Why should a superintendent get a raise while teachers in the same district struggling to make ends meet see their paychecks flatline year after year after year?Teacher Deyshia Hargrave begged the question. Minutes later‚ she was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a cop car.The scene was captured below by YouTube user Chris Rosa‚ who attended a board meeting for Vermilion Parish Schools in Louisiana. You can watch Hargrave begin speaking about 33 seconds in. The situation starts becoming contentious around 6:35 minutes. Hargrave is arrested at 8:35‚ and then walked outside in handcuffs and placed in the back of police vehicle. Teacher Deyshia Hargrave was questioning the school board how they can vote to give the superintendent a raise when school employees have not gotten a raise ...";We work very hard with very little to maintain the salaries that we have‚"; Hargrave‚ who teaches middle school language arts‚ said during a public comment portion of the meeting‚ stating that she';s seen classroom sizes balloon during her time at the school with no increased compensation. ";We';re meeting those goals‚ while someone in that position of leadership [the superintendent] is getting raise? It';s a sad‚ sad day to be a teacher in Vermilion Parish.";According to comments Hargrave made to BuzzFeed News‚ she believes Superintendent Jerome Puyau was already making $110‚000 before the board voted to give him a raise of $38‚000. The raise alone is roughly the salary of ";a teacher‚ or two cafeteria workers‚ or two janitors‚"; Hargrave told the outlet.After Hargrave spoke out again later in the meeting‚ a city marshal on duty asked her to leave even though the school board was still addressing her.";You';re going to leave‚ or I';m going to remove you‚"; the officer told her‚ as seen in the video. Many people in attendance seemed shocked. ";Are you serious?"; someone asked‚ aghast‚ in the crowd.Hargrave leaves the room‚ followed by the officer. But moments later‚ someone chimed in‚ ";he';s putting her in handcuffs"; and the room erupts in disarray.";I am not [resisting]‚ you just pushed me to the floor!"; Hargrave is heard screaming at the officer‚ as he forcibly removes her down the hallway and out the building in handcuffs. ";Sir‚ hold on! I am way smaller than you!";Teacher removed from Vermilion school board meeting in handcuffsAccording to KATV News‚ Hargrave was booked in the city jail for resisting an officer a fact that left many commenters online flabbergasted. School officials are reportedly not pressing charges. ";Umm ... what charges could they possibly make?"; one Redditor noted.With help from the Reddit community‚ Rosa';s video has gone viral‚ garnering more than 600‚000 views in less than 24 hours. Clearly‚ Hargrave';s earnest question about inequality in our education system met with a grotesque abuse of power has clearly touched a nerve with people across the country.";I don';t know how this teacher could have been more polite and patient in her earnest desire to find out why the superintendent deserves a raise while the teachers work harder with less‚"; YouTube commenter Scott Wells chimed in. ";She continued to press because they refused to come up with an answer. Seems like a good question to me.";We agree.This article originally appeared on 01.09.18

Photographer James Balog and his crew were hanging out near a glacier when their camera captured something extraordinary. They were in Greenland‚ gathering footage from the time-lapse they';d positioned all around the Arctic Circle for the last several years.They were also there to shoot scenes for a documentary. And while they were hoping to capture some cool moments on camera‚ no one expected a huge chunk of a glacier to snap clean off and slide into the ocean right in front of their eyes.It was the largest such event ever filmed.For nearly an hour and 15 minutes‚ Balog and his crew stood by and watched as a piece of ice the size of lower Manhattan but with ice-equivalent buildings that were two to three times taller than that simply melted away.As far as anyone knows‚ this was an unprecedented geological catastrophe and they caught the entire thing on tape. It won';t be the last time something like this happens either.But once upon a time‚ Balog was openly skeptical about that ";global warming"; thing.Balog had a reputation since the early 1980s as a conservationist and environmental photographer. And for nearly 20 years‚ he';d scoffed at the climate change heralds shouting‚ ";The sky is falling! The sky is falling!";";I didn';t think that humans were capable of changing the basic physics and chemistry of this entire‚ huge planet. It didn';t seem probable‚ it didn';t seem possible‚"; he explained in the 2012 documentary film ";Chasing Ice.";There was too much margin of error in the computer simulations‚ too many other pressing problems to address about our beautiful planet. As far as he was concerned‚ these melodramatic doomsayers were distracting from the real issues.That was then.In fact‚ it wasn';t until 2005 that Balog became a believer.He was sent on a photo expedition of the Arctic by National Geographic‚ and that first northern trip was more than enough to see the damage for himself.";It was about actual tangible physical evidence that was preserved in the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica‚"; he said in a 2012 interview with ThinkProgress. ";That was really the smoking gun showing how far outside normal‚ natural variation the world has become. And that';s when I started to really get the message that this was something consequential and serious and needed to be dealt with.";Some of that evidence may have been the fact that more Arctic landmass has melted away in the last 20 years than the previous 10‚000 years.Watch the video of the event of the glacier calving below:This article originally appeared on 11.04.15

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‚ commonly known as Mormons‚ are a conservative group who aren';t known for being vocal about sex.But best selling author‚ blogger‚ and mother of six‚ Gabrielle Blair‚ has kicked that stereotype to the curb with a pointed thread on reducing unwanted pregnancies. And her sights are set directly at men.She wrote a Cliff';s Notes version of her thread on her blog:If you want to stop abortion‚ you need to prevent unwanted pregnancies. And men are 100% responsible for unwanted pregnancies. No for real‚ they are. Perhaps you are thinking: IT TAKES TWO! And yes‚ it does take two for _intentional_ pregnancies.But ALL unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men. Period. Don';t believe me? Let me walk you through it. Let';s start with this: women can only get pregnant about 2 days each month. And that';s for a limited number of years.Here';s the whole thread. It';s long‚ but totally worth the read.\u201cThat makes 24 days a year a women might get pregnant. But men can _cause_ pregnancy 365 days a year. In fact‚ if you\u2019re a man who ejaculates multiple times a day‚ you could cause multiple pregnancies daily. In theory a man could cause 1000+ unwanted pregnancies in just one year.\u201d Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876945But what about birth control? If a woman doesn\u2019t want to risk an unwanted pregnancy‚ why wouldn\u2019t she just use birth control? If a women can manage to figure out how to get an abortion‚ surely she can get birth control‚ right? Great questions. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876946\u2026 because of the side effects. And the list of side effects was about 1/3 as long as the known side effects for women';s oral contraception.https://ow.ly/Hqdx30lOrKJ Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876947But good news‚ Men: Even with the horrible side effects‚ women are still very willing to use birth control. Unfortunately it\u2019s harder to get than it should be. Birth control options for women require a doctor\u2019s appointment and a prescription. It\u2019s not free‚ and often not cheap. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876947If we\u2019re talking about the pill‚ it requires consistent daily use and doesn\u2019t leave much room for mistakes‚ forgetfulness‚ or unexpected disruptions to daily schedules. And again‚ the side effects can be brutal. I\u2019M STILL GRATEFUL FOR IT PLEASE DON\u2019T TAKE IT AWAY. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876948Men can keep them stocked up just in case‚ so they\u2019re always prepared. Amazing! They are so much easier than birth control options for women. As a bonus‚ in general‚ women love when men use condoms. They keep us from getting STDs‚ they don\u2019t lessen our pleasure during sex\u2026 Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876948Oh. I remember. Men _don\u2019t_ love condoms. In fact‚ men frequently pressure women to have sex without a condom. And it\u2019s not unheard of for men to remove the condom during sex‚ without the women\u2019s permission or knowledge. (Pro-tip: That';s assault.)https://ow.ly/UHgP30lOse3 Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876949So\u2026 there are men willing to risk getting a woman pregnant \u2014 which means literally risking her life‚ her health‚ her social status‚ her relationships‚ and her career‚ so that they can experience a few minutes of _slightly_ more pleasure? Is that for real? Yes. Yes it is. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876949So it\u2019s not like sex with a condom is _not_ pleasurable‚ it\u2019s just not _as_ pleasurable. An 8 instead of a 10. Let me emphasize that again: Men regularly choose to put women at massive risk by having non-condom sex‚ in order to experience a few minutes of slightly more pleasure. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876950So surely‚ we can expect men who aren\u2019t wearing a condom to at least pull out every time they have sex‚ right? \n\nNope. \n\nAnd why not? Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876950It\u2019s mind-boggling and disturbing when you realize that\u2019s the choice men are making. And honestly‚ I\u2019m not as mad as I should be about this‚ because we\u2019ve trained men from birth that their pleasure is of utmost importance in the world. (And to dis-associate sex and pregnancy.) Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876951So surely‚ we can expect men who aren\u2019t wearing a condom to at least pull out every time they have sex‚ right? \n\nNope. \n\nAnd why not? Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876950It\u2019s mind-boggling and disturbing when you realize that\u2019s the choice men are making. And honestly‚ I\u2019m not as mad as I should be about this‚ because we\u2019ve trained men from birth that their pleasure is of utmost importance in the world. (And to dis-associate sex and pregnancy.) Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536876951But did you further know that men CAN get a woman pregnant without HER feeling any pleasure at all? In fact‚ it\u2019s totally possible for a man to impregnate a woman even while causing her excruciating pain‚ trauma or horror. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536877031No matter how many orgasms she has‚ they won\u2019t make her pregnant. Pregnancies can only happen when men have an orgasm. Unwanted pregnancies can only happen when men orgasm irresponsibly. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536877057Let\u2019s talk more about responsibility. Men often don\u2019t know‚ and don\u2019t ask‚ and don\u2019t think to ask‚ if they\u2019ve caused a pregnancy. They may never think of it‚ or associate sex with making babies at all. Why? Because there are 0 consequences for men who cause unwanted pregnancies. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536877098If the woman decides to have an abortion‚ the man may never know he caused an unwanted pregnancy with his irresponsible ejaculation. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1536877110Blair';s controversial tweet storm have been liked hundreds of thousands of time‚ with the original tweet earning nearly 200‚000 likes since it was posted on Thursday‚ September‚ 13.The reactions have earned her both praise and scorn.Most of the scorn was from men.Men AND women both need to take responsibility for their own actions. I';ve said that many times. To say otherwise just isn';t being realistic. CitizenPatriot (@CitizenPatriot) 1537102869But Blair wouldn';t budge.You are incorrect. A woman having an orgasm while with a man risks nothing and hurts no one. A man having an orgasm while with a woman risks her life. A dick without a condim is a dangerous thing and has killed more people in human history than any war or weapon. Gabrielle Blair (@Gabrielle Blair) 1537085191For other men‚ the tweet thread was a real eye-opener.I just want you to know from a guy that your entire line of argument on this thread is 100% accurate. Thanks for taking the time to put this out there. Every adult in this country SHOULD read this. Jarrod Broussard (@Jarrod Broussard) 1537235101Women everywhere applauded Blair';s bold thread.Thank God for this. I have had so many arguments with men over the years about their part of responsibility for pregnancy. The phrase ";she got pregnant"; sends me to the moon! Blessings to you Gabrielle! What else is possible? (@What else is possible?) 1537204198Pulitzer‚ Nobel‚ everything else. You deserve the whole lot! Sally \ud83d\ude97\ud83c\udfce\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc1\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc15\ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f (@Sally \ud83d\ude97\ud83c\udfce\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc1\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc15\ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f) 1537261201This article originally appeared on 02.22.19

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