This volunteer says he collected over 12,000 signatures for the successful recall of San Francisco’s school board members. The backlash against woke bullshit in schools is a landslide.
The ultra woke school board, every speaker here emphasizes, was *not progressive.* They prioritized shutting down schools, renaming them, categorizing students by race, closing gifted programs — the backlash and the recall, they say, is a revival of progressive politics.
“What’s next? We care about safety” — someone shouts recall the DA and everyone cheers
Lawsuit reveals that lawyers for the 9/11 victims promised lobbyists a cut of the $$$ they win from foreign assets. New filings show lawyers are already scrambling to grab a slice of the $3.5 billion seized from the Afghan people - while millions starve. theintercept.com/2022/02/16/afg…
Kreindler & Kreindler, one of the law firms that filed yesterday to demand a piece of the $3.5 billion, hired lobbyist firm NVG in December to work on 9/11 litigation issues. NVG's co-founder helped Biden with Asian American outreach during the campaign and is a big Dem donor.
In a message to 9/11 victim clients sent this week, Kreindler & Kreindler promised that there are still many outstanding legal issues surrounding the payout, and they would be "continuing to work with our lobbying team" to influence Biden's Department of Justice.
Just read this NYT piece on proposed California state education standards that demand that teachers change curriculums to bring racial identity politics into everyday math lessons. So I click the draft standards and the first section cited this CRT paper. nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/…
If you say anything about CRT, you get a gazillion scolds claiming there’s no CRT in schools, nothing inspired by this ideology. When you take literally 2 minutes to look into recent curriculum changes you find it everywhere.
There are so many extreme voices in the CA curriculum. The standards cite Prof. D. B. Martin to claim a colorblind approach to math promotes inequality. If you look up Martin, he believes math education is a project of “violent white supremacy and racial capitalism.”
Many people here don't know the history of the 1960s. They think violence helped produce meaningful reforms. But the 1961-1964 was a period of mass nonviolent activism, voter registration, organizing that helped produce the 1964 congressional sweep that gave us Medicare.
Medicare was signed into law on July 30, 1965. The following month was the first mega riot of the 1960s, the Watts riot in August 1965, scores of riots followed, w/ many on the left embracing racial sectarianism and promoting "burn baby burn."
A lot of people know this image of Bernie nonviolently protesting segregation in 1963 but don't know the history of the group he was working with at the time
Nothing better than seeing rich over educated leftists like Nathan — constantly online, obsessed w/style & symbols & language policing, who sneers at at actual working class concerns like gun violence — throw a tantrum when asked to live up to any supposedly radical principles.
Bouie is a fabulist when it comes to policing and crime, lots of examples.
Here he invents a conspiracy that police murdered Joshua Brown as a cover up in the Guyger trial. Not remotely true, Brown was killed in a drug deal, his killers confessed.
Here's his tweet last year falsely claiming that Michael Reinoehl, the antifa guy who murdered a pro-Trump supporter in Portland, was some type of conservative "emulating Kyle Rittenhouse"
Here's a more sneaky deception. Of course the U.S. has an overall lower rate, but violent crime is highly concentrated in working class areas avoided by the elite media. Baltimore has a higher murder rate than San Pedro Sula, the murder capital of Honduras
The current debate around coronavirus vaccine intellectual property is a great example of corporate solidarity. Business interests at large would benefit from sharing IP to end the pandemic as fast as possible. But virtually all corporations are silent or siding w the drug lobby.
The National Association of Manufacturers -- the lobby group that reps ExxonMobil, Toyota, Alcoa, etc -- opposes any IP exemptions to share vaccine patents globally, claiming doing so would "undermine innovation"
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the lobby group for hundreds of large corporations, similarly claims the proposal to share vaccine IP to end the pandemic "would distort trade" & "create an uneven playing field for innovative U.S. businesses."