#nodevos

I’ve made some templates out of annoyance and disgust. Alter them as necessary. 

Free site to send faxes: FaxZero (There’s even a thing at the top for finding your senators and representatives.)

For expressing disgust at conservatives about DeVos confirmation: 

As one of your many disappointed constituents, I'm sickened by your vote for DeVos. She has no experience nor qualifications when it comes to the educational system and the only thing she is capable of doing is cutting checks. This is obvious from your campaign donors lists, along with other Republicans.

Your constituents know your vote was bought; you are more loyal to your party than the people you are supposed to be serving.

You are part of a public service, [Senator’s Name.] Your personal opinions do not matter. The opinions of the people who put you in office overrule your friendships, your Republican camaraderie, your personal morals. If you cannot and will not serve the People, you will not sit in office.

Against Jeff Sessions: 

In the 80s, Jeff Sessions was denied federal judgeship for his insensitivity to race relations. Looking at his own history, he has commented on the KKK being “OK” and has called civil rights groups “un-American.” Even Coretta Scott King – Martin Luther King, Jr’s wife – wrote against Session’s bid for federal judgeship, citing his eagerness to prosecute black men for legally using the absentee ballot system.

Now, you’re thinking about making him the Attorney General, a position of great executive power. Has the United States gone backward in time? Why are we allowing, enabling, and empowering racism and bigotry?

As your constituent, you shouldn’t even be entertaining the thought of Sessions as an Attorney General. The People have been raising their voices and Republicans have been soundly ignoring us. Newsflash: We don’t care about your relationship with Sessions. We don’t care what he’s given you or if he agrees with you. It is your duty, as our elected representative, to listen to us and vote according to our wishes. If you refuse to do so, then you are not fulfilling the obligations of your job. The People will remember and we will not let you remain in office.

Let me repeat that: A woman who refused to ensure that students with disabilities get the resources they need was confirmed as the person in charge of their education. As someone who received special education services and then worked for four years as a TA in a special education classroom, that disturbs me.

A women who refused to promise to maintain schools as gun-free zones, and then had the audacity to claim her heart bled for the parents of those killed in school shootings, was confirmed as the secretary of education. The safety of the students and my old coworkers, as well as my brother and his fiancé who are educators, apparently isn’t as important as the “right” to own a piece of metal that has no purpose except to maim and kill.

1 country, split-opinion fixer-upper. 2.3 billion acres. High glass ceilings and soon-to-be waterfront vistas everywhere.

Asking price: $1 million and your soul, OBO. Not an equal opportunity seller - no POCs, LGBTQs or non-Christians need apply. No pets, except for bald eagles.

All sales are final. Property sold as-is. Evidently no prior ownership experience is necessary. Upon death, property reverts back to the bank, which is fine, because there won't be anything left to leave your kids anyway.

What More Politics – Why Trump is Good for the Country

Disclaimer

This is mostly an education blog, but education is a subversive activity,

I really should read this book one day

so I’m stuck talking politics a lot lately. There is much injustice in the world and for me the big injustice is the lack of resources we give to education. Both in the underserved school district where I work and in general. While I would love it if the military had to hold…

Switchboards accross the Nation are lit up with Americans calling their Senators to reject Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary during confirmation hearings for the Trump cabinet.

Senators and staff have been swamped with #NoDeVos phone calls, emails, messages and Tweets. Some phone services have been overloaded and shut down. Many have just quit answering their phones. They are simply stressed to the MAX!

No fear, if you are stressed you can cure all that ails you with the Betsy DeVos endorsed brain washing, mind altering, brain-healthy fish dishes from the neurocorecenters, sure to be introduced and forced upon your children in a school near you.  Billionaire DeVos, conspiracy theorists, chicken little and theocrats swear by this stuff’s effectiveness and they claim a 90% improvement rate for kids with ADHD. They don’t produce nor do they have any documented proof or studies to back this claim up, but they don’t need it because they have faith. And they have faith you will send them $2000 for their program.

Feel free to send this as a FREE fax to someone in the Senate: 

https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Or in the House of Representatives: 

https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php

And for fun you can see which representatives have received the most faxes in the past 24 hours:

https://faxzero.com/most_faxed_reps.php

For once, Donut Mouse did NOT step in Mistake Bucket.

VOTE NO ON SESSIONS

VOTE NO ON DEVOS

Be like Donut Mouse!