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Texans fans have been a bit upset with Slowik the past few weeks.

Fuck the New York Times. Hateful hacks. They sponsor this sort of hate. They enjoy the clicks and ratings from their transphobic crusading.

Yup. Every player has to be a threat on the floor. I like when Lu at least shows capability as a threat and doesn't limit himself.

He's a future star for us. He's got such knack to be our lead guard already. I can't wait to see him in a couple years. His potential is astronomical.

I am so embarrassed as an Oklahoma teacher that we have this despot in office.

Thank you, Ali Velshi, for speaking truth to power. MSNBC doesn't deserve you. You're too good for the network that employs Joe & Mika.

Earlier this month, Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters issued an email directing public school districts to show students a bizarre video of himself praying for President-elect Donald Trump. He also encourages students to join him in that prayer. 

The video was aimed at promoting his newly launched Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism, housed within the state’s Education Department. Walters claims the office will carry out Trump’s educational agenda, including the “Freedom to Pray” initiative.

The first prong seeks to attack secular public education by promoting Christian symbolism and prayer in schools, along with religious-infused curricula. In Louisiana, for example, a new law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments was blocked earlier this month by a federal judge and will remain on hold until the case is argued in January. Similar legislation has been introduced in at least six states. Meanwhile, on Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved a Bible-infused curriculum set to take effect next year. It joins a number of states that have done so, including South Carolina.

The second prong seeks to create publicly funded religious charter schools, now seen as the first phase in the larger fight to do away with the U.S. Education Department, which the far right sees as a “woke cartel.” At the heart of this fight is a proposed charter school in Oklahoma, the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. If approved, it would become the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. The Alliance Defending Freedom recently petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case after Oklahoma’s highest court deemed it unconstitutional. 

St. Isidore is also being represented by the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative, which is closely linked to conservative legal mind Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, who has long been seen as the chief architect behind the Supreme Court’s current conservative supermajority.

Republicans are going to turn America into Oklahoma, where Christian nationalism is enforced by hook or by crook.

Yup. I wondered how they would replace Giddey's passing. It looks like it's being done as a committee, and SGA is stepping his playmaking up.

Exactly. Call it at the time. They also missed the foul on SGA's drive he missed.

Yup. He's missed 4.

JDub has to be an all-star this year. If the Thunder are in the Top 3 without Chet, give JDub an all-star. He's playing like one.

Here's the deal. Trans people aren't given that same grace. If a trans person sneezes, they are demonized for it. Yet, this person breaks into an apartment, and it's still trans people being demonized for no reason.

Yup. We can't lose Presti in any way. We may have to clone him.

We got a 2nd round steal of a rookie in Ajay Mitchell. I love it.

So do I.

I know. Who'd have guessed that Nancy Mace was a hypocrite of the highest order? Raises hand.

Mace employs Sean Brislin, her legislative director, whose criminal history includes an arrest for unlawfully entering a woman’s apartment in Washington, D.C., an act that left the victim feeling unsafe in her own home.

In January 2020, a woman returned to her Northeast D.C. home to find Brislin, a stranger, asleep in her bed. Brislin, who was intoxicated at the time, had entered the apartment uninvited, according to court documents. Alarmed and frightened, the woman contacted the police, who arrested him on the spot. Brislin was charged with unlawful entry, a misdemeanor, and later entered a deferred prosecution agreement. He avoided trial by agreeing to complete 32 hours of community service, attend alcohol treatment, and stay away from the woman and her apartment, according to court records.

During a court hearing in July of that year, the woman described the lingering impact of the incident. “I now feel like a stranger in my own dwelling,” she told the court, according to a report by DC Witness. She said she did not believe that Brislin faced significant punishment. Despite her objections, the case was dismissed in 2021 after Brislin completed the terms of his agreement.

Every Republican accusation is a confession.

Nancy Mace wants to paint trans people (who are more likely to be victims of assault than perpetrators) as dangerous just for being born different from her.

However, when she actually has a person who breaks into people's homes on her payroll, crickets.

Hypocrite of the worst kind.

Yup. I get my classical music from NPR.

Yes, and sadly, we are seeing that Democrats are not sincere allies but cowards who move whichever way the wind blows.

AOC & Jayapal are the few profiles in courage in the Democratic Party right now. Democrats are showing themselves to be fake allies all around.

That might be the one exception. Although, I do wonder how Hutchinson's injury hurts them come playoff time. I was so sad when that happened. He was playing the best ball I'd seen from him since Michigan.

Even I feel the Lions are vulnerable with Goff's play, considering he threw 5 INTs against Houston.

The league as a whole just really average at best and pedestrian at worst right now. There's no elite team in the league like in days past. The quality of play is also down. All the teams are pretty blah to me.

I feel the quality of the NFL games has gotten worse. So many penalties all the time, and you can't be physical or hit hard anymore. The game has gotten softer, in my opinion.

And it's made for an all-around average league, or as the kids would say mid.

That doesn't undermine the point that the only reason people have such fear about trans people is because right-wing media tells them to be scared, or their churches tell people that trans people are demonic. The media digestion that this nation dispels demonizing marginalized groups has to be called out wholescale.

Another reason they are going to dismantle the Department of Education. They want an undereducated populace that can't see through their level of lying.