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Conservatives love to accuse liberals of “indoctrinating” kids. So I decided to try Mike Huckabee’s Christian nationalist children’s magazine.
It’s even weirder and more dangerous than you think:
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📢📢📢 Going on NOW!
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Join us tomorrow, February 8th at 6pm ET for the 32nd installment of our Under the Blacklight series, titled “Whitewashing Black Studies: The Fight for African American Studies in the Era of Racial Backlash.” To attend in person, please register at bit.ly/UTB32
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I am noticing this as well and it’s precisely why we need #CRT and an #intersectional lender when looking at the impacts of right wing advocacy in our public education system.
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While it's personally dispiriting to see your work targeted in bad faith, what's more distressing to me is that the lives of women of color I've written about are being diminished and erased in a political moment in which we need their stories most.
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Was on a train from w/ execs while they drafted talking points re: reporting on the changes to AP Af-Am. 👀
Yes, I was eavesdropping. No, they didn't know I was a historian. All I have to say is we should listen to here.
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Going on in Virginia. Another case of right-wing actors using smear campaigns to target dedicated parent volunteers in order to derail progress in our education system. This is the same Harry Jackson, who spoke with Ed Blum to dismantle affirmative action at #SCOTUS rallies.
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Please report slanderous tweets from GOP School Board candidate #HarryJ4Justice.
Harry Jackson has made unfounded pedophile claims against many, but his abhorrent lies about @JorgeATorrico cannot go unchallenged.
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Breaking rules is transgressive. Changing the rules is progressive. Removing the rules is Liberatory
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This conversation is about more than just Florida, AP classes or the College Board. It is about protecting education justice, academic freedom, our collective understanding of America’s racial caste system, and progress toward a truly multicultural democracy.
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Today! Join the for an important discussion: “White Washing Black Studies – the Fight for African-American Studies in the Era of Racial Backlash.”
, and others will discuss attacks on Black history, literature and scholarship.
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Because talking about the history of slavery in America is apparently anti-white. Kids should watch Black characters unless those characters talk about the experience of being Black. During Black History Month. Amazing clip, by the way.
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. and I gave our thoughts on how Biden can use the State of the Union could to serve as his re-election bid: Flex hard, go after the GOP hard, and fight for the majority and your base.
yahoo.com/now/state-unio via
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Conservative activists both locally and nationally have criticized and targeted San Francisco for our progressive values. They have mobilized tech investors and weaponized instability and fear to stoke conflict between communities of color
#sanfrancisco
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This seems “newsworthy”.
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We should talk about the fact that Siva Raj And Autumn do not have kids in SFUSD and @sfchronicle refuses to fact check this and continues to publish lies by Heather Knight. I have proof that while Siva was pushing recall talking points here, his kids were in Pleasanton.
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Interesting that so many Peter Thiel associates were involved in actively promoting and bankrolling the SF BOE recall via conservative lawyers and “non-profits”.
Let’s start a list of receipts on Peter Thiel associates and lawyers involved in SF political activity, shall we?
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“The Rockbridge Network declared that it would spend $30 million on conservative media, litigation, policy advocacy, voter registration projects, and other initiatives.”
This advocacy also involves investing in polling and “influencers”.
influencewatch.org/organization/t
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This is all a part of a new wave of right-wing activism being fueled by plutocratic libertarian billionaires like Peter Thiel and others. It’s no coincidence that Thiel associates are highly networked with SF recallers.
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This is similar to Friends of Lowell Foundation’s partnership with conservative lawyers like, Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump lawyer who sued SFUSD keep Lowell HS segregated and dismantle an equity audit requested by Black Lowell students and the SF NAACP.
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So, let me see here, the same attorney that sued @SFUnified to keep Lowell segregated, is now Trump’s attorney for the Jan 6th committee. But sure, it’s not a Republican recall. It’s THE Republican recall. twitter.com/kyledcheney/st…
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“In October 2022, Erick Kaardal, one of the Thomas More Society's lead attorneys, said it would employ a strategy of "asymmetrical lawfare," essentially overwhelming schools with dozens or hundreds of complaints.”
Overwhelming folks with legal complaints is a part of the plan.
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Pay attention. This is happening in Michigan but right wing legal attacks are happening nationally.
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“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Why the right wing is obsessed with San Francisco
Happy Black History Month. ✊🏽
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We’ve heard you can raise hundreds of thousands of dollars selling tees 😉.
Now, we didn’t come up with any hypocritical slogans or use Zapf Chauncey font, but we think our designs are pretty awesome.
bonfire.com/store/florida-
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Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
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Years of concern trolling about leftist "cancel culture" and "political correctness" and the NYT simply lacks the tools or desire to describe what is happening
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Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
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could the NYT come up with a more DeSantis-friendly headline and framing?
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They're criminalizing teachers who let students access to books the state doesn't like (such as books by Black people), and the NYT is like "wow, about time someone took on those bullies in the education establishment"
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Reminds me of SF legacy media overlooking SF political activity by Right wing tech billionaires, charter school proponents, Trump and lawyers, anti affirmative-action activists, disinformation experts and antifa conspiracy theorists.
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I am in Florida right now, and seeing how legacy publications are framing fascism in my home state this week is causing me to lose my mind. I’m not surprised; I’m furious. twitter.com/zunguzungu/sta…
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If you can’t make it, please make a donation directly! All donations are tax deductible!
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I wish the media would start calling bullshit on Republicans racism and Islamophobia. They are a white supremacist cult shunning Muslim members and wearing AR-15 rifles on their lapels. This is terrorism! Period. #WokeAF
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Please read and share. Another example of a privately held education nonprofit making decisions that favor $$$ over kids.
The and have called out Florida.
It’s time for all of us to start calling out the .
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Thread: College Board, which has a history of blowing it, has blown it.
You know about the Parkland email. You know they told kids to sit in a McDonald's parking lot during COVID to take AP. You know about millions in bonuses during COVID, when revenue dropped $400M.
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If you are in NY you can also come out to see the production!
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Come out this evening and meet the legendary playwright, Ishmael Reed. Join me and in supporting the Off-Broadway production of his new play, the Conductor!
eventbrite.com/e/515746219827
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Sharing this excellent idea for the taking! I hear CA is SUPPOSED to have excellent protections of student data, but know for a fact tech companies get around them by offering “free” services for educational programs.
Do you have any info for SF families?
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Replying to @AliMCollins @DianeRavitch and 2 others
There must be a written agreement as to the sharing of data. You should ask for it & if they don’t provide, FOIA it. CA has pretty strong student privacy laws.
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Let me get this straight…
gave back FEMA dollars
but says we need $50k in exchange for providing data on preschoolers to an man who promotes private schools.
Is this correct?
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Sounds like officials at the SFUSD are bought and paid for by CrankStart, deliberately abbeting the cover-up of what's really going on. Someone with the skills should research who in SFUSD and pay-to-play city SFgov (& family/friends) personally own stock in CrankStart.
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Dual enrollment >>>>>> AP classes
Eliminate the cash cow, the College Board.
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With all that’s going on in Florida with trying to ban teaching a complete history and present, I want to shout out these small museums & the people who run them. They are a treasure trove of ephemera, memories, witness and racial truth telling.
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In #Waukesha County, #Wisconsin, two non-partisan pro-public-school community organizations have launched to counter a partisan effort to take over schools and local government.
kettlemorainealliance.com
cometogetherlc.org
#LakeCountryWI #KettleMoraineWI #HartlandWI #MertonWI
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The has spoken up about DeSantis’ recent statement about African American History. It’s time for Democratic leadership and Union leadership to follow suit in condemning this racial backlash movement in FL. naacp.org/articles/naacp
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1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
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you can’t say “stop asian hate” without also ending american imperialism. so much anti-china rhetoric comes from the white house itself and that endangers asams at home
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As millions come together to celebrate the Lunar New Year, we are devastated by news of yet another mass shooting in America.
Our team is monitoring the situation in Monterey Park, California. We grieve for the families whose loved ones were killed and wounded in the attack.
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What is happening in Florida, is a bellwether on which leaders have the courage to speak up about the racial backlash happening in our country. It’s not enough to do “Happy MLK” posts on social media. Honor his legacy with action. Why are our democratic leaders silent?
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If College Board had an ounce of integrity, it would pull all AP courses out of the state of Florida. No students in Florida should be able to take any AP class if DeSantis is going to pick-and-choose courses like participating in AP is an à la carte menu.
thehill.com/homenews/state
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Happy Tet everyone! May the Lunar New Year bring you good health, good fortune, prosperity, success, and happiness! ♥️🥰✌🏼
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