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Anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at US colleges and were punished by authorities were awarded checks for $1,000 by a Muslim nonprofit, The Post has learned.

The money was given to students who faced penalties for leading pro-Palestinian protests before and after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 2023, according to a bombshell report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN).

The cash was awarded from a “Champions of Justice Fund,” set up by the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) as “institutional endorsement,” the report claims.

Well, $1000 is far less than any university's tuition, but it's far more than cafeteria lunch money.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/20
« Last post by enslaved1 on November 20, 2025, 11:56:20 AM »
Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault

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A former congressional staffer is accused of staging a fake and self-targeted political attack involving mutilation and derogatory writing on her body.

Natalie Greene, 26, who once worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), faces federal charges of conspiracy and making false statements to law enforcement. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

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Greene told police that her alleged attackers addressed her by name, one saying he would kill her if she made any noise and one saying he had a gun. One of the men also cut into her body with a sharp object, she told them, and one or more of the men wrote on her.

But investigators later learned that Greene visited a “scarification artist” and paid $500 in cash for lacerations in a specific pattern that she picked out, the complaint says. They also discovered the co-conspirator had Google searched “zip ties near me” days before the alleged attack, and black zip ties and duct tape were found in Greene’s car on the night of the incident.


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BREAKING: House Dem Steps Down From Committee After Federal Indictment For FEMA Fraud

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/11/20/new-house-dem-steps-down-from-committee-after-federal-indictment-for-fema-fraud-n3809106

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Late yesterday, the Department of Justice announced an indictment on money laundering and theft against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and her brother Edwin Cherfilus. The House Democrat is currently serving her third term in office, having won a special election in 2022 to replace the late Alcee Hastings. The DoJ allege that the siblings stole and then laundered millions of dollars in emergency funds:

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Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., was indicted Wednesday on charges she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said.

In a news release citing the indictment, the Justice Department said that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and Edwin Cherfilus, 51, her brother, worked on a staffing contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Covid vaccinations tied to their family health care company in 2021 and that the company was overpaid by $5 million in relief funds.

She and her brother are accused of conspiring to steal the overpayment and route it through various accounts to conceal its origins. Cherfilus-McCormick is alleged to have used the money for her own enrichment and to fund a significant part of her congressional campaign.

Nepotism intersecting with corruption.
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General Discussion / Homeschooling Is Booming, and the Pandemic Has Little to Do With It
« Last post by SVPete on November 20, 2025, 11:49:41 AM »
Homeschooling Is Booming, and the Pandemic Has Little to Do With It

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/11/20/homeschooling-is-booming-and-the-pandemic-has-little-to-do-with-it-n4946214

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Homeschooling has gone mainstream. In less than a generation, teaching children in the home has gone from a choice made by religious parents to the fastest-growing segment of educational choice in America.

"In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%," writes Angela Watson in the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Homeschool Hub. "This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%," she added.

A third of the states that report homeschooling figures claim the highest homeschooling numbers ever, surpassing even numbers reached during the pandemic. That's the most surprising aspect of the boom in homeschooling.

"This isn't a pandemic hangover; it's a fundamental shift in how American families are thinking about education," comments Watson.
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"Five years after the pandemic's onset, there has been a substantial shift away from public schools and toward non-public options," Boston University's Joshua Goodman and Abigail Francis wrote last summer for Education Next.
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According to the Johns Hopkins Institute, using census data, about 2.8% of children were homeschooled in 2019. That number is now close to 6% and continues to climb.

Pew Research surveyed parents about why they pulled their child out of public school and decided to homeschool.

Newsweek:

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The most common reason cited was concern about the school environment, including safety, drug exposure, or negative peer pressure, with 83 percent of parents saying it was a factor. Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at schools was also a top concern, cited by 72 percent. About half of parents said the desire to provide religious instruction and to provide a nontraditional approach to their children’s education were factors.

I'm mildly surprised that homeschooling growth has persisted and increase post-Covid. I can think of two reasons (of probably several): parents saw daily what was being taught in the children's PS; parents realized, over the shutdown time, that they could be very good teachers for their children. Parents also probably saw the kinds of resources available to homeschoolers and the support available in the close-knit homeschooling community.

This webpage from HSLDA summaries of various states' laws relevant to Homeschooling, https://hslda.org/legal . FWIW, the states whose laws are most restrictive/onerous are NY, MA, PA, and RI.

Back in the mid 80s when we decided to homeschool, our main concern was the academic decline in public schools, which has worsened. The prospect of strengthening our family and bypassing peer dependence were also a couple of our main concerns. If the term "generation" in the article means ~40 years, we were part of a large surge of religious homeschooler. Before that homeschooling was a varied fabric of religious people and people not happy with PSs focus on academics (se, e.g. "unschooling") and the one-size-fits-all methods.
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