I assume if the transformer had blown the Californians would have had to work off the charges living in the little town, being hilariously angry for the first act month, only to come around, leave after some emotional misunderstanding, but then return just in time to save the town hall from getting bulldozed.
An out-of-town car charging from an electric pole being front-page news in the local paper the same day it occurs is the most small-town thing ever, and I love it.
I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is president elect of ALA. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity. And my mom is so proud. I love you mom.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Though since most of the picks are from governor Gianforte, I can’t say I’m surprised.
That guy isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. I’m just sad the Montana I knew and loved was usurped by some out of towner who is totally altering the fabric and culture of that state from a “live and let live” to more of a Idaho-like place. He’s desecrating our state.
Of course it’s just more performative MAGA nonsense, cutting off the nose to spite the face and calling it “owning the libs.”
These people wouldn’t know Marxist ideology if it slapped them across the face, it’s just another buzzword in the same vein as “socialist” and “leftist” and “communist” (read: “anything I don’t like”).
The constant aggressive anti-intellectualism is exhausting.
I think “owning the libs” is a desirable side-effect and not their main goal.
Their main goal is to keep the lower class voters ignorant and uneducated so that history can be denied and they can be more easily manipulated into voting for right wingers using appeals to emotion (e.g. hatred, racism, patriotism, way of life). This is of course to keep power where it is.
School marshalls? What on earth is going on over there in the US? Why is it the rest of developed nations aren’t having this shooting issue, yet your children over your side of the pond have to learn how to take cover (sometimes in a crowd so others get hit instead) and run in a zig-zag. Sounds like a bleeding nightmare warzone.
in fairness to the main guy profiled in this story, his job is substantially more extensive than just school shootings and most of these are pretty important things to have contingencies for:
The proximity of the Porcupine Fire to Big Sky’s school campus speaks to a point easily obscured by the persistent shadow of national school tragedies like Sandy Hook and Uvalde: Active shooters aren’t the only threat Montana schools have to prepare for. Earthquakes, hazmat spills, propane explosions, fires on or off school property — much of the responsibility for anticipating and responding to such threats is now on Daugherty’s shoulders as he updates the district’s contingency plans for a variety of potential crises and works with local entities like the Big Sky Fire Department and Big Sky Medical Center to improve cross-agency communication.
Although shootings and the like are not a problem in the UK, when I went back into education this year at a “further education college” (which differs from college as it’s meant in the US - this is an institution that provides education for those aged 16+, so includes both minors and adults), we nevertheless had occasional drills for what to do in the event of a shooting or other attack. I think it’s not as comprehensive as the preparations students in American schools need to make, but it was still something the college prepared for with the same regularity as the potential for evacuation during a fire.
So even in non-US developed nations, the potential for this kind of violence is acknowledged as a risk.
montanafreepress.org
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