Loudoun County, Virginia Puns

Taibbi on Loudoun County, Virginia: A Culture War in Four Acts - Part 1:

>A fascinating feature of modern America is that corporate commentators will sometimes artlessly blab out bald truths in the first minutes of breaking news events, before anyone higher up the chain has had time to cook up counter-narratives. After midnight in this case, CNN’s Van Jones freaks out:

>“This is a big deal. These numbers are bad,” Jones says. “These are our voters. These are voters who came to us in 2018. These are voters who came to us in 2020, and have abandoned us in droves in… states that should be in our column.”

>By the morning after Youngkin’s win, outbursts like the Van Jones bummer-gasm disappeared, as coverage now pitched the Virginia results as a cookie-cutter rerun of a seventy-year-old Dixie segregation story. According to new national legend, the Jim Crow demons of places like Loudoun, a onetime “hotbed of Confederate resistance,” had been so brilliantly revived by a Republican-concocted tinfoil-hat panic over something called Critical Race Theory that it thrust even the unremarkable Youngkin to the governorship. To pundits, there was no doubt what happened. The blithe declaration of CNN legal expert Jeffrey “Zoomin” Toobin perfectly summed up: “It's about white supremacy.”

[Taibbi's "Zoomin" is an interesting dial-back of his previous reference to Toobin as an "Onanist"].

What really happened? Taibbi was on site election day, watching a polling station, where he observed five Indians studying the Republican sample ballot, and obtained this quote from a previously Democratic Indian graduate of UC Berkeley:

>“You watch. Indian and Chinese immigrants who typically vote Democratic will vote the other way because education for children is their number one issue. It’s why they came here.”...“Honestly, I voted for Hillary Clinton,” he says, clarifying that he’s for “common sense,” not being “right-wing” or conspiratorial, “none of that garbage.” Eventually, he returns to the subject of education. “When you start messing with schools, that’s when you’ll get typical Democrats to flip.”

>...the core narrative was simple. A commonplace fight over suburban tax resources ended in **radical reforms that primarily impacted one small nonwhite minority whose story mostly never got told, its members perhaps paralyzed by the irony of watching their complaints dismissed as whit

I live in Loudoun County, Virginia. Any suggestions for backcountry camping in this general area?

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By Libby Emmons Brooklyn, NY October 17, 2021 3:25 PM 5 Mins Reading

The ACLU filed a brief in opposition to free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has been on the decline with regard to its defense of citizens rights just as it has been increasing its adherence to backing the progressive political status quo, is fighting against public school teachers who do not believe they should be compelled to ally with views to which they are fundamentally opposed.

The issue is pronouns, and whether teachers should be compelled to use pronouns of a student's choosing, and the venue is the much maligned school district of Loudoun County, Virginia.

BREAKING: Three teachers in Loudoun county are going to court simply because they don't want to use trans & nonbinary students' pronouns. ?

We and partners filed an amicus brief to tell the court: Refusing to use a student's pronouns because of who they are is discrimination. pic.twitter com/8dAsnXMfAh— ACLU of Virginia (@ACLUVA) October 14, 2021

A policy in that school district requires teachers to use the pronouns dictated by a student for that student. A physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, Byron "Tanner" Cross, was told that he must use a student's preferred pronouns. He refused, and was placed on administrative leave in May.

Cross had made his feelings known during a school board meeting, wherein he stated that he "will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl, and vice versa," as it went against his religious beliefs. "I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them regardless of consequences," he said.

He was reinstated a short time later, as the lawsuit continued. Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Cross, said that "Nobody should be punished for expressing concern about a proposed government policy, especially when the government invites comment on that policy. For that reason, we are pleased at the court's decision to halt Loudoun County Public Schools' retaliation against Tanner Cross while his lawsuit continues."

In the suit, the ACLU takes on the ADF, a legal advocacy group that has taken up causes once championed by the ACLU, that of free speech.

Cross' challenge against his termination rests on Loudoun County's Policy 8040, which reads that all staff of the Loudoun County Public Schools "shall allow gender-expansive of transgender students to use their chosen name and gender pronouns that reflect their gender identity without any substant

So, this is for a friend but also is a case she presented in county court two years ago that I spoke as a witness in and is still an issue that hasn’t been solved.

About two years ago said friend and her now ex boyfriend bought a car together. She’s the primary person on the loan and he’s secondary. After a really bad breakup that involved her getting a protective order against him, that I also spoke as a witness for, he took the car. When we presented this in court asking for it to be returned, they said they couldn’t do anything since it was in his name too. Ok. He also told the court he’d pay for the rest of it and get the title transferred to his name. His lawyer at the time confirmed this.

He lives in Maryland.

That never happened. He is constantly getting toll violations that because the car is registered to her, she is receiving and getting hit for. She’s having to pay the county taxes on it because it’s still registered under her name, as well as the registration. And he has not paid on the loan in 2 years which is hurting her credit.

We are at a loss because she does not possess the car and the county wouldn’t give it back to her nor would they force him to take it out of her name. The bank will not work with her either. And he definitely will not work with her.

Potential options are her paying off the car and receiving the title, but with his name still on it would that matter much? She also can’t not pay the violations or registration or county taxes.

Is there any options in this case? She either wants him to get it out of her name or if she’s paying it off then to have the car returned, if possible. She wants to deal with him as little as possible too.

Thank you in advance!