Texas and Florida, your move

Political leadership aside, climate change is going to undermine Florida’s continual growth. Everyone is affected, but no state like Florida. The property insurance crisis feels like it’s going to mean the end Florida’s growth model of continual development. There’s just no way.

I don’t know how soon that will happen. It’s not happening as soon as I anticipated, and I’m not sure when it results in decreasing population and extreme measures about building on the beach. But it’s going to.

Locally I have long thought about South Tampa and the Peninsula, and the fact that it’s going to flood regularly fairly soon. We sold and got out of there for that reason. But the real estate market there has stayed very hot. But I feel strongly at some point it’s going to break. Anything that can’t go on, won’t go on.

 

If your "conscience" as a medical professional tells you not to treat those in need, your conscience is not of the Light, no matter what you think it is.

 

Amen. Said better than I could.

 

Good luck! We got in the Riverside heights just in time. The market here now is crazy with people moving in.

 

Texas steps up! Education cannot include participative democracy, petitioning for the redress of grievances. Too dangerous

 

Texas continues to set the standard for effective pedagogy. It’s not like you can argue that third graders don’t need to dress a wound in todays world

 

OTOH, credit where due. Hope it becomes law

 

Tennessee makes a bold move to match the DeSantis Hillsdale energy, per Judd Legum

Last week, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) announced that he had appointed Laurie Cardoza-Moore to serve on the Tennessee Standards Recommendation Committee to oversee “Social Studies materials being reviewed for use in classrooms statewide.” Cardoza-Moore, known for holding extremist views and promoting conspiracy theories, has called "U.S. history textbooks" currently used in classrooms the "greatest national security threat to the United States."

Her organization believes 9-11 was an inside job and should not be taught as attributed to Al Queda

According to Akbari, when reviewing a textbook passage, PJTN “suggest[ed] removing” a sentence stating that “members of al-Qaeda carried out” the September 11 attacks. PJTN cited a “plethora of evidence” for the suggested removal, stating, “This is a highly contested (per [A]rchitects and [E]ngineers for 9/11 Truth, and demolition experts) argument.” Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth was a group that falsely claimed that 9/11 was an "inside job" because they believed the impact of the planes into the World Trade Center towers could not have resulted in their collapse. According to Akbari, “the quote was pulled ‘directly from a review that [Cardoza-Moore] made.”

Antifa staged 1-6

Cardoza-Moore continued to push conspiracy theories after the insurrection occurred at the Capitol on January 6, claiming that it was actually “Antifa” and not Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol. “Antifa stormed the Capitol! It wasn’t led by Trump Patriots,” Cardoza-Moore tweeted on January 7, 2021.

And kidnapping Gretchen Witmer was just being patriotic

Later that year, when news broke that right-wing extremists were planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), Cardoza-Moore also expressed support for the kidnapping plot. “Am I missing something here? Didn’t the Founders address removing a tyrant from office in the Constitution?” Cardoza-Moore wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post. “Michiganders, it’s time to step up and defend your Constitutional rights!”

There's plenty more examples at the link, but I will observe the four paragraph rule.

But seriously, this feels so extreme yet people have views like this are exercising a lot of power and influence in our nation these days. Neither very fringe minority has figured out some way to really leverage influence in the system, or perhaps not as much of a fringe minority as I believe. That scares me.

I really feel like I have to leave Florida when I retire. Can't practically do it before then. But will it be safe anywhere in this great country that I could never imagine leaving the first 60 years of my life, despite being in the political minority the vast majority of that time.

Of course, black people in America have endured far worse for 400 years and have kept the faith with our promise, so it feels a little precious to bail. But man, if people like this are "in charge", feels like so much of what made us an imperfect but striving to improve beacon of liberty no longer exists.


Tennessee Speaker appoints conspiracy theorist to develop state social studies standards

 

Not sure - just wanted the part about attribution to Al Queda removed, at least so far.

Just free speech man. We don't want kids to be indoctrinated. They need to understand all points of view about whether 9/11 could've been an inside job don't try to stifle ideas you don't agree with.