Wasn’t enough for greedy oil companies to inflate gas prices.
Now they want to drill near daycares & schools.
That means more kids with asthma. More babies with birth defects.
They would rather risk your health than sacrifice a single cent. Disgusting.
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“The Florida book banning law is un-American, unconstitutional and a disturbing insight into the fragile and unprincipled id of a Florida governor who has created his own bread and circuses for our age of distrust.”
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Take two minutes and watch this.
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JAMES BALDWIN addresses the the University Of Cambridge during his epochal debate with William F. Buckley in 1965.
This is oratory and content of the very very highest order.
To listen is to learn.
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When I wrote about Florida teachers being forced to lock up all their books, I was dogpiled by right wingers accusing me of making it all up. I was not.
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This is what and crew want. And when students from here reach college and life outside the confines of this state run by delicate white men, they will be completely unprepared for the truth that awaits them there. Such short-sighted idiocy.
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Just so I understand:
Trump appointed Bill Barr who appointed John Durham who spent $6.5 million to uncover “misconduct” in the Trump-Russia probe using Russian Intel but the only crimes Durham uncovered were crimes committed by Trump. And then they hid it? Did I get that right?
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"School choice" is code for re-segregation.
Parents who want to send their kids to religious and mostly-white schools steal from tax payers to subsidize their bigotry.
No public funding for non-public schools.
#WeWontGoBack
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Miss universe has nothing on this eloquent response from the director wannabe.
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Sorry, Twitter, but Florida's war on books is no joke. Ron DeSantis wants to keep kids from reading
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Since y'all wanna play the "this isn't really happening" game twitter.com/JagsFanBrian/s…
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When Durham unexpectedly found evidence of crimes committed BY rather than AGAINST Trump, he and Barr deliberately deceived the nation into thinking the opposite! This deep dive by the NYT is as jaw-dropping as anything I’ve read in the past decade.
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"The likelihood that you could've had these two...plots, proceeding on essentially the same legal theory: one in the Justice Dept. and one in 7 state capitols and run out of the White House...and they're not coordinated...I don't believe it" - w/
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Now this bill won’t pass, not with Democrats in the Senate & the White House, but the fact that it even made it to committee, says a lot about where the Republicans stand, and who they really work for.
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In my MYTH AMERICA chapter on the Southern Strategy, I mention this 1951 debate between two Republicans that unfolded in the pages of Collier’s Magazine.
The title gives the question: “Should the G.O.P. Merge with the Dixiecrats?”
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He'd be violent,
He'd be vengeful,
And slightly sentimental,
Regarding love and art...
From the rooftops he would holler,
That he'd buy it for a dollar,
If he only had a heart. 💵 ❤️ 🤖
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This is Ron DeSantis Florida. This is the fascist future Republicans want for America.
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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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As TX Rs led by , & plot to steal neighborhood school $$ to pay for private school vouchers remember, most of the windfall will go to kids' families already in or who can already afford private schools.
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Allison Sorenson Voucher Bill Marketing Director, "I can't say this is a recall of public education even though I want to destroy public education. ... The legislators can't say that because ...they can't have that PR mess. ... " mobile.twitter.com/.../status/161... #utpol #uted #utleg
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Greg Abbott claims to be supporting our schools when in fact: schools are being closed in overpopulated districts, special ed programs are not properly staffed, and resources are being withheld. He doesn't care about our kids.
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This is excellent, concise, and spot on
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DeSantis’s banning of AP African American Studies is disturbing and dangerous.
In my most watched whiteboard, I explain how censoring our history of its worst moments is a tool designed to obscure CURRENT attacks on a diverse democracy.
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Last yr Marjorie Taylor Greene was featured speaker at a white supremacist event where her fellow speakers praised Hitler & called for Fauci to be hanged. Attendees chanted "Putin" as bombs dropped on Ukraine
The GOP just gave her a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee
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Hey, kids! It's your old buddy Steve King telling you that if they ban a book in your school, haul your ass to the nearest bookstore or library ASAP and find out what they don't want you to read.
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Everyone engaged in the fight against Trump and Trumpism should read this piece. The fact that semi-fascists (and real fascists!) are often clownish, mockable, disorganized, and in some ways incompetent, doesn't meant they're not very dangerous.
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Yeah, . It’s obvious. Ball-less Kev caved to you lunatics, and now there are actual seditionists and conspiracy nuts on vital committees.
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A 30% national sales tax
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This is just my old guy in DC intuition kicking in here, but I think the really disturbing part of the George Santos story has yet to be told. It's not that he is a clownish fraud or an extremist freak show. Someone picked him to run, funded him, gave him support. Who? Why?
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“Western politicians and commentators who blame Russian society for tolerating this regime for such a long time should not forget about their own leaders who did exactly the same.”
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wow: that 2016 tesla self-driving demo that essentially kicked off the entire industry-wide spending spree...it was fake
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The appointments of Jim Jordan, Mark Green, Marjorie Taylor Green, etc. to important committees in the new House prompted me to check a historical precedent: how did Congress deal with ex-Confederates when the Democrats regained their House majority after the Civil War? (Thread)
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This is who Kevin McCarthy thinks is qualified to serve on the HOMELAND SECURITY Committee #NotTheOnion
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Holy shit. Top Republican Rick Allen (R-GA) was just recorded saying his party is going after Social Security because people “want to work longer.” (h/t )
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Military theorists & historians have –in my view, incorrectly- concluded there are 2 types of strategy.
One is annihilation & the other is attrition (or exhaustion).
While these aren’t the *only* strategies, it's helpful to understand them to comprehend Ukraine right now.1/11
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Raising the debt limit doesn't add new debt, it allows payment of debts Congress already incurred.
The alternative is default, which risks a global financial crisis, recession, and millions of jobs lost.
Republicans are economic terrorist.
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Asheville’s Mission Hospital was a treasure … and then bought it. HCA is ’s old outfit that paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud. Some of the healthcare providers I see at the VA left Mission as it put shareholder profits over patient care.
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Mission Hospital in Asheville and union nurses who worked there played a central role in NBC Nightly News' Jan. 12 report on HCA staffing issues. citizen-times.com/story/news/loc
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It was said “in the Gulf that the president's son-in-law took a copy of information from the daily intelligence briefing provided by the intelligence community to the White House, and shared its contents with MBS.”
Huh. Imagine that. $2 billion convo?
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