James Talarico: Governor Abbott Wants to Kill Our Public Schools! Don’t Let Him!

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1. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   September 29, 2023 at 1:48 pm

   When I reached “Moms Against Greg Abbott. The good MAGA” I stopped and read it again, then burst out laughing.

   I wonder how long it will take until Traitor Trump sues them because he probably trademarked MAGA. The traitor earns a lot of money from MAGA merchandise sold to his fascist-loving, hate filled, willingly ignorant bad MAGA people.

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2. retired teacher says:

   September 29, 2023 at 4:44 pm

   One reason Abbott is so determined to push vouchers on Texans is that vouchers would move him closer to making education a personal responsibility paid for by parents instead of the state, which is the end game for the GOP. After they get students in voucher schools, the state would likely remove public funds for education. Such a move would transfer responsibility for education from the state to the family, a libertarian aspiration, but a nightmare for young people.

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   • Linda says:

     September 29, 2023 at 5:53 pm

     Oh the irony- through usurpation of government function, Catholic organizations have been made the nation’s 3rd largest employer, gratis of the taxpayers. Media won’t cover that anymore then they will cover the Catholic takeover of the government function of education, again with the taxpayers footing the bill. Taxpayers are victims.
     They are pinned under the crushed wall that stood between church and state and they dare not call out those who detonated it.

     I’ll hope that Talarico knows that Amy Comey Barrett’s good friend at Notre Dame, Prof. Nicole Stelle Garnet, is credited as the most influential legal scholar advancing religious charter schools. She’s a Manhattan Institute Fellow (Koch) -as the commenter, Roy, coined, Kocholicism.

     What do these people have in common?
     Frederick Hess
     Nicole Stelle Garnet
     Clarence and Ginni Thomas
     Leonard Leo
     The former head of Jones Day law firm
     Tim Burch
     Neal McCluskey
     Laura Ingraham

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       September 30, 2023 at 1:16 am

       I remain extremely curious about your continuing and continual fascination with bad deeds by Catholics and the Catholic Church. Does this have a particular origin or etiology? Of course, you don’t have to answer this, but I would love to know.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       September 30, 2023 at 1:23 am

       I know a woman (an acquaintance) who harbors antipathy against Catholicism because she was raised, as a child, in a convent in Guatemala by nuns who severely abused her. Is there something like that in your background? Why all the posts about Catholics and Catholicism?

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     • Linda says:

       September 30, 2023 at 8:47 am

       I lament the loss of Greg at the blog. He understood that I write about a powerful and successful right wing lobby that redirected the US toward fascism and into a country unrecognizable to many of us on the left, a country that takes away the fundamental rights of Americans.
       I am so rare in exposing the political machinations of the Catholic Conferences, the USCCB, Catholic universities etc. i.e. the Catholic church, that false speculations about me appear reasonable to some.
       In the fable about the king with no clothes, the first to expose him, likely, received the same skepticism.
       I post repeatedly, sometimes with new info. in order to inform new readers, to get converts and to encourage others to sound the alarm about the alliance of Koch and the Catholic church.
       Bob, if you saw Leonard Leo and the current SCOTUS majority as barbarians at the gate and there was as much resistance to your warning as you may have noted appears at this blog (and, the omission in almost ALL media), would your character allow you to stop attempts to make people aware?
       Rhetorically, is there anything that I have reported about the political activities of the Church, e.g., right wing Catholics as a major driving force in school choice that was new to you? Do you think there was anything I reported that was new to anyone writing in the education field and acting as an influencer, for example, someone like Mercedes Schneider?

       It’s irrelevant, but there’s no trauma in my background.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       September 30, 2023 at 9:48 am

       Linda, I too am sorry that Greg left. I enjoyed his knowledge and insights.

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     • Linda says:

       September 30, 2023 at 9:22 am

       If there was sufficient will in the US to fight off the tyranny of the right, we would see it in a willingness to identify Hillsdale as a Catholic and Christian-driven school. We would see the politicking at Notre Dame that promoted Barrett to SCOTUS. We would know about the politicking at St. Thomas University in Minnesota and about Georgetown Law’s refusal to rescind the job offer to Koch’s Shapiro. The public would know about the Koch/Tim Burch Catholic University of America. We would know about the Manhattan Declaration of Princeton’s Robert P George and about Harvard’s Adrian Vermuele, described as the nation’s most dangerous critic of liberalism.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       September 30, 2023 at 11:04 am

       Let me try to be as clear about this as is possible. Your response suggests that you think that I am challenging comments that you have made here about Catholics and Catholicism. I am not. I am simply wondering, given all the things that there are in the world and in history to write about, and given the many other problematic belief systems and institutions in the world, why this obsession with the evils of Catholicism. The obsession is, well, remarkable. It’s as though every time anyone posted about any topic, I answered with a post connecting the topic to the evils of sugary breakfast cereals.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       September 30, 2023 at 10:53 am

       My question remains unanswered. I am simply curious about why, whatever the topic of any post about something negative, you do research to find some Catholic person who is however remotely or tangentially connected to it. It’s what you write about. And I wonder why. Everything in the world isn’t about the evil of the Catholic Church. And yes, I agree entirely that the church has done a lot of evil over the centuries. And I share your abhorrence for the views of the Opus Dei types and the rightwing Catholics on the Supreme Court and Leonard Leo and so on. So, you don’t have to lecture me about those. I was not and did not challenge those ideas. You write as though this were an either/or matter–either I accept everything ever done by Catholics, however, evil, or I join you in seeing a great Catholic conspiracy in EVERYTHING. Neither is true.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       September 30, 2023 at 11:10 am

       But if you don’t wish to answer my question, that’s your prerogative, of course.

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     • Linda says:

       September 30, 2023 at 4:59 pm

       Bob,
       In hindsight, my “lectures” (which you didn’t want to read and I didn’t want to repeat), missed the mark.
       I misunderstood your question as one about my motivation. The issue was, instead, what you perceive to be reasonable interest.
       There’s an ad running in our area for Gov. Beshears. The narrator, a young woman, describes being a 12 year old girl pregnant with her step father’s child. She asks people to walk in her shoes. I haven’t walked in her or, the vicinity of her shoes. My interest in protecting people like her and people who are gay (I haven’t walked in those shoes either) seems reasonable to me.

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3. Bob Shepherd says:

   September 30, 2023 at 1:43 am

   RIP, Senator Feinstein, and thank you for your service, over the years, to the poor, to POC, to the LGBTQX community, and to Americans generally.

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