Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

An open letter from 200+ African American Studies professors regarding Florida’s rejection of the AP pilot course. https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." — Aldous Huxley.

Horrifying. The risk of the GOP destroying the bipartisan consensus on vaccines grows. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/house-covid-republicans-pandemic-vaccine-mandate.html

Great open letter, signed by over 200 faculty members, defending the AP African American Studies course that was blocked in Florida.

https://medium.com/p/e61768fb8f9c

#USPolitics #USPol #History #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory

Shameful to see the College Board cave to the demands of DeSantis and white supremacists, especially as we kick off Black History Month. Just shameful.

"President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing #COVID-19 on May 11.

Once the emergency expires, people with private insurance will have some out-of-pocket costs for vaccines, tests and treatment, while the uninsured will have to pay for those expenses in their entirety."

https://apnews.com/article/biden-united-states-government-district-of-columbia-covid-public-health-2a80b547f6d55706a6986debc343b9fe

@linuxexperten just a reminder that #KeePassXC is not vulnerable @keepassxc only #KeePass

Ron DeSantis isn't the only one who wants to erase Black history. This is something America has been trying to do since the beginning.

If anything, DeSantis is emblematic of a much larger problem, one that’s not only centered around race but one that concerns the freedoms and civil liberties inherent to any given democracy. Recent history has already shown us what effect the banning of books and denial of human experiences has on a society, and we are steadily headed in that direction.

This is all right out of the ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) playbook. If you don't know about ALEC, who funds them, and what their agenda is, you should. Dismantling public schools and higher education institutions is high on their priorities list. Getting the population who should be allied to split apart is key to maintaining their power.

Without education, there can be no understanding. That’s part of their goal.

Opinion DeSantis is wrong about Black studies-
https://wapo.st/3Yg81CA

The problem with these people is there is nothing too cruel, hateful, or obviously wrong as long as it reinforces their sense of group identity and righteousness.

Fascism is fine with them. In some ways, it's the purest expression of entitlement and hypocrisy, of unfettered white male rule. Its stupidity is a virtue as it spits in the face of those who disagree with them.

The shit-eating grin of someone who knows they're being stupid, hateful, and wrong and doesn't care because they can get away with it is part of the essence of fascism.

A few weeks ago @heidilifeldman wrote about the German Nazis coming to power:

“Today’s American Nazis are gaining the same kind of power the German Nazis did in the 1930s.”

And the #media parallels are also strong. The publisher of the Daily Mail in the 1930s was an explicit fascist, a member of a British fascist party. There is strong similarity to Murdoch and Wilks and Koch and Singer.

Political fascism hasn’t changed much—billionaires to dangerous lickspittles. https://www.notesfromcalicomanor.com/2023/01/07/todays-american-nazis-are-gaining-the-same-kind-of-power-the-german-nazis-did-in-the-1930s/

From @onthisday

Today in 1960, 63 years ago: Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

#OnThisDay
#BlackHistoryMonth

Twitter has been sued in Germany for holocaust denial.

This is not a small thing.

In Germany, holocaust denial is a crime!

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/elon-musk-twitter-antisemitic-hate-speech-lawsuit-germany/

America was groomed into accepting a living standard where you can die or become permanently disabled by breathing in the wrong air, just like it was groomed into normalizing having a major political party that is openly trying to erase Black history.

What a disgrace the NYT is.

Nothing new.