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30 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Education reporters: Have you seen the stuff Senate Rs cite in their letter to DOE about "proposed priorities?"
I'm familiar w "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family." That's language from national BLM's website, deleted last year but CTRL+F'd by some local educators.
A pretty common source of controversy is that activist language appears in some presentation - see the phrase "curriculum documents," which is broad - gets flagged by somebody on FB, blows up online. In many cases the language is not official.
For example, last week a proposal to rework Virginia's HS math program appeared in a presentation with a reference to "equity." The program hadn't changed and can't until 2025 - but one candidate for gov is saying he'll stop the plan to kill advanced math. washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
Anyway: There is obviously a ton of "woke" education to go after, I just always go "hmmm" when there are references to specific cases but no citations.

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Looking more possible that Democrats will lock themselves out of #TX06 runoff, despite Biden getting 48% of the vote in the district. 2018 nominee Jana Lynne Sanchez has the most local support, but two other candidates stayed in and raised $, and Latino Dem turnout has been weak.
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The question Fox threw at Psaki about this has aged as well as an Al Jolson mixtape
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Missed most of the Maxine Waters discourse yesterday, but it's funny that after months of Dem hand-wringing about how they handled protests last year, the 82-year old chair of the Financial Services Committee committee decided protesters needed to hear from her
Waters turns 84 this term, part of this story is the "never retire" mindset that gave Democrats popular hits like a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS and Alcee Hastings's seat being vacant indefinitely
The problem here isn't a politician giving a speech to protesters - it happens all the time, you usually don't hear about it bc they're careful not to say stuff that would look bad if violence breaks out
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In theory, the guy/gal who gets elected with 10,000 votes and maybe goes door to door in October is someone you know. But ask most people who represents them in the state senate and unless the member has been involved in some scandal or big news story you often get crickets.
I live in DC now but I noticed this where my folks live in Delaware - there was a local GOP rep who kept winning in a Dem district and once the Dems spent a little money to say "hey this person is a Republican" the incumbent lost
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