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Levka

#Trump #Smithsonian #race

"Even if you move past the obvious tension between a legacy of advancing liberty and the perpetuation of slavery in the US's founding documents, there are other ironies here. For example, the order slams the Department of the Interior's role in implementing changes that 'inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures' at the same time that the administration's policies have led to the removal of references to transgender individuals and minorities and women.

But buried within the list of issues is a reference to a display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The display, the executive order complains, 'claims that 'sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism' and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.' That wording is denounced as an example of 'divisive, race-centered ideology.' But the Smithsonian's text is entirely accurate."

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of a grey marble building, with pillars supporting a dome.
Ars Technica · Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideasBy John Timmer
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Vermont Citizen Scientist

The kind of "woke" research that is all but banned in the US of A. Data confirm that these drivers do not commit more infractions than whites. They just get more tickets, proving that "Driving under the influence of melanin" is a factor in traffic stops. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0 #racism #racialprofiling #lawenforcement #equity #race

Image of a policeman leaning into the driver's side window of a car, writing a citation.
Ars Technica · Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more ticketsBy John Timmer
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 22, 1886: Mark Twain, who was a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, gave a speech entitled, “Knights of Labor: The New Dynasty.” In the speech, he commended the Knights’ commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender. “When all the bricklayers, and all the machinists, and all the miners, and blacksmiths, and printers, and stevedores, and housepainters, and brakemen, and engineers . . . and factory hands, and all the shop girls, and all the sewing machine women, and all the telegraph operators, in a word, all the myriads of toilers in whom is slumbering the reality of that thing which you call Power, ...when these rise, call the vast spectacle by any deluding name that will please your ear, but the fact remains that a Nation has risen.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #KnightsOfLabor #solidarity #union #MarkTwain #writer #author #books #fiction #race #gender @bookstadon

Seal of the Knights of Labor: a 5-pointed star with a circle superimposed on top of it, with the words of solidarity: “That is the most perfect government in which an injury to one is the concern of all.”
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Public schools have always been the epicenter of the right-wing culture war since the Supreme Court ruled segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. Abortion, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights were eventually added to the never-ending list of right-wing grievances."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Republicans #DepartmentofEducation #education #PublicEducation #PublicSchools #FederalGovernment #integration #race

thelefthook.substack.com/p/mak

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali · Make American Kids Dumb and Segregated AgainBy THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali
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William Lindsey :toad:

“The only way fascism works, the only way authoritarianism works, is if the country is in chaos and mis-educated. So year after year, attacks on public education were not by accident. They were by design, they were strategic.”

~ Jamaal Bowman

Returning control of education to the states will assure poorer education, and also religious intrusion in the educational process.

#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #income #disability
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zeteo.com/p/deportations-and-d

Zeteo · Deportations and Dumbing Down: Trump Attacks EducationBy Team Zeteo
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