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Jan 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
TN county school board votes to remove use of graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus from school curriculum. Complains about vulgarity and naked pictures. tnholler.com/2022/01/mcminn…
All I’m suggesting folks is that maybe it’s a good thing if the professional autonomy of teachers was respected a little more
We don't know a lot about the details of the removal of the book Maus, but since the anti-CRT push we've seen a) a 60%⬆️in effort to bans books, and b) the election of school board members who are less likely to accept the judgement of education officials. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-book-ban…
McMinn School Board responds explaining that they simply wanted a more tasteful representation of the Holocaust. Nude images of cartoon mice deemed inappropriate for 8th graders.

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Jan 26
Looking forward to the guys who floated the theory that a Kavanaugh doppelgänger attacked Christine Blasey Ford and she just misremembered the whole thing now turn their attention to questioning the credentials and temperament of Black female candidates
People sort of memory-holed this, but the nuts Kavanaugh doppelgänger theory was given credence by NY Times columnists, and became the means by which Senators who said they didn't think Ford was lying could still vote for Kavanaugh vox.com/2018/10/1/1791…
If I had promoted a wild conspiracy theory designed to protect a SCOTUS nominee from credible allegations of assault, I would simply stop weighing in on SCOTUS nominations for the rest of my life.
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Jan 17
People laughed about the Stephen Douglas/Frederick Douglas mistake, but this bill is really bad. The key goal is to silence, discredit, and put a bounty on teachers, while further undermining the attack on public schools. 1/
The bill has the standard blocking of "divisive concepts." In other words, you can't suggest structural racism is a real and persistent force in America, despite evidence of this point. Doesn't matter if it's true as long as it's "divisive." 2/
It also blocks teachers from talking about current events that might be controversial, that is, the news. If for any reason they do, they have to present both sides. 3/
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Jan 16
Bit more on the judge who outlawed drop boxes in Wisconsin, overturning the state election commission
Full story the quote is from here. The broader picture is bleak. In swing states there is a deliberate effort to control and restrict voting. If conservative judges go along with it & legislature is gerrymandered, no real options w/o federal reform.
nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/…
In WI both GOP & Dem leaders and the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) welcomed drop boxes before the election. But after the election assumed it hurt GOP, so conservative judges declare it illegal & GOP legislature will go along while threatening to eliminate the WEC.
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Jan 14
A judge in Wisconsin declared drop boxes to be illegal *today.*
State legislature won't put them back b/c they believe its in their interests to limit voting and they can do so because of gerrymandering. Thats why federal election reforms is the only way to fix these issues.
If your only concern is avoiding another coup attempt, that's fine but a) that's a pretty limited perspective on defending democracy, and b) there is no legislative reform that can guarantee that won't happen again.
If you are in a severely gerrymandered state, basic democratic processes of accountability no longer work, there is no electoral means to solve the problem and no incentive for the dominant party to stop democratic backsliding. SCOTUS won't intervene. So what's the solution?
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Jan 13
New, from me: there is a concerted effort to deny and obscure the meaning of January 6th. In this piece, I examine the different flavors of January 6th revisionism and explain why it matters. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l…
January 6th revisionist flavor #1. Tone policing: it wasn’t an “insurrection” or a coup, or a mob, or terrorists, or a riot etc… Image
January 6th revisionist flavor #2.

Whataboutism: What about Dick Cheney—he was a bad guy and is commerating January 6th? Seems bad. What about George Floyd protests? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l… ImageImage
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Jan 12
Weird how "we just want to block obscure legal theories about race" morphed into "we want to exclude Black authors" and now "we want fewer Black teachers"
FWIW the best evidence we have is that diversifying the teaching pool generates positive outcomes, especially when it comes to reducing gaps in student performance nber.org/system/files/w…
"Cyfair has 13% Black teachers...do you know what the statewide average is for Black teachers? 10%. Houston ISD...you know what their average is? 36%...You know what their drop-out rate is? 4%. I don't want to be at 4%. I don't want to be HISD."
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