Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) December 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Showing posts with label School Shootings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Shootings. Show all posts
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Truth bomb!
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Moron
Trump’s “solution” to school shootings? Arm teachers. No funding for safety, no action on gun laws, just more weapons around kids. He wants classrooms turned into war zones and teachers forced into combat roles. Our children deserve learning, not lockdown drills. Books, not bullets. Moron.
— Jennifer ✨Get In Good Trouble (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) September 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Sunday, December 22, 2024
The question that needs to be asked
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.” - Police Chief in Madison, WI
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) December 16, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Never underestimate the gullibility of the American people
How did the GOP convince voters that children dying was the price of freedom?
— Jane of the North (@janeotn.bsky.social) December 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024
The GOP is anything but pro-life
‘Pro Life’ would be 20 Sandy Hook students starting college this Fall.
— Brad (@BraddrofliT) August 31, 2024
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, August 10, 2024
GOP priorities
Leave it to Republicans to care more about kids getting free lunch than being murdered at school.
— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆🌴🥥🇺🇸 (@RachelBitecofer) August 7, 2024
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, July 28, 2024
As disgusting as elephant shit
(Trump is shot by AR-15)
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 18, 2024
Republicans: Let’s wear fake ear bandages to show how much we love Trump.
(countless schoolchildren are shot and killed by AR-15s)
Republicans: Let’s wear AR-15 pins to show how much we love AR-15s.
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Monday, January 8, 2024
Abominable
Trump on Iowa’s deadly school shooting yesterday: It’s horrible but we have to get over it pic.twitter.com/8izgCBxcAl
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 5, 2024
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Republican voters just don't care
R-voters mostly likely would STILL vote for TRAITOR CANCUN Cruz
— Mimir the Rememberer (@langtree_lillie) November 1, 2023
even if their terrified child/children died at the end of an AR-16
because frankly, they don't give a shit about their own children's lives, their children's education or their futures.
R-voters just don't care. https://t.co/eEzdcqHvCg
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
The futility of prayer
Evidence collected over many years, obtained from many locations, indicates that the power of Prayer is insufficient to stop bullets from killing school children.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 16, 2018
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, July 9, 2023
This is how much the GOP cares about our children
Your party:
— Andrew Wortman 🟧 (@AmoneyResists) July 6, 2023
—Forces 10-year-olds to carry their rapists babies to term
—Passes bills to circumvent child labor laws
—Remains silent about the countless children sexually abused by the Catholic Church
—Supports child marriage
—Ensures that school shootings continue in America pic.twitter.com/DCTi3mMCrM
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Friday, June 9, 2023
Monday, May 15, 2023
Monday, April 10, 2023
Stupid, meet the real world
NEW: The teachers at the Nashville school where three students and three teachers were killed 🚨WERE ARMED🚨
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 2, 2023
Police hit a moving target less than 30% of the time, but MAGA extremists want us to believe teachers should be sharpshooters. https://t.co/bPqjC2FUAj
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Thursday, December 2, 2021
The parents should get life imprisonment, too
Charge the father right now. Right this minute. Drive to his home and drag him out in cuffs. https://t.co/FMqB3FlWrY
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) December 1, 2021
Republican = Racist
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCIX--The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays
At first glance, I thought this week's tune wasn't ending 2018 in a very positive manner here on Friday Night Jukebox, but as I thought more about it, it dawned on me that it is very human (and in a way, somewhat hopeful) to chronicle tragedy to channel our empathy, even if, as this week's tune acknowledges, there really are no reasons for said tragedy. Our tears, so to speak, pull us together.
The Boomtown Rats (truly one of rock's great band names) formed in 1975 in their native Ireland and had a fine bit of success through 1985 when they broke up, but it has largely been overshadowed (probably rightfully so) by the charitable work of lead singer Bob Geldof. Over the course of those ten years, the Rats released six LPs, three of which reached the top ten in the UK. They also had nine singles reach the top twenty on the UK charts, including two of which went to #1. The Rats did reunite--and are still together minus a player or two--in 2013. The band's musical work, though, pales in comparison to Geldof's tireless devotion to making Africa and her many peoples a better place to live. Geldof, with Midge Ure of Ultravox fame, wrote the now classic Christmas tune "Do They Know It's Christmas" to aid with the famine in Ethiopia in 1984 and it would go on to sell over eleven million copies and raise more than ten million dollars. Geldof would also stage Live Aid, a star studded concert across the continents, a little later to raise even more money for Africa, and has worked tirelessly through the years for debt relief and numerous other programs to help the continent. Sometimes jokingly referred to as "St. Bob" for his work, Geldof does have a demon side and has been criticized for numerous comments throughout his life. Still, the tale of the Boomtown Rats shows that while pop music has its decadent and its silly side, it is also capable of quite a bit of good--as many in the nations of Africa will readily attest.
Fun Fact: The Boomtown Rats took their name from a group of children in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory.
"I Don't Like Mondays" was released in 1979 on their LP, The Fine Art of Surfacing. The single reached number one in the UK, their native Ireland, and the top ten in eleven other nations. Surprisingly (or not), the song only reached #73 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100--but I'm not sure if this is because of a lack of cool kids here in the states or because the mass shooting chronicled in the song happened here and some stations were reluctant to play it.
For those not familiar, "I Don't Like Mondays" was written by Geldof in response to a school shooting in January of 1979 by Brenda Ann Spencer in San Diego, CA in which two were killed and nine others injured. When asked why she had done it, Spencer replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." As I listened to it in prep for this week's post, I was struck by several things, the first of which is how well it's aged. One could listen to it in comparison to other songs through the years chronicling school shooters, such as Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" from the nineties or Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" from this decade (there are probably others I'm not familiar with or don't remember off the top of my head), and both musically and thematically it would hold its own. I was also impressed by Geldof's compassion for all those involved: the school's students, the school's parents, other parents worrying about their own children, and even, to a degree, the shooter herself. Lastly, I was truly amazed at how much Geldof and the Rats did within the confines of a pop single. From the use of a single piano (there may be strings, I wasn't sure) to convey both the horror and the sadness, to the rat-a-tat hand claps, to the understated backing vocals, to Geldof's vocal performance itself, invoking anger, empathy, and confusion (but never despair), "I Don't Like Mondays" is a testament to what a well written, wonderfully orchestrated, and dexterously performed pop song can accomplish.
Lyric Sheet: "Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen/No it ain't so neat to admit defeat/They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons/What reason do you need..."
Enjoy:
Fuck Donald Trump,
The Boomtown Rats (truly one of rock's great band names) formed in 1975 in their native Ireland and had a fine bit of success through 1985 when they broke up, but it has largely been overshadowed (probably rightfully so) by the charitable work of lead singer Bob Geldof. Over the course of those ten years, the Rats released six LPs, three of which reached the top ten in the UK. They also had nine singles reach the top twenty on the UK charts, including two of which went to #1. The Rats did reunite--and are still together minus a player or two--in 2013. The band's musical work, though, pales in comparison to Geldof's tireless devotion to making Africa and her many peoples a better place to live. Geldof, with Midge Ure of Ultravox fame, wrote the now classic Christmas tune "Do They Know It's Christmas" to aid with the famine in Ethiopia in 1984 and it would go on to sell over eleven million copies and raise more than ten million dollars. Geldof would also stage Live Aid, a star studded concert across the continents, a little later to raise even more money for Africa, and has worked tirelessly through the years for debt relief and numerous other programs to help the continent. Sometimes jokingly referred to as "St. Bob" for his work, Geldof does have a demon side and has been criticized for numerous comments throughout his life. Still, the tale of the Boomtown Rats shows that while pop music has its decadent and its silly side, it is also capable of quite a bit of good--as many in the nations of Africa will readily attest.
Fun Fact: The Boomtown Rats took their name from a group of children in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory.
"I Don't Like Mondays" was released in 1979 on their LP, The Fine Art of Surfacing. The single reached number one in the UK, their native Ireland, and the top ten in eleven other nations. Surprisingly (or not), the song only reached #73 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100--but I'm not sure if this is because of a lack of cool kids here in the states or because the mass shooting chronicled in the song happened here and some stations were reluctant to play it.
For those not familiar, "I Don't Like Mondays" was written by Geldof in response to a school shooting in January of 1979 by Brenda Ann Spencer in San Diego, CA in which two were killed and nine others injured. When asked why she had done it, Spencer replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." As I listened to it in prep for this week's post, I was struck by several things, the first of which is how well it's aged. One could listen to it in comparison to other songs through the years chronicling school shooters, such as Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" from the nineties or Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" from this decade (there are probably others I'm not familiar with or don't remember off the top of my head), and both musically and thematically it would hold its own. I was also impressed by Geldof's compassion for all those involved: the school's students, the school's parents, other parents worrying about their own children, and even, to a degree, the shooter herself. Lastly, I was truly amazed at how much Geldof and the Rats did within the confines of a pop single. From the use of a single piano (there may be strings, I wasn't sure) to convey both the horror and the sadness, to the rat-a-tat hand claps, to the understated backing vocals, to Geldof's vocal performance itself, invoking anger, empathy, and confusion (but never despair), "I Don't Like Mondays" is a testament to what a well written, wonderfully orchestrated, and dexterously performed pop song can accomplish.
Lyric Sheet: "Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen/No it ain't so neat to admit defeat/They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons/What reason do you need..."
Enjoy:
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
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