I know a lot of people are skeptical about Congress. Sometimes that cynicism is well earned. But the bipartisan House select committee investigating the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election is doing essential good work. All of us should pay attention to the public hearings the committee is holding this month.
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With sadness and with heavy heart I pin the essay regarding screening the film “lady of the heaven” on June 3rd, which happened to be the 33rd death anniversary of the Imam Khomeini.
Superintendent Cartwright defends her purge of Black administrators by asserting that she doesn’t hire someone just because they’re Black. If this is her philosophy, are we to assume that the only people she found qualified to fill her administrative positions were white? This assertion not only is disingenuous but represents a white supremacist’s ideology to the extreme.
Just like ice is ice, political expertise is political expertise and expert political consultants and vendors come in all races, creeds and colors.
Republicans Worship Guns Even Though They Kill Americans
That should cause some serious reflection among Republicans who are trying to build power with their own versions of racist “replacement” rhetoric. Replacement rhetoric is meant to tap into a very old fear: that the survival and dominance of White Americans is threatened by others—whether by the freedom and empowerment of Black people or immigration by people of color.
Are American Classrooms Producing Mass Shootings?
A United Front in our Fight Against Fentanyl
It’s the Staffers, Stupid
Americans have become numb to gun violence and mass killings. They happen every day, and there is nothing we can do. When President Biden gets in front of millions of Americans with no plan to curtail killings, there must be nothing we can do. When Senator Chris Murphy goes on the floor and begs for support from his colleagues, but no action is taken, there must be nothing we can do.