> Professor Banned From Teaching Plato Excerpt to Leave Texas A https://www.chronicle.com/article/professor-banned-from-teaching-plato-excerpt-to-leave-texas-a-m-its-getting-worse

I was about to cheer, but he just went down the road to SMU, which granted, it is a private school but it IS still Texas. Oh well.

#censorship #academia #BannedBooks #GOP #PartyOfStupid #TexasFriendly

Professor Banned From Teaching Plato Excerpt to Leave Texas A&M: ‘It’s Getting Worse’

Martin Peterson tells us why he’s not staying to fight.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
A Short Exegesis on Jesus Trump

Politics and sometimes culture from a rude liberal in blog form.

Meanwhile, in the #VolunteerState where they wipe their culos with the U.S. Constitution while enabling their #bigotry.

> GOP passes “Charlie Kirk Act” that could expel students who protest anti-LGBTQ speakers https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/gop-passes-charlie-kirk-act-that-could-expel-students-who-anti-lgbtq-speakers/

#GOP #PartyOfStupid #Tennessee #CivilRights #LGBTQ

GOP passes "Charlie Kirk Act" that could expel students who protest anti-LGBTQ+ speakers - LGBTQ Nation

The bill explicitly bans discrimination or retaliation against someone due to their views on "homosexuality, or transgender behavior."

LGBTQ Nation

> Another Trillion Racks Up for the National Debt https://www.independent.org/article/2026/04/15/another-trillion-national-debt/

As that fine, upstanding mastermind of politics Dick Cheney said in 2002: "Deficits don't matter."

Yea, fuck it, just keep borrowing on the great credit card with no spending limit. Sooner or later the reckoning will come, and so the #CosmicJoker will laugh.

Blessed be the #DivineHumor.

#AmericanEmpire #ThisIsAmerica #BadEconomy #GOP #PartyOfStupid #RepublicanLite #USGovernment

Another Trillion Racks Up for the National Debt: News Article - Independent Institute

The U.S. government's total public debt outstanding is on the verge of permanently surpassing $39 trillion. In truth, it already has, first breaching it

Independent Institute

#SaveYouAClick: Yes.

> Are the Republicans Killing You? https://cepr.net/publications/are-the-republicans-killing-you/

Not that Dems are angels, but they do slightly better (or started doing so once the parties shifted).

#GOP #PartyOfStupid #YouGetWhatYouVoteFor

> As Postal Service Faces Cash Crisis, FedEx and UPS Spend Millions on Lobbying https://truthout.org/articles/as-postal-service-faces-cash-crisis-fedex-and-ups-spend-millions-on-lobbying/

If this country lets the #USPS die, it honestly deserves whatever else it gets down the road.

#mail #YouGetWhatYouVoteFor #BadEconomy #GOP #PartyOfStupid #RepublicanLite #RealOwners #corruption

As Postal Service Faces Cash Crisis, FedEx and UPS Spend Millions on Lobbying

Lobbying from private carriers has helped limit USPS expansion into new services like postal banking.

Truthout

> Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-warns-pope-careful-talking-theology-rcna331881

Translation: The #CouchFucker tells the Pope: "nice church you got there, be a shame if something happened to it."

#CarpetbaggerVance #GOP #PartyOfStupid #PapaLeon #Catholic #Christian #religion #theology

Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology

Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV should “be careful” when he talks about theology, rebuking the pontiff over his criticisms of U.S. foreign policy

NBC News

> Republicans tear through Beshear’s vetoes, overriding nearly all of them https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-04-14/republicans-tore-through-beshears-vetoes-tuesday-overriding-nearly-all-of-them

Translation: KY #GOP #PartyOfStupid tells governor: "Fuck this, fuck that, and fuck you. . . "

#KentuckyProud

Republicans tear through Beshear’s vetoes, overriding nearly all of them

In one fell swoop, the Republican supermajority overrode nearly all of Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto attempts Tuesday, with one day left in the 2026 legislative session.

LPM - Louisville Public Media

Donald Trump reportedly thinks “freshly squeezed” Fanta cures cancer https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/quick-hit-donald-reportedly-thinks-freshly-squeezed-fanta-cures-cancer/

FTA: "...Oz, who happens to be a real doctor..." laughed.

One, he was once. Two, when the quack is laughing at the quackery you know it's bad.

#PendejoInChief #GOP #PartyOfStupid #health

Donald Trump reportedly thinks "freshly squeezed" Fanta cures cancer - LGBTQ Nation

Dr. Mehmet Oz thought this was hilarious.

LGBTQ Nation

Meanwhile, in #VolunteerState #fuckery

> June is Pride Month. Tennessee Republicans say it’s ‘Nuclear Family Month’ https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/tennessee-nuclear-family-month

#LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Tennesee #GOP #PartyOfStupid #bigotry