Conant High School Social Studies Teacher. Boy's Basketball Assistant Varsity Coach. Model UN sponsor. Civic Engagement Coordinator. Local 1211. NPS 💚.
Joined October 2018
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- Engel v. Vitale (1962)
- Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
- “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared (1st Amendment)… thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” Thomas Jefferson 1802
Not hard.
Dan Patrick: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“
constitution.congress.gov/constitution/a…
Great day to be a Cougar!
We were lucky enough to host 7 candidates for the 8th Congressional District of Illinois in an informative candidate forum.
I have never seen students so engaged and excited to discuss/debrief an event! Way to go @ConantCougars!
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Holy shit.
He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him.
His hands were on the pavement when he was shot.
He never had his hand on a weapon.
Cold blooded murder.
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
Alex Pretti spent his life caring for others as a VA nurse and today he gave his life protecting a fellow protestor who was being violently assaulted by ICE. He lived helping people in need and died helping people in need.
I hope my two sons grow up to be men who stand in the gap for folks just like Alex.
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
He had a permit to carry
He was legally exercising his 2nd Amendment right.
He did not draw the weapon.
He was filming when they approached him.
They had taken his weapon from its holster before they shot him.
It was murder.
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
I want you to understand who that man is.
Michael Fanone was a member of the Capitol Police.
He wasn’t on shift that day - he self deployed when his colleagues call for back-up.
Fanone *WAS* a Trump supporter and voter.
He showed up to defend his oath.
He was beaten, tased, dragged down the capitol steps, suffered a heart attack, a concussion and a traumatic brain injury being assaulted by rioters.
Due to his injuries that day he retired, unable to serve.
He also lost a number of friends that day due to violence that took their lives.
He stood his ground and defended the members of Congress that were inside.
He’s spent every day since, denouncing Trump and the Jan 6th riots, and pushing for accountability.
He lashed out at first at statements by Troy Nehls, a Trump loyalist who pushed for a new committee to investigate Jan 6th blaming the officers for the violence, and claiming it was entrapment.
Nehls has even suggested that it was the officers own faults that they got injured, or that Jan 6th was “staged”
And then Ivan Ranklin, a far-right conspiracy theorist and Michael Flynn associate made further comments.
Ranklin is the one who falsely accused Capitol police of planting a device on Jan 6th.
And that is why, the scruffy looking tattooed former Trump voter, looked like he was about to punch somebody.
Fanone is rough around the edges - but he is an American hero!
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
Meanwhile near where they killed Renee Good ICE was terrorizing a high school — and now Minneapolis has canceled school for the week.
None of this is about safety. A lawless regime with no guardrails.
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
Maybe I'm "woke" but I don't think we should tolerate masked men arresting people without due process and shooting innocent bystanders.
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
WAIVING THEM BY!
Video shows the driver was YIELDING to agents and waiving them by. Agents then tried to forcibly enter her vehicle. When she tried to drive off, an agent opens fire. He even moved to her side window to fire again.
MURDER. COLD. BLOODED. MURDER.
Jimmy Lundquist retweeted
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984
This is straight out of Stalin’s Soviet Union or today’s North Korea: the White House has launched a full-blown January 6 revisionist website, claiming the rioters were “peaceful patriotic protesters,” blaming Nancy Pelosi and Democrats for “security lapses,”
asserting that “Democrats staged the real insurrection,” that “2020 is considered the greatest election theft in U.S. history,” and that Mike Pence, “in an act of cowardice and sabotage…presides over the certification of contested electors,” among dozens of other debunked lies.
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Cougars Win the season opener. Great effort. Follow @conanthoops on Instagram for game updates.