An insight into our new leadership. This fascist moron came, armed, into the Nashville JCC, fortunately was removed before he caused any violence, but look at his "rabbi" disguise, and see his texts, just the kind of things MuskMAGA are bringing back as ok speech.
In South Carolina, where I live, rural towns often remain largely divided by race, especially those with larger Black communities. You’ll often hear people describe railroad tracks that run through these towns and how white people live on one side of the tracks, Black people on the other. That’s true. But I’ve often seen a different dividing line, a more impenetrable one. This one runs between schools: private and public ones.
While reporting in many of these small towns, I saw that Black children typically attend the local public schools while white kids head to private schools. Many of these private schools are known as “segregation academies” because they opened for white children while the federal courts were forcing districts across the South to desegregate. Hundreds of these academies still operate, and they continue to divide their communities.
The other dividing line is on money spent on these divided schools. If the poor kids can't get good teachers and recent textbooks and decent supplies, how are they supposed to compete?
In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a law that would allow Mississippi to strip for life the right to vote of anyone with a felony conviction. This followed the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling in favor of six plaintiffs last year that the ban constituted cruel and unusual punishment. MS Reentry was one of the groups advocating for the law’s reversal.
More than 4 million Americans have lost their right to vote due to felony conviction. Most states, however, no longer ban people from voting for life and have established some process to restore rights lost due to felony conviction. In 23 states, people’s rights are automatically restored upon their release.
Good morning my darling filthy mouthed shitkicker non commenters! I plan on enjoying our last 48 hours of calm and sanity resting up, hanging out, inventing new cocktails, and marathoning Doctor Who. My biggest decision will be Classic, New, or Disney Who? I recently researched all of the 15th Doctor to get ready for this year's Christmas special. I am leaning going old school with the 3rd Doctor. He was my first Doctor, way back in the day when my local PBS showed him at 11PM Saturday nights and a wee young Cloudy was allowed to sneak out of bed and watch it every week.
When passing a debilitating voucher scheme like those in other states won’t work or isn’t quite enough to retain political power, what’s the next step to privatize public education? Indiana legislators have hit on it: develop a threshold which public school enrollment must reach or else have those districts be taken over, gutted, and remolded by the state government.
Representative Jake Teshka authored House Bill 1136, the first of its kind in the nation. Rather than steal public tax money and funnel that via vouchers for families to send their students to private schools (the state already has a limited voucher program), HB 1136 permits the state to take control of all of the tax money given to a particular school district if more than 50% of students who could be enrolled in those districts are instead enrolled elsewhere in charter, private, or home schools. Those failing districts would be taken over by the state, which would transition them into charter schools and revoke the rights of taxpayers to have a say in their operation.
Happy Caturday, Wonketariat! And with permission from Rebecca*, here's the latest Penzey's newsletter:
Get Woke. Embrace Hope. Resist!
11.5.24 we were asleep. We were asleep to just how sophisticated their propaganda had become and just how far they could leave reality behind but still have voters believe they were telling the truth. Live and learn.
Back before Covid on days that really mattered we would jam-pack our stores with our customers by just up and giving away big $40+ Gift Boxes to the first 20,000 people or so in the door, and then smaller $20+ to the next 20-30,000 after the bigger boxes ran out.
This was gonna be our big plan for this Monday, but then emails started pouring in about just how moving the impact was of our ongoing efforts to get 1,000,000 free RESIST! bags into the Washington, DC area by the end of January. Lots of tears of appreciation. Lots of resolve. Lots of people dedicated to not giving up.
So I’m thinking we still want to do a big giveaway of boxes to bring our community of cooks together, but I don’t want it to financially handicap us from getting even more RESIST! bags to just where they are needed. So the new plan is to still do the giveaway but tie it to Gift Card Sales so at least we have some money coming in and maybe some new customers, too.
As you saw in the ads up above we have two new fun and tasty breakfast-and-more themed gift boxes. The $23.95 Woke Box, one free with every $30 Gift Card purchased, and the big $44.95 Rise & Shine Box free with every $50 Gift Card purchased. These boxes are full of great spices and fun to get and give. You will like them.
To round out this weekend’s offers we have a free $4.95 Hug Coin with any purchase. Someone you know could use a hug this weekend, maybe all of us. And to help us keep RESIST! flowing out the door, regularly $59.95 RESIST 27 boxes for just $27.95 with one box going to you and us promising to give another to where it might do good.
No coupons or codes are needed in our stores or online at penzeys.com for any of this. The $23.95 Woke Box will be added automatically when ordering a $50 Gift Card. The $44.95 Rise & Shine Box will be added automatically with $50 Gift Cards.
The back of the big Rise & Shine box is the same happy mug image as on the front of the Woke Box so you won’t miss out on any of the fun with the bigger box.
Please order online if that works best for you, but if at all possible please visit one of our stores instead. This weekend is one where cooks need to come together. There is much strength in that.
If you are ordering online please do that today if possible. This offer is very different from anything we’ve ever done. Getting a head start on getting orders out the door will help us and help you get your order much quicker. By Monday night we could well be way-way behind.
And if you can afford to, please participate. Both these boxes are just what this time needs and right now we are doing such good stuff with your money that having more of it would really help, too.
Thanks.
Hang in there.
We will emerge a better, stronger, more caring America for the resistance these next few days are no doubt about to set in motion.
You are strong. In that alone there is reason for hope,
*Miss Grundy, please add a note to these that you have my permission to post them, because the Penzeys are Lib Do-Gooder Friends And Supporters Of Wonkette. People keep marking them spam!
Speaking of brain fog, I've recently started binge watching episodes of the BBC panel show, "QI" (Quite Interesting).
I really love the show - the interesting facts and funny, smart people engaging in snark about said facts. But I've noticed after I watch one, I feel great and enjoyed it, but can't remember any of the interesting facts they talked about.
I need to finish writing a thank you letter to President Biden. As a general rule I don't send thank you notes to retiring presidents, but I've developed a genuine affection as well as enormous respect for Joseph Robinette Biden. The man has had to pick up the pieces after the desolute traitor and convicted rapist, then endure insufferable, thoroughly damned ignorant insults and denigration from the indignant and undeserving.
The handsome Irishman deserves a pat on the back for his extroidinary efforts on behalf of the United States of America and her allies. We won't have another exceptional executive officer quite like Joe Biden again in our lifetime.
I shall engage the archaic Palmer Method that the nuns attempted to drill into me when I was in primary school.
Truth to be told I have horrific handwriting. It's a damned good thing that I'm a fast, accurate typist because too damned often I can't read the scrawls I've marked the page with.
Fuck, what with the trade war with Canada the price of maple syrup will skyrocket. Sure, there's some domestic production, but not enough to meet demand.
I prefer my syrup from trees. Which is then filled with enough sugar to give the entire world the diabetus. But at least it tastes like sweet, sweet tree.
Democrats having been doing it wrong for years. All we have to do is create Abortion Corp., buy off enough Republicans, and it will be protected nationwide in a manner of weeks.
The most interesting paragraph in this article is:
"Other farmers have expressed concern about speaking in critical terms of President-elect Trump or Kennedy for fear of being turned down for subsidy programs or agriculture loans from the US Department of Agriculture under the incoming administration."
Fear of repercussions was a hallmark of the Nazi regime, and is going to be a hallmark of our new administration as well.
Banning it outright will be disastrous. Phasing it out would allow for a period of adjustment, but Bobbie the Lesser is incapable of thinking things through.
The bottom line is that it metabolizes differently than sugar in ways we don't yet fully understand, but we can see in our waistlines. I think it has to do with the carbohydrate nature of it.
I'm not big on cocktail-type drinks but, reading the ingredients list, this sounds like it would be something I could turn into an alcoholic with...
In case you missed it, Elon Musk is a huge poser.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/09/elon-musk-diablo-path-of-exile-loopholes-hiring-players-accusations/
An insight into our new leadership. This fascist moron came, armed, into the Nashville JCC, fortunately was removed before he caused any violence, but look at his "rabbi" disguise, and see his texts, just the kind of things MuskMAGA are bringing back as ok speech.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/videos-posts-from-neo-nazi-groups-internal-chats-reveal-suspects-motives-in-antisemitic-stunt
(Hal, Hal, open the door, Hal.)
...just had to say this : One of the cost saving measures, by DOGE, for Medicare/Medicaid, will be claims adjusters by AI.
Think of all of our money they'll save.
Strangely, straight into their own pockets! The coincidence, it is a mystery.
The real insurrection is Democrats refusing to attend Trump’s insuguration.
NYT
Democrats destroying the nation by refusing to follow the peaceful transfer of power.
Biden's fucking up if he doesn't leave a crap in Trump's desk.
Ouch. I hadn’t thought of him actually being at the desk again until just now.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬? 𝐖𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐭.
𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.
In South Carolina, where I live, rural towns often remain largely divided by race, especially those with larger Black communities. You’ll often hear people describe railroad tracks that run through these towns and how white people live on one side of the tracks, Black people on the other. That’s true. But I’ve often seen a different dividing line, a more impenetrable one. This one runs between schools: private and public ones.
While reporting in many of these small towns, I saw that Black children typically attend the local public schools while white kids head to private schools. Many of these private schools are known as “segregation academies” because they opened for white children while the federal courts were forcing districts across the South to desegregate. Hundreds of these academies still operate, and they continue to divide their communities.
https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-demographic-data-private-schools
"I am shocked, SHOCKED to discover that racial segregation continues in this country!"
"Sir, the local academy called and your daughter has been accepted."
The other dividing line is on money spent on these divided schools. If the poor kids can't get good teachers and recent textbooks and decent supplies, how are they supposed to compete?
They're not supposed to be able to. That's how you know they system is working.
Hmmmm
I wonder why they did this?
https://www.tomsguide.com/cameras-photography/drones/dji-will-stop-restricting-its-drones-from-flying-over-sensitive-areas-like-the-white-house-and-wildfires
𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢
In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a law that would allow Mississippi to strip for life the right to vote of anyone with a felony conviction. This followed the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling in favor of six plaintiffs last year that the ban constituted cruel and unusual punishment. MS Reentry was one of the groups advocating for the law’s reversal.
More than 4 million Americans have lost their right to vote due to felony conviction. Most states, however, no longer ban people from voting for life and have established some process to restore rights lost due to felony conviction. In 23 states, people’s rights are automatically restored upon their release.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/advocates-fight-voting-rights-formerly-incarcerated-mississippi/
Good morning my darling filthy mouthed shitkicker non commenters! I plan on enjoying our last 48 hours of calm and sanity resting up, hanging out, inventing new cocktails, and marathoning Doctor Who. My biggest decision will be Classic, New, or Disney Who? I recently researched all of the 15th Doctor to get ready for this year's Christmas special. I am leaning going old school with the 3rd Doctor. He was my first Doctor, way back in the day when my local PBS showed him at 11PM Saturday nights and a wee young Cloudy was allowed to sneak out of bed and watch it every week.
𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚
𝐴𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 5 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠
When passing a debilitating voucher scheme like those in other states won’t work or isn’t quite enough to retain political power, what’s the next step to privatize public education? Indiana legislators have hit on it: develop a threshold which public school enrollment must reach or else have those districts be taken over, gutted, and remolded by the state government.
Representative Jake Teshka authored House Bill 1136, the first of its kind in the nation. Rather than steal public tax money and funnel that via vouchers for families to send their students to private schools (the state already has a limited voucher program), HB 1136 permits the state to take control of all of the tax money given to a particular school district if more than 50% of students who could be enrolled in those districts are instead enrolled elsewhere in charter, private, or home schools. Those failing districts would be taken over by the state, which would transition them into charter schools and revoke the rights of taxpayers to have a say in their operation.
https://wellsourced.substack.com/p/a-disastrous-anti-education-bill
"remolded by the state government" into christofascist madrasas
"remolded by the state government" means private for profit contractors operate them.
Happy Caturday, Wonketariat! And with permission from Rebecca*, here's the latest Penzey's newsletter:
Get Woke. Embrace Hope. Resist!
11.5.24 we were asleep. We were asleep to just how sophisticated their propaganda had become and just how far they could leave reality behind but still have voters believe they were telling the truth. Live and learn.
Back before Covid on days that really mattered we would jam-pack our stores with our customers by just up and giving away big $40+ Gift Boxes to the first 20,000 people or so in the door, and then smaller $20+ to the next 20-30,000 after the bigger boxes ran out.
This was gonna be our big plan for this Monday, but then emails started pouring in about just how moving the impact was of our ongoing efforts to get 1,000,000 free RESIST! bags into the Washington, DC area by the end of January. Lots of tears of appreciation. Lots of resolve. Lots of people dedicated to not giving up.
So I’m thinking we still want to do a big giveaway of boxes to bring our community of cooks together, but I don’t want it to financially handicap us from getting even more RESIST! bags to just where they are needed. So the new plan is to still do the giveaway but tie it to Gift Card Sales so at least we have some money coming in and maybe some new customers, too.
As you saw in the ads up above we have two new fun and tasty breakfast-and-more themed gift boxes. The $23.95 Woke Box, one free with every $30 Gift Card purchased, and the big $44.95 Rise & Shine Box free with every $50 Gift Card purchased. These boxes are full of great spices and fun to get and give. You will like them.
To round out this weekend’s offers we have a free $4.95 Hug Coin with any purchase. Someone you know could use a hug this weekend, maybe all of us. And to help us keep RESIST! flowing out the door, regularly $59.95 RESIST 27 boxes for just $27.95 with one box going to you and us promising to give another to where it might do good.
No coupons or codes are needed in our stores or online at penzeys.com for any of this. The $23.95 Woke Box will be added automatically when ordering a $50 Gift Card. The $44.95 Rise & Shine Box will be added automatically with $50 Gift Cards.
The back of the big Rise & Shine box is the same happy mug image as on the front of the Woke Box so you won’t miss out on any of the fun with the bigger box.
Please order online if that works best for you, but if at all possible please visit one of our stores instead. This weekend is one where cooks need to come together. There is much strength in that.
If you are ordering online please do that today if possible. This offer is very different from anything we’ve ever done. Getting a head start on getting orders out the door will help us and help you get your order much quicker. By Monday night we could well be way-way behind.
And if you can afford to, please participate. Both these boxes are just what this time needs and right now we are doing such good stuff with your money that having more of it would really help, too.
Thanks.
Hang in there.
We will emerge a better, stronger, more caring America for the resistance these next few days are no doubt about to set in motion.
You are strong. In that alone there is reason for hope,
Bill
bill@penzeys.com
*Miss Grundy, please add a note to these that you have my permission to post them, because the Penzeys are Lib Do-Gooder Friends And Supporters Of Wonkette. People keep marking them spam!
...who here is marking them as spam XD
*eats own brain in frustration*
Speaking of brain fog, I've recently started binge watching episodes of the BBC panel show, "QI" (Quite Interesting).
I really love the show - the interesting facts and funny, smart people engaging in snark about said facts. But I've noticed after I watch one, I feel great and enjoyed it, but can't remember any of the interesting facts they talked about.
"That's Entertainment!"
I need to finish writing a thank you letter to President Biden. As a general rule I don't send thank you notes to retiring presidents, but I've developed a genuine affection as well as enormous respect for Joseph Robinette Biden. The man has had to pick up the pieces after the desolute traitor and convicted rapist, then endure insufferable, thoroughly damned ignorant insults and denigration from the indignant and undeserving.
The handsome Irishman deserves a pat on the back for his extroidinary efforts on behalf of the United States of America and her allies. We won't have another exceptional executive officer quite like Joe Biden again in our lifetime.
"PS: WTF w/ Merrick Garland?"
Yeah, fuck him.
Tell him thanks for my cat's $35 insulin!
YOU MONSTER!!!1111!!1!1!!!
I shall engage the archaic Palmer Method that the nuns attempted to drill into me when I was in primary school.
Truth to be told I have horrific handwriting. It's a damned good thing that I'm a fast, accurate typist because too damned often I can't read the scrawls I've marked the page with.
Oy vey...
All my college and military notes were printed. My signature is a disaster area.
Me too. But I made 05 and retired at 20, so good enough I guess.
(renders salute for light colonel)
There are times I read one of my notes, for I am a note writer, and then I have to figure out what I wrote
Youngest has gotten super good at deciphering my scrawl. Told him he should be a medical transcriptionist
My mother's cursive was always very clear and readable. I didn't inherit her gene for that.
I used to suffer from brain fog. But then I started wrapping tin foil around my left ear. Here's why:
I opened a crack where the rain gets in.
Iconoclast.
"RFK's vow to ban syrup sows concerns among corn farmers in Trump heartland. (GRASSLEY:Asumme nomination dead.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/18/rfk-jr-corn-syrup-ban-trump
Fuck, what with the trade war with Canada the price of maple syrup will skyrocket. Sure, there's some domestic production, but not enough to meet demand.
Eat cornflakes.
You don't put maple syrup on your cornflakes?
Nope. Karo Syrup, till JFKjr says 'cancer'.
Then what ? Powdered sugar on butter, with cinnamon ?
I prefer my syrup from trees. Which is then filled with enough sugar to give the entire world the diabetus. But at least it tastes like sweet, sweet tree.
"Ever eat a pine tree?"
Democrats having been doing it wrong for years. All we have to do is create Abortion Corp., buy off enough Republicans, and it will be protected nationwide in a manner of weeks.
Delta Airlines Presents the AbortionCorp Bowl.
The most interesting paragraph in this article is:
"Other farmers have expressed concern about speaking in critical terms of President-elect Trump or Kennedy for fear of being turned down for subsidy programs or agriculture loans from the US Department of Agriculture under the incoming administration."
Fear of repercussions was a hallmark of the Nazi regime, and is going to be a hallmark of our new administration as well.
Nice little subsidy you have there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
Women already live with this issue: "Nice little unwanted pregnancy you have there, it'd be a shame if you were forced to keep it."
No shit. Abortion was cheap and legal beginning when I was 18 in fucking Dallas Texas. We have really slipped.
All the chickens coming home to roost :)
Wait until feedlots can't use antibiotics. MAGA remorse.
Literally none of Trump’s policies are good for business
His wallet, however...
Going after HFCS is a good thing. The stuff is evil. Fuck Grassley and Iowa.
Banning it outright will be disastrous. Phasing it out would allow for a period of adjustment, but Bobbie the Lesser is incapable of thinking things through.
The bottom line is that it metabolizes differently than sugar in ways we don't yet fully understand, but we can see in our waistlines. I think it has to do with the carbohydrate nature of it.
Yeah, RFK the lesser is right on this one. Broken clock syndrome....
he has a few not terrible ideas
Unfortunately, he has so many terrible ideas that the not terrible ones get eaten up.
Maybe it’s brain fog . . .
Maybe his worm has brain fog?
Seems to be everywhere nowadays.
Take my Torani shot, jes come and try!