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Lessons of History and Trying To Avoid the Same Mistakes
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Steve Bannon Ran Up Huge Legal Bills and Stiffed His Lawyers
It’s not that Steve Bannon doesn’t have the money. But for some reason, he hasn’t been willing to pay his lawyers.
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The foundation behind a $20 million Super Bowl advertising campaign to promote “the Jesus of radical forgiveness, compassion, and love” has also bankrolled a conservative nonprofit leading efforts to roll back abortion rights and allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers.
During the Super Bowl next weekend, viewers around the country will watch two Christianity-themed messages from a company called He Gets Us. Underneath the inclusive-sounding ad campaign is a little-known money machine quietly helping drive U.S. policy far to the right.
He Gets Us is a subsidiary of the Servant Foundation, a Kansas-based charity also known as The Signatry that says it “exists to inspire and facilitate revolutionary, biblical generosity.”
Between 2018-20, the Servant Foundation donated more than $50 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom — a nonprofit that’s led big policy fights over abortion and non-discrimination laws at the Supreme Court and in states around the country. The nonprofit is designated as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Alliance Defending Freedom says it helped draft the 2018 Mississippi abortion law at the heart of the Supreme Court decision last year allowing states to ban the procedure — and also helped argue that case before the high court. This term, the Alliance Defending Freedom is leading a new Supreme Court case arguing that businesses should be able to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers.
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During the Super Bowl next weekend, viewers around the country will watch two Christianity-themed messages from a company called He Gets Us. Underneath the inclusive-sounding ad campaign is a little-known money machine quietly helping drive U.S. policy far to the right.
He Gets Us is a subsidiary of the Servant Foundation, a Kansas-based charity also known as The Signatry that says it “exists to inspire and facilitate revolutionary, biblical generosity.”
Between 2018-20, the Servant Foundation donated more than $50 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom — a nonprofit that’s led big policy fights over abortion and non-discrimination laws at the Supreme Court and in states around the country. The nonprofit is designated as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Alliance Defending Freedom says it helped draft the 2018 Mississippi abortion law at the heart of the Supreme Court decision last year allowing states to ban the procedure — and also helped argue that case before the high court. This term, the Alliance Defending Freedom is leading a new Supreme Court case arguing that businesses should be able to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers.
Here’s Who Will Be Talking About Jesus On Super Bowl Sunday
The foundation behind a $20 million Christian Super Bowl ad campaign has funded a group fighting to limit abortion access and allow anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
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The College Board is hitting back at top officials in Florida over the state's ban on a new AP African American Studies course that's being piloted in several states.
In a lengthy statement released Saturday, the national education nonprofit said it should have more quickly addressed claims by Florida's Department of Education that the course was indoctrinating students and lacked educational value, which the College Board called "slander."
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The organization also said that Florida's public and private objections had no bearing on changes the College Board made to the final curriculum of the course, which it released earlier this month.
"Florida is attempting to claim a political victory by taking credit retroactively for changes we ourselves made but that they never suggested to us," the College Board said in a statement.
"While it has been claimed that the College Board was in frequent dialogue with Florida about the content of AP African American Studies, this is a false and politically motivated charge," the statement said. "We had no negotiations about the content of this course with Florida or any other state, nor did we receive any requests, suggestions, or feedback."
The African American Studies course is the latest addition to the College Board's Advanced Placement, or AP, program, which allows high school students to take classes for college credit.
In January, the Florida Department of Education rejected the new course, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's press secretary Bryan Griffin saying it was a "vehicle for a political agenda."
Florida's Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. called the course "woke indoctrination masquerading as education."
DeSantis has signed a number of laws recently that restrict what can be taught in Florida schools. One such law – officially called the "Parental Rights in Education" law but dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics – bans classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity under certain circumstances. Another law, known as the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, limits how issues of race can be taught.
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The College Board now says it should have come out more strongly against the criticisms by Florida officials sooner and that its "failure to raise our voice betrayed Black scholars everywhere and those who have long toiled to build this remarkable field."
The organization clarified that the course framework is only an outline, and certain controversial topics such as Black Lives Matter were always optional in the pilot program and not required to be taught.
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In a lengthy statement released Saturday, the national education nonprofit said it should have more quickly addressed claims by Florida's Department of Education that the course was indoctrinating students and lacked educational value, which the College Board called "slander."
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Florida says AP class teaches critical race theory. Here's what's really in the course
----------------The organization also said that Florida's public and private objections had no bearing on changes the College Board made to the final curriculum of the course, which it released earlier this month.
"Florida is attempting to claim a political victory by taking credit retroactively for changes we ourselves made but that they never suggested to us," the College Board said in a statement.
"While it has been claimed that the College Board was in frequent dialogue with Florida about the content of AP African American Studies, this is a false and politically motivated charge," the statement said. "We had no negotiations about the content of this course with Florida or any other state, nor did we receive any requests, suggestions, or feedback."
The African American Studies course is the latest addition to the College Board's Advanced Placement, or AP, program, which allows high school students to take classes for college credit.
In January, the Florida Department of Education rejected the new course, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's press secretary Bryan Griffin saying it was a "vehicle for a political agenda."
Florida's Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. called the course "woke indoctrination masquerading as education."
DeSantis has signed a number of laws recently that restrict what can be taught in Florida schools. One such law – officially called the "Parental Rights in Education" law but dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics – bans classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity under certain circumstances. Another law, known as the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, limits how issues of race can be taught.
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High schoolers threaten to sue DeSantis over ban of African American studies course
---------------The College Board now says it should have come out more strongly against the criticisms by Florida officials sooner and that its "failure to raise our voice betrayed Black scholars everywhere and those who have long toiled to build this remarkable field."
The organization clarified that the course framework is only an outline, and certain controversial topics such as Black Lives Matter were always optional in the pilot program and not required to be taught.
(full article online)
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George Santos barricaded in district office as local residents protest outside
Residents were reportedly told by a staffer that the congressman would not speak to the ‘mob’
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[ One of Trump's Fine People at Charlottesville ]
Charlottesville tiki torcher kills himself before fentanyl trial
Teddy Joseph von Nukem, the white supremacist immortalized in the horrifying pictures of the tiki torch march in Charlottesville the day before Heather Heyer was murdered in 2017, has killed himself right before he was set to go on trial for attempting to smuggle 15 kilos of fentanyl into the United States.
Charlottesville tiki torcher kills himself before fentanyl trial
Teddy Joseph von Nukem, the white supremacist immortalized in the horrifying pictures of the tiki torch march in Charlottesville the day before Heather Heyer was murdered in 2017, has killed himself right before he was set to go on trial for attempting to smuggle 15 kilos of fentanyl into the United States.
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The mistake, Turning politics into a team sport, set up to divide Americans from each other.
So while we hate each other,
those with the money & the power now make even more Billions of dollars,
& continue to make bad government policy's,
while we are struggling too support holding the line for the middle class.
And the numbers continue to swell of those living on the street.
So while we hate each other,
those with the money & the power now make even more Billions of dollars,
& continue to make bad government policy's,
while we are struggling too support holding the line for the middle class.
And the numbers continue to swell of those living on the street.
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[ Future plans of the non future , dictator - sorry......President of the USA ]
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