Spread the word.
YES PLEASE
LIKE TO CHARGE, REBLOG TO CAST
Police: *leading sex workers into a squad car to be taken to jail*
Sex work prohibitionist: “I called the police! You’re all free now! No more patriarchal violence! No need to thank me!”
I cannot overstate the importance of local school board elections.
We finally have a progressive supermajority in our district. Here are some things that are going on.
Lunch and breakfast are free for all students, regardless of income. They ask students at wealthier schools that don't federally qualify as an entire school for free lunch to apply for free lunch because it increases federal reimbursement, but they are simply not charging students for lunch or breakfast.
They fired the big corp that was handling lunches (sodexa?) and brought it in house and the selections include vegetarian, kosher/halal, and often local and organic foods. The quality is good. They pay attention to nutrition. My picky kid can usually find something to eat.
The schools are nut free. As the parent of a peanut-allergic kid, I'm grateful.
We're not banning books.
There's no shopping list for back to school because, get this, the district is providing supplies! They ask that kids bring a backpack. My kid's cheeseburger backpack has held up mightily and is still in great shape, so we're good.
Trans kids are protected at the state level, but also at the local level.
They're doing an overhaul of special education with an eye to eliminating ABA. This is a sea change.
Kids get a city bus pass, free.
I have so many feelings. One of my friends is on the school board, and she's been part of this huge shift in priorities. I feel like good things are possible again. This is what free public education should mean.
basically my position is that landlords should die until my siblings aren't forced into soliciting donations online for basic necessities like food and shelter and medicine. i do not consider this any more extreme than the popular position that poor people should suffer and die en masse so landlords can keep getting paid for doing fucking nothing.
haymitch: love is love <3
clerk carmine: yeah, but not your love. get AWAY from my niece.
Ok now do NYT columnists
Everyone joking about “scaring off the twitters” and “firing shots into the air to keep rent low” but few doing their part. Post homestuck.