Sunday Reads

It is not a harmless prank but a crime. It is also a crime to threaten public officials, which teachers are.
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GOP donors are getting desperate now:

The research points to Texas and North Carolina as early tests for running an independent, conservative candidate against Trump and the Democratic nominee. The candidate would need to gather over 79,900 valid petition signatures in Texas by May 9 and over 89,000 in North Carolina by June 9.
Only two other states have thresholds that high, and gathering petitions can be an expensive and time-consuming process. What’s more, the Texas signatures would have to come entirely from voters who did not vote in this year’s Democratic and Republican primaries.

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According to this right-wing writer, Chris Christie has NO business whatsoever endorsing Donald Trump.

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