great <a href="https://twitter.com/DWaldstreicher">@DWaldstreicher</a> on ron desantis’ vision of american history. “For DeSantis, Black people telling a different story about the American past is a threat to his entire worldview. It isn’t an academic disagreement; it’s basic to his politics.”

February 23, 2023 by V Leigh

great @DWaldstreicher on ron desantis’ vision of american history. “For DeSantis, Black people telling a different story about the American past is a threat to his entire worldview. It isn’t an academic disagreement; it’s basic to his politics.”

Recent polls suggest most Americans are not in favor of banning books.

Yet librarians have been condemned, bullied and drawn into battles over censorship as school and library boards face intensifying pressure from conservatives seeking to ban books. https://t.co/YdHF76Mu6g
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 27, 2023

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The idea of putting age ratings/warnings on books might seem common sense, but it’s actually a means by which folks are trying to chip away at the freedoms and liberties we all cherish. Bills like this have been introduced in at least TX, OK and VAhttps://t.co/fyguiJAM84
— Jonathan Friedman 📚 (@jonfreadom) January 28, 2023

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Something we who care about anti-censorship need to keep emphasizing that book bans are driving kids away from libraries and books. This is crucial info and a vital talking point to counter the AtwoodKing bullshit: https://t.co/d1DXmvQcTM
— Buttered Jorts (fka kelly jensen) 🐱🐰 (@veronikellymars) February 15, 2023

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great @DWaldstreicher on ron desantis’ vision of american history. “For DeSantis, Black people telling a different story about the American past is a threat to his entire worldview. It isn’t an academic disagreement; it’s basic to his politics.” https://t.co/hrBUizQyBQ
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) February 22, 2023

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February 17, 2023 by V Leigh

Black leaders today ramped up their ongoing criticism of Gov. Ron DeSantis over Florida’s opposition to a new AP African American studies course, claiming that the Republican governor is spurring a cultural battle to aid his expected presidential bid.

Fascinating to read the College Board’s letter on the AP African American Studies debacle. https://t.co/KWdw8AGQUs
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 12, 2023

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College Board caves on AP African American history course https://t.co/i7YNQJL1EP pic.twitter.com/Sl0ZecyLNM
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) February 1, 2023

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WATCH: Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how the College Board’s revisions to the AP African American studies curriculum are creating a system of “segregated education” in the country. https://t.co/fcNbI0euAp pic.twitter.com/UOh7ky4yua
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 5, 2023

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Reverend Al Sharpton is leading hundreds to the Florida Capitol in protest of @GovRonDeSantis’ opposition to a proposed AP African American Studies course. pic.twitter.com/gyHCV8vUpM
— Jason Delgado (@byJasonDelgado) February 15, 2023

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Florida is ground zero of the American culture wars over education. Black stories will not be erased out of American history. #TheReidOut pic.twitter.com/ZRw8FAtQma
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) February 16, 2023

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First, they said it was only about CRT. Then it became Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion… and African American studies. Next, he threatened the cancellation of all AP courses.

Now, Ron DeSantis appointees are trying to eliminate merit-based scholarships for minority students.⬇️ pic.twitter.com/9QvKTQZVch
— Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) February 15, 2023

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The @haymarketbooks publishing house will offer free e-books focused on Black history after the @CollegeBoard revised its AP African American studies course.

The company is also looking to target #Florida especially.https://t.co/95G6nWapjO
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) February 10, 2023

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Black leaders today ramped up their ongoing criticism of Gov. Ron DeSantis over Florida’s opposition to a new AP African American studies course, claiming that the Republican governor is spurring a cultural battle to aid his expected presidential bid.https://t.co/n8ZTgMaqsu
— POLITICO (@politico) February 16, 2023

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February 8, 2023 by V Leigh

After Biden’s claim that some Republicans want to end Medicare and Social Security provoked GOP anger, the president responds, “I’m glad to see it, I enjoy conversion.” “Social Security and its bookend, Medicare, are off the books now, right?,” Biden adds. “We have unanimity!”

Republicans BLASTED For Telling Women How To Dress In Missouri Legislature https://t.co/L8U8TXxDXF via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) January 21, 2023

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MAGA Republicans are holding the economy hostage in order to force deeply unpopular cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other key programs.

They don’t actually care about the national debt. (They added ~$7 trillion to debt under Trump.) They just want to make your life worse.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 19, 2023

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Remember when we were told they weren’t opposing the teaching of Black history, just “CRT”? And how many dismissed those of us who said these laws were anti-history laws, and anti-Black? Perhaps one day folks will listen to those who know. https://t.co/LnBhTYcMsZ
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 19, 2023

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DeSantis banning AP African American Studies is a reminder of that old quote — White privilege is when your history is the curriculum and every other history is an elective.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) January 19, 2023

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This is Trump-supporting politician Solomon Peña (R-NM). He lost his election in 2022 and claimed the vote was “rigged.” He has just been arrested by a SWAT team for orchestrating 4 shootings at homes of Democratic officials.

This is the result of Republican election denialism. pic.twitter.com/7tKRiunoI9

Drive-by shootings at Democrats, a hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, plots to kill FBI agents—all just since August. What’s coming from MAGA extremists once Trump’s incitement is all over Facebook and Twitter again? https://t.co/vbeVyCcNub
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 20, 2023
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A small but vocal group is driving the current flood of book bans in school and public libraries. Use the #UniteAgainstBookBans tools to counter those voices in your local community. Elected officials take the views of residents and voters seriously. https://t.co/66mChz7Z09
— American Library Association (@ALALibrary) January 18, 2023
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I just wrote about how Moms for Liberty is now working to turn libraries into battlegrounds for the right, with their “Moms for Libraries” campaign. https://t.co/Ku8hSvaZv0 (Below: the latest book they are pushing school libraries to carry, an Elon Musk hagiography.) pic.twitter.com/a1hK411JW6
— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) January 11, 2023
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“Cancel culture” is now calling libraries, inviting yourself to be a guest speaker and throwing a tantrum when they decline. https://t.co/NacnvoSmSe
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) December 7, 2022
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Fact Check: Despite their theatrics, Republicans want to cut Social Security https://t.co/SKwP1BmD0b pic.twitter.com/IUVmtMyj0h
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) February 8, 2023

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After Biden’s claim that some Republicans want to end Medicare and Social Security provoked GOP anger, the president responds, “I’m glad to see it, I enjoy conversion.”

“Social Security and its bookend, Medicare, are off the books now, right?,” Biden adds. “We have unanimity!” pic.twitter.com/3aymKQlf1d
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 8, 2023

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February 1, 2023 by V Leigh

DeSantis Bans African-American Studies From Florida Schools https://youtu.be/yx1xIL39sXo via @YouTube

DeSantis Bans African-American Studies From Florida Schools https://t.co/V7zKEkKVt9 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) January 21, 2023

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Ron DeSantis’s crusade against “woke ideology” was always a thinly disguised assault on the rights of Florida teachers and their unions. His recent “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” only makes it explicit.https://t.co/wmkFSOURAI
— Jacobin (@jacobin) January 28, 2023

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DeSantis wants to talk about AP African-American history. He doesn’t want to mention his relentless efforts to reduce black political power in Florida. https://t.co/vWvyAnFrzF
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) January 28, 2023

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Ron DeSantis banning AP African American Studies because it “lacks educational value” is unmasked white supremacy.

You cannot teach the truth about American history without African American history. Period.
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) January 24, 2023

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Ben Crump To Announce Lawsuit Against Ron DeSantis For Rejecting African American Studies Course https://t.co/VjUye4TfBY
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) January 25, 2023

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December 22, 2022 by V Leigh

Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm.

Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm. https://t.co/MwZJ1JKfQc
— Dyjuan Tatro (@DyjuanTatro) December 9, 2022

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Last night, the Senate passed a $858,000,000,000 “defense” budget.

No one asked “how will we pay for it?”
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 16, 2022

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You read that right: Republicans just blocked the #CROWNAct, our bill that protects against race-based hair discrimination.

Black people are penalized for their natural hair every day in this country, from school to work. This isn’t over – we’re going to keep fighting. https://t.co/Og1y6c9quW
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 14, 2022

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There is literally no reason to block this other than racism. https://t.co/AdYQKaZ7Wk
— Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (@RevJacquiLewis) December 15, 2022

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$11 billion for NYPD. Per year. Nearly $1 billion in overtime alone. Over $300 million for school police. Over $70 million so far this year to settle police lawsuits.

But not enough for public libraries. A budget is a statement of values. https://t.co/jAmLSeOS5p
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) December 11, 2022

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I’m sorry but it’s not accountability. It just isn’t and it’s harmful to act like it is. We’re in the midst of a collective meltdown over retail theft thats increasing prison sentences and Wells Fargo steals billions and gets a meaningless fine. How is this accountability at all? https://t.co/6pZMOX0xzA
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 20, 2022

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November 17, 2022 by V Leigh

I have to thank @chrislhayes for broadcasting the most satisfying 2-minutes of television I’ve watched today. A perfect encapsulation of what Fox News has looked like over the past several months.

Me as a Floridian watching all the democrats celebrate nationwide pic.twitter.com/isz4D4vUkA
— Emily Rodrigues (@eminpolitics) November 9, 2022

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They will tell you Stacey Abrams lost, because Black men didn’t vote for her. It’s not true. She lost, because white people didn’t vote for her. Do not fall for the narrative that blames Black people for white racism and misogynoir.
— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) November 9, 2022

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White women are not “voting against their own interests.”

They’re making an astute political calculation that they have made successfully for decades.

They look around. They see who has power (almost exclusively white men). They side w power.

It’s sick, but it’s not stupid.
— Kate Kelly (@Kate_Kelly_Esq) November 9, 2022

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BREAKING: Slavery has officially been banned as punishment in Tennessee. https://t.co/AadakHWGdh pic.twitter.com/T4HzSGHlkU
— FOX13 Memphis (@FOX13Memphis) November 9, 2022

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everyone is dunking on tennessee for this without realizing that they are only the fifth state to abolish slavery with no exceptions (CO, NE, UT, RI). it’s not an “ooh backward southern state” thing it’s that slavery is still legal for incarcerated people in most of the US. https://t.co/YCaxcFgoyU
— graph enjoyer (@lowerbodyinjury) November 9, 2022

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“The fact that these youth voters are coming in so strong in an off year is very concerning.”

🥲pic.twitter.com/z4o7PJiia7
— THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) November 10, 2022

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Gen-Z made themselves heard loud and clear. Now do y’all understand why they’re coming for our books?
— Angie Thomas (@angiecthomas) November 9, 2022

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I haven’t commented about the Warnock run-off b/c I find I am still so furious that voters in Georgia would force their brilliant Senator to endure the indignity of a run-off against such a patently & embarassingly unequipped opponent. But @ReverendWarnock’s grace humbles me. https://t.co/LMSgWbdytq
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) November 10, 2022

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88% of evangelical Christians voted for Herschel Walker, not Warnock, the candidate who has devoted his adult life to Jesus Christ. Let that sink in.
— PammyCanFinallySleepAtNight (@PSchmaling) November 9, 2022

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November 8, 2022 by V Leigh

Twitter is struggling to respond to political misinformation and other harmful posts on the social media platform after Elon Musk fired roughly half of its workforce just days before the U.S. midterm elections.

Mediaite reporting that Tiffany Cross calling Florida the “dick of the country”
that should be “castrated” was “an example of the sort of commentary that led to” MSNBC cutting ties https://t.co/bXRbUKtkz6

pic.twitter.com/2JOTq3FPiO
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 4, 2022

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An ad being run in Georgia by Stephen Miller’s group: America First Legal. pic.twitter.com/tIeUHGYZoB
— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 2, 2022

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“Musk owning Twitter is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse when it comes to political misinformation,” says @BostonJoan. https://t.co/N06DFI9NnO
— Data & Society (@datasociety) October 31, 2022

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“Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week” https://t.co/uuXnOvEBjb
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 4, 2022

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This ballot processing center in Washington state’s largest county is aiming for ‘radical transparency,’ as concerns run high about misinformation and disinformation regarding election integrity and fears grow of political violence pic.twitter.com/3AtKn5OqsR
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 4, 2022

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I wrote about WhatsApp’s new Communities feature that makes the world’s biggest messaging app more like Slack.

But experts like @DavidNemer are worried that making structuring Groups easier will aid in spreading political propaganda and misinformation. https://t.co/I0QwVsCcrl
— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@PranavDixit) November 4, 2022

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Free speech does not include spreading misinformation to downplay political violence.
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) November 1, 2022

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Twitter is struggling to respond to political misinformation and other harmful posts on the social media platform after Elon Musk fired roughly half of its workforce just days before the U.S. midterm elections. https://t.co/SojHiMGPcL
— Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) November 8, 2022

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November 2, 2022 by V Leigh

Landlords are going on a capital strike, holding thousands of units vacant while homelessness reaches Great Depression era levels. Clearly a profit driven system will never solve the housing crisis. We need social housing and tenant control.

Also follow @brian_goldstone on housing and homelessness and read everything he writes https://t.co/c17IF2aHt2
— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) October 15, 2022

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There are folks who are experiencing homelessness and have a job. Having a job is not some magical title that makes everyone upper-middle class. Telling our unhoused neighbours to “just get a job” is ridiculous.
— Ahmed Ali (@MrAhmednurAli) October 20, 2022

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There are 61,000 SF housing units, rentals included, that are sitting empty on any given day for one of a variety of reasons, and putting even a fraction of these into service as supportive housing would solve homelessness in the city overnight. https://t.co/Uc3L0owoNP
— SFist (@SFist) October 20, 2022

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Landlords are going on a capital strike, holding thousands of units vacant while homelessness reaches Great Depression era levels.

Clearly a profit driven system will never solve the housing crisis.

We need social housing and tenant control. https://t.co/p7QgXrniIz
— Sumathy Kumar (@Sumathy_Kumar_) October 19, 2022

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October 14, 2022 by V Leigh

BREAKING: The Select Committee unanimously votes to subpoena Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, to provide evidence as part of the committee’s investigation.

Take 7 minutes to watch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others respond to the Capitol insurrection in previously unseen footage. pic.twitter.com/qFDdLSuMmM
— The Recount (@therecount) October 13, 2022

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Former WH counsel Pat Cipollone clammed up when asked point-blank if President Trump did or did not want violent rioters to leave the Capitol on January 6 pic.twitter.com/YFePZOCyTD
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) October 14, 2022

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BREAKING: The Select Committee unanimously votes to subpoena Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, to provide evidence as part of the committee’s investigation.
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) October 13, 2022

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great @DWaldstreicher on ron desantis’ vision of american history. “For DeSantis, Black people telling a different story about the American past is a threat to his entire worldview. It isn’t an academic disagreement; it’s basic to his politics.”

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Black leaders today ramped up their ongoing criticism of Gov. Ron DeSantis over Florida’s opposition to a new AP African American studies course, claiming that the Republican governor is spurring a cultural battle to aid his expected presidential bid.

Like this:

After Biden’s claim that some Republicans want to end Medicare and Social Security provoked GOP anger, the president responds, “I’m glad to see it, I enjoy conversion.” “Social Security and its bookend, Medicare, are off the books now, right?,” Biden adds. “We have unanimity!”

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DeSantis Bans African-American Studies From Florida Schools https://youtu.be/yx1xIL39sXo via @YouTube

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Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm.

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I have to thank @chrislhayes for broadcasting the most satisfying 2-minutes of television I’ve watched today. A perfect encapsulation of what Fox News has looked like over the past several months.

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Twitter is struggling to respond to political misinformation and other harmful posts on the social media platform after Elon Musk fired roughly half of its workforce just days before the U.S. midterm elections.

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Landlords are going on a capital strike, holding thousands of units vacant while homelessness reaches Great Depression era levels. Clearly a profit driven system will never solve the housing crisis. We need social housing and tenant control.

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BREAKING: The Select Committee unanimously votes to subpoena Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, to provide evidence as part of the committee’s investigation.

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