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“Sadly, the days of shredding civil rights in exchange for ten private-jet flights are over,” the Justice told donors.
Washington is halting some aid to Niger even as it eyes greater support for Burkina Faso’s military coup-maker.
The post At Least Five Members of Niger Junta Were Trained by U.S. appeared first on The Intercept.
“Large school districts across Florida are dropping plans to offer Advanced Placement Psychology, heeding a warning from state officials that the course’s discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity violates state law.”
— Washington Post
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Despite media reports to the contrary, we here at the Florida Department of Education are committed to offering AP Psychology to high school students in our state. However, there are several concepts within the course that will need to be handled delicately in the classroom. It is our hope that a few careful revisions, reflected in the following student handouts, will enable teachers to deliver all course content in full while still reflecting the values, beliefs, and moral principles that we as Floridians hold dear.
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If you have a chance, listen to this whole thing. It is astonishing: Now take a look at Trump hedging: Eastman says they were trying to save the Republic from “the mob” — and prepared to sic the military on anyone who protested. That’s right, they prepared for a military coup. Now Trump is hedging. I hope Eastman enjoys being underneath the bus.
Doctor Who: Doom's Day rolls on with M.G. Harris' novel Extraction Point, as Doom looks to the Second & Ninth Doctors for answers.
How much is “engineered division”? Click-bait coverage of Trump rallies makes it easy to believe that the country is hopelessly divided. Or at least the 70% from the fringe-right 30%. If Trumpers don’t get their way, it’s civil war, etc., etc. As if these two below will lock and load and defend march to war behind some 21st-century Robert E. Lee. Capitalism and democracy being strange bedfellows, it’s those voices that get air time because they draw eyeballs and generate clicks. But is it really as bad as quickie profiles of the blowhard right make it seem? Under cover of mullet, John Russell of The Holler discovered that there is more common ground between the left and right than footage appearing on social media and in news coverage makes it seem. “Solidarity is waiting to have a moment.” “You would never know [this]” about people at a Trump rally, Russell explains, “if you just watched Fox or CNN.” “They’re trying to divide people,” one young woman says of the dominance of hot-button social issues.
Dr Chris Day’s legal campaign exposed a ‘gap in the law’, which deprived 54,000 junior doctors of statutory whistleblowing protections
Health care reform advocate Wendell Potter provides a line-by-line rebuttal of the propaganda network’s cartoon about Canada’s universal health care system.
On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country’s High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what’s known as the “reasonability” standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act, since right-wing parliamentarians were defying massive crowds that had, for months on end, demonstrated with remarkable determination against such radical legislation. And that measure was only one part of a wide-ranging redesign of the court system unveiled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January, which deeply alarmed his critics. As exemplified by prominent world historian Yuval Noah Harari, such protestors warned that limiting the functions of the highest court, in... Read more
Recent major data breaches, impacting crucial institutions like the Electoral Commission and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, have brought attention to potential risks linked to the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. These breaches highlight the crucial need for thorough scrutiny of any changes to data protection laws. If enacted, the proposed reforms […]
Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project, joins MintCast to discuss the shocking everyday impact of military spending on Americans.
The post From Wallet to War Machine: The Startling Truth About Your Tax Dollars Revealed, with Lindsay Koshgarian appeared first on MintPress News.
Gaslighting, brainwashing, or just dominating the information battle-space? Blowhards have a way of attracting attention. They thrive on it. They put on a good show. Rush Limbaugh made his fortune as one, as have a biblical flood of TV preachers. Rupert Murdoch erected a global media empire around blowhards. The decibels they generate and maintain day after day do more than entertain audiences and generate cash flow. What Bill McKibben once said of the Christian right might have presaged the rise of the flag-bedecked MAGA cultist: “They’re like the guy who gives you directions with such loud confidence that you drive on even though the road appears to be turning into a faint, rutted track.” Is it gaslighting, brainwashing, or simply dominating the information battle-space? Blowhards organize discontent to “groom” their base and work the media refs. Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the Freedom Caucus, and fringe-right disinformers succeeded in convincing followers that the 2020 election was “stolen” from their savior-king. The blowhard right has long convinced the media that they represent majority opinion.
At the grocery store the other day, when my five-year-old made an impassioned plea for a certain kind of cereal, I said, “nah, that one’s too sweet for breakfast.” He responded with a stern reprimand: “Mom, you shouldn’t yuck my yum!” I was pretty sure that admonishment didn’t apply here, but I heroically let it […]
by Gary Gardner
One of the more puzzling features of modern life is the starkly contrasting visions of humanity’s near-term future. Watch thirty minutes of commercial-filled TV and you get a cheery sense that all is well in the world. A BMW, an anti-depressant, or a Caribbean vacation—these will ensure ever greater happiness.
At the same time, a 2021 poll in ten countries found that four in ten young people are hesitant to have children because of the climate crisis.
The post Which Future? appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
Throughout the years, hundreds of Ain Al-Hilweh's refugees have been killed in Israeli bombings, and with the camp a tinderbox of political rivalries and machinations, infighting is adding new danger to the lives of Palestinian refugees in the camp.
The post Behind Crumbling Concrete: The Tragic Story of Ain Al Hilweh’s Displaced Palestinians appeared first on MintPress News.
Sheila Muniz is delighted to be making her parenthood debut as Mom in Ainsley: Six Pounds Seven Ounces. She comes to the role after a recurring appearance as Cool Aunt (Jacob) and Cat Mom (Floof). She has also worked in Mid-Level Marketing Company (Sheila), where she will return in two months to reimagine this role as Sheila Who Realizes the Lactation Room Is a Broom Closet and Sues. She’d like to thank her epidural.
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Laura Getty appears again with Westside School PTA after her successful seasons in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. She is best known for Amelia (Mom), also starring in Dustin (Mom) and Felix (Mom). She has been nominated for Best Mom Ever (Amelia; The Day We Got a Dog) and Worst Mom Ever (Dustin; The Fight about Screentime, Part XXIV). Next year, she is planning an appearance as Woman Who Already Paid Her Dues So Ask Someone Else, a dream role, for Westside School PTA.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Star Trek: Prodigy, Loki, The Wheel of Time, The Continental, Barbie & Bill Maher, Doctor Who, and more!
President Lukashenka has colluded with Putin in the forced transfer of children, and should face the same sanctions
Just one in nine local council audits are now conducted on time - which researchers blame on a privatised system
The Audit hosts examine right-wing media operation’s plan to infiltrate the public education system.
Twenty-one years ago today, a newly wedded couple celebrates in the garden of their summer residence. As always, for you, Jeanette. Though I speak with the tongues of angels, If I have not love… My words would resound with but a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy… And understand all mysteries… […]