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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

…o do with their opposition to a health care program that is, as Investor’s Business Daily declared, “affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.” If you have trouble imagining reading such blatant Republican talking points in a textbook, remember, in board member Don McLeroy’s bizarro world, girls and black students should be taught that they should be grateful to…

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Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

…scaping. After leaving the military, Babbitt ran a pool service and supply business in California and reportedly felt betrayed politically, especially by state Democrats. This sense of betrayal pushed her toward the QAnon conspiracy theory. Being angry about homelessness and the costs of running a small business in California fueled a sense of grievance that politicians—those nefarious elites—weren’t working in her favor, which is the populist log…

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Thinking About God Makes Your Brain Bigger

…ted in endless ways. You can use it to become more motivated to succeed in business. You can apply it to communication to reduce relationship conflicts. You can do a sixty-second meditation involving yawning to quickly relax your body and mind. Indeed, you can use the same technique to bring a roomful of children, students, or CEOs to attention with their brains becoming acutely attuned to each other: a fancy way of saying that yawning can actuall…

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Romney Credits “Culture,” “Hand of Providence” for Israel’s Economic Superiority over Palestinians

…son at the head of the table, said he had read books and relied on his own business experience to understand why the difference is so great. “And as I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation, I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things,” Romney said, citing an innovative business climate, the Jewish history of thriving in difficult circumstances and the “hand of pro…

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‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

…ing Robertson says at all? Judging a public figure’s influence is a tricky business. Sure, bestselling books, sell-out crowds and the like tell you something. You could look at The 700 Club’s Nielsen ratings, or do a public opinion survey on someone’s favorability ratings, or ask other other evangelicals to name their most “influential” brethren. Or you could perform the Washington journalist’s task of eliciting gossip (“asshole” is how one conser…

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100 Years Later, Just Weeks After OK Bans Critical Race Theory, the Tulsa Race Massacre is Still Marginal History

…cultural life. However, Black Wall Street was applicable to several Black business districts throughout the South, including places like Durham, North Carolina. Black neighborhoods were designated with names like “Black Wall Street, “Little Africa,” and “Little Hayti” (named for the island nation of Haiti). Whereas many Black business districts would succumb to economic factors such as integration and urban development, the Greenwood neighborhood…

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Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

…of “people of different races and faiths and sexual orientations” during a business forum. And Secretary of State John Kerry praised Frank Mugisha, director of Sexual Minorities Uganda during an event at the National Academy of Sciences. After the summit, Rep. Karen Bass met with LGBT African American activists to discuss the best ways that African American LGBTs can support LGBT people in Africa. According to Frontiers LA’s Karen Ocamb, the quest…

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Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

…to avoiding censorship whenever possible. This approach lets Twitter as a business—and a public one at that—more peacefully coexist with local and national governments in order to ensure continuation of access while preserving as much freedom to speak as possible. For example, CWC allows for anti-Semitic commentary to be withheld in Germany while still available in the United States, where it may not specifically violate any laws (other than the…

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Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom

…ious motivations. The judge denied that motion too, at the end of the last business day before the trial was scheduled to get underway. The Plowshares trial is one of a handful of cases that have unfolded across the country in recent years that upend the conventional religious freedom narrative. Far more frequent have been disputes in which politically conservative religious actors have sought exemptions from laws that, in their view, mandate thei…

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Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

…t it is much broader than what we faced in the 1980s. It crosses economic, class, race, and geographic boundaries. The challenge we face is that populist sentiment can go either way, toward right-wing regressive and potentially racist forms of populism; or toward a more progressive movement. That’s the dilemma on the table right now.” There’s Something Happening Here We are in the midst of one of the most significant right-wing populist rebellions…

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