Lots of News on the First Day of Summer Break

As I will be working in a migrant education program this summer lasting five weeks, it won't be much of a summer break.  Not only that, but my school district is starting a week early for next school year.   I wish the superintendent would quit jumping onto the latest fad.  My old district, WCSD, is looking to go back to starting school the day after Labor Day, which I believe it should be.  It gets too damned hot in the summer.

Anyway, there is a lot going on in the world:

Now tell me, trans mob, about how sex is a social construct and not a reality.

Throughout the American workplace, pregnancy discrimination remains widespread. It can start as soon as a woman is showing, and it often lasts through her early years as a mother.

The New York Times reviewed thousands of pages of court and public records and interviewed dozens of women, their lawyers and government officials. A clear pattern emerged. Many of the country’s largest and most prestigious companies still systematically sideline pregnant women. They pass them over for promotions and raises. They fire them when they complain.

In physically demanding jobs — where an increasing number of women unload ships, patrol streets and hoist boxes — the discrimination can be blatant. Pregnant women risk losing their jobs when they ask to carry water bottles or take rest breaks.

This is all a direct result of the notion of the "family wage" which prioritized men and coerced women to go back to the home. It is insidious thinking.


Thanks to the reporters for not using vile terminology like "pregnant people" or "biological women" but simply "women" and "pregnant women."
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Paul Manafort, awaiting trial, is enjoying his new digs in the local jail.
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Trump has us in a trade war with China.
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This is an article from a month ago discussing Jordan Peterson's crackpot notion of "enforced monogamy" in order to help those poor widdle dudes who can't get laid to save their pathetic lives.