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Heather Cox Richardson: What Does the Republican Party Believe in?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes today about some recent votes in Congress that defined what Republicans are against. Republicans believe that states should control which rights are protected inside their borders. They do not believe in abortion rights. They do not believe in the right to have access…
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Reader: Why The Supreme Court Is Wrong About Abortion
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A reader who calls him/herself Quickwrit explains why the Supreme Court’s recent decision on abortion is wrong. The Bible is silent on abortion: The 9th Amendment gives Clarence Thomas the constitutional right to live in an interracial marriage and gives women the constitutional right to abortion: The 9th…
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The Koch Libertarian Project vs. America
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: What is happening to the America that we swore allegiance to every day in public school? what happened to the America that was “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”? How did we get a rogue Supreme Court that recklessly demolishes women’s rights, the separation of church and…
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The Ignorance and Danger of Trump Republicans includes Brain-Dead Lauren Boebert
Brain-Dead Boebert is a born-again Christian and a strident advocate of guns; she and her husband own a restaurant—Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, where staff are encouraged to carry firearms Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)…says she is “tired” of the U.S. separation of church and state, a long-standing concept stemming from a “stinking letter” penned by […]
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Traitor Trump’s Conspiracy to Dodge Justice for his Crimes
This 21st century traitor will not stop until he is the U.S. President for life or in prison. With support from his fascist worshiping MAGA enablers that adds up to about two-thirds of the Republican Party, it’s apparent that this traitor will not stop pushing his big fascist inspired lie, that he lost the 2020 […]
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A growing Army of Public School teachers is fighting to save Pub-Ed
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Yes, there is an army of public school teachers across the United States already fighting to save public education from greedy, autocratic billionaires like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos. How big is this army of public school teachers? In the U.S. military during World War II,…
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Nekulturny – A Poem
Originally posted on Plus Ultra: Say it with me: Ne-kul-tur-ny The Russians look down on us—they claim we in Asia are boorish, uncivilized And yet, Ours is not the nation that bends to the will of a rabid madman Manufactures frozen conflicts Or starts a fratricidal war. Moscow sends its ill-equipped young men to die…
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If the Right to Own a Gun Were Like Access to Abortion…
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A friend sent Gloria Steinem’s solution to gun safety: “How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion: 1. Mandatory 48-hour waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s…
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Why Isn’t the “Parental Rights” Movement Fighting for the Parents of Transgender Youth?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: At the Network for Public Education conference in Philadelphia on May 1, I moderated a panel to discuss attacks on public schools and the groups behind those attacks. Peter Greene identified a long list of groups that claim to be protecting “parents rights.” Peter described groups such as…
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Heather Cox Richardson: The Radicalization of the Republican Party
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This post by Heather Cox Richardson aims to explain the bizarre transformation of the Republican Party. To those of us old enough to remember Republicans such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Warren, Howard Baker, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, and Jacob Javits, today’s GOP is incomprehensible. Long ago, the…
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