All posts tagged "Libraries"

A lot of Americans will be checking out their local libraries after Fox News ran a segment on their transition into "drug-infested sex dens."

Host Jesse Watters told his fellow Fox News panelists Thursday that an under-reported crime spree had spread through public library systems and he had one person to blame.

"Libraries are no longer safe in [President] Joe Biden's America," Watters declared. The show cut to a brief report on the New York Post's reporting on librarians' safety woes. ...

The Houston Independent School District, the largest in Texas and the eighth-largest in the United States, will eliminate librarian positions in 28 schools and turn libraries into what are being called “discipline centers,” according to Click2Houston.

Mike Myles, the state-installed schools superintendent and former charter schools CEO, earlier this month announced cuts of up to 600 central office positions.

Texas has a $32 billion state surplus but rather than allocate needed funds to public schools, lawmakers in the majority-Republican state legislature, at the behest of Governor Greg Abbott, just delivered a massive property tax cut....

[rebelmouse-image 24750079 original_size="315x400" expand=1]I have a few things, none long enough for a proper post, so here's a compendium. I'm particularly pleased with the piece I have in the Guardian's CIF this morning on the Aaron Schock photo and the overall right wing obsession with masculinity that verges into camp.  A sample: