“I can’t breathe” has become a rallying cry for supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. Those were the last words uttered by George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police in May 2020. They were also the last words of Eric Garner, a Black man who in 2014 was suffocated to death by a New York City officer.
Tensions were high inside the Carroll ISD meeting, where several parents spoke to demand that the board scrap the mask mandate immediately, according to FOX 4 News. One mom said face coverings have caused district students psychological and emotional damage.
“These girls are sitting in the bathroom stalls eating their sandwiches with a side order of E. coli.” – Carroll ISD mom
It’s the latest in a series of CIA recruitment videos aiming to attract greater diversity among job candidates.
The Guardian reported that other videos in the ongoing campaign have included a gay librarian and a blind receptionist.
Some have applauded the Latina protagonist for her well-earned accomplishments. Others have mocked the CIA for using anti-racist language, you know, given its history.
But Cruz took a different tack. In fact, the ad apparently bothered him so much that he felt the need to tweet about it two days in a row.
On Monday, Cruz shared the recruitment video along with the caption: “If you’re a Chinese communist, or an Iranian Mullah, or Kim Jong Un…would this scare you? We’ve come a long way from Jason Bourne.”
HB 1359 s passage is one of Denton County GOP’s priorities, which the party hopes will send “a strong message” to state lawmakers. The party also resolved to launch a campaign informing Texas Republican voters about the proposition’s importance.
In explaining the rationale behind the resolution, the party calls the federal bureaucracy “unaccountable” and “invasive.” It complains that needless regulations are crippling “entrepreneurial initiative and the creation of wealth,” and that there isn’t hope of returning the bureaucracy to its constitutional role.
The party also says the state s constitution allows Texans to alter, reform, or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.” (Not all constitutional scholars agree on this point.)
After more than a year, the country may be ready to kick COVID-19 to the curb, but many public health experts believe that some things have forever changed, regardless of when the coronavirus becomes fully contained.
While the pandemic is trending in the right direction, Carlson said things certainly won t feel normal until kids can get vaccinated. That may start to happen sometime in the fall.
Children are such a large part of the population that America can’t hit herd immunity until they’re also vaccinated, she said. In addition, kids’ ability to attend in-person classes is an important measure of normalcy, because many families can’t return to business as usual until their children are back in school.
When politicians redistrict, they’re effectively shifting political power across regions. And with prison gerrymandering, incarcerated populations are counted as part of their facility’s district, rather than part of their home community.
In a report released last Monday, the TCRP warned that prison gerrymandering gives certain districts unfair advantages because prisoners in those areas are not actually part of the community. At the same time, prison gerrymandering reduces the political sway of prisoners’ home communities.
A small number of rural regions stand to gain a disproportionate amount of political power in Texas to the detriment of urban areas and other rural regions, the TCRP wrote in the report. Such underrepresentation exacerbates socioeconomic disparities rooted in race-based discrimination.