Lessons of History and Trying To Avoid the Same Mistakes

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"It's just another attack on trying to make history what they want it to be," said James Fedderman, President of the Virginia Education Association.
In the 53-page document, policies outline what and when certain subjects are taught to Virginia students. Many difficult topics such as lynching would not be taught until 6th grade, and Christopher Columbus' role in the slave trade by 11th grade.

"There is also a removal of content of Martin Luther King Jr from the K-5 standards, no mention of Juneteenth, removal of content of LGBTQ+ histories," Fedderman said.

The Virginia Board of Education had been originally scheduled to vote on the recommended guidelines in August but delayed the decision for months. By law, Virginia is required to update its "History and Social Science Standards of Learning" -- also known as the SOLs -- every seven years.

The last time the guidelines were updated was in 2015. Several proposed policies under previous Governor Terry McAuliffe were ultimately scrapped, which included subjects such as gender equity and renewable energy.

"The resulting standards right now are racist. They are factually incorrect. They are not age-appropriate and they reflect explicit political bias," said Fedderman.

The Board of Education is set to review the draft policy by Thursday, November 17. After the policy hearing, the State Board of Education will hold public engagement sessions later this year.
A vote is not expected until early next year.

Youngkin proposes new history standards, critics say it is politically motivated

The standards overhaul is "to restore excellence, curiosity and excitement around teaching and learning history."

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Philadelphia's elected Democratic prosecutor faces a state Senate trial and possible removal from office after the Republican-led state House voted Wednesday to impeach him over progressive policies he has enacted amid rising crime in the city.

Lawmakers voted 107-85 to impeach District Attorney Larry Krasner, setting the stage for what would be the first Pennsylvania Senate impeachment trial in nearly three decades. Republicans currently have a 29-21 majority in the state Senate, going to 28-22 early next year, and a two-thirds vote of the senators present would be required to remove Krasner.

Krasner, who was overwhelmingly reelected by Philadelphia voters last year, is not accused of breaking the law. Instead, Republicans argued that he should be removed from office for various reasons, including his failure to prosecute some minor crimes and his bail request policies, his staff oversight and reports that his office didn't adequately notify crime victims about certain matters. They also alleged that Krasner obstructed the House's investigation of his office.

Krasner said in a statement that the vote was the only time the state House has ever "used the drastic remedy of impeachment of an elected official because they do not like their ideas."

"In the hundreds of years the Commonwealth has existed, this is the only time the House has used the drastic remedy of impeachment of an elected official because they do not like their ideas.
Those ideas are precisely why Philadelphia voters elected and re-elected me to serve as the Philly DA – in two landslides. These ideas include doing more and doing better for victims and survivors, solving crime through modern scientific enforcement, and investing deeply in the prevention of violence. And they are why elected officials who do not live or vote in Philadelphia are trying so hard to erase the votes of Philadelphians: because they preferred the status quo. They have impeached me without presenting a single shred of evidence connecting our policies to any uptick in crime. We were never given the opportunity to defend our ideas and policies – policies I would have been proud to explain. That Pennsylvania Republicans willfully avoided hearing the facts about my office is shameful.
Each Philadelphia voter is not just 3/5ths of a voter. Philadelphia is not Pennsylvania's colony. Philadelphians get taxation AND representation. Philadelphians' votes, and Philadelphia voters, should not be erased.
History will harshly judge this anti-democratic authoritarian effort to erase Philly's votes – votes by Black, brown, and broke people in Philadelphia. And voters will have the last word."

Democrats said lawmakers have only removed two officials — both of them judges — through impeachment: the first in 1811 and state Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen in 1994.

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner impeached by Pa. House

Now, a trial will be held in the Pennsylvania State Senate at a later date.

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On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty.

Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and materials should be banned from schools.


In addition, the board voted to replace the chair with Mac McQuillin, a local attorney and one of the board members backed by Moms for Liberty.

The rapid moves Tuesday in the Berkeley County district, the fourth largest in the state, showed the impact of Moms for Liberty’s focus on electing conservative school board members, and prompted uproar among some community members in attendance.

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Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory

The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board’s former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.”

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With all the arguments over whether MAGA Republicans are fascists, I reread William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” to see how much the rise of Hitler and the rise of MAGA smell similar. Conclusion: They do. This thread lists 10 ways. Please take a look.

1. A big lie about treachery is used to foment resentment. Nazis: We didn’t really lose World War I. It was a “stab in the back” by Jews and other "November criminals." MAGA: We didn’t really lose the 2020 election. It was a “steal” by politicians and Blacks in big cities.




2. There’s an obsession with purity of the culture. Nazis: “Racial mixture” was a threat to Aryan culture, Hitler wrote. MAGA: “Great replacement theory” says immigrants threaten white culture.



3. Chaos is something to be exploited, not addressed. Nazis: Economic distress is a great political opportunity. MAGA: Economic distress is a great political opportunity.



4. The super-rich bankroll the right-wing seizure of power. Nazis: Thanks to I.G. Farben, Deutsche Bank, Thyssen, Krupp, etc. MAGA: Thanks to the Mercers, Uihleins, DeVos, Thiel, etc.



5. Some people think the fascist threat is overblown. Nazis: While Hitler posed a major threat, some said he "ceased to be a political danger.” (2 weeks later, he was chancellor.) MAGA: While Trump poses a major threat, many people think it’s “just politics,” no worries.


6. There’s a cult of personality. Nazis: The German army made a pledge of loyalty to Hitler personally. MAGA: Trump’s supporters bill him as “the most moral president” in U.S. history.



7. Christianity is used to legitimize the movement. Nazis: “The party stands for positive Christianity.” MAGA: Trump is described as the “Chosen One” protecting American Christianity.





8. Books are the enemy. Nazis: Any book that “acts subversively on our future” must be burned. MAGA: “I think we should throw those books in a fire,” says a Virginia school board member.




9. An independent news media is the enemy. Nazis: Any newspaper that “offends the honor and dignity of Germany” must be banned. MAGA: The press is the “enemy of the people.”



10. Educators are pressured to be politically compliant. Nazis: Teachers took an oath to “be loyal and obedient to Adolf Hitler.” MAGA: Florida’s DeSantis accuses teachers of “indoctrination” and pressures them to avoid references to America’s racist history and LGBTQ people.



I'm not saying that MAGA will end up as horrifically as Nazism. I am saying that America 2022 feels too much like Germany 1932, and I don't want to take the risk of watching MAGA cultism play out. We have to stop it now.



Why did Twitter put a “sensitive” warning on this thread? Who knows? My only theory is that it has a “hateful symbol”—a swastika on the cover of Shirer’s book about Nazism.

How does it feel to vote for the party you fear? All while blaming Trump yet enacting everything you claim to hate,

 

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How does it feel to vote for the party you fear? All while blaming Trump yet enacting everything you claim to hate,

How does it feel not knowing how to write something that makes sense? Something people who are capable of thinking for themselves would be able to do?

 

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How does it feel not knowing how to write something that makes sense? Something people who are capable of thinking for themselves would be able to do?

The fact you don’t get the post proves my point.

You have an absolute aneurism about fascism and government over reach.

Yet you vote democrat that gets you fascism and government over reach.

Lock downs, speech limitations, high taxes, more regulations, more limits on freedom, less choice. You vote for all of it. But you do it by crying how it’s the other guys that will do that to you.

 

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The fact you don’t get the post proves my point.

You have an absolute aneurism about fascism and government over reach.

Yet you vote democrat that gets you fascism and government over reach.

Lock downs, speech limitations, high taxes, more regulations, more limits on freedom, less choice. You vote for all of it. But you do it by crying how it’s the other guys that will do that to you.

If the US is a fascist country because of Democrats, than the whole world which went on lockdown because of a deadly virus is also fascist.

In the real world, it is called being responsible for others and making sure that the minimum number of people end up catching the virus, getting sick and dying of it.


I do not "cry" about the "other guys". I show proof every time that some people in this country in the other Party do NOT care at all about the lives of others, and only about power.

Republicans themselves have been showing proof of their Party going the wrong way for the past 10 to 15 years, and especially in the last 6 years, by not caring AT ALL about the people's needs but listening only to religious lunatics who want to keep blacks from voting and women in general, including Republicans from having any control of their own bodies.

Religious lunatics want to tell people what to do, what to say. Which is why they lost the Senate and hardly won the House.


And what are the leaders of the Republican Party's first priority for January 2023? Solve poverty, infrastructure, economy, deficit, etc?


No.......it is Hunter Biden's laptop and impeaching Joe Biden.

Sane Republicans want NOTHING to do with the insane ones in the House or Senate.


Get a good seat, because next year these crazy MAGA leaders are going to get even more lessons of what the people really want from them.

 

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The fact you don’t get the post proves my point.

You have an absolute aneurism about fascism and government over reach.

Yet you vote democrat that gets you fascism and government over reach.

Lock downs, speech limitations, high taxes, more regulations, more limits on freedom, less choice. You vote for all of it. But you do it by crying how it’s the other guys that will do that to you.

And by all means.......explain what is it that Democrats, Independents AND Republicans voted for this year which they would claim they HATE? What about the Democratic Party do Democrats, Independents and Republicans FEAR, that they voted for them anyway?


"How does it feel to vote for the party you fear? All while blaming Trump yet enacting everything you claim to hate"

 

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[Just what the US needs. Let us put Trump back in office ]

On Tuesday, Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty in August to a 15-count indictment connected to a series of untaxed benefits he received from the Trump Organization, stated that at least some of those payments were authorized by Trump himself, not by whoever Trump was planning to pin it on and then brutally murder in a Taco Bell Express parking lot. (Allegedly!)

“The rent was authorized by Donald Trump,” Weisselberg said of a New York apartment he’d occupied for free, courtesy of Trump’s company. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is prosecuting the Trump Organization for tax fraud, partly in relation to the gratis fringe benefits Weisselberg reportedly received from the company.


According to prosecutors, Weisselberg received approximately $1.7 million in untaxed benefits from the company. And while the Trump Organization, and not Trump himself, is currently on trial, Trump’s vanishingly small yet conspicuously unctuous fingerprints appear to be all over this scheme.

Rolling Stone:

Although Trump is not on trial, prosecutors have closely linked this alleged illegal activity to him. During opening statements on October 31, prosecutors said that from 2005 to 2017, “when most of the criminal conduct occurred,” these companies were “owned by Donald Trump.”
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“The evidence will show that when Donald Trump was elected president at the end of 2016, these companies finally had to clean up these fraudulent tax practices,” [Assistant District Attorney Susan] Hoffinger argued. “There was concern about extra scrutiny of these companies because of Donald Trump’s election.”
The trial is rooted in the 2021 indictment of several Trump businesses, including The Trump Organization, for a purported 15-year-long tax fraud plot. The supposed financial misdeeds related to untaxed perks to Weisselberg in a “sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme,” prosecutors have said.

Of course, this isn’t Weisselberg’s first eye-opening admission. In August, when asked if he’d schemed with the Trump Organization “to defraud federal, New York state, and New York city tax authorities,” he replied, “Yes, your honor.”

Weisselberg also noted that either he or Trump would sign the rent checks for the apartment he occupied. He allegedly received as much as $200,000 each year in untaxed benefits during the period in question, which continued from 2005 to 2017. Weisselberg also testified that if he’d simply asked for a raise, the company would have likely had to pay double the cost of the benefits to cover the tax bill. In addition, he acknowledged that he hid information about his income from the company’s accounting firm, Mazars USA. which later cut ties with the Trump Organization, saying it could no longer vouch for the financial statements it had prepared for the company.

So, yeah, that guy who refused to participate in the peaceful transfer of power, incited a violent insurrection, stole top secret nuclear documents, wanted to sic the military on American citizens, and loves dictators so much, he wants to be one when he grows up, also (allegedly) runs a crooked company.

By all means, let’s put that guy back in the Oval Office.
Psst, legacy media: It’s okay to state the obvious. From now on, whenever you write about Trump in relation to the 2024 election—assuming you even want to cover his latest lurid fail-a-thon—you should refer to him as “disgraced former president, insurrectionist, and semi-ambulant ketchup trebuchet” Donald J. Trump. Or something like that. Use your words! Balanced reporting is for people who didn’t literally get people killed while trying to end American democracy. But that’s just common sense, now isn’t it?

Ex-Trump Org CFO acknowledges Trump personally authorized shady, tax-dodging fringe benefits

If Donald Trump is running for president just to slither away from his pressing legal problems—as some have speculated—he better get moving before the gendarmes are at the door, because his circle of trust is starting to look like a parallelogram of...

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MAGA fan charged for threats to kill fact-checkers and FBI agent over Trump ‘slander’

Stephen Jike Williams said speaking against Trump is ‘treason’ and ‘act of war’

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