One publisher created multiple versions of its social studies material, softening or eliminating references to race — even in the story of Rosa Parks — as it sought to gain approval in Florida
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"Any system that is set up to reward people for a particular kind of brutality — even against people who look like them — is going to produce these apparently anomalous but perfectly understandable dynamics,” @sandylocks breaks down the power of institutions with @MehdiRHasan.
A model, in many ways, for how journalists in real time should be forcing politicians to back up their claims with facts and sources and not simply allowing them to go unchallenged.
Shaye Moss, former Georgia election worker, details call from her grandmother, describing a group that pushed its way into her home to perform a "citizen's arrest" on Moss, following false claims by Trump that Moss had engaged in election fraud. https://t.co/xXdESyNEn8
Y’all they are about to start arresting librarians in Texas for not pulling anti trans books. We learned yesterday that Hood County has opened a criminal investigation. Leaked audio shows they were threatened with prosecution if they don’t remove transgender or LGBTQ books.
Please read this. A child expresses themselves, tells their truth in a poem, and adults ridicule the child to protect their truth, which is to lie about how their truth makes this kid’s truth a painful reality. Sheesh. Smh.
I received this brave email and it really struck me that this is what these anti-history propagandists are doing to their children. They are not protecting them from harm, but depriving them of understanding the country in which they live, leaving them confused & ill-equipped.
.@jasonintrator is one of the people I rely on to help me understand the dangerous fragility of America democracy in this moment. Please read his chilling assessment. A warning. https://t.co/YycY6cEbZy
People of color have been not only undercounted for decades by the Census Bureau, but also underrepresented in its top rank of civil servants — where there are long-standing barriers to diversity, former staffers tell @NPR. My latest w @rinatorchi/@nprviz:
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