A scholar from the right-wing Claremont Institute cowrote Florida's Black history standards.
It's the same radical think tank where John Eastman, an architect of Jan. 6, works and Christopher Rufo, who fabricated the notion that CRT was taught in secondary schools, served.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida’s new African American history standards were crafted without political influence.
But there’s evidence authors may have been chosen for their far right-wing political views that align with DeSantis’s own fringe views of Black history.
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@JillianMichaels@CNN You're nitpicking one poster in isolation that has nothing to do with slavery, which you minimized.
It says "sometimes" the U.S. "contributed" to Latin Americans fleeing in search of democracy. When you support a coup, it can lead to a revolution.
Trump is now pardoning a guy who set up a dark network to sell drugs. Evidence during sentencing showed that he was also involved in attempted murder for hire schemes. And Trump’s reason is that the criminal was prosecuted by some of the same people who prosecuted Trump.
BREAKING
The President has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht.
Ulbricht was convicted on seven charges related to his role in creating and operating the Silk Road, a darknet marketplace.
Charges included conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic narcotics, and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (often referred to as the “kingpin charge”).
Trump: If I ran with an honest vote counter in California, I would win California. The votes are not counted honestly. It’s a very dishonest system you have in California
@lhfang Biden has instituted severe restrictions on asylum seeking that bars any entry from several countries without advance permission and entrance at an airport. Recently he instituted more restrictions that have dramatically cut encounters.
@lhfang Encounters at the border does not equal illegal immigration. Asylum seeking is not illegal. There are refugee crises in several countries. These numbers involve double counting from migrants turned away who crossed again. And it doesn’t subtract those stopped or deported.
@elonmusk Giving a path to citizenship to undocumented aliens was a bill that was negotiated by four Democrats and four Republicans. It passed the Senate in 2013 with 15 Republicans joining the Democrats.
The four Republicans were Rubio, Graham, McCain and Flake.
I'm old enough to remember when cheating on your pregnant wife with a porn star that reminds you of your daughter would hurt you with the evangelical vote in a Presidential campaign.
The Republican candidate for Missouri Secretary of State made an actual campaign ad threatening people commenting on with social media posts with an assault rifle.
Radical Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters absurdly claims teacher unions are taking orders from President Joe Biden to teach children to hate Jews.
"We have never had a more pro-terrorist, anti-semitic, anti-American president than Joe Biden."
I’m proud to have led the impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Impeaching Biden’s Secretary of Homeland has been the only accountability against the Biden admins deadly border invasion.
Schumer must hold the trial in the senate!
Do you know what the 22 countries ranked ahead of the U.S. in happiness all have in common?
Universal healthcare.
Turns out people are happier when they don’t have to choose between food and seeing a doctor.
"If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country"
He's taken a political party and transformed it into a cult of political violence & chaos. The only way to stop the madness is to vote against him in Nov.