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Date: 2025-04-12
WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER RULES IN THE DIARY WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY ===================== CALENDAR OF RESISTANCE EFFORTS 50501: MORE RESISTANCE ======================
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To add Arkansas to my bingo card, via Arktimes.com
Lawmakers try to tighten rules after most homeschool voucher funds went toward non-academic expenses
The majority of voucher money the state gave homeschool families this school year went toward non-educational expenses, and a bill to change that is getting a dicey reception at the Arkansas Capitol. State senators were divided this week on Senate Bill 625, a clean-up bill for the 2023 LEARNS Act, which created Arkansas’s school voucher program. SB625 would require homeschool families to put most of their state funding toward academics instead of extracurriculars. The bill failed in a sparsely attended committee meeting Wednesday, but the full Senate pulled the bill out of committee and passed it on Thursday. It next goes to the House side, where it will likely see further debate. SB625, sponsored by Sen. Breanne Davis (R-Russellville), puts parameters on how the roughly $7,000 in taxpayer dollars each homeschool student in the state can now claim in voucher form can be spent.✂️
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I’m really straying from my regional news today. I’m sure I found this from BlueSky and Anne Applebaum is just a fantastic writer. This is a gift link. I hope it works for you. It’s a good read.
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
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Via South Dakota Searchlight
While criticizing absent Republicans, Democrats should look for their own candidates
✂️It was impossible to get candidates to run for office, the Democrat said, because they didn’t want to come to Pierre to be bullied by Janklow. In the next century, as a freelance writer, I was once again in Pierre, this time to cover the impeachment proceedings for Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. During a break in the action, I asked another legislative Democrat why his party failed to field enough candidates for office. He either didn’t understand the question or didn’t want to answer it. He gave a rambling discourse about overcoming the long distances it took to get Native Americans to polling places and how voters had a tough time distinguishing between the values of South Dakota Democrats and the values of those raging liberals in Washington, D.C. ✂️
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I don’t know if West Virginia and Maryland just had a lot to say today or if they had strong advocates in News from the States, but they were very well represented.
Via West Virginia Watch
West Virginia Senate passes bill changing Freedom of Information Act
✂️The Senate on Friday approved a new version of the bill from the Senate Government Organization Committee. Under that version, the Legislature is not exempt from FOIA. The latest version of the bill would remove the requirement that the law be liberally construed in favor of disclosure. It provides that private personal information is not public record. Personal information includes banking and financial information, address and telephone numbers, date of birth, marital status, social security numbers as well as notes and journal entries containing opinions and more. ✂️
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From DBS’s home state and Iowa Capital Dispatch …
UI graduate student union compiles resources after campus learns of visa cancellations
After news broke of a visa being revoked from an international graduate student at the University of Iowa, UI Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS) President Cary Stough said people immediately started asking the organization and him what can be done to help. Stough said he wasn’t surprised to hear about the incident, the latest in a series of visa cancellations hitting international students across the country. International graduate students have been preparing for something like this to happen, he said — deactivating social media, checking on their visas, making sure their university documents are up to date and connecting with immigration lawyers. “People are very, very terrified right now,” Stough said.✂️
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From Rhode Island Current
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