by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation on Friday allowing teachers and staff to carry handguns on school grounds.
The bill, HB 1202/SB 1325, applies to K-12 public school campuses and is effective immediately.
“What’s important is that we give districts tools and the option to use a tool that will keep their children safe,” Lee told reporters before signing the bill into law.
“There are folks across the state who disagree on the way forward, but we all agree that we should keep our kids safe.”
According to a report from the Associated Press, “The bill would bar disclosing which employees are carrying guns beyond school administrators and police, including to parents of students and even other teachers. A principal, school district and law enforcement agency would have to agree to let staff carry guns.”
Employees wanting to carry a weapon must pass a background check and psychiatric evaluation. Additionally, they must complete 40 hours of basic training for school policing and 40 hours of Peace Officer’s Standards and Training.
The bill had prompted massive protests at the state capital, including a dramatic “die in” demonstration.
Lt. Gov. Randy McNally has ordered the Senate gallery to be cleared of spectators after several outbursts and a warning from McNally as senators debate a measure that would allow Tennessee teachers to carry concealed firearms inside classrooms. pic.twitter.com/gPapJ5ElA7
— Vivian Jones (@Vivian_E_Jones) April 9, 2024
As they were being removed, spectators chanted:
“Vote them out!”
“No more silence, end gun violence!”
“What do we want? Gun control! When do we want it? Now!”
One yelled: “I want to teach in safety!” pic.twitter.com/6H9y4lZXuP
— Vivian Jones (@Vivian_E_Jones) April 9, 2024
Those who support the legislation have argued that the bill will considerably help rural areas with limited police capabilities.
Republican Sen. Ken Yager had argued, “It’s time that we look at the facts of the bill, that we are not trying to shoot a student, but protect a student from an active shooter whose sole purpose is to get into that school and kill people.”
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by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer did not get the welcome she expected while introducing the NFL draft in Detroit.
Footage circulating across social media shows the leftist Democrat enthusiastically taking the stage while being audibly booed by the audience.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer showed up to the NFL Draft in Detroit and got booed into another dimension.pic.twitter.com/Uimu46FcLH
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 27, 2024
Whitmer was chosen to announce the Detroit Lions fourth-round pick, confirming that the event had set an all-time attendance record.
“It has been a historic week in the great city of Detroit,” Whitmer said. “We have shown the world what the Motor City is all about. It is my honor to announce that the 2024 NFL Draft has now broken the all-time record. 700,000 and counting. So, thank you NFL fans and thank you Detroit.”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces that the 2024 NFL Draft has broken the all-time attendance record with 700,000 fans. pic.twitter.com/6TKj6OQZlB
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 27, 2024
Such a reception does not bode particularly well for Whitmer’s future political ambitions, with many liberal commentators touting her as a future presidential candidate.
Despite positioning herself as a supposed centrist, Whitmer was notorious for her fascistic approach to COVID pandemics and has actively pushed far-left ideas such as Critical Race Theory across Michigan’s schools.
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by | Apr 27, 2024 | General Warz
Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison after his conviction for rape was overturned.
Who knows maybe his last stop. No pity for this man.
@GenWarz 🦅🇺🇸
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-27/harvey-weinstein-hospitalized-after-his-return-to-new-york-from-upstate-prison
Los Angeles Times
Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says he’s been hospitalized for tests in New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction.
by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Ex-schools chancellor Richard Carranza (left); Jaye Murray, Lois Herrera, Laure Feijoo (right) – via New York Post
Three white women will receive a total of $2.1 million in a lawsuit against New York City after they were demoted from their positions as Department of Education executives — for being White!
The demotions happened under ex-Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. Carranza was appointed by former New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who, according to internal emails reported by the New York Post, was “fixated on diversity.”
The lawsuit filed five years ago takes on the racist policies of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), which companies and government entities use to discriminate against Whites because they’re supposedly more advantaged than people of color.
Equality in today’s world has been replaced with equity because the theory behind the policy assumes that people of color need an extra push or training wheels to reach the same level of success as their White counterparts, and therefore, Whites should be disadvantaged in the workplace.
What a privilege!
As Tucker Carlson noted in a discussion on racism against White people in a recent podcast episode, “There is systemic racism in the United States against Whites.”
Tucker Carlson: There Is Systemic Racism in the U.S. – Against Whites! (Video)
However, this racism against Whites also translates into prejudice against other races, as the basis for anti-White discrimination is the automatic assumption that people are not as intelligent and capable or need participation awards like a month dedicated in their honor if they’re not White. But there is one aspect of equality in that we’re all just sheep in the world of progressive leftists.
The “landmark case,” as attorney Davida Perry called it, may help our country return to sanity and deter woke DEI policies in the future.
New York Post reports,
Lois Herrera, Jaye Murray and Laura Feijoo – who will receive $700,000 each – reached a settlement three months after a judge ruled they “offer evidence of race-based discrimination in Carranza’s DOE,” paving the way for a June trial.
“This landmark case is a resounding affirmation that discrimination of any form should not be tolerated in educational institutions, regardless of the race of those negatively impacted,” their lawyer Davida Perry told The Post.
Filed five years ago, the suit alleged Carranza waged a crusade against “toxic whiteness” in the city Department of Education.
Herrera, who had a Harvard master’s degree, was working successfully as CEO of the Office of Safety and Youth Development when one of Carranza’s deputy chancellors abruptly stripped her title and replaced her with a “less-qualified” Black man, Mark Rampersant, who held a GED, the suit alleged.
Plaintiff Jaye Murray, former executive director of the Office of Counseling Support Programs, had her duties “sharply reduced” after being told to report to Herrera’s successor, and Plaintiff Laura Feijoo, former Senior Supervising Superintendent, was replaced by a black woman who didn’t even have the required licensing.
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