Thread by @jennycohn1

It doesn’t sound completely awful in the abstract. But Josh Hawley is a Christofascist, which suggests that what he wants is for kids to have no access to information other than through Christian private schools and Christian homeschooling. #Christofascism 1/

2/ I do not trust him. thecentersquare.com/missouri/hawle…

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5/ OMG. Josh Hawley is in cahoots with Alexey Komov, the Russian Christofascist homeschooling proponent who works for indicted Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. Because of course he is.

6/ Malofeev’s “Safe Internet League” is supposedly meant to “protect children” but really is a fascist Kremlin project to block objectionable content (eg, anti - Kremlin talking points). Komov & Torshin are on the board.

7/ Hawley’s bill is probably a copycat. (Full disclosure: I haven’t read it.)

8/ OMFG. When I’m right I’m right. Josh Hawley’s wife works for the Alliance Defending Freedom founded by Christofascist homeschooling proponent Michael Farris.

8/ "’Parental rights’ started on the Christian fringe [eg, with Michael Farris and the Home School Legal Defense Association]…” Now it’s the “Moms for Liberty” rallying cry. 1/12/22 salon.com/2022/01/12/par…

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11/ Hawley’s inspiration? These are the people he runs with so you do the math. cgrozev.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/the…

12/ “Mother, wife, lawyer: Erin Hawley calls the fight to overturn Roe ‘the project of a lifetime’” #CHRISTOFACISTS stltoday.com/news/local/gov…

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17/ Russian infiltration of the U.S. via Alexey Komov (Malofeev’s lackey) and the Christofascist homeschooling movement.

.@anelsona

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19/ It just gets worse and worse. #CHRISTOFACISTS

20/ Josh Hawley’s peeps.

21/ Told ya these are Josh Hawley’s peeps. #Dominionism

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23/ Josh Hawley with Tony Perkins of the Christofascist Family Research Counsel.

.@ProfessorShaw

.@C_Stroop

24/ washingtonpost.com/politics/coney…

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.@DianeRavitch

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