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Time for the losership to fly away to warmer climates like the prigozhin march pic.twitter.com/V7AuaVAFo9

— xelios (@xelios1) March 12, 2024

Time for the losership to fly away to warmer climates like the prigozhin march pic.twitter.com/V7AuaVAFo9

— xelios (@xelios1) March 12, 2024

Time for the losership to fly away to warmer climates like the prigozhin march pic.twitter.com/V7AuaVAFo9

— xelios (@xelios1) March 12, 2024

The GOP House Caucus are like those fools in horror movies who know exactly where the monster is, and instead of running for their lives, they say cheerfully: “Let’s ask the monster if he’d like tea or coffee.”

Everyone is leaving the GOP House. The House on Capitol Hill has become completely dysfunctional. Sanity, tranquility, and getting ANYTHING done have become estranged from GOP House members. Its family is scattering. GOP Rep Ken Buck has announced he will leave Congress NEXT WEEK.

At this point, I half expect the GOP will not have the House majority for much longer, and I’m talking about BEFORE the election. Buck was brutally honest, calling out the dysfunction in Congress and saying that this is: the worst year of the “nine years and three months I’ve been in Congress.”

There’s more. Speaking to CNN’s Dana Bash, Buck said OTHER Members are feeling the same way, which raises the question of who is next. It really is like playing a game of clues. It could be anyone. Buck said GOP house members have descended into “bickering and nonsense. And not really doing the job for the American people.”

Buck also said that he hears from people who are unhappy with Trump everywhere he goes. Buck had announced he was not planning to seek reelection, but he was NOT expected to leave this quickly. He is leaving the GOP with another vacant seat in a sea of disappearing Congresspeople.

I say the GOP is not the GOP anymore. They are the Trump party. That is why they need to lose every election. They are a pale shadow of what they once were, and since that shadow has only one objective – staying loyal to Donald Trump — it appears the dysfunction will simply go on and on and on.

The post Another one bites the dust appeared first on Palmer Report.

A New Jersey school district has apologized for an email to staff encouraging them to “contextualize” lessons about Ramadan by explaining how Israel prevents Palestinian Muslims from celebrating the holiday as it “enacts a genocide.” 

It also refers to the U.S. and Israel as “co-conspirators.”

Israel and the U.S. have rejected claims that Israel’s military response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack is genocidal.

“Personally, I am disappointed, angered, and saddened by the communication that occurred,” wrote Kevin F. Gilbert, acting superintendent of the South Orange and Maplewood school district, in an email Monday to parents and the school community.

He described the memo as “politically inflammatory” and wrote that it “mischaracterizes a historically complex problem.”

The email was distributed to staff at Columbia High School on Monday, the day after Ramadan began, and offered “9 considerations for your classroom.” It explained the holiday, terms associated with it and how to wish someone a good Ramadan in Arabic.

But one line in particular shocked many at the school, located in Maplewood, a New York City suburb with a sizable Jewish population. “It is imperative to contextualize that the U.S. is a co-conspirator with Israel, preventing Muslim Palestinians from partaking in Ramadan as the Israeli Zionist occupation enacts a genocide against them.” 

The kerfuffle over the email is but one example of how the war in Gaza has heightened tensions far from the conflict. On American college campuses, and at some high schools, Jewish and Israeli students and staff say they are harassed by pro-Palestinian, anti-war demonstrators who charge them with supporting a genocide.

The school retracted the email within hours, after many in the community who had seen it on social media and elsewhere decried it as antisemitic propaganda.

“My first reaction was first, ‘Okay, this looks fairly benign,” said Michael Goldberg, parent of a 2020 graduate of the school and a former member of South Orange’s town council. “But then as you continue to read, you realize how ugly and antisemitic information was embedded in the document.”

“I was disgusted,” he said.

The post NJ school district retracts email encouraging staff to teach about Ramadan in context of Israeli ‘genocide’ of Palestinians appeared first on The Forward.