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Jan 30 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
"The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages...

Voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today’s electorate; the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of tomorrow’s."

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"The school proposals are not only surfacing in more states, but also increasing in their breadth."

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"The singer and activist John Legend previewed another response when he tweeted, “Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced. We are parents too.”"

#education
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"Yet even as the nation’s public-school student body tilts more heavily toward kids of color, the principal advocates of these laws almost everywhere have been conservative white parents and legislators."

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"It found that districts where the white share of students had significantly declined were more than three times as likely as districts with stable demographics to face public backlash over the teaching of race."

#racism #education
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"The current wave of race-related proposals could become the most intrusive and expansive restrictions on classroom instruction since the spate of 1920s laws that banned the teaching of evolution."

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"At another moment of rapid cultural and demographic change, it’s easy to see the same dual goals in today’s red-state movement to limit discussion of racism."

#education
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"these educational constraints serve the same goal as the voting restrictions: deferring a shift in power... from the mostly white and nonurban Republican coalition that now controls these states toward a more diverse electorate"

#racism #education
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Jan 16
"Increasingly, experts have identified misogyny as one such ideology that motivates violence and can be a component of far-right extremism."

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"In addition to motivating deadly and violent behavior on its own, misogyny in the US also has well-documented ties to other extremist movements, whose far-right supporters have both adopted misogynist attitudes and used hatred of women to recruit new supporters."
"The first section of this report examines the ties between misogyny and far-right extremism, and how their association leads to the radicalization of their respective adherents."
~@Everytown
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Jan 16
"many of the Oath Keepers present at the Capitol were military veterans. The U.S. government is unintentionally training its own insurrectionists"
~Clint Watts @selectedwisdom

#Jan6th
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"the Oath Keepers prepared to carry out terrorism — violence in pursuit of political change — unlike anything the United States has witnessed in recent history."

#Jan6th
#OathKeepers
#DomesticTerrorism
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"Unlike in the case of international terrorism, where the US State Dept designates foreign terrorist organizations so that the Justice Department can then preemptively pursue investigations based on affiliations, no such designation process exists for domestic terror groups"
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Jan 7
"the both-sides dynamic remains — big time. The US doesn’t have some generic problem called “voting” or “democracy” — the problem is, specifically, that many key figures in the Republican Party are acting to erode democracy & voting rights"
~@perrybaconjr
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"Often, the text of these articles is quite blunt about the radicalism of the GOP, but the headlines — what will be most read — are muted, with gun-shy editors blunting reporters’ work."
~@perrybaconjr

#journalism
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"The second problem is that while this coverage is now widespread, it’s still not as pervasive as it should be... politics is still covered largely the same way it was four decades ago"

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Jan 7
"They watched Fox News all day & they lost their humanity...

They became, literally became, different people.

It was horrifying. Like watching a loved one eaten alive by Alzheimers"
~@Stonekettle

Fox Talk channel(I refuse to call it news) is a cancer.
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"You can't spend decades building a political ideology based on hate and rage and not expect that there will be violence."
~@Stonekettle

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"For evil to flourish, good men forget who they are...

they begin to regard duty and the obligations of civilization itself as oppression. They raise up ignorance, hate, and especially violent rage as strengths and sneer in contempt at compassion, charity, and selflessness."
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Jan 6
Do yourself a favor and look through @AnnTelnaes visual & textual representation of those involved in Trump's attempt to overthrow American democracy and install himself as an authoritarian leader over the USA.

#Jan6thInsurrection
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"Then the assistant attorney general, Clark sought to topple his boss, acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, by agreeing to do for Trump what Rosen refused to do — bully Georgia election officials."

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"Ali Alexander with GOP Reps. Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar

Alexander, leader of Stop the Steal, said in a since-deleted video that the three Republican congressmen helped plan how to put “maximum pressure on Congress” during the counting of electoral college votes."
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Jan 5
"Precisely because this GOP opposition is a foregone conclusion, Republicans are too rarely asked by reporters to justify it. This in turn causes that opposition to become accepted as a natural, unalterable ... condition of political life"
~@ThePlumLineGS
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"[GOP] opposition fades into the background as a factor in what’s happening. It faces less serious scrutiny, and the story that’s foregrounded is that Democratic infighting is the only reason for congressional inaction."

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"The current Democratic package is called the Freedom to Vote Act. This proposal has a lot of individual provisions in it.

But how often does media coverage dissect why Republicans oppose each provision?"

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